BOOKS


London Book Fair Special Agents' Hotlists


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Terrible Humans: The World’s Most Corrupt Super-Villains And The Fight To Bring Them Down Patrick Alley An insight into the world's worst warlords, grifters and kleptocrats who can be found everywhere from presidential palaces to boardrooms of some of the world's best-known companies.


Agent Eugenie Furniss Rights World (Monoray)


A Curtain Twitcher’s Book of Murder Gay Marris The inhabitants of a sleepy suburban London street in the 1960s are not all they seem…


Agent Eugenie Furniss Rights World (Bedford Square)


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The Masked Medic: A New Doctor Reporting from the Frontline of the NHS The Masked Medic “Razor sharp” tell-all diary of an anonymous beleaguered junior doctor thrust from university onto the frontline of the NHS in 2020.


Agent Emily MacDonald


Belle Tasmina Perry A romantic modern- day retelling of “A Christmas Carol” from the perspective of Scrooge’s lost love.


Agent Eugenie Furniss Rights UK & US (Sunflower)


Love is a Curse Keith Stuart A “daring and unique” story of heartbreak and hope, and a young woman’s investigation into a family curse.


Agent Eugenie Furniss Rights World (Sphere)


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Monasterium: The Making of Medieval Europe James Clark The University of Exeter professor’s “groundbreaking analysis that turns our understanding of mediaeval monasteries on its head”, unveiling a


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vibrant tapestry of history, culture and innovation.


Agent Tom Killingbeck Rights UK under offer


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Danielle Giles “Eerily atmospheric” début, set in 10th-century East Anglia, about a community of nuns who turn inward when “curses, riddles and madness” drag their convent into a strange time of penitence and politics—with a queer love story at its heart.


Agent Jessica Lee Rights UK and Commonwealth (Mantle)


Nero Conn Iggulden Multiple-million copy seller Iggulden’s first in a three- part series charting the rise and fall of Emperor Nero.


Agent Victoria Hobbs Rights UK and Commonwealth (Penguin Michael Joseph), US (Pegasus), Bulgarian (Bard), Italian (Piemme), Spanish (Duomo)


The Girl in Cell A Vaseem Khan The Malabar House series author’s first contemporary thriller is a “twisty” tale of an amnesiac woman convicted at 17 for cold- blooded murder, and her desperate fight against true crime podcast notoriety and her own faulty memory to unlock the truth.


Agent Euan Torneycroft Rights UK and Commonwealth (Hodder)


Sound Tracks: Uncovering our Musical Past


Graeme Lawson


A Cambridge University fellow and instrument


maker’s exploration of the melodies of humanity’s past through 60


archaeological detective tales, tracing our deep connection with music


from ancient civilisation to the present day.


Agent Bill Hamilton Rights UK and Commonwealth (Bodley Head), US (Knopf), German (Piper), Italian (Grazanti)


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Death of a Dictator Andrew Holgate The ex-Sunday Times literary editor’s “fresh, thrilling and brilliantly researched” investigation into one of the great mysteries of the Second World War: who killed Benito Mussolini and his mistress, Claretta?


Agent Toby Mundy Rights UK and Commonwealth excluding Canada (Weidenfeld), North America (Liveright)


Sorry, Not Sorry: The Power of Apologies in an Irascible World Dr Judy Eaton Psychology professor Eaton’s “bold and original” look at the history and science of the humble apology, showcasing their power throughout time and how they have never been so important as in today’s world.


Agent Max Edwards


Burn After Reading Catherine Ryan Howard The bestselling and award-winner’s latest is an addictive and twisty thriller about a man who may have committed murder, and the ghostwriter charged with helping him protest his innocence.


Agent Sara O’Keeffe Rights UK and Commonwealth excluding Canada (Transworld), North America (Blackstone)


No God but Us Bobuq Sayed Sayed’s “deeply


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searching” début novel follows Delbar and Mansur, two gay Afghan men from disparate walks of life, who grapple with themes of borders, sacrifice, and what it means to be a foreigner in all aspects of identity.


Agent Maria Cardona


Walking the Razor T R Wilson Victorian gothic psychodrama set in the stifling summer shortly ahead of Jack the Ripper’s first murder, with Georgina Mann recounting her relationship and marriage to John Kegsworth, a “reforming” journalist who may not be all that he seems.


Agent Emily Sweet


The Agency The Tooth Fairy and the Crocodile Julia Donaldson; Lydia Monks “Full of fun and packed with adventure” as Ruth Mary the tooth fairy gets more than she bargained for when she collects the teeth of some jungle animals, including a less- than-friendly crocodile.


Agent Jessica Hare Rights World (Macmillan Children’s)


Smelly Peggy Helen Stephens A picture book about a very real life, very naughty dog called Peggy: “a happy, big-hearted celebration” about our much-cherished dog members of the family.


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