BOOKS


Ruth Ware Five couples are trapped on a storm-swept island and stalked by a killer in this high-tension thriller by the bestselling author.


Agent Eve White Rights UK (Simon & Schuster), US, Brazil, Canada, Germany and three others


Following the Moon James Norbury The bestselling author- illustrator returns with a brand-new original non-fiction book.


Agent Ludo Cinelli Rights UK (Penguin Michael Joseph), Germany, Greece, Netherlands, Spain


Cooking Fast and Slow Natalia Rudin “Soul-nourishing”, comforting food for every timeframe from the Instagram cookery star.


Agent Ludo Cinelli Rights UK (Penguin Life), US (Ten Speed)


Georgiana Darcy: Timebound Amelia Blackwell “‘Enola Holmes’ meets Pride and Prejudice with a time travel twist”, in this Austen-inspired murder mystery.


Agent Eve White Rights UK (Pan Macmillan)


Fall of Civilizations Paul Cooper “Landmark” history looking at the collapse of powerful ancient societies tipped over based on the podcast with over 100 million downloads.


Agent Eve White Rights UK (Duckworth), US (Hanover Square), Poland, Portugal


The Feldstein Agency


Michaela Frank Kirby Kirby’s début “weaves a compelling and beautifully articulated” portrait of what it was like to grow up in an Irish Catholic family in the latter half of the 20th century in America, and how the death of Michaela, the youngest sibling in the family, shapes their lives


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London Book Fair Special Agents' Hotlists


throughout the years. Agent Paul Feldstein


Untitled memoir Hannah Bailey An ex-policewoman turned trauma psychologist reflects on a career on the frontlines and the effect it had on her mind and body, her cancer diagnosis at 35, and how those experiences inform her practice of helping those with PTSD.


Agent Paul Feldstein


The Prison Reader Susan Bennett Bennett recounts her experiences in The Reader project, which brings reading groups and storytellers into prisons in Northern Ireland, and how “some of our greatest writers can become a lifeline for some of those who have nearly lost all hope”.


Agent Paul Feldstein


Being with Cows Dave Mountjoy An “intensely transformational” story of how grief became gratitude in the presence of a humble herd of cows.


Agent Paul Feldstein


Felicity Bryan Associates


The Story of Your Life: The Eight Masterplots that Explain Human Behaviour Ben Ambridge Literature, linguistics, psychology and neuroscience combine as a professor of psycholinguistics argues that history is written not by those who are the smartest but by those who tell the most compelling stories—and demonstrates how we can harness the power of those stories in our own lives.


Agent Sally Holloway Rights UK (Macmillan), Korea (RH Korea)


Strange Fire Emma Chapman “Lisa Taddeo meets Annie Ernaux” in this auto-fiction about a married woman who decides in her 40s to fulfil her long held fantasy of having sex with a woman; when she shares this desire with her


Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin Sue Prideaux The award-winning Nietzsche and Munch biographer’s “sensitive and myth-busting” re-examination of Gaugin’s life and reputation, drawn from a wealth of new material and access to the artist’s family.


Agent Catherine Clarke Rights UK (Faber), US (Norton), Korea (Rok), the Netherlands (de Arbeiderspers)


Georgina Capel Associates


Madame Sosostris Ben Okri The Booker winner’s latest is set in a chateau in the south of France, where eager revellers are keen to have an experience of a lifetime in an enchanted forest with a special guest: Madame Sosostris, world- renowned clairvoyant.


Agent Georgina Capel Rights UK (Head of Zeus),


US (Other Press)


Napoleon and his Marshals Andrew Roberts The tale of the men Napoleon raised to the marshalate: their personalities and ambitions, love affairs, victories and defeats—and the role they played in the Grande Armée and European history.


Agent Georgina Capel Rights UK (Allen Lane)


The Ptolemies: Alexander the Great to Cleopatra Toby Wilkinson The story of the Ptolemies, Egypt’s last dynasty, an extraordinary contradictory phenomenon who presided over the great final flourishing of pharaonic civilisation and helped usher in the new Roman superpower.


Agent Georgina Capel Rights UK (Bloomsbury), US (Norton)


Birds, Sex and Beauty: The Extraordinary Implications of Charles Darwin’s Strangest Idea Matt Ridley Leads readers into the mysterious evolution of sexual behaviour, analysing the controversial theories of both Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace to determine the importance of beauty, display and ornament in reproduction.


Agent Georgina Capel Rights UK (Fourth Estate), US (HarperCollins)


Charles III Robert Hardman Royal historian Hardman’s latest is full of “intriguing insider detail and the real stories behind the sadness, the dazzling pomp and challenges” facing the new monarch.


Agent Georgina Capel Rights UK (Macmillan), US (Pegasus), Estonian (Tänapäev), Italian (Rizzoli)


Agent Catherine Clarke Rights UK (Penguin Press), US (Viking), Germany (C H Beck), the Netherlands (De Geus), Italy (Mondadori Libri)


The King Who Died Twice Stephen McVeigh First in a crime series set in Ancient Egypt where in 1279 BC, someone has beheaded King Seti in his sealed tomb to stop him from reaching the afterlife. Ex-army officer Assim is brought in to solve the case but knows he has no chance unless he can persuade his dead wife’s best friend, Eshe, to help him. The problem is, Eshe hates him.


Agent Caroline Wood BEN OKRI DIARMAID MACCULLOCH


husband, he suggests they do it together.


Agent Caroline Wood


Lower than the Angels: A History of Sex and Christianity Diarmaid MacCulloch The feted church historian examines the “glorious complexity and contradictions” found in the history of the church’s attitudes to sex and gender and what impact they have today.


Greene & Heaton


Shy Creatures Clare Chambers The bestselling Women’s Prize longlistee’s second novel is set in 1964 and follows art therapist Helen whose 60s aren’t swinging. Enter an unusual new patient found living as a recluse who is about to upend everything.


Agent Judith Murray Rights UK (Weidenfeld), US (Morrow), Germany (Eisele), the Netherlands (De Fontein)


Goodlord Ella Frears “Funny, harrowing” book taking the form of one long email addressed to an estate agent which skewers the contemporary housing crisis while questioning the fundamental desires, drivers and disappointments in our obsession with property.


Agent Claudia Young Rights UK (Rough Trade)


Untitled D B John The thriller writer’s latest is “taken straight from the headlines” and moves from Washington DC to Moscow and North Korea as CIA agent Jenna must expose the spies already in our midst—including at the heart of the US government.


Agent Antony Topping Rights UK (Harvill Secker)


What Will People Think? Vedashree Khambete-Sharma It’s 1976 and in the bastion of Mumbai’s middle-class, Ila’s mother is determined to get her four daughters married. But Ila has no intention of snaring a proposal from some boring boy—she wants a career and life of her own.


Agent Judith Murray Rights UK (Corvus)


Sun & Ssukgat: The Lost Art Of Korean Self-Care, Wellness & Longevity Michelle Bang A practical pocket guide by an eco-entrepreneur who has learned from self-healing masters and explored preventative self-care rituals within her heritage to uncover Korea’s centuries-old


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