Pim Wangtechawat’s debut The Moon Represents My Heart has been optioned by 21 Laps and Netflix with Gemma Chan attached to star and produce.

Vicky Leech Mateos, senior commissioning editor at Magpie, the new YA sister imprint of HarperVoyager, acquired UK and Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada and including audio, from Juliet Mushens at Mushens Entertainment. The first book, Silver and Moonstone, will publish in autumn 2023 with the next book out in 2024.

Abigail Fenton, editorial director at HQ Digital, acquired world English language rights to The Secrets We Keep and one other book from Juliet Mushens at Mushens Entertainment. It will publish in e-book, paperback and audiobook in November 2022 with the second book to follow in November 2023.

Molly Powell, Editorial Director at Hodder & Stoughton, has won the auction for UK & Commonwealth (excluding Canada) rights, in Laura Lam’s epic fantasy DRAGONFALL trilogy, in a six-figure deal from Juliet Mushens at Mushens Entertainment.

Madeleine O’Shea, editorial director of Apollo Fiction at Head of Zeus, acquired UK and Commonwealth rights to the two new standalone books from Juliet Mushens at Mushens Entertainment following an exclusive submission.

Claire Douglas’ Schönes Mädchen (the German language edition of Just Like The Other Girls) is the #3 bestselling paperback fiction book in Germany.

Amy McCulloch’s debut adult novel Breathless has charted at #8 on the Canadian Fiction Bestseller list!

The Wolf Den and Ariadne have both been longlisted for the prestigious Goldsboro Glass Bell Award 2022.

Congratulations to Claire Douglas, who was awarded a Silver Nielsen Bestseller Award to commemorate 250,000 copies sold of The Couple At No. 9.

Two Mushens Entertainment authors won awards at the 15th CrimeFest awards, honouring the best UK books in the crime writing genre.

Abigail Dean has been longlisted for one of the UK’s most prestigious crime fiction writing awards - the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year - for her Sunday Times bestselling debut novel Girl A.

Wildfire will publish three new books in James Oswald’s bestselling Inspector McLean series in a six-figure deal. Alex Clarke, publishing director, and Jack Butler, fiction publisher, acquired UK and commonwealth rights (excluding Canada) from Juliet Mushens at Mushens Entertainment.

HarperVoyager has netted an epic new adult fantasy trilogy from Taran Matharu in a six-figure pre-empt. The first book in the series, Dragon Rider, will publish in July 2023.

Katie Seaman, senior commissioning editor, acquired UK and Commonwealth rights from Liza DeBlock at Mushens Entertainment. The first novel, The Revels, will publish in summer 2023.