Richard Osman’s The Thursday Murder Club has been nominated for Best Novel at the annual Edgar Awards.

Michael Joseph has won rights to Amy McCulloch’s debut adult thriller, Breathless, following a hard fought auction.

Actress Holliday Grainger will narrate the audio edition of Abigail Dean’s debut novel, Girl A.

Nielsen Book Scan has revealed that Richard Osman’s debut is the #1 Bestselling Fiction of the year, and the #2 Bestselling book of 2020, after only 3 months of sales.

The synopsis for Stacey Halls’s third novel, Mrs England, has been revealed by her publisher.

Liza DeBlock has been promoted to Foreign Rights Executive at Mushens Entertainment.

Juliet Mushens predicts industry trends for 2021, highlighting digital events, paid remote internships, and diversity across publishing.

Congratulations to Richard Osman who takes the no. 1 Sunday Times Bestseller position at Christmas with The Thursday Murder Club!

Congratulations to Silé Edwards who has been shortlisted for the 2021 Trailblazer Award!

Avon Books UK and Silé Edwards at Mushens Entertainment have partnered up to launch a competition that’s exclusively open to un-agented, unpublished writers of colour.

The Thursday Murder Club has become the bestselling novel of 2020 and the 7th bestselling fiction hardback of all time.

In lieu of sending out cards this year we have made a donation to BookTrust. We wish you a very Happy Holidays and a Joyous New Year!

Sonia Velton’s first thriller is to be published by Quercus books, who has previously published her historical fiction debut.

Juliet Mushens has been named as one of the most influential people in publishing by The Bookseller in its annual list.

Irish Examiner columnist Louise O’Neill has featured among the winners at this year’s An Post Irish Book awards, winning Crime Fiction Book of the Year for After the Silence, out now from Quercus.

Laura Purcell will join Bridget Collins, Sara Collins, Imogen Hermes Gowar, Kiran Millwood Hargrave, Andrew Michael Hurley, Jess Kidd, Elizabeth Macneal, and Natasha Pulley in an original short story collection.

Nell Pattison will continue to work with Avon after Senior commissioning editor Tilda McDonald acquired world English language rights for a further two books.