New Releases/Forthcoming

Scribner will publish HOPE IN ACTION: A Memoir about the Courage to Lead, by former Prime Minister of Finland Sanna Marin on November 4, 2025. The publisher writes that the book is a “personal account of the pivotal events that defined Sanna Marin’s groundbreaking career as the youngest prime minister on the world stage when taking office at the age of thirty-four.” Kara Watson acquired North American and audio rights from Margaret Riley King and Laura Bonner at WME.

Knopf will publish Ian McEwan‘s new novel WHAT WE CAN KNOW on September 16, 2025. Jordan Pavlin, Knopf evp, publisher and editor in chief calls the book a “literary love story, a murder mystery” and says “the plot pivots on a legendary dinner party, and the recitation of a poem that is heard once and then lost for all time.” Rights were acquired from Georges Borchardt, with Knopf executive editor John Freeman editing.

Simon & Schuster will publish John Irving‘s new novel QUEEN ESTHER on November 4, 2025. The novel revisits the orphanage in St. Cloud’s, Maine that provides the setting for Irving’s novel The Cider House Rules. It follows “Esther Nacht, a Viennese-born Jew,” who is abandoned at age four and taken in at age fourteen by “a philanthropic New England family, becoming both a mystery and a guardian angel to them.” The novel ends in Jerusalem in 1981. Simon & Schuster president and ceo Jonathan Karp acquired audio, first serial, US and open market rights from Janet Turnbull at The Turnbull […]

Knopf will publish a new nonfiction work by Joan Didion, NOTES TO JOHN, on April 22, 2025. The book, found in Didion’s filing cabinet, is a “journal in which she describes sessions with a psychiatrist” with entries addressed to husband John Gregory Dunne. The entries begin in 1999 and initially focus on “alcoholism, adoption, depression, anxiety, guilt” plus and the complexities of her relationship with her daughter, Quintana. Later entries discuss her work and her childhood. Elsewhere, Clarkson Potter will reissue Martha Stewart‘s 1982 book ENTERTAINING on October 28, 2025. The book had fallen out of print, but the New […]