Greene & Heaton

We are pleased to announce that Greene & Heaton Ltd is opening its internship programme once again. Applicants should be passionate about books and associated media, have an excellent standard of written English and attention to detail, and be happy to get involved with all aspects of assisting the agents at our busy literary and media agency. Previous experience in the industry is not required but experience in an admin-based role would be preferred. Deadline: 22nd May 2026 EOD For more information, please go to our website, under the Agency age. 📗📖

A note on the use of AI in submissions to Greene & Heaton: The following requirements arise from what we have started receiving as submissions to us. In many cases – but thankfully not all! – we are able to detect widespread use of AI tools. Even what might seem, to you, to be harmless and helpful AI editing tools can really flatten your writing. By using them you may be missing an opportunity to secure representation by a reputable literary agency. Submissions to Greene & Heaton must be the original work of the author; submissions originated, written or edited using Artificial Intelligence (AI) will not be accepted. This includes the use of AI in your cover letter, synopsis and proposal, as well as the manuscript.

We are delighted to be bringing back our Greene Door mentoring scheme for writers from underrepresented backgrounds! 📗🚪 The project aims to discover writers and help increase diversity of representation in the publishing industry. This opportunity is open internationally to writers of colour, disabled writers, neurodiverse writers, LGBTQIA+ writers, and working class writers. We’re keen to hear from any #ownvoices writers. We are thrilled to have met and signed several authors through Greene Door, such as Fiona Keating, whose debut novel SMOKE AND SILK was published by Mountain Leopard Press in March 2025. Another Greene Door alum, Daisy J. Hung, had her first book, I AM NOT A TOURIST published by HQ, also in March 2025. Nicolas Padamsee, from the 2022 cohort, was chosen as one of The Observer’s 10 Best New Novelists for 2024. His “politically engaged, urgently plotted” first novel, ENGLAND IS MINE, was published in April 2024 by Serpent’s Tail. From the 2024 Greene Door programme, two more signed authors have received a publishing deal, one being UNDER A FUR COAT by Sonya Vatomsky, acquired by Manilla Press, to be published September 2026. THE HONEYMOON SUITE by Rebecca Taylor Mckay, was acquired by Christina Demosthenous at Renegade in a major six-figure, 48-hour pre-empt, to be published June 2026 as a superlead. This was followed by pre-empts in Germany and France, with further translation deals following. Three more deals by Greene Door authors will be announced later this year. All details and FAQs to apply can be found on our website!

LA SAISON, @manonlagreve ’s third cookbook, is out today with @quadrillebooks ! This enchanting collection proves that French cuisine can be savoured throughout the seasons. Let Manon guide you from her charming London home kitchen to her family’s heartwarming kitchen in France, as she celebrates the finest produce each season has to offer. From the crisp, refreshing salads of summer to the soul-warming stews of winter, La Saison is your ticket to a year-round feast of flavours. Each chapter begins with a seasonal tipsheet, showcasing the freshest fruits, vegetables, poultry and fish to inspire your shopping list.

BLUEPRINTS by @marcusdusautoy is out in paperback today with @4thestatebooks ! *A Financial Times and Waterstones Book of the Year 2025* Many artists are unaware of the mathematics that bubble beneath their craft, while some consciously use it for inspiration. Our instincts might tell us that these two subjects are incompatible forces with nothing in common, but what if we’re wrong? Marcus du Sautoy, acclaimed mathematician and Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford, looks to art, music, design and literature to uncover the key mathematical structures that underpin both human creativity and the natural world. Blueprints takes us from the earliest stone circles to the modernist architecture of Le Corbusier, from Bach’s circular compositions to Radiohead’s disruptive soundscapes, and from Shakespeare’s hidden numerical clues to the Dada artists who embraced randomness. Instead of polar opposites we find a complementary relationship that spans a vast historical and geographic landscape. Whether we are searching for meaning in an abstract painting or deciphering poetry, there are blueprints everywhere: prime numbers, symmetry, fractals and the weirder worlds of Hamiltonian cycles and hyperbolic geometry. Nature similarly exploits these structures to achieve the wonders of our universe. In this innovative and delightfully bold exploration of creativity, Marcus explains how we make art, why a creative mindset is vital for discovering new mathematics and how a fundamental connection to the natural world intrinsically links these two subjects. ‘Blueprints is an extraordinary book which shows us how mathematics and art are connected through structures. Du Sautoy shows us how to bridge the divide of science and the humanities and proves that we can only face and solve the big challenges of the twenty-first century if we go beyond the fear of pooling knowledge’ Hans Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director, Serpentine Galleries

RUNAWAY ROAD by @suedivin is out today with @firstinkbooks ! A moving story of family and belonging set in contemporary Northern Ireland, by Sue Divin, author of Truth Be Told. Perfect for fans of Margaret McDonald’s Glasgow Boys. ‘An absolutely gripping read, the sort of book it’s impossible to put down.’ - Jan Carson ‘Moving, funny, cinematic, compelling’ - Bernie McGill ‘This powerful, immersive story explores difference and belonging with real compassion and thoroughly engaging wit’ - Byddi Lee, author of Barren

FALLING FOR THE PROTAGONIST by @bexgoos is out today with @headofzeus ! When Emmy Miura falls asleep reading a newly purchased romance novel (after her visit to a sex psychic her sister swears by), the last thing she expects is to wake up in the protagonist’s bed the next morning. Emmy doesn’t want to disrupt Will Barrett’s world – even if he is fictional. He is clearly content with his life in idyllic and not-actually-real Cobalt, Massachusetts. He has good friends, steady work as a nurse in the paediatric wing of the local hospital, and an adorable house he inherited from his grandfather. Understandably, he doesn’t take it well when she manages to convince him none of the things he knows and loves are real. While Will is reeling at the implications of Emmy’s revelation, Emmy is frantic to get back to the real world. The problem is that she is, against all her best efforts, falling head over heels in love with Will. Will has feelings for her, too – much to the chagrin of the woman who was supposed to be his love interest – and he is determined to go with Emmy when she finds a way out of the book. Neither Emmy nor Will know if they can make a real life together that’s based on fiction, but together they are willing to try. Perfect for fans of: Forced proximity Fake dating Book-within-a-book Magical realism Spice 🌶️🌶️🌶️

THE ART OF A LIE by @laurashepherdrobinson is out in paperback today with @panmacmillan ! 🍍🍨💚 From Sunday Times bestselling author Laura Shepherd-Robinson comes a twisty, immersive thriller where the truth is a luxury that Hannah Cole can’t afford and every secret is a step closer to her own undoing. ‘A twisty confection as subtle and delicious as one of Hannah’s iced creams. I loved it’ – Ruth Ware, author of The Woman in Cabin 10 ‘This deliciously devious tale of skulduggery, questionable motives and untrustworthy appearances will keep you gripped’ – Daily Mail ‘[Laura Shepherd-Robinson’s] best yet, and I don’t say that lightly’ – Harriet Tyce, bestselling author of Blood Orange ‘Fiendishly clever and completely gripping’ – Jennie Godfrey, bestselling author of The List of Suspicious Things ‘Laura Shepherd-Robinson takes delight in pulling the rug out from under her readers’ feet . . . in this cleverly structured and consistently enjoyable novel’ – The Times

HIGH FIBRE HEROES by @hughfearnleywhittingstall is out today with @bloomsburycooks ! 🥕🥦 Many of us aren’t getting enough fibre in our diets, but Hugh shows us how simple - and delicious - it can be with 100 easy recipes all celebrating 12 veg heroes: Peas - Carrots - Cabbage - Tinned beans - Cauliflower - Leeks - Mushrooms - Tomatoes - Lentils - Spinach - Sweetcorn - Broccoli ‘High in fibre AND full of flavour. This joyous celebration of vegetables, and important lesson to eat more fibre, is something we all need in our lives’ - ALFIE STEINER ‘Super useful - and delicious’ - CHRIS VAN TULLEKEN

THE HOUSE OF WOLF by @sirtonyrobinson is out today in paperback with @littlebrownbookgroup_uk ! Sir Tony Robinson - actor, presenter, historical expert and star of Blackadder and Time Team - makes his adult fiction debut with this earthy, entertaining and gloriously witty recreation of the Anglo-Saxons, Alfred the Great, and the making of England. ‘A page-turner full of historical intelligence, wit and heart’ DAN JONES ‘Brings the Anglo-Saxon world riotously to life’ S.J PARRIS ‘Entirely brilliant, a story and world vividly evoked’ KATE WILLIAMS ‘Every bit and wise, witty and entertaining as you would expect from one of our greatest storytellers’ MARK BILLINGHAM ______ Rome Father Asser is waiting to die. His idealism has landed him in a papal prison on trumped-up charges of heresy, until salvation arrives in an unexpected form. Cardinal Balotelli also dreams of a better world, free from the ravages of the Norlanders. He has a vital job for Asser, one that could shape the future of Europe. Wessex King Aethelwolf’s power is fading, but none of his feckless children are fit to rule. His eldest sons would rather fight each other than the blood-thirsty Norland invaders. His daughter, Swift, is clever and cunning, but often blinded by her ambition. Finally there’s Alfred, his once-promising younger son, whom nobody has seen in years. Then Wolf meets a young priest with a proposition from Rome that could change everything. Lindisfarne Rhiannon is a slave with a profound hatred for her Saxon captors. When she meets Guthrum, a Norlander hell-bent on wiping Wessex from the map, they set out on a journey of destruction. So begins an epic struggle between greed and idealism, ambition and betrayal, freedom and tyranny. Because change always meets with resistance and, on the path to power, nobody can be trusted.

IRRITATED by @bexseal is out today with @headlinehome ! Do you live with a constantly runny nose, an itchy throat and sore eyes? Maybe you have eczema or get rashes from contact with allergens? Perhaps you or your children carry emergency adrenaline because an allergic reaction could be life-threatening? If so, you’re definitely not alone: between a third and half of all UK adults will experience allergies at some point during their lifetime and the numbers are rising. We are more allergic now than we have been at any other time in history. * Peanut or tree nut allergy now runs at 1 in 70 children, versus 1 in 250 in 1997 * Hospital admissions for anaphylaxis went up 174 per cent in the UK between 1998 and 2018 * Around 21 million people have allergies in this country, but we have fewer than 80 adult and paediatric allergy specialist doctors * Children who grow up in deprived households are more likely to have allergies, asthma and eczema and for their symptoms to be severe * More than 80 per cent of people living with allergies say that it adversely affects their mental health Irritated looks at why allergies have become so prevalent in recent years and asks whether there is anything we can do to stop more people developing them and help those who already have allergies to cope. Journalist Rebecca Seal writes about the difference between allergies and intolerances, the role of gut health and microbes in the development of allergies, how deprivation increases the risk of allergies and can make the experience of having them much worse, and offers practical strategies for managing both allergy symptoms and the anxiety which can come with them. Allergy is a complex and under-funded area of medicine, and there are few books out there to support families and adults living with allergies. This book provides the answers and information that people with allergies need, while making the science accessible and easy to understand.

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