BOOKS


Frankfurt Book Fair 2024 Agents’ hotlists


everyone in her tight-knit Jewish community thinks that 21-year-old Evie is weird—and a psychiatrist says that she has Asperger’s— but Evie knows she is really a witch. “Sorrow and Bliss meets Convenience Store Woman via Jane Austen and Caitlin Moran”.


Agent Charlotte Colwill Rights UK and Commonwealth (UCLan)


Curtis Brown


Karla’s Choice Nick Harkaway Acclaimed novelist Harkaway takes on the mantle of his late father John le Carré’s most iconic spy, George Smiley.


BROOKE FAST


psychological thriller from this bestselling author, whose books have sold one million units in the English language.


Agent Clare Hulton Rights World (HarperCollins), Sinhalese (Bookrack)


The Cancer Road Map: Real Science to Guide Your Treatment Path Dr Liz O’Riordan The co-author of the bestselling Complete Guide to Breast Cancer confronts the big cancer truths (and myths), offering clear, evidence- based answers.


Agent Clare Hulton Rights World English (HarperCollins)


3 Doughs 60 Recipes: Easy-to-Master Doughs and Delicious Ways to Enjoy Them Lacey Ostermann Début cookbook from the superstar bakery influencer @_lacebakes_.


Agent Clare Hulton Rights World (Quadrille)


Caring for Cacti and Succulents Sarah “The Plant Rescuer” Gerrard-Jones


06 4th October 2024


Comprehensive and beautiful book about looking after these iconic plants from ITV’s “Alan Titchmarsh’s Gardening Club” houseplant expert.


Agent Clare Hulton Rights World (DK)


Colwill & Peddle


The Space Between Us: An Autistic Therapist’s Guide to Better Empathy for Everyone Aimee Cliff Autistic psychotherapist Cliff draws on her clinical experience, alongside interviews with a wide range of neurodivergent people, to interrogate the science of empathy in the brain and body.


Agent Milly Reilly Rights UK and Commonwealth (William Collins), North America (Te Experiment)


Sweet: The Secret to the Best Desserts Alexina Anatole “MasterChef” finalist and Bitter author Anatole guides you through unlocking the secrets


of sweetness.


Agent Milly Reilly Rights World (Square Peg)


Friday Night Chicken Aaron Vallance A coming-of-age memoir about food, tradition, family and memory, taking the reader into the author’s childhood home in the Jewish community in Manchester in the 1980s.


Agent Kay Peddle Rights UK and Commonwealth (Ebury)


Grandparenting: On Love and Relationships Across Generations


Terri Apter “Warm, wise” guide to being a modern grandparent from psychologist Apter, building on cutting-edge research as well as her own experience.


Agent Kay Peddle Rights World English (Duckworth)


The Magickal Summer of Evie Edelman Harriett de Mesquita Début set in early 1980s Leeds in which


Agent Jonny Geller Rights UK (Penguin), US (Viking), France (Seuil), Germany (Ullstein), Greece (Harlenic Hellas), Hungary (Agave), Italy (Mondadori), Netherlands (Luitingh- Sijthoff), Portugal (Dom Quixote), Spain (Planeta)


See You at the Finish Line Zac Hammett “Captivating” LGBTQ+ enemies-to-lovers rowing romance with “a love story that will warm your heart”.


Agent Cathryn Summerhayes Rights UK (Zaffre)


Traverser les montagnes, et venir naître ici Marie Pavlenko The French author and serial prize- winner Pavlenko’s Prix du Roman Fnac- longlisted story of bereavement, solidarity and hope.


Agents Roxane Edourad, Felicity Blunt (UK) Rights France (Les Escales)


Myself and Other Animals Gerald Durrell The beloved naturalist’s posthumous autobiography—drawing on an unfinished memoir and a book from a trip to Australian in 1969— blending in uncollected pieces and extracts from Durrell’s work and archives.


Agent Norah Perkins Rights UK (Viking), options in China, France, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Spain


The Good Russian Jana Bakunina The Russian-born, London-based memoirist and short- story writer’s account of her return to her hometown of Yekaterinburg to explore how ordinary Russians are experiencing Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.


Agents Rachel Goldblatt, Elliot Prior Rights UK (Little, Brown)


Darby Literary


A Crime Through Time Amelia Blackwell “‘Enola Holmes’ meets Pride and Prejudice” with a time-travel twist, starring Georgiana Darcy.


Agent Mary Darby (on behalf of Eve White) Rights UK (Pan)


We Aim to Live John Budden Collection of short stories by former pro footballer Budden; “an unflinching exploration of the fragility of the male ego”.


Agent Mary Darby Rights UK (Troubadour)


Darley Anderson


Cuckoo Callie Kazumi


Gripping début thriller “with a killer twist at its core” in which Claire is ghosted by her fiancé and becomes obsessed with his other life.


Agent Camilla Bolton Rights UK and Commonwealth (Century), North America (Ballantine), Brazil (Alta), Russia (Everbook)


To Cage a Wild Bird Brooke Fast A “Hunger Games meets ‘Prison Break’” spicy enemies-to-lovers dystopian romantasy début set in Dividium, where all crimes are punishable by life in prison, and the wealthy hunt inmates for sport. Can bounty hunter Wren escape with both her brother and her heart intact?


Agent Rebeka Finch


Sister Wake Dave Rudden


First in an adult epic fantasy series by the YA star where the ancient gods and monsters join a rebellion, and one woman will decide the fate of all.


Agent Clare Wallace Rights UK and Commonwealth (Hodderscape)


The Seventh Girl Holly Craig In the isolated mountains of Tasmania, Gertie and Hallie reconcile to look for their missing brother. But then Gertie becomes the seventh missing person and Hallie must face Mount Mercy alone.


Agent Jade Kavanagh Rights option in Russia


Crew of Crooks Amelia Ramsay Début steamy romantasy with love, pirates and an uprising of the underdog as lifelong rivals Priest and Scarlett must work together to carry out an impossible heist. But will their mutual desire put everything at risk?


Agent Rebeka Finch Rights Italian (De Agostini)


Darley Anderson Children’s Agency


Bright and Terrible Will They Be George Griffiths Queer YA high-fantasy début with a slow burn romance inspired by Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene. Magic has returned to the kingdom of Galant, but only sinners can use it…


Agent Clare Wallace


The Sign of the Raven Philippa Dunn “Orwell meets ‘Inception’” in a teen fantasy début where Ashlyn is recruited into a secret society of lucid dreamers and uncovers a sinister plot that threatens the freedoms of her fellow citizens—and the freedom of thought itself.


Agent Lydia Silver


Traumaland Josh Silver


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