BOOKS


Frankfurt Book Fair 2024 Agents’ hotlists


Smallie Eden McKenzie-Goddard “Energetic and immersive” début set between 1950s Barbados and 2010s London, which follows three generations of a Bajan-British family affected by the Windrush scandal.


Agent Rory Clarke Rights UK (Viking)


Now We Are Parents: A Guide to Love After Kids


REBECCA ARMITAGE


relationship survive the mundane?


Agent Harriet Moore


Andrew Lownie Agency


Flaws of Nature Andrew Dobson An account of everything in the animal kingdom that is self-defeating, ill-made, uneconomical and downright weird—and how natural selection has favoured it.


Agent Andrew Lownie Rights UK (Te History Press), Korea (Content Group Forest), China (Beijing Science and Technology), Saudi Arabia (Sumo)


Kitty’s Salon: Sex, Spying and Surveillance in the Third Reich


Nigel Jones, Urs Brunner & Julia Schramel True story of how the most notorious brothel in the decadent Berlin of the Weimar Republic became a wartime spying centre with every room wired for sound, staffed by women agents specially selected by the SS to coax secrets from their VIP clients.


Agent Andrew Lownie Rights UK (Bonnier), US (Pegasus), France (Saint Simon), Slovenia (Beletrina), Estonia (Tanapaev)


Vassal State Angus Hanton Brexit supposedly meant Britain “taking back control” from Europe, but Hanton argues how the UK’s true paymasters are


04 4th October 2024


on a different continent entirely: America.


Agent Andrew Lownie Rights UK (Swift Press)


Nine Minds Daniel Tammet Tammet continues his celebrated exploration of the mind, drawing on his own experiences to look at the inner lives of nine people on the neurodiverse spectrum.


Agent Andrew Lownie Rights UK (Profile), France (Les Arènes)


Vampire State: The Rise and Fall of the Chinese Economy Ian Williams The long-time foreign correspondent and China specialist on that nation’s “vampire economy” and the single-minded effort by its ruling party to “bend economics and business to its own will and ambition”.


Agent Andrew Lownie Rights UK (Birlinn)


Andrew Nurnberg


Quarter Love Crisis Jasmine Burke “The Hating Game meets Honey and Spice” in an “utterly addictive” rivals-to-lovers workplace rom-com about surviving your 20s and learning how to dream big again against the odds.


Agent Silé Edwards Rights UK (Dialogue Books)


Joanna Harrison The therapist and The Five Arguments All Couples (Need to) Have author’s newest is an “accessible, warm and informed” guide to support parents through the different phases of having children.


Agent Charlotte Merritt Rights UK (Profile)


The Unique: Affirmations, Love Letters and Lessons from Beyoncés Work


Antonia King Academic and poet King takes a detailed and original look at the impact Beyoncé has had on the cultural landscape for decades.


Agent Silé Edwards Rights World English (Beacon Press)


Anthony and Oliver Georgia Pactat “Profoundly moving, highly original” love story that uses just a touch of magical realism to explore the complex subjects of gender and identity, “for fans of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow”.


Agent Sara O’ Keeffe ASH Literary


For the Ring Jennifer Hennessy Second adult novel from Hennessy (a.k.a. YA author Jennifer Iacopelli), follows Frankie Sullivan, analytics whiz for the Brooklyn Eagles baseball team, and Charlie Avery, now retired star player, through a “forced- proximity, grumpy-meets- sort-of-sunshine if she could ever relax” romance.


Agent Alice Sutherland-Hawes Rights World English (Headline Eternal), German (HarperCollins Germany), options in Polish, Ukrainian


Just One Night Chelsea M Cameron First of a completed eight- book series following the love stories of people in a small town, kicking off with a sapphic romance with Paige out for revenge on her ex by seducing the girl he’s always wanted.


Agent Alice Sutherland-Hawes Rights World English (Amazon KDP), Italian (Ruby Ink)


The Mortal Trials Megan Shunmugam Début romantic fantasy following Lirah, who is ripped from her bed and thrown into the brutal Elven world and their Mortal Trials, a virtually unsurvivable series of challenges with the promise of immortality for any human who does survive.


Agent Alice Sutherland- Hawes Rights World English (Angry Robot)


Mondays Are Murder Ravena Guron Third YA thriller from Guron following Kay, who goes back to her hometown to stay with her cousin, but finds an anonymous letter telling her she will be murdered in a week.


Agent Alice Sutherland-Hawes Rights UK and Commonwealth (Usborne), Dutch (Uitgeverij Volt), options in US, German, Italian, South American Portuguese and Turkey


The Feast of a Life Cynthia So Second YA romance from So is a “delicious” story of two people brought together by a shared love of food as they figure out themselves and each other.


Agent Alice Sutherland- Hawes Rights World English (Little Tiger), options in Polish


Bell Lomax Moreton


Clean Point Meg Jones “Carrie Soto Is Back meets Icebreaker” in this steamy tennis romance, first of a four-book series


each based around a Grand Slam.


Agent Katie Fulford Rights UK and Commonwealth (Penguin Michael Joseph), US and Canada (Avon), Italy, Germany, Portugal, Denmark


Atomic Coffin Benedict Anning “VanderMeer meets le Carré” in a cosmic horror set on a cold-war Soviet nuclear submarine.


Agent John Baker


A Knock at the Door Rob Parsons The true story of Ronnie Lockwood, a homeless man who, on Christmas Eve 1975, entered the home of Rob and Diane Parsons and lived as part of their family for more than 45 years until his death.


Agent Jo Bell Rights World (HarperCollins)


Last Orders for the Condemned


Denzil Meyrick The long-awaited return of DCI Daley in a gripping contemporary thriller, the 12th in Meyrick’s series.


Agent Jo Bell Rights World (Transworld)


The Shah Sisters Rachael Fernandes “Heartfelt and joyous” reimagining of Little Women, as sisters Klara, Mally, Trina and Kav navigate life, love and loss as 21st century British- Indian women.


Agent Lauren Gardner


The Bent Agency Spindlewood Freddie Kölsch Middle-grade début from YA author Kölsch has Lilac, the only un-Seeing student at a school for psychics, bluffing her way through class— and solving a monstrous mystery.


Agent Molly Ker Hawn, Martha Perotto-Wills Rights US (Balzer + Bray), UK (Puffin), Germany (Hanser), Netherlands (Gottmer)


Lies We Tell About the Stars


Susie Nadler Début YA about a teenage girl who is


Agent John Silbersack Rights US (Berkley), Canada (Viking)


Idolfire Grace Curtis Epic sapphic fantasy road trip inspired by the fall of Rome, “for fans of Samantha Shannon and Hannah Kaner”.


Agent Zoë Plant Rights UK (Hodderscape), US (DAW)


Everything Is Probably Fine


Julia London The only happiness Lorna has known was a childhood spent in her grandmother’s home. She is determined to buy that house out from the current tenants and recreate that happiness... But with a little help from some friends, she learns that happiness is a choice.


Agent Jenny Bent Rights US (HarperWave)


The bks Agency


Zelensky’s Foreign Legion Colin Freeman Former Telegraph chief foreign correspondent Freeman “delivers the intense front-line storytelling of 3-Para or Black Hawk Down”, to answer the psychological complexity behind the question: “Why have foreign fighters flocked to the Ukraine?”


Agent James Spackman Rights UK and Commonwealth (Mudlark)


The Team of 8 Billion Dr Hermann Hauser & Hazel Danny Nakib With 21st century’s key technologies (AI, quantum computing, synthetic biology and blockchain) dominated by the


consumed with searching for her best friend after a catastrophic San Francisco earthquake.


Agent Molly Ker Hawn Rights World English (Dutton Children’s)


Written on the Dark Guy Gavriel Kay The bestselling author’s newest is a sweeping novel of love and war evoking the drama and turbulence of medieval France.


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