Jill Bialosky at Norton acquired North American rights to One Boat by Jonathan Buckley from Jacques Testard at Fitzcarraldo. The 2025 Booker Prize-longlisted novel, per the publisher, "follows the journey of Teresa, who returns to a small town on the Greek coast after the death of her father -- the same place she visited when grieving her mother nine years earlier. Immersing herself in the life of the town, she observes the inhabitants going about their lives -- a backdrop for her reckoning with herself." Publication is set for September.
Dave McBride at Princeton University Press secured world English rights to Harvard law professor Cass Sunstein's Animals Matter from Sarah Chalfant at the Wylie Agency. The book, the publisher said, "offers a bold new account of why we must change our practices to reduce unjustified suffering, comparing the animal rights movement with previous causes that exploded in size once they passed a threshold moment -- including civil rights, same-sex marriage, MAGA, and #MeToo." Publication is set for next year.
Emily Archbold at Del Rey netted world English rights, in a two-book deal, to Danielle L. Jensen's fantasy romance Defy the Dusk,
in an exclusive submission, from Tamar Rydzinski at Context Literary Agency. Sam Bradury at Del Rey UK preempted U.K. rights. The book, the publisher said, follows "survivors of an apocalypse who have banded together in high-speed convoys that must outrun the dusk or face what rises in the dark." No release date has been announced.
Joey McGarvey at Spiegel & Grau picked up world rights to the memoir Mapping My Way Home by Diane Wilson, alongside an untitled sequel to her bestselling novel The Seed Keeper, from Jacqui Lipton at the Tobias Agency, slated for publication in summer 2027 and spring 2028, respectively. The memoir, per the publisher, follows "the loss of Wilson's husband alongside the transformation of her grief and of the landscape where they made their home," while the novel "continues the story of two Dakhóta families."