27th February 2026
CAA
Mother Jay Franklin First thriller from Franklin, pseudonym of drag queen and DJ Jodie Harsh, which is a vividly destructive account of a mother’s love, “somewhere between Notes on a Scandal and the Britney memoir”.
Agent Harriet Poland
Inner Country Mitchell Morgan Johnson A misunderstanding sends an apathetic PhD student out of aimlessness and into a world of real stakes, idealism and the first meaningful relationship of his life: “Poignant literary debut reminiscent of Ben Lerner and Andrew Holleran.”
Agent John Ash German dtv
Vile Star Rachel Cockerell Every 75 years, Halley’s Comet returns. Using only primary source accounts of its visits, a rising star of British non-fiction will “redirect our gaze towards space, and, from an unfathomably provincial corner of the galaxy, tell our story”.
Agent Karolina Sutton
UK Hutchinson Heinemann, US FSG
Fourth God Ana Kirova “Mating in Captivity meets Four Thousand Weeks” from the creator of the sex-positive dating app Feeld. “A visionary exploration of how to live with change and lean into curiosity.”
Agent Harriet Poland
Don’t Write About Me Veronica Raimo A “magnetic and unsettling” novel from the International Booker longlisted Italian author, which explores the scandal of desire that hides within trauma.
Agent Anna Stein
UK Virago, US Grove Atlantic, Italy Einaudi, Turkey, under offer in Spain
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Chiara Tognetti Rights Agency
A Taipei Girl’s Retro Shopping List Hung Ai-Chu A “lush, voice-driven” food memoir in which rising Taiwanese food writer Hung retraces her grandmother and mother’s market routes.
Agent Chiara Tognetti Japanese, Thai, simplified Chinese, Korean, film/TV
Mail from PO Box 110 Lee Do Woo A long-running Korean bestselling romance, reprinted more than 110 times, following a guarded scriptwriter and her frustratingly charming producer and their misaligned feelings, tangled friendships and anonymous letters.
Agent Chiara Tognetti
French, Italian, Korean, Japanese, simplified Chinese, film/TV
We Are Capable of Beauty Ripu Daman Singh A “Ferrante-esque, visceral” debut that follows the intertwined lives of two girls coming of age in a Delhi neighbourhood sharply divided by class and gender, wittingly exploring female friendship, class, womanhood, desire, beauty and belonging.
Agent Chiara Tognetti
Fifty People Chung Serang The acclaimed Korean author’s polyphonic hospital drama set in contemporary Korea, weaving together the intersecting lives of 50 ordinary men and women.
Agent Chiara Tognetti Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Taiwanese, Vietnamese
The Answer Lies in the Journey Rui Kodemari A tender, cross-cultural YA road novel following a Japanese boy newly uprooted to the US and a rock-obsessed Texan girl with a Japanese mother whose solo spring-break trips between El Paso and Woodstock unexpectedly intersect.
Agent Chiara Tognetti 9 10
Children’s Books North Agency
Dim Sum Valley Belinda Chen A new novelty book series steeped in East and South East Asian roots with fun interaction and world- building characters.
Agent Emma Layfield
A Bug’s Bop Bethan Clarke ( 9) From the award-winning writer of Holey Moley, an irresistible picture book about bopping bugs with an inspiring message that will make your heart dance.
Agent Emma Layfield
An ABC of Animals Penguins Josette Reeves Get ready to learn your ABCs with this laugh- out-loud picture book all about penguins at the South Pole, “perfect for fans of Oi Frog!”.
Agent Emma Layfield
When Humphrey Learns Human Josette Reeves A charmingly funny and stunningly original story about using your words that will have you both laughing out loud and feeling cosy inside.
Agent Emma Layfield
Terrible Tempest Emma Whitehall A hilarious middle-grade series by a children’s bookseller about Princess Tempest (“Pest”) who causes carnage when she steals some Drago-essence.
Agent Emma Layfield
Clare Hulton Agency
Pinch of Nom: Air Fryer Light & Easy Kate and Kay Allinson All-new time-saving recipes from the five-million units-plus Pinch of Nom creators.
Agent Clare Hulton World Bluebird
Run for Your Life Jackie Kabler ( 10) Every step could be your last. A gripping and addictive psychological crime thriller from the bestselling thriller writer.
Agent Clare Hulton World English One More Chapter
How to Cheat at Baking Sarah Rainey Seventy quick and easy recipes for busy bakers.
Agent Clare Hulton World Michael O’Mara
The Cancer Food Map Dr Liz O’Riordan How to eat well after cancer treatment by a critically acclaimed and prize-winning doctor and author.
Agent Clare Hulton World English HarperCollins
Speedy 10: 10 Everyday Ingredients, 100 Dinners in Under 30 Minutes Amy Sheppard Second in a series following Sheppard’s 2025 bestseller, Easy 10.
Agent Clare Hulton World Quadrille
Colwill & Peddle
Gentrifiers: How Private Equity Shapes our Cities and Rules Our Lives Adam Almeida An urgent exploration of how private equity has embedded itself deep into the global urban terrain and how this affects us all, and how we can fight back.
Agent Kay Peddle UK & Commonwealth excluding Canada
Manchester University Press
Tooth & Claw: Apex Predators, Humankind and the Fight to Rewild the Earth Nick Clarke Powell Uncovers the deep history of the human-apex predator relationship and issues an urgent rallying call for the rewilding of apex predators.
Agent Kay Peddle
The Wound Is: Troubling the Lies We’ve Been Told About Mental Health Dr Sanah Ahsan A reframing of how we understand emotional pain at a moment when diagnoses, burnout and mental health discourse are at an all-time high.
Agent Milly Reilly UK & Commonwealth Cornerstone Press
A Holy Show Riley Johnston “Jackson Brodie meets Derry Girls” in this achingly funny, contemporary crime novel set in Northern Ireland. Ex-police officer Saoirse Muldoon and her crew of reluctant helpers search for a missing man in Belfast.
Agent Donna Greaves Janus
Gianni Washington A short-story writer’s debut novel traces the toxic relationship of Black twin sisters growing up in the South who are given two lockets that unlock supernatural abilities and unsettle the balance of power between them.
Agent Charlotte Colwill
UK & Commonwealth Serpent’s Tail, US CLASH
Cull & Co
New Horizon: My Journey from Sub–Postmaster to Campaigner Seema Misra A memoir of wrongful prosecution in the Post Office Horizon scandal and the fight for justice that followed.
Agent Tom Cull
Bloody Good Friends: Online Friendship, True Crime and the Price of Proximity Daniela Barkley Memoir from Barkley, who was part of a tight-knit Facebook true-crime friendship group with Erin Patterson, the Australian “mushroom murderer” who was convicted last year in a trial that made headlines around the world.
Agent Tom Cull Film/TVBeyond Productions
Vienna ’48 Karina Urbach A “true-event” dual timeline spy novel in which an MI6 agent infiltrates The Third Man film crew in 1948 Vienna, and a 2026 London death drags the past into the present.
Agent Tom Cull German Limes
The Copper Railway: The Lobito Corridor and the New Scramble for Africa Samuel Williams A coast-to-coast journey through the Lobito Corridor – the critical- minerals flashpxoint at the heart of US-China competition in Africa.
Agent Tom Cull
The Appropriators Rosemary Jenkinson In Belfast’s literary scene, a debut novelist’s rise on borrowed lives and stolen stories spirals into scandal and tragedy.
Agent Tom Cull
London Book Fair Special
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