Cal Kenny
@CallumMichaelK
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Editorial Director, Sphere fiction they/he Usually overaccessorised
London, England
Joined December 2011
It’s MEDLOCK publication day!! 🎉😍 It’s hard to put into words how exciting it is for this book to go out into the world. I started it six years ago, just before the pandemic hit, then wrote it throughout the first lockdown, hoping one day it would find its way into the hands of
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So original, ambitious and carefully plotted, prize-winning author of NO COUNTRY FOR GIRLS Emma Styles is back with a vengeance. 🦈 🔪
We're excited to share with you the cover for @emstylesauthor's The Shark! A dark and voice-led serial killer thriller that subverts the tropes of crime fiction at every turn, it's an unforgettably propulsive novel about victimhood, power and autonomy: https://t.co/2EssdeLi8E
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The cup overflows! Such incredible praise for this unsettling and atmospheric horror novel. I love this project and am so excited for readers to be introduced to the world of MEDLOCK.
Have just been shown the full cover layout of Medlock before it goes to press and feel quite overwhelmed seeing all these kind quotes from authors whose books I love and admire! 😍 Thank you so much to everyone who has read the book in advance and offered such generous words.
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Happy to continue acquiring and publishing brilliant fiction at Sphere, with colleagues I love dearly. After almost exactly a decade in publishing - moving from Leeds to London the weekend after getting a job offer, and knowing very little about anything - this is a cool moment.
Sphere has announced promotions across its editorial teams, with Cal Kenny and Molly Walker-Sharp both stepping up to editorial director, Sphere Fiction, and Tig Wallace promoted to publishing director, Sphere Non-Fiction. 👇
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Introducing Darkrooms, the most compulsive debut thriller by a spellbinding new voice in crime fiction, Rebecca Hannigan. Perfect for fans of Tana French, Chris Whitaker and Colin Walsh, pre-order your copy now: https://t.co/j5OynIvh4R
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Exciting #bookpost, thanks heaps @CallumMichaelK @BooksSphere & Rebecca Hannigan. Have been waiting for this one, #Darkrooms coming 2026 💜🩷 #CrimeFiction #Debut2026
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.@HachetteUK celebrated Pride in June with a month full of "in-house events for staff, panels for the public and a celebration of Grow Your Story" 👇
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Hachette UK celebrated Pride in June with a month full of "in-house events for staff, panels for the public and a celebration of Grow Your Story".
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DARKROOMS proofs are coming. The must-read crime debut of 2026, from an extraordinary new voice in fiction. Winner of the UEA/Little, Brown Crime Writing Award. For fans of Tana French, Colin Walsh, Belinda Bauer and Chris Whitaker, but with an identity distinctly its own.
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She’s baaaaaaack…….. #karenpirie @valmcdermid
The Queen of Crime returns with a brand new Karen Pirie mystery. The truth can't stay buried for ever . . . Feast your eyes on the cover for Silent Bones by Val McDermid - coming October 2025. Pre-order your copy now: https://t.co/nsV54xaD6j
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BIG HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT VIBE THE SHARK by @emstylesauthor Coming 2026 Blood in the water. A killer on the streets. But every monster has a weakness.
Book news! Thanks @CallumMichaelK @EuanThorneycrof and the heap of people who kept me going with this one. A long time coming but will be worth the wait! We’re all gonna need a bigger boat 🦈 #TheSharkBook #TheSharkiscomingMarch2026 In @thebookseller here https://t.co/2cCfc7nG60
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SIX MONTHS TO GO! 🎃🍂💀📖 So excited for my gothic retelling of The Secret Garden to go out into the world this autumn. It’s available to pre-order from @Waterstones here: https://t.co/dZiH2E8RXq
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.@BooksSphere has signed The Final Six, a Japanese suspense novel by Akinari Asakura, after a six-figure pre-empt https://t.co/MWZrUG3Qvp (£)
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THE FINAL SIX by Akinari Asakura, translated by Haydn Trowell, is unlike anything I've read: a uniquely dark suspense novel, offering a glimpse into the ruthless corporate work culture of Japan. June 2026 can't come soon enough!
.@BooksSphere has acquired The Final Six by Akinari Asakura, translated from Japanese by Haydn Trowell, in a six-figure pre-empt. 👇
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Big, exciting changes in the Sphere team make way for a cool new role, quite similar to the one I started in over 5 (!!!!!) years ago: https://t.co/mbnHVI0oBH
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Looking forward to being on the panel of ‘Writing for Page, Stage and Screen: Fiction and Script’ at Friends House on 29th March in partnership with @Writers_Artists and @OpenUniversity.
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A dark and twisty thriller set 1990s and present-day Ireland, DARKROOMS explores abuses of power, inherited trauma and female agency within patriarchal structures. It's an utterly assured and unsettling novel, and one of the best debuts I've ever worked on. COMING MARCH 2026.
.@BooksSphere, an imprint of @LittleBrownUK, has won rights to the second novel by Rebecca Hannigan in a three-way auction 👇
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Thank you @CallumMichaelK and @BarnabyWalter for this STUNNER! Wow.. #TheSecretGarden was an all time childhood fave so this promises to be magic. #Medlock @LittleBrownUK
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Thrilled to have these fabulous proofs in the office. Booksellers, authors, media moguls, let me know if you would like a copy of this atmospheric contemporary horror novel. MEDLOCK by @SGHartnell The Secret Garden as you’ve never dared imagine it Publishing October 2025 🩸
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HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY to the brilliant @FletcherMoss. The paperback of his second tense, gripping, twisty thriller is out now and it’s a brilliant read. The perfect gift for the crime fiction lover in your life, dare I say??? Too early????????
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