Opening of Shortlisted Titles – First Novel Award 2019

Opening of Shortlisted Titles – First Novel Award 2019

Ahead of announcing the winners of our First Novel Award on Friday 27 September, here are the openings of the six shortlisted novels. The winner will receive £1,000 in cash plus an introduction to literary agent Nelle Andrew and the runner up, £250 in cash and a...
Ask a Literary Agent: Rebecca Ritchie from AM Heath

Ask a Literary Agent: Rebecca Ritchie from AM Heath

Rebecca Ritchie is an agent at AM Heath, looking for contemporary women’s fiction, reading group, historical fiction and saga, through to police procedural, crime, thriller and psychological suspense. She is also interested in non-fiction topics such as cookery,...
Author Q & A with Emma Curtis

Author Q & A with Emma Curtis

Emma Curtis is the author of three brilliant psychological thrillers: One Little Mistake, When I Find You and The Night You Left. She is currently working on her fourth novel and in this week’s blog post we interviewed her about her writing process and any...
Review: ‘My Sister, The Serial Killer’ by Oyinkan Braithwaite

Review: ‘My Sister, The Serial Killer’ by Oyinkan Braithwaite

When I saw that Oyinkan Braithwaite’s novel ‘My Sister, The Serial Killer’ had been longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2019, I bought a copy immediately. I can’t remember the last time I bought a book without at least glancing at the synopsis, but the title...
Ask a Literary Agent: Laetitia Rutherford

Ask a Literary Agent: Laetitia Rutherford

Before I became an agent, I started out in Fiction Marketing at HarperCollins – a fantastic starter job, gained from applying to an ad in the Guardian (neither interning, nor nepotism involved!) After three years, I wanted to get closer to books but wasn’t sure how....