And into 2025 we go

A Boxing Day dip at Camber Sands in East Sussex

We have been a little slack about updating the HHB Agency website news but we are heading into the new year with renewed vim, vigour and the promise to be better at posting.  Last year was a busy one with Heather handing over the reins, the office move and happily a steady stream of books by clients being commissioned, delivered and published.  There were plenty of highlights – Louise Minchin touring her debut thriller around the country, Jennifer Cox’s WOMEN ARE ANGRY being chosen as the ‘self-help book of 2024’ by The Sunday Times, India Knight and Nigella Lawson both raving about Jane Lovett’s THE GET-AHEAD CHRISTMAS COOK,  Mishal Husain’s family memoir BROKEN THREADS becoming a Sunday Times bestseller, the stunning Waterstones special edition of Rory Cellan-Jones’s SOPHIE FROM ROMANIA with embossed golden paw print, Emma Burstall’s latest novel BENEATH THE LEMON TREES zipping up the kindle charts – to name but a few.

There is much to look forward to in the months ahead.  First out of the blocks will be gastroenterologist and 2017 MasterChef winner Dr Saliha Mahmood Ahmed’s THE 20-MINUTE GUT HEALTH FIX which is publishing in February.  Saliha will be cooking from her new book on the BBC’s Saturday Kitchen at the start of March.  And as the year progresses we will see non-fiction from economist Ben Chu, journalist James Hanning, biographer Rachel Trethewey and a debut from young historian, Adam Hart.  There are novels coming from Charlotte Betts, Emma Burstall, Molly Green, Suzanne Goldring, Helen McGinn and Annabelle Thorpe and alongside established talent, always the anticipation of discovering new writers with striking stories to share. 

We will leave you with some T.S Eliot

“For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning."

(Little Gidding)