BOOKS
Hope and Glory Jendella Benson A rich, heartwarming story of loss, love and family chaos, “launching an excit- ing new voice in fiction”.
Agent Juliet Pickering Rights UK (Trapeze), US (William Morrow), optioned for TV
First Born Will R Dean Psychological thriller in which dark secrets emerge when Molly Raven inves- tigates her twin sister’s murder in New York.
Agent Kate Burke Rights UK (Hodder), US (Simon & Schuster)
Brotherstone Creative Management
A Careless Man Tracey Emerson “Highsmithian” thriller set in Mallorca.
Agent Charlie Brotherstone Rights World English (Boldwood)
Every Monument will Fall Dan Hicks The Oxford academic and curator of the Pitt-Rivers Museum’s critical biog- raphy of the museum’s founder, Augustus Pitt-Rivers.
Agent Charlie Brotherstone
After Daft Gabriel Szatan How “Daft Punk rewired the 21st century” by the music journalist.
Agent Charlie Brotherstone Rights UK and Common- wealth (John Murray)
Have You Heard George’s Podcast George the Poet The transcripts of the hit podcast, with additional material.
Agent Charlie Brotherstone Rights World English (Hodder)
Right from Wrong Jacob Dunne A “deeply humane and honest book”, offering an unflinching look at the relationship between criminal justice and men’s mental health.
Agent Charlie Brotherstone Rights World English HarperNorth
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Agents’ Hotlists Frankfurt Book Fair 2021
Caroline Sheldon
The People’s Princess Flora Harding Harding’s latest royal historical novel has Lady Diana Spencer realising that life married to a Prince isn’t much of a fairytale. She is drawn to the 150-year-old journals of another princess and recognises many parallels between their lives.
Agent Caroline Sheldon Rights UK (One More Chapter)
The Woman Who Took a Chance Fiona Gibson Gibson’s newest rom-com has former high-flying flight attendant Jen back down to earth as she is jobless at 50—so she suddenly has time to try modern dating for the first time.
Agent Caroline Sheldon Rights UK (Avon)
It’s Not Going to Happen Heidi Stephens Emily Wilkinson has lost everything, but sometimes gambling on a fresh start can open the door to finding love, friendship and belonging in the most unexpected places...
Agent Caroline Sheldon Rights UK (Headline Accent)
Sleepless in Sicily Emma Jackson After being locked in a cupboard with a movie star, it suits Lila and Rowan best to pretend it never happened. But it soon becomes impossible to ignore the attraction simmering between them…
Agent Felicity Trew Rights UK (Orion Dash)
Murder at the Seaview Hotel Glenda Young A new cosy crime trilogy set in Yorkshire that opens with a mystery surround- ing a group of 12 Elvis impersonators, a hotel on the brink of closure, and a pair of blue suede shoes...
Agent Caroline Sheldon Rights UK (Headline)
Charlie Campbell Literary Agents
A Three Dog Problem SJ Bennett The second book in the
bestselling crime series in which Queen Elizabeth II secretly solves crimes while carrying out her royal duties.
Agent Charlie Campbell Rights UK (Bonnier), US (William Morrow), Brazil (Record), Czech Republic (Albatros), Estonia (Eesti Raamat), Finland (WSOY), TV (Mammoth) and 10 others
Why We Kneel, How We Rise Michael Holding Cricket and broadcast- ing legend Holding—in discussion with a host of international Black sporting heroes—explains why racism exists, how it works, and what it’s like to be treated differently just because of the colour of your skin.
Agent Charlotte Atyeo Rights UK (Simon & Schuster)
Dark Rider Neil McCormick First in a crime series by the Daily Telegraph rock critic set in the music business, in which trouble- shooter Killian Fury is hired by a record company to recover stolen record- ings of the last album by the legendary hard rock band Dark Rider.
Agent Charlie Campbell Agent Emma Finn
No: A Short History of Prohibitions Ed Needham Pineapples, chess, forks, Harry Potter, wearing trousers, even Elvis’ legs: Needham explores some of humanity’s most arbi- trary and ludicrous bans and the logic (or lack of) behind them.
Agent Natalie Galustian
The Second Woman Charlotte Philby Philby’s third domestic noir-cum-spy thriller is a “deeply unsettling, brilliantly gripping” story of a family legacy built upon lies.
Agent Julia Silk Rights World English (Te Borough Press), film and TV (Projector Pictures)
C&W
Change Alley Ms A A “Secret Barrister meets Know My Name”
Curtis Brown Double or Nothing Kim Sherwood The first in an exciting new series of contemporary thrillers featuring MI6’s Double 0 Section: the British special agents with a licence to kill.
Agent Jonny Geller (Ian Fleming Publications), Sue Armstrong (Sherwood)
Rights UK (HarperCollins), US (Morrow)
Again, Rachel Marian Keyes The long-awaited follow-up to Keyes’ bestselling Rachel’s Holiday finds our titular heroine having hauled her life back on track, only to suffer a spectacular setback when an old flame arrives in her life once more.
Agent Jonathan Lloyd Rights UK (Michael Joseph), Spanish (Plaza y Janes)
Darley Anderson
The Shallows Holly Craig
Début thriller in which Emma’s husband forces their family to hide on a remote Australian island after a neighbour is murdered in their elite Sydney suburb.
Agent Jade Kavanagh
The Places Between Emma Steele Début in which Robbie and Jenn have reconciled—this time it’s forever. But forever might not be as long as they think...
Agent Tanera Simons Rights Germany (Droemer), Romania (Bookzone)
Deep Water Emma Bamford “Something in the Water meets The Beach” début thriller in which a newlywed European couple are rescued in the Indian Ocean on a
no-holds-barred exposé of a female trader’s life in the City, and her rape by a senior colleague.
Agent Sophie Lambert
Everything We Are Karen Angelico A “searingly honest, compelling and insightful” début about love and sex that illuminates the characters’ darkest corners and the way that relationships change over time.
Agent Sophie Lambert Rights UK & Commonwealth (Phoenix/Orion)
Our Hideous Progeny C E McGill
Gothic début of two paleontologists (one the great niece of Victor Frankenstein) and their quest to forge a creature of their own making: “Frankenstein meets The Essex Serpent”.
Agent Sue Armstrong
Chaos Dr Alexandra Shaker A clinical psychologist takes us on a journey through the body—from brain to blood to heart to guts—to explore the connections between our emotional, psychological and physical life.
Wrong Place, Wrong Time Gillian McAllister Intricately plotted time- slip thriller that follows a mother who witnesses her teenage son murder an unknown man. Can she fix the future and save her son?
Agents Felicity Blunt and Lucy Morris
Rights UK (Michael Joseph), Sweden (Bonnier), Russia (Storytel)
Ruth and Pen Emilie Pine First novel “with shades of Ali Smith and Eimear McBride” from Irish essayist Pine, focusing on “two women, one city, one day”.
Agent Karolina Sutton Rights UK (Hamish Hamilton), Holland (Nieuw Amster- dam), Italy (Rizzoli)
Amy and Lan Sadie Jones The rural idyll of dreamy and naive Londoners determined to form a self-sufficient commune turns into a nightmare of wet hay- making, dying pet cows, bed-hopping parents, missing children. “‘The Archers’ it ain’t.”
Agent Cathryn Summerhayes Rights UK (Chatto)
Photography: Tom Medwell
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