BOOKS


Agents’ Hotlists Frankfurt Book Fair 2021


42 M&P


Very Bad People Patrick Alley A “fearless investigation into the darkest work- ings of our world” and a “breathtaking catalogue of modern super-crimes” from the founder of anti- corruption NGO Global Witness.


Agent Eugenie Furniss Rights World English (Monoray), Russia (Eksmo)


Young Women Jessica Moor The second novel from Moor, after 2020’s acclaimed Keeper, is an “all-consuming story about obsessive friendship, how we label victims... and ultimately, how complicit we all are in this system built for men”.


Agent Marilia Savvides Rights UK & Commonwealth exc. Canada (Manilla)


The Story of the World in 100 Moments Neil Oliver The historian and GB News firebrand “brings a whole new insight on our past, told through 100 remarkable, unforgettable stories”.


Agent Eugenie Furniss Rights UK & Commonwealth exc. Canada (Transworld), Korea (Will Books)


Agents’ Hotlists The scripts set to light up the Frankfurt Book Fair 2021


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The One Impossible Labyrinth Matthew Reilly The highly anticipated final adventure in the Aussie thriller writer’s Jack West series.


Agent Eugenie Furniss Rights UK & Commonwealth exc. Canada (Orion), ANZAC (Pan Macmillan Australia), Bulgaria (Bard)


The Drowning Hour S K Tremayne The bestselling psycholog- ical thriller writer’s latest focuses on Hannah, who finds her dream job at a secluded island resort. But when guests start drown- ing, she realises that they are not accidents.


Agent Eugenie Furniss Rights UK & Commonwealth exc. Canada (HarperCollins), Germany (Droemer Knaur)


ACM A Stone is Most Precious


Where it Belongs Gulchehra Hoja In this landmark literary memoir, Hoja describes her childhood in East Turkestan, and her family’s incarceration in “re-education camps” to reveal the plight of the Uyghur people.


Agent Max Edwards Rights UK (Virago), US (Hachette), Germany (Lubbe), Turkey (Epsilon)


Love and Murder Daniel Finkelstein An “unforgettable” family memoir in which the Times columnist describes the terrible ways in which Hitler persecuted his mother’s family and Stalin persecuted his father’s.


Agent Toby Mundy Rights UK & Commonwealth exc. Europe (William Collins), US and Canada (Doubleday), Germany (Hoffman and Campe), Holland (De Bezige Bij)


The Age of Unpeace Mark Leonard A “timely and urgent” argument by the political scientist shows that the very process of linking up the world is driving us further and further apart.


Agent Toby Mundy Rights UK & Commonwealth exc. Canada (Transworld), Taiwan (Flaneur)


Cicero’s Tongue Catherine Edwards The renowned classicist’s re-evaluation of Cicero “breathes new life into one the ancient world’s most singular figures, and offers a fresh account of the end of the Roman Republic”.


Agent Max Edwards


Red Traitor Owen Matthews In the follow-up to 2019’s Black Sun, KGB Major Alexander Vasin returns in a thriller set against the background of the Cuban Missile Crisis.


Agent Toby Mundy Rights US and Canada (Doubleday), UK (Transworld), Germany (Lubbe)


Aitken Alexander


Milk Teeth Jessica Andrews The Portico Prize winner’s


newest is “about the power of articulation and understanding what you want [and] the joy and terror of inhabiting a body, and a search for a way to live in a body that feels like it belongs to you”.


Agent Chris Wellbelove Rights UK (Sceptre)


The Women of Troy Pat Barker Barker’s second feminist retelling of the Trojan War, after the international hit The Silence of the Girls.


Agent Clare Alexander Rights UK (Hamish Hamilton), US (Doubleday), Arabic (Aserelkotob), France (Charleston), Italy (Stile Libero), Japan (Hayakawa), Lithuania (Baltos Lankos), Netherlands (Ambo Anthos), Portugal (Quetzal), Romania (Pandora), Spain (Siruela), Taiwan (China Times), Turkey (Ithaki)


The Transgender Issue Shon Faye A manifesto for change, and a call for justice and solidarity between all marginalised people and minorities, by the writer, activist and podcaster.


Agent Emma Paterson Rights UK (Allen Lane), US (Verso), Germany (Hanser), Italy (Blackie Edizioni), Spain (Blackie Books)


The Age of Confiscation Nicholas Mulder The first international history of expropria- tion—the confiscation of property by the state—by a professor of modern European history.


Agent Chris Wellbelove Rights UK (Allen Lane), US (Little, Brown), Brazil (Zahar), Germany (Fischer), Italy (under offer), Netherlands (Alfabet)


Seeing is Believing Daniel Yon Psychologist Yon offers a new view of the long-held thinking that the brain is split into two parts, show- ing how a combination of bottom-up inputs and top-down hypotheses help us to create the mental models we need to navi- gate our uncertain worlds.


Agent Chris Wellbelove Rights UK (Cornerstone/ PRH), Netherlands (Atlas Contact), under offer in Spain


A M Heath


Where Blood Runs Cold Giles Kristian A “pulse-racing” chase thriller, a story of endur- ance and of a father’s love for his child, set in Norway’s Arctic Circle.


Agent Bill Hamilton Rights UK (Transworld)


London, with Love Sarra Manning The romantic and unfor- gettable story of two people whose lives keep crossing over the years.


Agent Rebecca Ritchie Rights UK (Hodder), Germany (Piper)


The Men Sandra Newman “Dazzling” literary novel in which all men, everywhere, mysteriously disappear in an instant. Jane discovers something that might bring them back—but at what cost?


Agent Victoria Hobbs Rights UK (Granta), US (Grove Atlantic)


The Ghost Theatre Mat Osman The début from the Suede bassist and brother of Richard Osman is an imaginative romp over the rooftops of Elizabethan England, a meditation on double lives and fluid identities, and a bitter- sweet love affair.


Agent Victoria Hobbs Rights UK (Bloomsbury)


The Kingdom over the Sea Zohra Nabi A middle-grade adventure début follows orphaned Yara as she navigates a divided kingdom of sorcerers and alchemists.


Agent Julia Churchill


Andrew Lownie Agency


Stalin’s War Sean McMeekin A major revisionist history of the Second World War by a prize-winning historian, arguing that the US and Britain’s strategy of supporting Stalin at all costs allowed the Soviets to conquer most of Eurasia.


Agent Andrew Lownie Rights US (Basic), UK (Penguin), Turkey


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