BOOKS Agent Charlie Viney


Rock Stars & Their Train Sets & Other Curious Pursuits Paul Dowswell From beekeeping and astrophysics to upholstery and model railways.


Agent Charlie Viney


Resolve: The Science and Secrets behind Willpower Dr Monty Lyman Uses cutting-edge research and science- backed secrets to “turbocharge” your willpower.


Agent Charlie Viney


The Map Men: The Fight for Better Mapping in the Second World War Merryn Walters The story of British, American, and German map-makers—and how their work saved lives but killed millions.


Agent Charlie Viney.


Watson, Little Liv is Not a Loser Lauren Ford


Liv has been flailing through life and fears she may, in fact, be a massive loser. With the help of her oldest friend Henry, she comes up with 10 tasks to change her life. After each, it’s Henry that comes to the rescue…


Agent Megan Carroll Rights World English (Canelo), Germany (Goldmann), Romania (RAO)


The Book Detective Martin Edwards A “stunning” new modern- day murder mystery from Diamond Dagger winner Edwards, about a rare book dealer turned detective: “the intricacy of Magpie Murders with family secrets as spooky as ‘The Woman in Black’”.


Agent James Wills


Ink Ribbon Red Alex Pavesi Pavesi’s much-anticipated follow-up to Eight Detectives is “not a whodunit or a howdunit but a didithappen or a whatthehellisgoingon?” Five gather in a countryside house to celebrate a 30th birthday and to play a game where everyone chooses two


24 23rd February 2024


London Book Fair Special Agents' Hotlists


others and imagines a scenario where one kills the other and writes it down as a short story. But then the murders start to happen for real... or do they?


Agent James Wills Rights UK and Commonwealth (Penguin Michael Joseph), US (Holt), Serbia (Laguna)


Hotel Lux Maurice Casey An “intimate world history” through a group biography of three families—forgotten 20th-century radicals— who found friendship at a Moscow Hotel.


Agent Donald Winchester Rights World English (Footnote)


The New Tribalism Robin Dunbar “Enlightening” pop science exploration of why society feels so divided and what we can do about it: “for readers of Matt Ridley and Jared Diamond”.


Agent Donald Winchester


WME The Strange Case of Jane O. Karen Thompson Walker The Age of Miracles author’s newest has a reclusive woman and her unconventional psychiatrist drawn together to plumb eerie dimensions of memory, truth, human consciousness and fate.


Agent Eric Simonoff Rights US (Random House)


20% Smarter: How Neurodivergents are Reshaping the Workplace and the World David Flink Adam Grant’s Give and Take meets Steve Silberman’s Neurotribes in a book that will “appeal to those interested in how outsiders think and succeed”.


Agent Ethan Bassoff Rights US (Grand Central)


Inconceivable Rebecca Coxon “Timely and timeless” exploration of the consequences of our choices about how we create new life focusing on the cross-section of


fertility treatments and the uploading of genetic data to ancestry sites.


Agent Matilda Forbes Watson


The Exes Leodora Darlington “Razor-sharp” début thriller by the Orion publishing director that examines how often women, particularly women of colour, feel so cruelly trapped by the men they date


Agent Hellie Ogden


The Book of Elsewhere Keanu Reeves & China Miéville The team-up between Hollywood A-lister Reeves and SFF writer Miéville is a “genre-bending epic of ancient powers, modern war, and an outcast who cannot die”.


Agents Erin Malone & Laura Bonner Rights UK & US (Del Rey), Germany (Gutkind), Mexico (Oceano)


Writers House


The Good Evil Samanta Schweblin Short story collection about the fragility of life in which ordinary people grapple with the uncontrollability of what they deeply care about.


Agent Johanna Castillo Rights UK and ANZ (Picador), US (Knopf), Spain (Seix Barral), Latin America (Literatura Random), US Spanish (Vintage Español), Portugal (Elsinore), Brazil (Fosforol), France (Grasset), Germany (Suhrkamp), Greece (Patakis), Italy (Einaudi), the Netherlands (Meridaan), Sweden (Trannan)


The House at Watch Hill Karen Marie Moning Bestseller Moning “gripping, imaginative, and seductive” new series in which a young woman moves to Divinity, Louisiana, to inherit a large fortune and a Gothic mansion full of mysteries and ominous secrets.


Agent Stacy Testa Rights US (Morrow)


What You Make of Me S M Dess Dess’ début novel follows devoted but fiercely competitive siblings,


YMU The Great Suffocation Professor Whitney Bauman


REVEREND RICHARD COLES


whose overlapping desires as artists, thinkers and lovers comes to a head when they both fall for the same headstrong woman.


Agent Susan Golomb Rights US (Penguin Press)


The Chase: An Unconventional, Uninhibited, and Unapologetic Guide to Getting What You Want Jenny Wood Winning in “The Chase”—going after the life and career of your dreams—requires a pair of sharp elbows, an appetite for smart risk, and the stubborn willingness to bend the rules that society designed to let others maintain their lead.


Agent Lisa DiMona RightsUK (Macmillan), US (Portfolio), China (CITIC), Japan (Asuka Shinsha), Poland (MT Biznez)


Southern Man Greg Iles The newest in Iles’ Penn Cage series is about a man—and a town—rocked by anarchy and tragedy, but unbowed in the fight to save those they love.


Agent Dan Conaway Rights US (Morrow), France (Actes Sud)


Wylie Agency


Monique S’Evade Édouard Louis The French literary superstar’s newest autofiction explores the author’s response to his mother’s disclosure that her new partner is abusive.


Agent Sarah Chalfant Rights France (Seuil)


Genesis Henry Kissinger, Craig Mundie & Eric Schmidt The late US Secretary of State Kissinger spent his final years working on the


design of a philosophical and diplomatic framework for AI, and he expands on those ideas with former Google c.e.o. Schmidt and ex-Microsoft Research boss Mundie.


Agent Andrew Wylie Rights UK and US (Little, Brown), China (CITIC), Italy (Mondadori), Korea (Will Books), Portugal (Dom Quixote)


A New Economics and Economy for the Common Good Mariana Mazzucato “Bold” book arguing that the 21st century’s crises are global and interconnected, yet we have failed to treat them as collective goals, with shared agendas.


Agent Sarah Chalfant Rights UK (Allen Lane)


Gliff


Ali Smith The literary star’s first novel in a paired duo, with this title a Scottish/ northern word for shock, transient moment or sudden glimpse. The follow-up, due in 2025, will be called Glyph (a signifying mark—as in hieroglyph) and will tell a story which is hidden in the first, so the two books will belong together but can be read independently.


Agent Tracy Bohan Rights UK (Hamish Hamilton), Canada (Hamish Hamilton), US (Pantheon)


True Fire: Saint Augustine in an Age of Crisis Bart van Es The Costa winner’s newest offers a “dazzling portrayal of an epoch that divided the twilight of the Roman Empire from the Dark Ages” through the life of Saint Augustine, with parallels of the unravelling of his era


Bauman looks at how close we are to commodifying air—the last un-privatised element— the impact this will have on the climate society and what we can do to ensuring there is enough oxygen for our planet in the future.


Agent Anna Dixon


Human Dr Zach Bush Thought-leading polemic on how the human race’s continued disconnection from, and destruction of, nature is hastening its own extinction.


Agent Amanda Harris Rights World English (Hay House), Spanish (Alfaomega)


The Show Woman Emma Cowing Début historical fiction “with the drama of ‘The Greatest Showman’ and emotional pull of 'Water for Elephants'” of an Edwardian all-female circus, interlacing strong female characters, deeply- woven family secrets.


Agent Amanda Harris Rights UK and Commonwealth (Hodder)


Sacha and Marina; A Love Story Marina Litvinenko Marina Litvinenko life story from a childhood growing up in the shadow of the Kremlin, falling in love with Alexander Litvinenko (her beloved Sascha), their defection to the West and her fight for justice against Vladimir Putin, who ordered Sascha’s assassination.


Agent Amanda Harris


The Pool Party Rebecca Bainbridge “Effortlessly gripping” début suspense novel of twisted friendships with deadly consequences: “for readers of Liana Moriarty, Lucy Foley and Lisa Jewell”.


Agent Amanda Harris


echoing our own.


Agent James Pullen Rights UK (Faber & Faber)


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