BOOKS


(Harper), Norway (Cappelen Damm), Italy (Harper Collins), Germany (Eichborn Verlag), Spain (Lumen), Sweden (Wahlström & Widstrand), Finland (Johnny Kniga), Dutch (De Geus)


Seven Reasons to Murder Your Dinner Guests K J Whittle Seven strangers meet at Serendipity’s for an anonymously hosted dinner party. As the evening winds down, cards appear in front of the diners… revealing the age at which each will die.


Agent Sam Brace Rights UK (HarperNorth), US (Sourcebooks), Italy (Newton Compton), Ukraine (Family Leisure Club)


The World That Jack Built Elsie Owusu Architect Owusu—who in her 50-year career has been trying to make her profession more diverse—exposes the inequities of a world of buildings built by men for other men, and argues for the need to involve all in building design.


Agent Adam Gauntlett Agent Caro Clarke


Portobello Literary


Awakened Laura Elliott A claustrophobic and surreal horror novel exploring the systematisation and monetisation of science, humanity and chronic illness with shades of Greek mythology.


Agent Caro Clarke Rights World English (Angry Robot)


These Mortal Bodies Elspeth Wilson An eerie, empowering campus novel about the societal expectations enforced upon young women... and what happens when they decide to break free: “The Secret History meets ‘The Crucible’.”


Agent Caro Clarke Rights UK and Commonwealth excl. Canada (Simon & Schuster)


Marie Maitland: The Remarkable Untold Story of a 16th-Century Queer Ashley Douglas


14 4th October 2024


Rachel Mills Literary


The Sea Library Sarah Brooks The newest from the breakout author of The Cautious Traveller’s Guide to the Wastelands blends mystery and romance in an alternative 18th century England of sea monsters, lighthouse cults and political upheaval.


Agent Nelle Andrew Rights UK and Commonwealth (Weidenfeld), options in 16 territories


Private Lives Emily Edwards Edwards’ “addictive and thought-provoking” newest has young single mother Abi coming to a new town for a fresh start. But then she sees Seb, and their complicated hidden past threatens to destroy them both.


Agent Nelle Andrew Rights UK and Commonwealth (Transworld)


Smartphone Nation Dr Kaitlyn Regehr A UCL professor of


Agent Rachel Mills Rights UK and Commonwealth (Cornerstone), Portugal (Porto), Korea (Influential), Taiwan (Infortress)


RCW


The House at the End of the World Ross Montgomery A young under-butler sets out to solve an impossible murder with the irascible dowager countess of the house in children’s author Montgomery’s “irresistibly characterful, clever and moving” historical mystery début.


Agent Claire Wilson Rights UK (Viking), US (HarperCollins), Italy (Longanesi)


Love’s Labour Stephen Grosz A psychoanalyst’s look at the obstacles of love—the traps of submission and the achievement of surrender—and a reflection on the work we must do to find love, sustain it and survive its inevitable loss.


Agent Georgia Garrett


Frankfurt Book Fair 2024 Agents’ hotlists


Historian Douglas chronicles for the first time the remarkable life of poet Marie Maitland—“Scotland’s 16th century Sappho” and contemporary to Mary Queen of Scots—aiming to install her in the feminist and queer history canon.


Agent Caro Clarke


Love and Politics: Why the Personal is Political Laura Basu “Urgent and thought- provoking” look at bringing the personal into the political and centring love and care in our political and economic systems: “Perfect for fans of Emma Dabiri, Naomi Klein and Angela Saini.”


Agent Caro Clarke Agent Rachel Mills


Under The Hammer Samantha Dooey-Miles “If Muriel Spark had written the TV show ‘Dexter’”: a “formidable, piercingly funny” novel of a woman who, at the end of her tether, decides to make the world a better place by punishing landlords.


Seven Myths About Money Rob Dix Bestselling financial expert Dix argues that most of the received wisdom about making money isn’t just misleading—it’s flat out wrong.


digital humanities’ “groundbreaking” framework for keeping children and young adults safe online”: “For readers of The Book you Wished Your Parents Had Read and Ultra-Processed People.”


Agent Rachel Mills Rights UK and Commonwealth (Bluebird), Canada (Knopf)


How to Speak so Others Will Listen Maryam Pasha The director and curator for TedxLondon’s toolkit for anyone who has ever felt their voice isn’t being heard, which aims to teach readers to believe that what they have to say is worth saying.


Rights UK (Chatto), US (Norton), Germany (S Fischer), Korea (Tornado), Romania (Trei), Spain (PRH Spain), Turkey (Yapi Kredi)


Red Louise Kennedy A moving novel of love and friendship by the author of the breakout, award-winning début Trespasses.


Agent Eleanor Birne Rights UK (Bloomsbury), US (Riverhead)


Farewell to Panic Beach Sara Stridsberg Newest from Swedish bestseller and literary star Stridsberg stretches from 1917 to the present day and follows generations of the same family navigating guilt, truth, sorrow and what shapes a person.


Agent Laurence Laluyaux Rights Sweden (Albert Bonniers), Denmark (Politikens), Finland (Tammi), France (Grasset), Italy (Guanda), Norway (Aschehoug)


Parallel Lines Edward St Aubyn The Patrick Melrose creator returns with a “profoundly moving” story about a group of wildly different characters whose fates are improbably yet inextricably linked—a novel about extinction and survival, inheritance and loss.


Agent Peter Straus Rights UK (Cape), US (Knopf), Canada (Knopf Canada)


Rebecca Carter Literary


Nova Scotia House Charlie Porter “Electric” début novel of queer love, creativity and magic from fashion journalist writer Porter, which compares “to the likes of Hilton Als, Philip Hoare and Olivia Laing”.


Agent Rebecca Carter Rights UK and Commonwealth (Penguin Press)


Predator Professor Tim Coulson The Oxford professor of biology’s newest is a fascinating and fun look at his specialist subject: the extraordinary diversity of predatory behaviour,


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