Featherstone Cairns


Thwarted Joanna Scanlan ( 13) A memoir of success and failure and how to spot the difference from BAFTA-winning actress and screenwriter Scanlan. When Scanlan’s uncle died, his vengeful will left her family in turmoil. In a picaresque diary over several years, Scanlan’s own creative story weaves alongside the unfolding ancestral disaster. “This is a true story as far as memory can permit.”


Agent Ruth Cairns


Glorious Broads Maryjane Fahey The debut book from the New York-based global movement of women over 60 who are smashing the myth of invisibility and decline.


Agent Ruth Cairns


A Beautiful Place: A Doctor’s Diaries from Gaza Dr Victoria Rose “Unflinching, gripping and beautifully written” diaries from surgeon Rose, who took leave from her post at St Thomas’ Hospital, London to operate on the Gaza frontlines for a disaster relief charity. She reveals the pressures of trying to save lives in a war zone, and the human stories at the heart of the disaster.


Agent Ruth Cairns World Quercus


Felicity Bryan Associates


Chasing Freedom: Coming of Age at the End of Empire Simukai Chigudu Professor of African politics Chigudu tells the moving story of his family’s fight for freedom and his own reckoning with its meaning.


Agent Carrie Plitt


UK The Bodley Head, US Crown, Brazil


The Brain at Work: The New Neuroscience of Working Well Joseph Jebelli On the neuroscience that informs better working lives – with more focus, meaning and less burnout – by the author of the bestselling The Brain at Rest.


Agent Carrie Plitt UK Transworld


Graceland Melody Razak In 1980s London, artist Aida accepts a commission from a wealthy couple in Ladbroke Grove to paint a family portrait, only to begin an affair with their beautiful but troubled son.


Agent Caroline Wood


The Light of Nicodemos: Books, Belief and Empire Nil Palabiyik Stylish narrative history from a senior lecturer in medieval and early modern studies beginning in 1627 when a Greek Orthodox monk smuggles a secret cargo from London to Constantinople with the potential to spark revolution.


Agent James Gill


Why We Buy Stupid Stuff: The Hidden Economics of Shopping and What It Tells Us About Ourselves Hermione Taylor In this book Investors Chronicle columnist Taylor uses economic theory blended with history and psychology to examine why we all buy stupid stuff.


Agent Sally Holloway 13


UK Hodder Press, Germany Piper, under offer in Spain


Collapsing Houses: Pieces of Natalia Ginzburg Thea Lenarduzzi First-ever English language biography of Italian writer Ginzburg.


Agent Irene Baldoni


UK Allen Lane, North America FSG, Spanish Lumen, Italian Mondadori, Dutch


Gemma Cooper Literary


Almost the Whole Truth Robin Stevens ( 14) The children’s superstar’s debut adult crime novel is a playfully twisty timeline- hopping murder mystery, told in a mix of prose, letters, transcripts and messages: “The Appeal meets Listen for the Lie.”


Agent Gemma Cooper


UK Viking, US Crown, Italian Giunti, Spanish RBA, German Piper, Czech, Hungarian


The Bad Luck Book Club Claire Fayers The debut adult fantasy from the award-winning children’s author is a cosy, character-driven fantasy mystery in which a book club reads a cursed book that unleashes deadly consequences on their small town.


Agent Gemma Cooper


Georgina Capel


Associates


The Unselected Journals of Emma M Lion: Vol 1-8 Beth Brower The traditional launch of Brower’s previously self-published series.


Agent Georgina Capel


UK Bloomsbury, German Rowohlt, Spanish Suma de Letras, French Flammarion, Italian Corbaccio, Canada, Portuguese/Brazil, EU Portuguese, Hebrew, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian


Castles: A Fortified History of the World Dan Jones A new history of the world told through over a dozen iconic strongholds.


Agent Georgina Capel


UK Head of Zeus, US Viking, German CH Beck, Spanish Atico de los Libros, Polish, Dutch


Napoleon And His Marshals: Victory, Rivalry, Betrayal Andrew Roberts A reassessment of how Napoleon’s creation of an ambitious Marshalate undermined his empire.


Agent Georgina Capel UK Allen Lane, US Avid Reader


Futureless: How Pessimism Is Derailing the World and What Can We Do to Stop It Diego Rubio A look at how economic interests are fuelling a collective pessimism which threatens our future.


Agent Georgina Capel UK Profile, Spanish Debate


Greene & Heaton


Tillinghast Clare Cavenagh “Darkly compelling” literary horror debut centring on Stutley Tillinghast, who lives a solitary life and what little human contact he has had, has been “brief, frenzied and bloody… and always ends in a shallow grave in his cellar”.


Agent Judith Murray UK The Borough Press, US Viking


Mortal Passions Avery Curran A delicious and utterly consuming queer vampire romance that is at once an excoriating send-up of capitalism and a sexy campus novel.


Agent Imogen Morrell


UK riverrun, US & Canada Doubleday, Italy Mercurio


Tailwind


Olivia Hayward The kick-off to The Dragon Rush romantasy trilogy showcasing female empowerment and sisterhood and centring around the first team of women dragon riders in the Volitant Cup.


Agent Mia Dakin


AgentsLiza DeBlock, Tanera Simons


UK Penguin Michael Joseph, Spain Minotauro


The Bookshop Crawl Rebecca Powell Can a book heal a broken heart? Izzy follows the clues in her late mother’s unfinished manuscript and retraces her steps to solve the infamously unsolved Great British Book Hunt of 1984.


Agent Judith Murray


The Honeymoon Suite Rebecca Taylor McKay “White Lotus meets The Talented Mr Ripley” in this psychological thriller set on the Amalfi Coast in 1961.


Agent Laura Williams Agent Laura Heathfield 14 CHARLOTTE KNEE


UK Renegade, France Sonatine, Germany Rowohlt, Russia, Ukraine, under offer in Poland


UK & Commonwealth excluding Canada Bedford Square, Canada


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When they Weren’t Looking Charlotte Bigland When an updated e-fit video goes viral on TikTok, everyone thinks Ruby is a young girl who went missing 15 years ago. Is she Isla?


The Bone Tide Sandra Marslund After inheriting a cabin, a woman returns to the Danish island she fled as a teenager. When bones are found, she wonders which of the many men they belong to, and why they were not sacrificed to the bone tide.


Agent Liza DeBlock


Greenstone Literary


The Name Game Beth O’Leary Charlie Jones has her dream fresh start. But another Charlie Jones is trying to steal it. New love story from the bestselling author about “second chances becoming new beginnings and love finding us in secluded places”.


Agent Tanera Simons


UK & Commonwealth Quercus, US & Canada Berkley


Confinement Sarah Fung “The Housemaid meets Crazy Rich Asians” in this debut thriller. New mother Lara agrees to the Chinese tradition of “confinement” which keeps the world out – but what if the danger is already inside?


Agent Laura Heathfield


Etiquette for Undergraduate Enchantresses Claire and Gigi McCauley Three of the first women admitted to Oxford University of Magical Studies must band together to make it through the first year without dying, or worse.


London Book Fair Special Agents’ Hotlists


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