North American rights to Todd Babiak’s WHAT GENTLEMEN DO

Brand strategist and novelist Todd Babiak’s WHAT GENTLEMEN DO, a by-turns hilarious and heartbreaking coming-of-age story, for readers of Fredrik Backman and Jess Walter, about a lost and rejected young man, haunted by his role in a fatal campus riot, who discovers Marcus Aurelius’ principles of stoicism, pulls himself out of the grievance-fuelled manosphere and runs for mayor to turn his decaying town into a worthy rival to New York City, and prevent the woman he loves from fleeing it, to Kelly Joseph at McClelland & Stewart by Martha Webb at CookeMcDermid, for publication in June 2026 (NA).