BOOKS Agent Caro Clarke


Scattering Stars Like Dust Mona Dash “The God of Small Things meets Little Women” story about mothers and daughters, tracing the lives of three Indian women across two continents, delving into their past to make sense of the present.


Agent Caro Clarke


Aren’t We Lucky Sarah Stewart An electric tale of class, privilege and coming of age, this deliciously dark and bitingly funny novel dissects the unravelling of a friendship: “perfect for fans of “Saltburn”, Claire Fuller and Zoë Heller”.


Agent Caro Clarke


The Formidables Gill Booles Witty Edinburgh-set cosy crime starring an unforgettable heroine who teams up with a motley crew of disabled people to fight crime.


Agent Caro Clarke


Rachel Mills Literary


We Don’t Make Ourselves Smaller Here Megan Jayne Crabbe The newest from the author, presenter and influencer is a timely discussion of the ways women and girls are encouraged to change themselves to fit the mould, which “will galvanise a generation of women to take back what’s always rightfully been theirs”.


Agent Rachel Mills Rights UK (Catalyst)


The Agatha Cure Cathy Rentzenbrink Bestseller Rentenbrink’s heartwarming, reflective and thought provoking account of her project to read all Agatha Christie’s books in order, and how that brought her back from burnout and reading fatigue— and what it is about these novels that can provide comfort for so many.


Agent Rachel Mills


London Book Fair Special Agents' Hotlists


Rights UK (Picador), US (Pantheon), France (Lattès), Germany (Blessing), Italy (Garzanti), the Netherlands (Ambo Anthos), Poland (Cyranka), Portugal (Presenca), Spain (Seix Barral), Catalan (Catedral), Turkey (Timas), Russia (Eksmo)


JACQUELINE BUBLITZ


The Heir of Venus Laura Shepperson The second book from The Heroines author tells the story of the legendary founder of Rome, Aeneas, through the eyes of his often overlooked wife, Lavinia.


Agent Nelle Andrew Rights UK (Sphere), US (Alcove)


How to be You Ellie Middleton Neurodivergence campaigner Middleton’s follow-up to bestseller Unmasked offers a practical guide with accessible and actionable resources to help neurodivergent people work with their busy brains rather than against them—and get stuff done while being a happy and healthy human.


Agent Rachel Mills Rights UK (Penguin Life)


Cooking with Nona Giuseppe Federici First book from the cookery social media star (@Sepps) on social media, in which he shares the recipes he cooks with his Sicilian nonna, giving them a plant-based twist.


Agent Rachel Mills Rights World (Penguin Michael Joseph)


RCW


A Long Road Abdulrazak Gurnah Gurnah’s first novel since being awarded the 2021 Nobel is a “beautifully written and


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powerful” tale of how honesty, application and determination can triumph over all adversity.


Agent Peter Straus Rights UK (Bloomsbury), US (Riverhead), Germany (Penguin), Italy (La Nave di Teseo), Norway (Gyldendal), Romania (Litera), Taiwan (Waves); China, the Netherlands under offer


Witness 8 Steve Cavanagh Bestseller Cavanagh newest in the Eddie Flynn series asks: what if the witness to a murder was more twisted than the killer?


Agent Jon Wood Rights UK (Headline), US (Atria), the Netherlands (Luitingh-Sijthoff), Germany under offer


Toward Eternity Anton Hur The double International Booker longlisted translator’s “haunting” speculative début that intricately blends poetry, biology, art, and technology in a dystopian future.


Agent Safae El-Ouahabi Rights US (HarperVia)


Whale Fall Elizabeth O'Connor O’Connor’s much- anticipated début novel, set in an isolated island community off the coast of 1930s Wales, tells a “mesmerising story of love and loss, longing and betrayal against the backdrop of a world on the edge of great tumult”.


Agent Matthew Marland


La Mere Diabolique Prune Antoine Antoine retells the life, trial and sentencing of a young German woman who killed five of her children and weaves it with her own experience of maternity and an analysis of gender bias in criminal justice and psychiatry.


Agent Laurence Laluyaux Rights France (Denoël)


Rebecca Carter Literary


The Frozen People Elly Griffiths The bestselling crime writer’s new series in which a time-travelling detective gets stuck in 1850s London as she searches for a cold-case serial killer and becomes unexpectedly embroiled in Victorian society.


Agent Rebecca Carter Rights UK and Commonwealth (Quercus), North America (Pamela Dorman Books), Danish (Gads), Swedish (Forum)


The Original Nell Stevens Stevens’ newest is “for“lovers of Sarah Waters and grifter stories of inheritance theft” and is set in a grand English country house in 1899 where the moneyless heroine learns to forge paintings and to tell when her rich cousin is lying.


Agent Rebecca Carter Rights UK and Commonwealth (Scribner)


All the Rage: Why Anger Drives the World Josh Cohen The psychoanalyst and author of Not Working’s latest is a “groundbreaking” exploration of the taboo emotion of anger, and its impact on our personal and political lives.


Agent Rebecca Carter Rights UK and Commonwealth (Granta)


The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise Olivia Laing In trying to create the beautiful garden she has dreamed of, Laing looks at ideas of paradise and utopia, and how gardens can also be places of exclusion that need to be opened to all.


Agent Rebecca Carter Rights UK and Commonwealth (Picador), North America (Norton), German (Fischer), Italian (Il Saggiatore), Korean (Across), Polish (Wydawnictwo Czarne), Russia (Ad Marginem), Ukrainian (One More Page)


My Battle of Hastings Xiaolu Guo “Witty, artful” memoir about a year spent in a dilapidated flat on the south coast of England, and how a Chinese artist tries to connect with her local environment in the hope of finding a deeper connection to her adoptive nation.


Agent Rebecca Carter Rights UK and Commonwealth (Chatto & Windus)


Robertson Murray


The Fates Rosie Garland “You’ve heard the legends, now hear their truth”… before Gods and mortals, there were The Fates— three sisters born out of Nyx’s darkness, destined to weave the lives, and deaths, of humankind for eternity.


Agent Charlotte Robertson Rights World (Quercus)


Narcoball David Arrowsmith Pablo Escobar’s life obsession wasn’t drugs, money or power, it was football. Narcoball uncovers the incredible story of Columbian football in the 1990’s shaped by drug lords, rivalries and ambition.


Agent Charlotte Robertson Rights World (Octopus)


D-Day: The Unheard Tapes Geraint Jones


Soldier turned author Jones’ “extraordinary, impactful” account of


the D-Day landings and battle for Normandy tied into a three-part BBC documentary series and published for the 80th anniversary.


Agent Charlotte Robertson Rights World (Macmillan)


The Stars Will Still Be There: What My Daughter Taught Me about Love, Life and Loss Nicola Nuttall “Heart-breaking but life-affirming” memoir from Nuttall about her inspirational daughter, Laura.


Agent Charlotte Robertson Rights World (HarperCollins)


Bartie Bristle and Other Stories Julie Tatchell and Amanda Middleditch The magical world of Bartie Bristle and his teddy bear friends in a picture book series from the duo known as the Teddy Bear Ladies on BBC’s “The Repair Shop”.


Agent Charlotte Robertson Rights World (Walker)


The Sarah Such Literary Agency


The Game Is Murder Hazell Ward “Magnificent true crime literary metafictional whodunnit” début told in three acts drawing on the Lucan/Rivett murder case written in the style of a conventional classic detective novel by the Winner of the Crime Writers’ Association Short Story Dagger Award 2023.


Agent Sarah Such Rights World (Penguin Michael Joseph)


Crush: Love, Lust and Unbearable Heartache Ruby Lewis “‘Girls’ meets Normal People”: in a bar, on a plane these “sublime” coming-of-age short love stories each feature a different couple; “written for the 18-25 Book Tok generation”.


Agent Sarah Such


Can you Solve the Murder? Antony Johnston “Compelling and masterful” whodunit gamebook where you


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