BOOKS US (Avid Reader)


Aicha Kandicha Soraya Bouazzaoui “Poignant and sexy” romantasy crossover based on fragments of a Moroccan myth on female agency and rage set against the backdrop of the settler colonialism and subsequent rebellion.


Agent Rachel Mann


Confessions Catherine Airey “Immersive, ambitious and deeply compulsive” début following three generations of women from New York City to rural Ireland and back again.


Agent John Ash Rights UK (Viking), US (Mariner), Ukraine (Family Leisure Club)


Easy Living Aisling Rawle “‘Love Island’ meets Lord of the Flies” in a compulsive and mournful comment on capitalist greed and societal destruction; a “thrilling and extremely timely work from a wonderful new talent”.


Agent Rachel Mann Rights UK (Te Borough Press), US (Random House), German (btb)


Caroline Sheldon Literary Agency


The Toffee Factory Girls Glenda Young First in an “exciting” new trilogy which opens when three young girls start work in the local toffee factory: they arrive as strangers but soon forge a close bond of friendship in this “heartwarming novel packed with romance and secrets”.


Agent Caroline Sheldon Rights UK (Headline)


Things Snowballed Heidi Stephens Advertising agency executive Lucy is thrilled to be sent on a glamorous work trip to the Swiss Alps but not so thrilled when she discovers moody colleague Nate is to be her companion. As the weather closes in, and they are trapped in the mountains, can the ice between them begin to melt?


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Agent Caroline Sheldon Rights UK (Headline)


Clare Hulton Literary Agency


Perfect: An Intimate Biography of Christine McVie Lesley-Ann Jones A fresh new take on the iconic member of Fleetwood Mac.


Agent Clare Hulton Rights World (Bonnier)


Under the Knife: Life Lessons from the Operating Table Dr Liz O’Riordan An “extraordinary” memoir by a former surgeon.


Agent Clare Hulton Rights World English (Unbound), Hungarian (Trubadur Konyvek), film/ TV (Water and Power)


The Vanishing of Class 3B Jackie Kabler The bestselling psychological thriller writer’s latest poses the question: what happens when your worst nightmare comes true?


Agent Clare Hulton Rights World English (HarperCollins), film/ TV (Happy Prince)


The Curry Guy: One Pot Dan Toombs “Fabulous” new cookbook featuring recipes collected on the travels of the bestselling author.


Agent Clare Hulton Rights World (Quadrille), Dutch (Good Cook)


London Book Fair Special Agents' Hotlists


with the vivid intensity of your worst nightmare.


Agent Charlotte Colwill Rights UK and Commonwealth (Serpent’s Tail), US and Canada (Clash)


Sherlock & You Andrew Lane An interactive contemporary middle- grade, in which Sherlock Holmes’ great-great- grandson solves mysteries in London with his two best friends—and the reader.


SORAYA BOUAZZAOUI


Agent Charlotte Colwill Rights Germany (Ravensburger)


Curtis Brown


Colwill & Peddle Poor Artists


Gabrielle de la Puente & Zarina Muhammad “Moving, eye-opening” journey through the world of contemporary art by the art criticism duo known as The White Pube who “tell the story of art like never before”.


Agent Milly Reilly Rights UK and Commonwealth (Penguin Press), North America (Prestel)


Easy Air Fryer Bakes Lucy Parissi Over 80 delicious sweet and savoury baking recipes that can all be made in the air fryer.


Agent Kay Peddle Rights World (Penguin Michael Joseph), Danish and Swedish (Legind)


Mining Men Emily P Webber The story of the last generation of British miners, told through the lives of the different men who left the schoolyard and carved out their masculine identities at the literal coalface, exploring how they navigated the year-long miners’ strike, pit closures and later life above ground.


Agent Kay Peddle Rights UK and Commonwealth (Chatto)


Flowers From the Void Gianni Washington “Scintillating” début collection of stories that explores the limit of intimacy and empathy


The Glassmaker Tracy Chevalier Set in Venice from 1486 to the present, Chevalier’s “deeply moving” novel looks at a virtuoso portrait of a woman, the family of glassmakers to whom she belongs and a sweeping history of a vibrant city.


Agent Jonny Geller Rights UK (Te Borough Press), US (Viking), German, Italian, French, Spanish, Dutch, Romanian, Serbian


It’s Getting Hot in Here Jane Costello Costello’s latest is “a love story for frazzled women everywhere” aimed at the


40-something Generation X: “If Bridget Jones were perimenopausal, this is what she’d look like”.


Agent Sheila Crowley Rights UK (Hodder), Danish (Cicero), Hebrew (Tchelet); options in three others


A Fate Forged in Fire Hazel McBride “‘Outlander’ meets Throne of Glass and ‘House of the Dragon’” in the first of McBride’s duology inspired by Scottish myths and customs blending searing romance, political intrigue and elemental magic.


Agent Ciara Finan Rights UK (Renegade), German (Aufau), Italian (Ne/oN Libri)


Darkrooms Rebecca Hannigan Set in 1990s and present-day Ireland and exploring generational trauma following a child’s


mysterious disappearance and the dark underbelly of a small Irish town teeming with secrets: “reminiscent of Belinda Bauer and Susie Steiner”.


Agents Cathryn Summerhayes, Jess Molloy, Annabel White Rights UK (Little, Brown), US (Morrow), Germany under offer


Authoress: A History of Women’s Literature Francesca Peacock A bold new literary canon, one that will uncover 10 centuries of Anglo- American female literary history.


Agent Sabhbh Curran


Darley Anderson Innocent Guilt B M Williams “Layered” contemporary upmarket female-led crime thriller début where a blood-soaked woman carrying a baseball bat staggers into the police station to turn herself in for a murder, but when a second body shows up DI Leah Hutch must confront her own demons to see the truth.


Agent Camilla Bolton


More than Nothing Sophie Hamilton “Lucy Score meets ‘Ozark’” début as when Elenie Dax is shunned because of her notorious surname, she becomes a police informant to take down her stepfather. But as sparks fly with police chief, Roman Martinez, she must be sure it’s worth the risk…


Agent Tanera Simons Agent Lydia Silver


Noah Peter is on Thin Ice Annalise Erico Cosy, queer, open-door opposites attract romance where ice hockey star Brendon and news reporter Noah’s connection is “a lot like learning to skate… and Noah can’t help but fall”.


Agent Rebeka Finch


Wildwood Ashley Woo Woo’s début is an “original” take on the classic gothic thriller set in contemporary Vermont where after Elinor inherits the old family estate, she


The Thread that Connects Us Ayaan Mohamud Critically acclaimed Mohamud’s latest YA has stepsisters Halima and Safiya meeting for the first time at school—and it’s hate at first sight. But in the wake of shocking family secrets, is the key to their problems actually sisterhood?


Agent Clare Wallace Rights UK and Commonwealth (Usborne)


April Falls Gina Blaxill


is haunted by ancestral secrets buried deep in the past and even deeper in the woods.


Agent Jade Kavanagh


The Time of the Fire Emma Kavanagh “Urgent and timely” sliding-doors thriller, set over one day against the backdrop of a devastating California wildfire and exploring the concept of family, nature versus nurture and power imbalances between the corporate and the natural world.


Agent Camilla Bolton Rights UK and Commonwealth (Orion)


Darley Anderson Children’s Book Agency


Silver Olivia Levez “John Green meets Spielberg with a literary edge” in a speculative YA love story that is a “heart-rending exploration of what it is to be human, and how altering and world-shaking real love can be”.


Agent Clare Wallace Rights UK and Commonwealth (Hot Key)


Eli and the Premonitions Bureau Rachel Morrisroe Picture book star Morrisroe moves into middle-grade with an “epic, imaginative and immersive” title centring around Eli, whose visions brand him a troublemaker at school— but at the Premonitions Bureau, they can save the world.


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