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Nina Leon joins Hardman & Swainson as an agent

24 Jun 2026 News

19 Jun 2026 News

Alice Loxton is a winner of The Somerset Maugham Awards

03 Jun 2026 News

Fontana acquires Emma Nesporova’s medieval murder mystery, The Relics

14 May 2026 News

Viking acquires Alice Loxton’s A History of Britain in 21 Paintings

08 May 2026 News

Clare McGlynn’s Exposed is published to great reviews

27 Apr 2026 News

Helen Joyce’s TRANS chosen by The Times as one of their 25 best non-fiction books of the 21st century

06 Mar 2026 News

Helen Fields moves to Transworld with three crime thrillers

28 Nov 2025 News

Oneworld signs Deborah Cohen’s Bad Influence: How the Internet Hijacked Our Health

24 Nov 2025 News

Alice Loxton’s ELEANOR is a bestseller in The Times

19 Nov 2025 News

HarperNorth buys Claire Quinn’s debut suspense novel

17 Nov 2025 News

Alice Loxton’s ELEANOR is launched at Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey!

12 Nov 2025 News

Publicity roundup for Bog People: A Working-Class Anthology of Folk Horror

12 Nov 2025 News

John Tregoning on BBC Radio 4 PM

31 Oct 2025 News

Icon acquires Joanna Cherry’s memoir

03 Oct 2025 News

Viper signs Tracy Maton’s The Artful Anna Harris as North American rights go in six-figure deal

23 Sep 2025 News

Piatkus Fiction sign Laura Bloom’s small town romance series

22 Sep 2025 News

Alice Loxton’s EIGHTEEN named a Waterstones Paperback of the Year!

31 Jul 2025 News

Quercus sign Charlotte Duckworth’s new standalone suspense novel

16 Jul 2025 News

Publicity Roundup for Rebecca Wait’s Havoc

15 Jul 2025 News

Pan Macmillan signs Alice Loxton’s Eleanor: On the Trail of England’s Lost Queen

03 Jul 2025 News

Daniel Davis appears on Channel 4’s Sunday Brunch

30 Jun 2025 News

Publicity Roundup for Joe Tidy’s CTRL+ALT+CHAOS

21 May 2025 News

Beth Kempton’s Kokoro wins silver in the 2025 Nautilus book awards

15 May 2025 News

B P Walter has signed a two-book deal with Bookouture

07 Mar 2025 News

Quarto signs Jon Woolcott’s The Tattooed Hills

03 Mar 2025 News

Bridge Street Press signs Kathleen Stock’s Do Not Go Gentle: The Case Against Assisted Death

19 Feb 2025 News

Canelo acquires two thrillers from Alice Leigh

18 Feb 2025 News

Renegade sign Jasmine Elmer’s cultural history of ‘female dragon slayers’

06 Jan 2025 News

Daniel M. Davis receives an MBE for services to science communication

17 Dec 2024 News

Watkins & Nourish signs Kimberley Gallagher’s The Calm and Happy Home

11 Dec 2024 News

Boldwood sign Michael Jecks’ Vintner Trilogy series

03 Dec 2024 News

Scribner acquires WITCHLAND by Marion Gibson

03 Dec 2024 News

Eighteen is Blackwell’s Non-fiction Book of the Year

04 Nov 2024 News

Alice Loxton’s EIGHTEEN shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year

31 Oct 2024 News

Sphere sign MEDLOCK, a Gothic horror novel from S. G. Hartnell

04 Oct 2024 News

Riverrun announce Rebecca Wait’s HAVOC

26 Sep 2024 News

One More Chapter acquires two new thrillers from S R Masters

03 Sep 2024 News

Helen Fields gives a TedX talk on why we are fascinated by violence

27 Aug 2024 News

Alice Loxton’s Eighteen is a Sunday Times Bestseller

27 Aug 2024 News

Aurum snaps up The Life-Changing Magic of Quitting Alcohol by Sharon Hartley

23 Jul 2024 News

Elliott & Thompson acquire Joe Tidy’s Ctrl+Alt+Chaos

12 Jul 2024 News

Publicity Roundup for Susanna Rustin’s SEXED

03 Jun 2024 News

Simon & Schuster UK have signed Chasing Fog: Finding enchantment in a cloud by Laura Pashby

09 May 2024 News

Chatto & Windus have acquired Bog People: A Working-Class Anthology of Folk Horror by Hollie Starling

07 May 2024 News

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25 Apr 2024 News

Paris Hilton’s 11:11 Media to Adapt Sarah Ditum’s Toxic as Docuseries

08 Apr 2024 News

Victoria Smith discusses Hags at Intelligence Squared event

19 Mar 2024 News

Dr. Fiona Vera-Gray discusses her book Women on Porn on Woman’s Hour

15 Mar 2024 News

Victoria Smith at the Nero Book Awards 2023

02 Feb 2024 News

Robinson acquires Stone Lands by Watkins publisher Fiona Robertson in four-way auction

16 Jan 2024 News

Susanna Rustin’s Sexed and Alice Loxton’s Eighteen in The Guardian’s books to look out for in 2024

18 Dec 2023 News

Our personal cultural highlights of 2023

14 Dec 2023 News

Pan Macmillan pre-empts Alice Loxton’s ‘unconventional and witty’ book about historical icons aged 18

23 Nov 2023 News

Caroline Davison wins Historical Writers’ Association Crown Award 2023

21 Nov 2023 News

Victoria Smith’s Hags is shortlisted for Nero Book Awards 2023

10 Nov 2023 News

Sophie Austin secures HarperCollins deal for new historical fiction

07 Nov 2023 News

HarperCollins acquires Barnaby Walter’s horror debut Scuttle

02 Nov 2023 News

Sarah Ditum discusses Toxic on Women’s Hour

30 Oct 2023 News

Marion Gibson’s Witchcraft features in Waterstones Best Books of 2023

26 Oct 2023 News

Helen Joyce Shortlisted for John Maddox Prize 2023

26 Oct 2023 News

Sharron Davies’ Unfair Play shortlisted for William Hill prize 2023

23 Oct 2023 News

Sarah Ditum features in the Sunday Times

16 Oct 2023 News

Rebecca Wait shortlisted for Nota Bene Prize

13 Oct 2023 News

Dinah Jefferies’ Night Train to Marrakech is Sunday Times Bestseller

13 Oct 2023 News

Kathleen Stock nominated for BSME columnist of the year award

12 Oct 2023 News

Oskar Jensen nominated for Wolfson History Prize

12 Oct 2023 News

Fiona Vera-Gray signed by Transworld

26 Sep 2023 News

Dinah Jefferies features for a third time in Richard and Judy Bookclub

22 Sep 2023 News

Caroline Davison wins New Angle Prize

10 Aug 2023 News

Looking back and looking ahead…

03 Aug 2023 News

Charlotte Rixon’s The One That Got Away on the Today Show

01 Aug 2023 News

Helen Joyce on Richard Dawkins’ podcast

04 Jul 2023 Archive

Viper acquire two titles from Oskar Jensen

16 Jun 2023 News

Philip Quaintrell secures six-figure audio deal

09 Jun 2023 News

Victoria Smith’s new book on kindness culture

09 Jun 2023 News

Kathleen Stock at the Oxford Union

05 Jun 2023 News

Publicity Roundup for Victoria Smith’s HAGS

19 May 2023 News

Jenni Nuttall discusses words associated with women on BBC Radio 4

15 May 2023 News

Reflecting on London Book Fair 2023

16 Feb 2023 Archive

Stepping Up Selected for Richard and Judy Spring Book Club

27 Jan 2023 Archive

Isla Gordon and Sphere Secure Exciting New Book Deal

27 Jan 2023 News

Elisabeth Carpenter signs new two-book Bookouture deal

05 Dec 2022 News

I’m Sorry You Feel That Way is a Best Fiction Book of 2022

24 Nov 2022 News

Two new B P Walter titles for One More Chapter

16 Nov 2022 News

Catherine Simpson’s One Body shortlisted for the Saltire Society Non Fiction Book of the Year!

08 Nov 2022 News

Hana Murrell to join H&S as Rights Director!

04 Nov 2022 News

Two new Lorraine Brown titles go to Orion

01 Nov 2022 News

With This Kiss is a Waterstones best fiction book for 2022

27 Oct 2022 News

Basic Books acquires Eugene Finkel’s To Kill Ukraine

27 Sep 2022 News

Caroline Davison’s The Captain’s Apprentice is a Radio 4 Book of the Week

26 Sep 2022 News

Self Defence by Daniel M Davis snapped up by The Bodley Head

26 Sep 2022 News

Forum Press acquires Sharron Davies & Craig Lord’s account of women’s sport

08 Sep 2022 News

Prospect Readers select Kathleen Stock as World’s Top Thinker 2022

20 Jul 2022 News

Film & TV Rights for SR Masters’ The Trial go to The Forge Entertainment

07 Jun 2022 News

Julia Parry wins RSL Christopher Bland Prize

17 May 2022 News

The Shadowy Third shortlisted for the Christopher Bland Prize 2022

13 May 2022 News

Fleet snatch up Victoria Smith’s Hags

25 Apr 2022 News

The Jigsaw Murders longlisted for the CWAs!

25 Apr 2022 News

With This Kiss is a Sunday Times bestseller!

19 Apr 2022 News

Lauren Price’s new YA novel goes to Black & White!

08 Apr 2022 News

Two SR Masters titles go to One More Chapter!

01 Apr 2022 News

Stepping Up is a Sunday Times bestseller

16 Mar 2022 Archive

The Paris Connection wins 2022 Launch Pad Prose Competition

07 Mar 2022 News

The Bleeding Tree by Hollie Starling snapped up by Rider!

01 Mar 2022 News

Charlotte Rixon’s debut is snapped up in the UK & US!

11 Feb 2022 News

Kitt Hartley is set to return to Quercus

01 Feb 2022 News

Lorraine Brown’s Uncoupling Shortlisted in the RNAs 2022!

20 Jan 2022 News

Oskar Jensen’s Vagabonds goes to Duckworth!

05 Jan 2022 News

This Mortal Coil is one to look out for in 2022!

25 Nov 2021 News

Three new Helen Fields title go to Avon!

24 Nov 2021 News

Bookouture snaps up two new books by Liz Trenow

24 Nov 2021 News

Walking on Sunshine is a Sunday Times Bestseller!

22 Nov 2021 News

Helen Naylor features in The Telegraph and The Times

12 Nov 2021 News

Michael Joseph snap up two new titles from Giovanna Fletcher!

08 Oct 2021 News

Rebecca Wait’s I’m Sorry You Feel That Way acquired by riverrun

03 Sep 2021 News

The Shadowy Third reviewed by The New York Review of Books

01 Sep 2021 News

The Silent Daughter shortlisted for the McIlvanney Prize!

01 Sep 2021 Archive

Publicity Round-Up: Let That Be A Lesson

31 Aug 2021 News

Sarah Turner’s debut novel goes to Transworld!

24 Aug 2021 Archive

Glittering a Turd is a Sunday Times Bestseller

13 Jul 2021 News

Professor Marion Gibson’s Witchcraft goes to S&S

09 Jul 2021 News

Siobhan Miller appears on Dragon’s Den!

08 Jul 2021 News

Julia Parry at Hexham Book Festival

07 Jul 2021 Archive

Publicity Round-Up: The Secret Body

06 Jul 2021 News

Miranda Dickinson’s first crime series to be published by Hera!

01 Jul 2021 News

Publicity Round-Up: Finding My Right Mind

28 Jun 2021 News

The Silent Daughter shortlisted for Bloody Scotland Scottish Crime Debut of the Year

24 Jun 2021 News

Sarah Ditum’s Upskirt Decade goes to Fleet!

15 Jun 2021 News

Emma Christie’s The Silent Daughter longlisted for McIlvanney Prize!

17 May 2021 News

People Like Us makes the Christopher Bland Prize Shortlist for 2021!

15 Apr 2021 News

The Silent Daughter makes the CWA longlist!

11 Apr 2021 News

Waterstones Thriller of the Month & The Times bestseller: The Dinner Guest by B P Walter

09 Apr 2021 News

Chatto & Windus pre-empt Ryan Wilson’s teaching memoir

31 Mar 2021 News

Thread acquires Helen Naylor’s moving and astonishing memoir

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20 Mar 2021 News

Alice Loxton’s Scoundrels goes to Icon Books

11 Mar 2021 News

Eliska Tanzer’s The Girl From Nowhere lands TV deal!

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25 Feb 2021 News

Joanna Swainson judges 2021 Selfies Book Awards!

22 Feb 2021 News

Elisabeth Spencer interviewed by The Times

22 Feb 2021 News

Dan Davis talks vaccinations with The Times

19 Feb 2021 News

The Spectator Australia feature the Shadowy Third

08 Feb 2021 News

Julia Parry’s The Shadowy Third features in The Observer

01 Feb 2021 News

Waterstones Thriller of the Month: Our Fathers by Rebecca Wait

01 Feb 2021 News

Louise Fein’s People Like Us makes the RNA Shortlist!

28 Jan 2021 News

Charlotte Duckworth’s The Perfect Father storms the Amazon bestseller lists!

25 Jan 2021 Archive

Rachel Edwards on the US vice-president and the non-nuclear family in The Sunday Times

07 Jan 2021 News

The Captain’s Apprentice by Caroline Davison acquired by Chatto & Windus

06 Jan 2021 Archive

Gail Muller’s Unlost finds a place at Thread!

06 Jan 2021 News

Kathleen Stock’s article on academic freedom features in the Mail on Sunday

04 Jan 2021 News

Kathleen Stock receives OBE in 2021 New Years Honours List

07 Dec 2020 News

Giovanna is Queen of the Castle!

27 Nov 2020 News

Calm & Bright’s Love to Sleep goes to Orion Spring

13 Nov 2020 Archive

HQ acquire two more novels by Miranda Dickinson

10 Nov 2020 Archive

Three-book deal for BP Walter at One More Chapter!

09 Nov 2020 Archive

Giovanna Fletcher is joining this year’s I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!

04 Nov 2020 Archive

Dr Jenni Nuttall’s Mother Tongue pre-empted in the UK & US!

02 Nov 2020 Archive

Martina Murphy’s new Irish crime series goes to Constable!

02 Oct 2020 Archive

Lake Union acquire two more novels from Tracy Buchanan!

22 Sep 2020 Archive

John Tregoning’s Infectious sold to Oneworld!

21 Sep 2020 Archive

Orenda Books acquire’s Katie Allen’s powerful debut

18 Sep 2020 Archive

Dinah Jefferies moves to HarperFiction

27 Aug 2020 Archive

The English Wife is a USA Today bestseller!

27 Aug 2020 Archive

Keeping Mum Review Round-up

11 Aug 2020 Archive

Elizabeth Brooks speaks to BookBrunch about The Whispering House

03 Aug 2020 Archive

The Darling Axe interviews Caroline Hardman

24 Jul 2020 Archive

Lucky: Rachel Edwards’ second book goes to 4th Estate

23 Jul 2020 Archive

Professor Kathleen Stock’s Material Girls goes to Fleet

16 Jul 2020 Archive

Biteback snatch up Elisabeth Spencer’s The Road to My Daughter

30 Jun 2020 Archive

All aboard: Lorraine Brown’s Uncoupling acquired by Orion!

11 Jun 2020 Archive

James Gould-Bourn and Joanna Swainson talk Keeping Mum!

05 Jun 2020 Archive

Helen Fields Longlisted for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger

02 Jun 2020 Archive

People Like Us Review Round-Up

27 May 2020 Archive

Daniel Davis talks immunity and Covid-19 at Hay Festival

22 Apr 2020 Archive

The Eve Illusion storms in at No.1 on the bestseller list!

21 Apr 2020 Archive

Jeremy Craddock’s The Jigsaw Murders optioned for TV!

17 Apr 2020 Archive

SR Masters joins other crime writers to raise money for Samaritans

09 Apr 2020 Archive

Tracy Buchanan’s Wall of Silence is a digital bestseller!

07 Apr 2020 Archive

Beth Kempton’s We Are in This Together Acquired by Piatkus

06 Apr 2020 Archive

Daniel Davis discusses Covid-19 during The Stay at Home Festival

05 Apr 2020 Archive

Liz Trenow one of ten great East Anglian authors!

23 Mar 2020 Archive

Quercus acquires 3 new Kitt Hartley books!

18 Mar 2020 Archive

Review Round-Up: Rust by Eliese Colette Goldbach

13 Mar 2020 Archive

Emma Christie’s debut acquired by Welbeck!

13 Mar 2020 Archive

Jungle Fever: Viking Snap up Patrick Roberts!

12 Mar 2020 Archive

Heads or Tails: Michael Joseph snaps up The Flip Side by James Bailey

21 Feb 2020 Archive

Under a Wartime Sky launched at Red Lion Books

17 Feb 2020 Archive

Happy Mum, Happy Baby welcomes the Duchess of Cambridge

06 Feb 2020 Archive

Avon acquires three more books from Helen Fields

03 Feb 2020 Archive

Victoria Walters shortlisted for the RoNAs 2020!

22 Jan 2020 Archive

Our Fathers by Rebecca Wait Review Round-up

15 Jan 2020 Archive

Carrie Hope Fletcher’s Ballet Shoes inspired Middle Grade debut goes to Puffin!

06 Jan 2020 Archive

Eliska Tanzer’s memoir goes to Mirror Books

05 Dec 2019 Archive

Oxford Professor Tom Higham’s The World Before Us goes to Viking!

21 Nov 2019 Archive

Trigger acquires Vanessa Potter’s Finding My Right Mind

14 Nov 2019 Archive

Arrow snap up Paula Greenlees’ debut in two-book deal!

04 Nov 2019 Archive

Expert Q&A with Caroline Hardman

24 Oct 2019 Archive

The Book Proposal Masterclass in Association with Hardman & Swainson

17 Oct 2019 Archive

Paul Braddon’s debut bought by Sandstone Press!

30 Sep 2019 Archive

The Unmumsy A-Z is a the Sunday Times bestseller!

29 Sep 2019 Archive

The Staycation by Michele Gorman sold to Trapeze!

21 Aug 2019 Archive

Eleanor Wood’s memoir Staunch snapped up by HQ!

31 Jul 2019 Archive

James Gould-Bourn’s Keeping Mum optioned by Lime Pictures!

11 Jul 2019 Archive

Mark Broomfield’s Every Breath You Take a best book for July

28 Jun 2019 Archive

Waterstones select B P Walter’s A Version of the Truth as a summer holiday read!

20 Jun 2019 Archive

Rebecca Wait’s The Followers features in The Guardian’s top cult books

11 Jun 2019 Archive

Rachel Edwards writes for The Sunday Times about being a black woman in rural Britain

15 May 2019 Archive

Beth Kempton’s Wabi Sabi sold in 26 territories!

29 Apr 2019 Archive

Death, digital data and grief: Elaine Kasket interviewed by The Observer

24 Apr 2019 Archive

Elaine Kasket discusses our online legacy on BBC Radio 4

01 Apr 2019 Archive

Elizabeth Brooks’ Call of the Curlew shortlisted for The Waverton Good Read Award 2018

27 Mar 2019 Archive

The Missing Sister by Dinah Jefferies hits the bestsellers lists!

22 Mar 2019 Archive

Victoria Walters signs two-book deal with Hera Books!

07 Mar 2019 Archive

Louise Fein’s poignant debut People Like Us acquired by Head of Zeus and William Morrow

20 Feb 2019 Archive

James Gould-Bourn’s debut Keeping Mum sold to Trapeze at auction

19 Feb 2019 Archive

Kris Hallenga launches Unbound campaign for new book

08 Feb 2019 Archive

Letter to Louis is an Audie Award Finalist 2019

05 Feb 2019 Archive

RNA Shortlists 2019: Giovanna Fletcher, Isabelle Broom and Nikola Scott

11 Jan 2019 Archive

Quercus wins Helen Cox’s contemporary mystery series at auction!

10 Sep 2018 Archive

Riverrun acquires Our Fathers by Rebecca Wait

18 Mar 2018 Archive

Tracy Buchanan signs two-book deal with Amazon!