27th February 2026


Robert Caskie


Perilous Journeys: Ancient and Modern Reflections on Memory, Migration and Exile Dr Mai Musié Part-memoir, part- history, this is a journey of past and present exploring the lives of refugees and asylum seekers, from antiquity’s mythical stories to real-life contemporary experiences.


Agent Robert Caskie


kNOw Peace Emma DeSouza A zeitgeisty warning and clarion call for action that challenges our understanding of peace and democracy and the role we can play in defending these principles.


Agent Robert Caskie


Roman Holidays Matson Taylor Set in 1970s Rome, this fun novel follows the chaotic adventures of two emotionally broken people brought together to heal by the magic of the city they live in.


Agent Robert Caskie World Scribner


Footprints Marc Hamer After decades as a jobbing gardener, Hamer and his wife, both in their late 60s, leave their home and possessions in the UK for a life in France, where the culture, landscape, climate and language will make them new again.


Agent Robert Caskie North America and translation,


Greystone


Seeking Sexual Freedom Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah A personal exploration of how returning to deep ancestral knowledge, rites and rituals as a source of inspiration can lead to living a more pleasurable life today.


Agent Robert Caskie


UK & Commonwealth Dialogue, US Atria/One Signal


27 NICK WILLIAMS 20


Sarah Such Literary Agency


Death in Alassio Louise Beresford “Orange Is the New Black meets The Talented Mr Ripley” in this Italian-set psychological prison-noir debut. A woman released after 17 years in prison reinvents herself on the Riviera, only to discover freedom has its own rules.


Agent Sarah Such


Sinking Ruby Lewis New Adult debut in which an extinction-level event forces civilisation onto boats. On “House”, Kay and her vagabond crew struggle against thirst and the rising threat of “Surrender”, a brutal, fanatical Cargo ship.


Agent Sarah Such


Fieldwork in Siren Song Matthew De Abaitua The Arthur C Clarke Award shortlistee’s Michael Crichton-style speculative thriller and gripping alternative history, imagining the violence and wonder of the mythic in our contemporary world.


Agent Sarah Such


Sequins to Sirens: How Becoming a Paramedic Saved My Life Melissa Graham With the 1990s girl band Solid HarmoniE, Graham sold millions of records and then lost everything – before finding herself through becoming a paramedic.


Agent Sarah Such


Alston Moor Anne Charnock Epic literary eco-fiction with entwined storylines of two women 500 years apart, set in the North Pennines by the Arthur C Clarke Award winner.


Agent Sarah Such World English, Gold SF


The Shaw Agency


The Last Baby in Auschwitz Anna Stuart The bestselling author of The Midwife of Auschwitz returns with a new, heartbreaking novel inspired by true stories. It tells of a mother’s love and courage in a time of unimaginable darkness.


Agent Kate Shaw


World English Bookouture, French City Editions, Danish People’s Press


Burning Season Martin Griffin “High-octane” thriller centres on firefighter Jade who, five years ago, watched a killer burn and did nothing. Now settled in Canada, she attends a plane crash and, with a fire raging, finds one survivor: the same killer.


Agent Kate Shaw World Sphere


The Children on the Train Anna Stuart Inspired by real events, a novel telling of the brave and desperate women of Germany and the Netherlands who saved their children and other people’s from the Nazis via the Kindertransport.


Agent Kate Shaw World English Bookouture


Suites


Christine Colt Four women flirt, scheme and drink together in one of the world’s most glamorous hotels. When a blackmailer starts to expose the guests’ escapades, the friends decide to band together. First in a new series.


Agent Kate Shaw


Sheil Land


The Scholars MacKenzie Common Follows a group of postgrad students at an Oxford college, whose murderous secrets threaten to find them out.


Agent Gaia Banks World English Mountain Leopard


Head Over Skis Sophie Davies Lottie and her friends’ ski trip is jeopardised when she catches her boyfriend cheating. She then has a one-night stand with a stranger – who turns out to be her new ski instructor.


Agent Natalie Barracliffe World English Canelo


The Little Shop of Celtic Charms Lou Hallow Cosy romantasy debut, set in a faraway corner of Ireland, where charm-shop owner Enya Elvery and wolf-shifter Conall Conneely find themselves untangling a centuries’ old mystery.


Agent Gaia Banks World English Harlequin US


Daughter of Crows Mark Lawrence ( 27) Lawrence’s latest has 100 girls sent to an academy each year – only three of whom survive – to become The Kindly Ones, agents of retribution who “even the gods hesitate to stand against”. A lifetime later, ex-Kindly One Rue thinks she has finally found peace, but war comes to her doorstep.


Agent Piers Blofeld


UK HarperVoyager, US Berkley, France Bragelonne, Spain Nocturna


Five Silver Spoons Sam Steele DC Hope Fenton and her forensic scientist ex-husband investigate the murder of a Cambridge graduate that might be the key to solving their own son’s cold case.


Agent Gaia Banks World English Allison & Busby


The Soho Agency


Love Unlocked Cecelia Ahern Bestseller Ahern’s newest has couples worldwide mysteriously splitting on the same day, and a heartbroken romantic and romance-sceptic podcaster team up to find out why.


Agent Marina de Pass, Rowan Lawton UK & Commonwealth HarperCollins


The Fullness of Time Cathy Haynes An evocative exploration of time as felt through light, landscape and seasonal change, reconnecting modern life with ancient ways of noticing.


Agent Rowan Lawton


UK & Commonwealth Bloomsbury, North America Riverhead, German Goldmann Verlag


Free Rein Jock Hutchison On the fringes of the Scottish Highlands lies a space where broken humans and broken horses can find connection and community, recovery and resilience. This is the story of how this came to be.


Agent Mark Lucas UK & Commonwealth Bloomsbury


Hit or Miss Elle Kelk The first in a new series from Kelk has a scorching-hot soccer star and a bookish wallflower colliding during a year abroad, turning rivalry into irresistible heat in a spicy new adult college romance.


Agent Rowan Lawton World English HarperCollins


The Undead Hero Brigade Meg Small A middle-grade horror- fantasy, with Lyre hunting down the monster who left her for dead in the cold and falling in with a band of necromancers, spooks and ghouls.


Agent Lydia Silver


Sophie Hicks Agency


The Snakestone Girls Kit Whitfield Three lonely outsiders – a witch/palaeontologist, a spirited child with uncontrollable powers and her protective brother – are drawn together in a coastal town, only to be torn apart by fear, suspicion and magic.


Agent Sophie Hicks UK Arcadia


City of Clouds Kiah Thomas Thomas’ middle-grade adventure has Thea trying to break the curse that has hung over Edgemere since the king stole a shard from an ancient glacier. But can she trust anyone beyond the city walls?


Agent Sophie Hicks Australia HarperCollins


Hey Man Andrew Meehan Set in London, Dublin and the Scottish Highlands, tracing the fraught and tender friendship – as potent and sustaining as any love affair – of Ian and Tommy, from the 1980s to the present day.


Agent Sarah Williams UK Muswell Press


Permission to Rest Sarah Crosby The author of 5 Minute Therapy reveals why stopping feels so threatening – and makes the case that reclaiming rest is one of the defining challenges of our time.


Agent Sarah Williams


Darkness in Light Vivien De Bernardi Memoir illuminating the final, least-documented decade of one of the 20th century’s most complex and brilliant writers, Patricia Highsmith, through the lens of an unexpected friendship.


Agent Sarah Williams


London Book Fair Special


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