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DHH Literary Agency Rights Guide Summer 2021
Summer 2021 Rights Guide
. AGENT NAMES AND DETAILS .
David Headley Managing Director
- david.headley@dhhliteraryagency.com
Broo Doherty Director
- broo.doherty@dhhliteraryagency.com
Hannah Sheppard Director
- hannah.sheppard@dhhliteraryagency.com
Harry Illingworth Director
- harry.illingworth@dhhliteraryagency.com
Emily Glenister Literary Agent
- emily.glenister@dhhliteraryagency.com
. TRANSLATION RIGHTS .
- rights@dhhliteraryagency.com
. US RIGHTS .
Helen Edwards
- helen@helenedwardsrights.co.uk
. TV / FILM RIGHTS .
Emily Hayward-Whitlock
- emily@theartistspartnership.co.uk
Fern McCauley
- fern@theartistspartnership.co.uk
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THE OTHER SIDE OF NIGHT by David Asha
Agent: Hannah Sheppard - DHH Literary Agency
Publisher(s): UK – Macmillan
Publication Date: October 2022
Material: Manuscript available
What would you give for just one more moment with someone who meant
everything?
What would you sacrifice?
Harriet Kealty is investigating a murder that might be her salvation.
Elliot Asha is almost broken by a loss that will redeem him.
Ben Elmys is a surrogate father. A trusted friend. The love of Harriet’s life.
Ben Elmys is obsessed
Ben Elmys is a murderer.
Ben Elmys is the most virtuous man you’ll ever know.
David Asha wants to tell you about them. He wants to tell you about his son.
Every word is true, but you’ll think it fiction.
This is the love story of soulmates torn apart by circumstance, reunited by
understanding.
This is a crime novel about three suspicious deaths that haunt past, present and
future.
This is a genre-defying book unlike any you’ve ever read.
David Asha is going to lay out the pieces of a puzzle that spans generations. Come
on this journey with him to The Other Side of Night and when you reach the end
you will be shaken as each piece slots satisfyingly and mind-bendingly into place.
This is the type of book readers will want to read again as soon as they’ve
finished and will appeal to fans of Matt Haig and David Mitchell.
David Asha is the pseudonym of a bestselling author with a strong industry
profile and extensive platform. He is currently working on a speculative fiction
novel, The Glimmer Glass, which is available in proposal form.
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END OF STORY by Louise Swanson (Louise Beech)
Agent: Emily Glenister - DHH Literary Agency
Publisher(s): UK & Commonwealth – Hodder & Stoughton
Publication Date: TBC
Material: Finished manuscript available
Once upon a time, Fern Dostoy was a best-selling writer. Now she scrawls in a
secret notepad. It’s 2035 and fiction has been banned for five years.
Reading fairytales to children is a crime. Writing novels is a crime.
But Fern is recording her life; her world without novels, her work secretly reading
to sleep-starved children on a phone line, the young boy there who captures her
heart and the dreaded visits from two government officials to make sure she isn’t
writing.
But can Fern be trusted? Is she telling the full story? When you’ve spent your life
writing fiction, do the lines between the truth and the imaginary blur?
Praise for Louise Swanson (as Louise Beech):
‘One of the best writers of her generation.’ John Marrs
‘A brilliant premise, executed beautifully ... such a moving, tender and
unexpected read.’ Catherine Isaac
‘A delicate supernatural thriller of love, loss, murder and the dangers that come
with getting what you wish for. Quite lovely, in a dark way.’ Sarah Pinborough
‘An atmospheric, haunting and beautifully written page-turner.’ C. L. Taylor
Louise Beech’s debut, How to be Brave, got to No4 on Amazon and was
a Guardian Readers’ Pick; Maria in the Moon was described as ‘quirky, darkly
comic and heartfelt’ by the Sunday Mirror; The Lion Tamer Who Lost shortlisted
for the Popular Romantic Novel of 2019 at the RNA Awards and longlisted for the
Polari Prize 2019; Call Me Star Girl longlisted for the Guardian’s Not The Booker
Prize and was Best magazine’s Best Book of the Year 2019; and I Am Dust was
a Crime Magazine Monthly Pick. This Is How We Are Human was published in
June 2021.
PREVIOUS BOOKS
- This Is How We Are Human (Orenda Books, June 2021)
- I Am Dust (Orenda Books, February 2020)
- Call Me Star Girl (Orenda Books, February 2019)
- The Lion Tamer Who Lost (Orenda Books, July 2018)
- Maria in the Moon (Orenda Books, July 2017)
- The Mountain in my Shoe (Orenda Books, July 2016)
- How To Be Brave (Orenda Books, July 2015)
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THE SEWING CIRCLE by Caroline Lamond
Agent: Emily Glenister - DHH Literary Agency
Publisher(s): On Submission
Publication Date: -
Material: Manuscript available
The most famous woman you’ve never heard of…
1879, and Mariam Edez Adelaida Leventon is born in Yalta, Crimea. She will go on
to become Alla Nazimova, celebrated film star and “founding mother of Sapphic
Hollywood.”
Enduring a turbulent, unconventional childhood – abandoned by her mother,
physically abused by her father, later supporting herself through prostitution –
acting offers an escape from Alla’s brutal reality. By 1917, she’s the highest paid
actress in Hollywood.
Into Alla’s world comes Maybelle Crabtree, a God-fearing farm girl from
Kentucky. A chance encounter with a charismatic stranger leads to an invitation
to one of Alla’s legendary parties, and Maybelle’s eyes are opened to a life of
decadence and glamour. She discovers her own sexuality, embracing all that Los
Angeles has to offer in the hedonistic Roaring Twenties.
But both Alla and Maybelle have secrets that threaten to bring their gilded lives
crashing down. Hearts are broken, careers destroyed and friendships shattered,
in this compelling story inspired by the scandalous real life silent movie icon, Alla
Nazimova.
Praise for Caroline Lamond (as Sophie Hart / Carrie Duffy)
‘Deliciously addictive.’ Justine Elyot
‘Imaginative and fun.’ K. D. Grace
‘This compulsive read will keep you turning the pages.’ Closer Magazine
‘Frivolous and glamorous.’ Buzz
Caroline Lamond is originally from Yorkshire and spent a year living in Paris
before reading PPE at Oxford University. She trained as an actress then fell into a
career in finance, going on to write various commercial fiction novels under
various pseudonyms. She’s also written comedy for the BBC and Comedy Central.
Caroline now lives in London with her husband and two young children.
PREVIOUS BOOKS
- The Naughty Girls’ Book Club (Avon, April 2013) as Sophie Hart
- Diva (HarperCollins, June 2012) as Carrie Duffy
- Idol (HarperCollins, August 2011) as Carrie Duffy
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THE TREE OF TIME by Thomas D. Lee
Agent: Harry Illingworth - DHH Literary Agency
Publisher(s): On Submission
Publication Date: -
Material: Manuscript available
Kay, an Arthurian knight, has returned from the dead. This is something he does
fairly often: he fought at Hastings, and at Agincourt, and in both world wars.
After a thousand years, he’s getting pretty damn tired of coming back to save the
realm whenever it’s in peril.
Now he’s woken up in an exaggerated dystopian Britain, when the oceans have
risen, the army has been privatized, Essex has been sold to the Russians and the
realm seems more divided than ever. In this new Britain he meets a young eco-
warrior, who is tired of feeling like she can’t change anything. They agree to work
together to try and make things better.
But not everybody wants them to succeed. This new Britain is wild and
unforgiving, full of gangs, mercenaries, dragons and talking squirrels. And Kay is
not the only ancient thing to come crawling up out of the ground; Lancelot is
back as well, with orders to track down Kay and stop him from doing anything
stupid.
If the realm can’t be saved from peril, it might be time to bring back King Arthur
himself. And Kay knows full well that’s the worst thing of all that could happen.
Praise for THE TREE OF TIME
‘I was completely gripped by this book. The Tree of Time is a humane and hugely
fun investigation into how on earth we might bring ourselves back from the brink
of environmental catastrophe – with a sprinkling of extra dragons … I’ve never
read a book that treads so happily the ground between making you think, and
making you laugh out loud.’ Beth Underdown
Thomas D. Lee submitted an extract from this novel as his MA dissertation, which
was awarded a Distinction and won the PFD Prize for Best Fiction in 2019. He has
worked as a copywriter and a high school teaching assistant, and is now studying
for a PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Manchester, while working on
his second novel.
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THE SILENT ROOM by Brian McGilloway
Agent: David H Headley – DHH Literary Agency
Publisher(s): UK – Constable Books
Publication Date: Feb 2022
Material: Manuscript Available
She opened a Pandora’s box of betrayal and deceit…
Pandora – Dora – Conlon wakes one morning to discover her 17-year-old
daughter Ellie, has not come home after a party.
The day Ellie disappears, Dora is alone as her husband Eamon has already left for
the day in his job as a long-distance lorry driver. So Dora does the usual things:
rings around Ellie’s friends … but no one knows where she is. Her panic growing,
Dora tries the local hospitals and art college where Ellie is a student – but then
the police arrive on her doorstep with the news her daughter’s handbag has been
discovered dumped in a layby.
So begins Dora’s ordeal of waiting and not knowing what has become of her girl.
Eamon’s lack of empathy and concern, Dora realises, is indicative of the state of
their marriage, and left on her own, Dora begins to reassess everything she
thought she knew about her family and her life. Increasingly isolated and
disillusioned with the police investigation, Dora feels her grip on reality slipping
as she takes it upon herself to find her daughter – even if it means tearing apart
everything and everybody she has ever loved, and taking justice into her own
hands.
About Brian McGilloway
Brian McGilloway is the New York Times bestselling author of the critically
acclaimed Inspector Benedict Devlin and DS Lucy Black series. He was born in
Derry, Northern Ireland. After studying English at Queen’s University, Belfast, he
took up a teaching position in St Columb’s College in Derry, where he was Head
of English until 2013. He currently teaches at Holy Cross College, Strabane. Brian
lives near the Irish borderlands with his wife, daughter and three sons.
PREVIOUS BOOKS
- Blood Ties (Constable Books, March 2021)
- Bad Blood (Constable Books, November 2020) reissue
- Preserve the Dead (Constable Books, November 2020) reissue
- Hurt (Constable Books, November 2020) reissue
- Little Girl Lost (Constable Books, November 2020) reissue
- The Nameless Dead (Constable Books, June 2020) reissue
- The Rising (Constable Books, June 2020) reissue
- Bleed A River Deep (Constable Books, June 2020) reissue
- Borderlands (Constable Books, June 2020) reissue
- Gallows Lane (Constable Books, June 2020) reissue
- The Last Crossing (Constable Books, April 2020) reissue
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Truly, Darkly, Deeply by Victoria Selman
Agent: David H Headley – DHH Literary Agency
Publisher(s): UK – Quercus
Publication Date: TBC
Material: Manuscript Available
Matty Melgren is a convicted serial killer serving life without parole for the
murders of several women in North London in the 1980s. He has consistently
protested his innocence, and the evidence against him was largely circumstantial.
So was he really guilty?
Rights Sold:
At the time of his arrest, Matty’s girlfriend, Amelia-Rose, is a single mum to her Czech – Dobrovsky
12-year-old daughter Sophie. Matty had been a big part of their lives since they
moved to London from Massachusetts a few years earlier, and Sophie adores
him. He’s handsome, funny, respectable, and never in a million years would she
or her mum suspect him capable of the brutal killings that are dominating the
headlines.
Then a sketch of a suspect is released by the police that looks very much like
Matty. As more women disappear, a pattern emerges – the victims all resemble
Amelia-Rose, with dark, straight hair parted in the middle. It couldn’t really be
him. Could it?
Whilst her mother starts drinking heavily, Sophie is consumed with doubt and a
guilt that will cause her to act impulsively, ripping her family apart.
Years later, Sophie is still haunted by her actions. Was she wrong to have done
what she did all those years ago, or was she wrong not to have acted sooner?
Then she receives a letter from Matty, telling her he’s dying and asking her to
visit him in prison. Will she finally get the answers she needs to be able to re-
claim her future? Answers that will come at a devastating cost…
Praise for Victoria Selman
‘A story line that speeds along at a rate of knots—a bloody good thriller!’ John
Marrs
‘A taut, thrilling mystery.’ Dominic Nolan
‘A compelling read led by a fantastic character in Ziba, this is crime fiction at its
finest.’ Phoebe Morgan
Victoria Selman read History at Oxford University and holds certificates in
criminal profiling and criminal psychology. She is the author of the Ziba
MacKenzie criminal profiler series (Thomas & Mercer). Her first novel, Blood for
Blood was an instant Amazon #1 bestseller topping the Kindle charts for five
weeks. It was shortlisted for the CWA Debut Dagger Award and has sold over half
a million digital copies.
PREVIOUS BOOKS
- Snakes and Ladders (Thomas & Mercer, November 2019)
- Nothing to Lose (Thomas & Mercer, March 2019)
- Blood for Blood (Thomas & Mercer, February 2019)
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DHH Literary Agency Recent Highlights
TITLE TITLE
An Endless Cornish Summer Girls Who Lie (Elma #2)
AUTHOR AUTHOR
Phillipa Ashley Eva Björg Ægisdóttir
PUBLISHER PUBLISHER
Avon (WEL) Orenda Books (WEL)
PUBLICATION DATE PUBLICATION DATE
March 2021 May 2021
TITLE TITLE
Dead Ground (Washington Poe #4) The Art of Death (Grace Archer #1)
AUTHOR AUTHOR
M. W. Craven David Fennell
PUBLISHER PUBLISHER
Constable Books (UK&Com) Bonnier Zaffre (UK&Com)
PUBLICATION DATE PUBLICATION DATE
June 2021 February 2021
TITLE TITLE
The Return The Dressmaker of Paris
AUTHOR AUTHOR
Anita Frank Georgia Kaufmann
PUBLISHER PUBLISHER
HQ (WEL) Hodder & Stoughton (WEL)
PUBLICATION DATE PUBLICATION DATE
October 2021 January 2021
TITLE TITLE
Lightseekers (Philip Taiwo #1) The Meeting Point
AUTHOR AUTHOR
Femi Kayode Olivia Lara
PUBLISHER PUBLISHER
Bloomsbury Raven (UK&Com) Aria (WEL)
PUBLICATION DATE PUBLICATION DATE
February 2021 September 2021
TITLE
TITLE
The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley
The Islanders
AUTHOR
AUTHOR
Sean Lusk
S. V. Leonard
PUBLISHER
PUBLISHER
Doubleday (UK&Com)
Canelo Crime (WEL)
PUBLICATION DATE
PUBLICATION DATE
Summer 2022
March 2021
DHH Literary Agency Recent Highlights (cont’d)
TITLE TITLE
The Planuthunter Return to Blackwater House
AUTHOR AUTHOR
Thomas Mogford Vikki Patis
PUBLISHER PUBLISHER
Welbeck (WEL) Hodder & Stoughton (WEL)
PUBLICATION DATE PUBLICATION DATE
Spring 2022 January 2022
TITLE TITLE
The Dying Squad The Waiting Rooms
AUTHOR AUTHOR
Adam Simcox Eve Smith
PUBLISHER PUBLISHER
Bloomsbury Raven (WEL) Orenda Books (WEL)
PUBLICATION DATE PUBLICATION DATE
June 2021 July 2020
TITLE TITLE
The Stone Knife (Songs of the Drowned #1) The Devil and the Dark Water
AUTHOR AUTHOR
Anna Stephens Stuart Turton
PUBLISHER PUBLISHER
HarperVoyager (WEL) Bloomsbury Raven (UK&Com)
PUBLICATION DATE PUBLICATION DATE
(November 2020) October 2020
TITLE
Chasing the Italian Dream
AUTHOR
Jo Thomas
PUBLISHER
Transworld (UK&Com)
PUBLICATION DATE
May 2021Notes on DHH Literary Agency Recent Highlights
AN ENDLESS CORNISH SUMMER
• Phillipa is a Sunday Times top 10 bestselling author
• Previous publishers: DuMont (Germany)
• A Perfect Cornish Escape reached no.6 and was shortlisted for the RNA Sapere Award 2021
• Phillipa’s debut, Decent Exposure (Headline 2009), turned into a TV movie starring Kristin Chenoweth
GIRLS WHO LIE
• French rights: EDLM; German rights: Kiepenheuer & Witsch; Icelandic rights: Veröld
• Previous publishers: Diaplasi (Greece); EDLM (France); Lesa Press (Israel): Antolog (Macedonia); Netherlands (De Fontein)
• The Creak on the Stairs won the Black Bird Award 2018 & Storytel Award 2020
• Huge campaign in France with adverts for this book on television before crime drama programmes
DEAD GROUND
• Czech rights: Dobrovsky; Danish rights; Jentas; Swedish rights: Modernista
• Previous publishers: Spring (China); Chirkut (Bengali); Znanje (Croatia); Kirjastus Pegasus (Estonia); Weltbild (Germany); Harlenic
Hellas (Greece); Kinneret (Israel); Hayakawa (Japan); Luitingh Sijthoff (Netherlands); Filia (Poland); Editora 2020 (Portugal exc.
Brazil); AST (Russia); Roca (Spain); Arkadya Yayinlari (Turkey)
• Reached no.7 in the Sunday Times in its first week
• First in series, The Puppet Show, won the CWA Gold Dagger 2019
THE ART OF DEATH
• Czech rights: Dobrovsky
• Reached no.14 in Sunday Times (hardback)
THE RETURN
• Debut novel, The Lost Ones, longlisted for the HWA Debut Crown 2020; shortlisted for the Goldsboro Books Glass Bell 2020; was a
Sunday Times pick for their 2019 historical round-up; Woman & Home Book Club pick November 2019
• Previous publishers: Dobrovsky (Czech); Editora 2020 (Portugal exc. Brazil)
THE DRESSMAKER OF PARIS
• German rights: Goldmann PRH; Italian rights: Mondadori; Polish rights: Otwarte; Russian rights: Eksmo; Spanish rights: Urano;
Swedish rights: Modernista; Ukrainian rights: Knigolove LLC
• Perfect for fans of Lucinda Riley, Kate Morton and Dinah Jeffries
LIGHTSEEKERS
• Won the Little, Brown / UEA Crime Fiction Award
• Czech rights: Host; Finnish rights: Bazar Kustannus Oy; French rights: Les Presses de la Cité; German rights: BTB Verlag; Italian
rights (pre-empt): Longanesi; Polish rights: Zysk I S-ka Wydawnictwo; USA/CAN rights: Little, Brown
• Dramatic rights sold to Starry Nights Entertainment
THE MEETING POINT
• Debut novel, Somewhere in Paris shortlisted for the Fantasy Romantic Novel Award 2021
• ‘Stunning … [A] deeply moving, richly evocative story of love, loss and the power of hope. Absolutely gorgeous.’ Miranda Dickinson
THE ISLANDERS
• Selected by Grazia Magazine as a Pick for 2021
• ‘A book so creepy it will make you jump in the middle of the day.’ My Weekly
THE SECOND SIGHT OF ZACHARY CLOUDESLEY
• Pre-empted by Doubleday
• Greek rights: Psichogios Publications
THE PLANTHUNTER
• ‘Wholly believing and sexily engaging … Really brilliantly achieved.’ William Boyd
• Thomas’ books have been shortlisted for the CWA New Blood Dagger Prize and twice for the CrimeFest eDunnit Award
RETURN TO BLACKWATER HOUSE
• Also writes historical fiction under ‘Victoria Hawthorne’ – The House at Helygen will be published in April 2022 by Quercus
• Previous title, Girl, Lost, was a top 100 bestseller on Amazon and longlisted for the Not the Booker Prize 2020Notes on DHH Literary Agency Recent Highlights (cont’d)
THE DYING SQUAD
• Russian rights: Eksmo
• Adam is a filmmaker who sold his first feature to Netflix and had his second and third, win awards and critical acclaim
at festivals worldwide
• ‘The Dying Squad is one of those books that fizzes with life.’ Stuart Turton
THE WAITING ROOMS
• Shortlisted for the Bridport Prize First Novel Award
• German rights: Heyne
• ‘Smith combines the excitement of a medical thriller à la Michael Crichton with sensitive characterisation and social
insight.’ Guardian
THE STONE KNIFE
• First trilogy (Godblind, Darksoul and Blood Child) pre-empted in six-figure deal
• ‘A brilliant, grim, and joyous opening to a bloody new trilogy.’ Stewart Hotston
THE DEVIL AND THE DARK WATER
• This book appeared on BBC2’s Between the Covers as a featured title
• The Times Book of the Year
• Shortlisted for the Books Are My Bag Awards 2020
• Bulgarian rights: Ednorog; Canadian rights: HarperCollins CAN; Czech rights: Dobrovsky; Finnish rights: Otava; French
rights: Sonatine; German rights: Klett Cotta; Greek rights: Metaihmio Publishing; Italian rights: Neri Pozza; Japanese
rights: Bungeishunju Ltd.; Korean rights: Daewon Cl; Dutch rights: House of Books; Polish rights: Albatros
Wydawnictwo; Portuguese rights (Grupo Almedina); Romanian rights: Rao Distributie; Serbian rights: Vulkan;
Slovakian rights: Slovensky; Spanish rights: Atico; Swedish rights: Modernista; Turkish rights: Ithaki; USA rights:
SourceBooks
• First novel, The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle won the Costa First Novel Award
• Previous publishers: Noon Publishing (Arabic); Paper Voyager (Bengali); Dublinese (Brazil); Futurbox (Catalan); Beijing
Xiron (China); Tänapäev (Estonia); Baltos Lankos (Lithuania); Prometheus (Dutch); Azbooka-Atticus (Russia); Maxim
(Hungary); Vulkan (Serbia); Spring (Taiwan); Maxx (Thailand); Yabanci (Turkey); Vivat (Ukraine)
CHASING THE ITALIAN DREAM
• 2020 book, Finding Love at the Christmas Market selected as a Zoella Book Club pick
• Previous publishers: Bastei Luebbe (Germany); Era (Bulgaria); Moravská Bastei (Czech); Polaris (Sweden); Amber
Wydawnictwo (Poland)
• Debut novel, The Oyster Catcher was a bestseller in eBook and awards the 2014 RNA Joan Hessayon Award and the
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