The Reef by Mark Charan Newton
From the Press Release:
The novel, a fantastical story set mostly among the islands of an imagined world, has echoes of both Joseph Conrad and China Miéville, but is very much Mark’s own invention. Mark’s writing has already received this accolade from critically-acclaimed author Jeff VanderMeer: "Mark Newton is a promising new writer whose prose is dynamic and whose imagination is often startling." “Mark was one of the first authors I took on after setting up the agency in 2004,” said John Jarrold. “I’m really delighted to have done this deal, and I have no doubt his reputation will grow very quickly, within and without the genre.”
Mark has worked in bookselling, but is now an editor at a major publishing company.
The book will be released as a B-format paperback, and hopefully launched at Orbital 2008.
Part of me is excited - my first agented acceptance, but I'm also ****-scared at ******* it up. 
Only time will tell, and loads of people buy it next Easter. 