Ki Agency
Corridors of a Hollow Dungeon Maria Minaeva Standalone horror inspired by Sofia Ajram’s Coup de Grâce, which has an unemployed French architect at last finding the sentient saintly city that has been haunting his dreams, until he realises he cannot leave the ever- shifting corridors of the city’s abandoned hotel.
Agent Miriam Cortinovis
The Sunburst Hotel Mike McClelland A “queer and fabulous” thriller about a deadly game, where Escape Room meets Clue and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, set in a locked-door, old-Hollywood- glamour hotel.
Agent Helen Lane
Caribbean Gothic Amber Houlders An epic fantasy with strong political leanings, set in a waterless Sargasso Sea, where the characters must choose between selfish survival and sacrificing themselves for others.
Agent Fabienne Schwizer
The Communion of Flesh Vivian Fernandes A thrilling, seductive and gross literary horror novel set around a cannibalistic congregation; a deep dive into what it means to hunger.
Agent Fabienne Schwizer
The Tree That Flew Nuzo Onoh A novel about Harachigi, a Nigerian woman now living in Britain with her abusive husband and annoying son, who meets a kind white woman at a bus stop who enables her painful, yet often funny, journey to freedom.
Agent Meg Davis
The Weathering Artem Chapeye ( 18) This award-winning Ukrainian author’s new novel follows a young couple who escape city life for an off-grid retreat in the Carpathian Mountains, only to discover a dystopian reality upon their return.
Agent Emma Shercliff World English Seven Stories
Laxfield Literary Associates
All The Hollow Places Rebekah Lattin-Rawstrone A hybrid, multi-vocal novel centred around the last day in the life of the adventurer, archaeologist and political officer Gertrude Bell, who died in suspicious circumstances in Baghdad 100 years ago.
Agent Emma Shercliff
Lewinsohn Literary
Ask Me What I’m Reading Eleanor Goymer ( 19) A slow-burn romance about chance encounters, the love of books and the quiet thrill of meeting someone who just gets it. “Perfect for fans of One Day and Talking at Night.”
Agent Becky Thomas World English One More Chapter
The Hurricane Edge Bradley Quirk Taut action thriller series opener with an outgunned, headstrong hero who must survive a conspiratorial world of tech, narcotics and big pharma from an exciting new voice, a film and TV executive.
Agent Becky Thomas Film/TV Universal
Untitled Memoir Linda Thompson A no-holds-barred memoir of the 1970s folk icon, with tales of mischief, freedom and survival, told in a hugely entertaining voice and style.
Agent Becky Thomas World English Abacus
Trash
Erol Alkan World-renowned DJ Alkan takes us on a journey of recollections, interviews and archives into Trash, the London club night he ran, which became the focal point of a Noughties sonic revolution. Contributions include LCD Soundsystem, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Peaches and Soulwax.
Agent Becky Thomas
Agent Lorella Belli World English Titan
The House of Mystery Joy Ellis The third Ellie McEwan crime novel has police stumped when a murder investigation is hampered by almost supernatural events, so they turn to McEwan, a healer who can read auras.
Agent Lorella Belli 18 RAFAŁ KOMOROWSKI / WIKIMEDIA 19 20
World English Joffe, audio Audible
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Hot Young Widow Kacie B Keegan A strangers-to-lovers debut “for fans of Annabel Monaghan and Carley Fortune” in which a hot young widow and a buttoned-up finance guy with mommy issues delight the busybodies at the fanciest retirement village in Lake Genny, Wisconsin, where they work, by – despite their best efforts – falling in love.
Agent Hannah Schofield
Lexington Literary
Visiting Hours Ella Fox-Martens A young South African woman grapples with the death of her much- lauded father while working at a right-wing newspaper in London. A debut novel “with shades of Natasha Brown and JM Coetzee” by short-story writer, journalist and Scribner UK assistant editor Fox-Martens.
Agent Kat Aitken Tide
Anna Richmond This domestic drama threaded with speculative horror centres on Imogen, whose mudlarking excursion with her son has devastating consequences, and who is left struggling to convince those around her of her innocence and her sanity. “For fans of Megan Hunter’s The Harpy and Elena Ferrante’s The Lost Daughter.”
Agent Kat Aitken
Poor Posture Rosa Friend “Motherland meets Such a Fun Age” in which a mother breastfeeds another woman’s baby without consent, setting off a disastrous and bleakly funny series of events in this debut modern comedy of manners about mothers and daughters, friends and enemies, nostalgia and cynicism.
Agent Seren Adams UK Canongate
Lorella Belli Literary Agency
The Woman Before Me Ruth Dugdall Probation officer turned CWA Dagger-winning writer’s latest has Cate questioning her judgement over Rose, just released from prison for a terrible crime.
Agent Lorella Belli World English HQ, TV
One Second Away Rick Mofina ( 20) Bestseller Mofina’s propulsive and page- turning newest with a mother in a global race against the clock when her nine-year-old son disappears on a cross-country flight.
Agent Lorella Belli World English Doubleday Canada
The Arctic Cruise Caroline James James’ newest has widow Joy on a cruise to the Norwegian fjords, hoping to believe in happiness again. A heart-warming, feel-good voyage of self-discovery, romance and second chances, “perfect for fans of Sarah Morgan and Judy Leigh”.
Agent Lorella Belli World English Avon
The Makoto Murders Richard Jerram “Pitch-black, Dexter-like” gripping and atmospheric Tokyo-set literary- crime thriller featuring down-on-his-luck half- British, half-Japanese photojournalist Ken Kato, who is suspiciously first to the scene every time a serial killer strikes…
Luigi Bonomi Associates
Masterminds Geoff White What organised crime can teach us about doing business better – and legally – by an award-winning crime journalist and author.
Agent Luigi Bonomi
The Last Library of Paris Kerry Barrett “Riveting” sequel to Barrett’s bestselling The Bookshop of Secrets and a return to wartime Lisbon, where British spy Cassie is breaking the rules to get refugees to safety.
Agent Amanda Preston World English HQ
This Jury Is Guilty Laurie Blake “Everyone Is Watching meets Twelve Angry Men” in a tense, twisty locked- room thriller in which a jury must decide the fate of a Hollywood actor accused of attempted murder
Agent Amanda Preston North American Sourcebooks
Receipts from the Bookshop Katie Clapham A “warm and funny” chronicle of a year in the life of an award-winning indie bookshop run by a mother and daughter on the Lancashire coast, based on the popular Substack.
Agent Louise Lamont
UK & Commonwealth Phoenix, North America William Morrow, Swedish, Arabic
London Book Fair Special Agents’ Hotlists
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