27th February 2026
Jemma
McDonagh Agency
The First White Hair Yasmin Zaher The prize-winning author’s literary thriller is an exhilarating “late bloomer bildungsroman” that follows a young Palestinian journalist, set amid the demise of a group of Palestinian escapists facing a terrible future.
Agent Jemma McDonagh (for Monika Woods, Triangle House)
The Memory Addicts Caroline Graham The first novel by award- winning investigative journalist Graham is set on a remote island in a future where memory is a drug, so a man with perfect recall must unravel a mystery of inherited memories to find his mother and four women.
Agent Jemma McDonagh (for Grace Heifetz, a4 Literary)
Dish Pig
Emily Unwin Wise, endearing and funny debut novel following a vulnerable American teenager whose flamboyant mother’s collapse propels him into an uneasy coming of age in the pubs and clubs of Edinburgh.
Agent Jemma McDonagh (for Calvert Morgan, Enliven Endeavors)
Not a Word Linwood Barclay The bestselling thriller writer’s newest has a man stumbling upon a grisly crime scene in the family home. At first it looks like a murder-suicide perpetrated by his father.
Agent Jemma McDonagh (for Helen Heller, the Helen Heller Agency)
UK HQ, US William Morrow
Salvation Michael Nava An “unflinching, thrilling” examination of the American justice system as a dedicated attorney fights to save a Mexican immigrant farmworker from a racially prejudiced death-row conviction.
Agent Jemma McDonagh (for Soho Press) US Soho Press
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Jenny Brown Associates
The New Bookshop Diaries Shaun Bythell A wry and hilarious account of life in Scotland’s biggest secondhand bookshop from the author of three previous bestselling diaries with rights sold into 31 territories.
Agent Jenny Brown UK & Commonwealth New Modern
The Translator Annabelle Marx In the aftermath of the First World War, 15 years after the woman she loved drowned in the Thames, a mysterious package of French novels takes Edie Adler on a desperate hunt for answers from Paris to Malta.
Agent Jenny Brown World English Storm
The Stray Dogs Ruth Hogan Lost dogs and lost people alike find new beginnings and unexpected routes to happiness in Hogan’s latest uplifting story.
Agent Lisa Highton UK & Commonwealth Corvus
The Silver Thread Kate Lord Brown Set in London and Tokyo in 1875 and Paris in 1985, this epic love story crosses oceans, cultures and timelines: “For fans of Santa Montefiore and Dinah Jeffries.”
Agent Lisa Highton UK & Commonwealth Simon & Schuster
The Art Lovers Fiona McIntosh A romantic adventure that celebrates the life and work of Caravaggio while exploring a passionate love between a teenage girl and a dashing British Spitfire pilot in 1940s Malta.
Agent Lisa Highton UK & Commonwealth excluding Australia
and New Zealand, Australia and New Zealand
Johnson & Alcock
The Second Life of Professor Takahashi Nick Bradley A layered, multi-narrative novel in which a visiting Japanese professor settles for a year in a quiet English town hoping to close the gulf with his teenage daughter Kaori.
Agent Ed Wilson UK Transworld Options in 15 territories
The Duchess SA Lawless Epic debut regency romantasy telling of the rise of orphan Eleanor, thrown into the treacherous royal court through a pretend marriage with the Duke of Ashmount.
Agent Ed Wilson UK Harper Voyager
Dublin (series) Caimh McDonnell The tightly plotted, hilarious, originally self- published crime series with 1.5 million copies sold and a TV adaptation to premiere this year.
Agent Ed Wilson
World English McFori Ink, German Eichborn, Czech Republic, Estonia, Japan, Poland, Russia, Ukraine
The Language of Lies Kirsty King A short and universal toolkit to spot the liars around you by a forensic linguist, mixing pop science and true crime.
Agent Anna Power Agent Nemonie Craven
UK Cornerstone, German Goldmann, Croatia, Poland, Russia, Taiwan, Thailand
A History of the World in 22 Traitors Sinclair McKay An exploration of the most famous traitors in world history.
Agent Anna Power UK, options in Italy, Spain
UK & Commonwealth excluding Canada Hamish Hamilton, North America McNally, Germany Reclam
Jonathan Clowes
Your Space, Your Story Java Bere Artist and podcaster Bere expands on her popular workshop, Tell the Story of Your Home, in a holistic, creative and practical guide for creating a unique and personal home.
Agent Nemonie Craven World Batsford
Los: A Vision of William Blake John Riordan Graphic-novel origin story of William Blake, from Riordan, a Blake Society trustee (and art director of its journal), best known for his Time Out comic strip, William Blake, Taxi Driver and the psychedelic comic Hitsville UK.
Agent Nemonie Craven
Bad Hamlet Ewan Fernie The Shakespeare expert sketches various “dark Hamlets” of the past and present and explains what it is about the sweet prince that makes him what we might now call a troll.
Agent Nemonie Craven
Love Child Maureen Duffy ( 17) A reissue of trailblazer Duffy’s 1971 novel, a “powerful exploration of gender”. Duffy was awarded the inaugural Royal Society of Literature Pioneer Prize in 2025 by Bernadine Evaristo, who will write a new introduction.
World English Boldwood, options in Germany, Brazil, Denmark
The Wedding Party Laura Starkey Hannah is a wedding planner with a successful business… but a broken heart. She is thrilled to plan her twin brother Ed’s wedding to his partner, Joe. Shame her ex and the man she can never forget will be there.
Agent Kate Hordern World English Embla
Options in Denmark, Norway
A Ghost Hunter’s Guide to Catching a Killer FH Petford August 1915. When a guest at the Timperley Spiritualist Hotel dies, hotel owner Alma – who can talk to the dead – is recruited by the police to help.
Agent Kate Hordern World English Hodder
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Kate Hordern Literary Agency
The Italian Lakes Affair Rachel Barnett PA Amy’s assignment at a Lake Garda cookery school sees her losing her luggage and her food- writer boss. But when she meets chef Tad, happiness might be on the menu.
Agent Anne Williams World English Boldwood
A Cold Harbour Lynne McEwan When DI Shona Oliver is seconded to a new area, the policeman she is covering for asks her to look into a cold case, the murder of his wife’s sister.
Agent Anne Williams World English Canelo
A Yorkshire Affair Julie Houston Jess has always played it safe. Pursuing her love for cooking, her professional life is flourishing. She takes back her no-good ex but a new face in the village catches her eye. Maybe change isn’t always a bad thing…
Agent Anne Williams
Agent Francesca Riccardi World English Angry Robot
17A Keong Saik Road Charmaine Leung A lyrical memoir, “echoing Wild Swans”, follows three generations of women tied to a Singapore brothel, charting a legacy of displacement, maternal inheritance and resilience.
Agent Kate Nash Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, English & world Chinese Ethos
The Menopause Book Club Helen Watts Four friends launch a reading group and rediscover themselves in this community up-lit by a Carnegie Medal- nominated author.
Agent Saskia Leach World English Embla
Kate Nash Agency
Christmas at Honeycombe Bay Lilac Mills A retiree and a widower fall in love and rediscover the joy of Christmas, playing Mr and Mrs Claus for a single mum and her child in a cosy seaside guest house.
Agent Saskia Leach
UK & Commonwealth excluding Canada Head of Zeus, US & Canada Dell
Better Off Dead Sean Watkin A sinister app, police corruption and a 20-year-old cold case that links two murders are intertwined in this Liverpool-set thriller.
Agent Francesca Riccardi World English Canelo
Pelt
Charlotte Haley Making a werewolf mask for an independent film, an unhappy millennial slowly awakens the beast inside her, in this weird-girl horror.
London Book Fair Special
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