BOOKS


enemy wants him taken offline… permanently.


Agent Sophie Hicks Rights UK (Black & White)


The Hidden Seasons Tristan Gooley The bestselling nature writer returns in a look at the seasons “the prism of deduction” and how sun, moon, stars, plants, fungi, animals, water and weather all reflect seasonal changes back to us.


Agent Sophie Hicks Rights UK (Hodder Press), US (Te Experiment)


An Instruction in Shadow Benedict Jacka The second in Jacka’s contemporary fantasy series set in a world where the ultra-rich control magic, as they do everything else. Can Stephen beat the rich at their own game?


Agent Sophie Hicks Rights UK (Orbit), US (Ace), Germany (Blanvalet), France (Bayard)


So the Story Goes Kiah Thomas Début adult rom-com from children’s author Thomas kicks off when beleaguered bookseller Clarrie runs into aspiring author Declan, with Clarrie suggesting he write a better book. Two years later, Declan has done just that and it’s become a bestseller, with speculation building over the mystery behind the bookseller he dedicated the book to.


Agent Sophie Hicks Rights UK (Headline)


Susanna Lea Associates


The Lady Butchers Sophie Demange “Electrifying and


undeniably daring” darkly comic début about three women who are butchers by day and feminist vigilantes by night.


Agent Susanna Lea Rights France (L’Iconoclaste), under offer in Spain


What the Dead Have to Say Philippe Boxho First in the massive French bestselling crime series by forensic pathologist/author


16 4th October 2024


Frankfurt Book Fair 2024 Agents’ hotlists


Boxho, in which “bodies disappear, murders are covered up and the dead aren’t always as dead as we think”.


Agent Susanna Lea Rights Brazil (Objetiva), Finland (Gummerus), Hungary (Libri), Italy (Ponte alle Grazie), Korea (Minumsa), Netherlands (Volt), Poland (Sonia Draga), Portugal (PRH), Russia (Bombora), Spain (Plaza y Janés/PRH), Japan (under offer) and UK and Commonwealth under offer


Kate: A Fable Priya Parmar


Set in the dazzling world of Hollywood’s golden age, where Katharine Hepburn navigates love, betrayal and personal tragedy, while refusing to pretend to be anyone but herself.


Agent Stephanie Cabot Rights North America (Ballantine)


The White Octopus Hotel Alexandra Bell Epic time-travel romance about a young art valuer who follows the trail of a small white octopus crest, which takes her to a dilapidated Swiss belle Époque lakeside hotel, where she is transported to the 1930s.


Agent Térèse Coen Rights UK and Commonwealth (Del Rey), North America (Ballantine), Germany (HarperCollins)


Such Massive Little Wants Roxy Dunn “Gorgeously observed” humorous novel about a woman who trials a non-monogamous relationship as a way of working through her attachment issues— which doesn’t exactly go to plan.


Agent Cara Lee Simpson Rights UK and Commonwealth (Fig Tree)


United Agents


Lies We Tell for America Ber Anena The Wole Soyinka Prize Ugandan writer’s memoir of her time at Columbia University, examining the lengths people from “shithole countries” go to when seeking an education in the West.


AMY MAE BAXTER Agent Sophie Scard FELICITY HAYES-MCCOY


Legenda: A New History of Nations Through the Medieval Women at the Heart of Them Janina Ramirez The Femina author returns, exploring myth-making, nation- building and gender, and challenging the misconception that the history of nations can only be told through the lives of great men.


Agent Rosemary Scoular Rights UK (Ebury), German PRH Germany)


ABIOLA BELLO


The Book of Guilt Catherine Chidgey The Betty Trask winner’s dystopia, “reminiscent of Never Let Me Go”, in which Vincent lives in a strange children’s home with his two brothers, given medicine to keep them safe from The Bug. When the government decides to close the home down, secrets come out that rock the children to their core.


Agent Caroline Dawnay Rights UK (John Murray), US (Hachette), New Zealand (Te Herenga Waka University Press) Canada (Knopf), Australia (Random House Australia, German (Heyne)


Hardanger Adrian Edmondson The actor’s first novel explores a “family of lovable monsters” in Yorkshire in the 1990’s in “an accomplished début in the vein of the Cazalet Chronicles”.


Agent Zoe Ross Rights UK (Canongate), US (Viking)


#IFoundaBody Becky Brynolf When an influencer accidentally discovers a dead body during a livestream, DS Mona Hendricks is put onthe case, with a promotion on the line: “‘Happy Valley’ meets a Bella Mackie twist on ‘Legally Blonde’”.


Agent Becky Percival Rights UK (Black & White), North America (Crooked Lane)


Watson, Little


Fire Fight Tom Wood Latest in Wood’s Viktor series, where the enigmatic assassin has loyalties tested as he is not not prepared to kill


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