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HS-LA is a boutique agency run by Hannah Sheppard. Hannah puts authors at the heart of everything she does; from helping you to develop your ideas for commercial success with expert, collaborative editorial work, to being your number one fan and shouting about your stories as loudly as she can – she is here to build careers that flourish.
Hannah wants publishing to embrace the change that’s needed to open the doors to a wider range of voices and aims for the Hannah Sheppard Literary Agency to be part of driving that change.
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Posted on 20th October, 2026
THE AGE OF WINGS — Cover Reveal!
We’re enthralled by the cover design for the first book in Rosie Hopes’ Rivening series: Age of Wings, which beautifully captures the glittering city of Aligera. There, residents fly using solar-powered wings — and as Zerene, Thoosa, Vesper, Jac & Iora quickly discover, the wings that they choose changes everything… You …
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Posted on 20th October, 2026
Daily Mail reviews GOODNIGHT SILVER by Abi Elphinstone
We’re absolutely thrilled to see some wonderful praise for Abi Elphinstone’s latest book — Goodnight Silver in the Daily Mail this weekend. Sally Morris described this book as ‘a thrilling imaginative world’ which ‘evokes the beauty of nature’ and has an ’emotional resolution’. We absolutely agree — and can’t wait for you …
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Posted on 1st October, 2026
THE HILL IN THE DARK GROVE is a Waterstones’s Book of the Month!
THE HILL IN THE DARK GROVE by Liam Higginson was launched in paperback this October and we’re absolutely thrilled that it’s been selected as Waterstones’s Welsh Book of the Month. We couldn’t be happier for Liam — if you haven’t already, get your copy in time for spooky season: https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-hill-in-the-dark-grove/liam-higginson/9781035069446 …
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