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The Boys Vanessa Beaumont Heart-breaking story of a family “battling against the bonds of primogeniture and the shackles of inheritance” as two brothers fight “against the truth they cannot know, and the rules society has ordained for them”.


Agent Eugenie Furniss Rights UK and Commonwealth exc Canada (Oneworld)


The Witch’s Daughter Imogen Edwards-Jones “Epic” story of love, tragedy and the loss of innocence, set against the background of the Russian Revolution after the murder of Rasputin.


Agent Eugenie Furniss Rights UK and Commonwealth exc Canada (Head of Zeus)


Agents’ Hotlists Top tips for scripts at London Book Fair 2023


Romantasy, LGBTQ+ themes, "destination" thrillers and science— particularly evolution— are the leading trends at Olympia this year


Fyneshade Kate Griffin A “knowing” twist on the Victorian gothic thriller in a ghost story inspired by The Turn of the Screw.


Agent Eugenie Furniss Rights UK and Commonwealth exc Canada (Viper)


Hold Back The Night Jessica Moor A novel of “complicity and atonement”, delving into one young nurse’s experience in the 1960s with gay conversion therapy, and the heart- breaking betrayal and humanity of the AIDS crisis.


Agent Marilia Savvides Rights UK and Commonwealth exc Canada (Bonnier)


Mr Einstein’s Secretary Matthew Reilly “Thrilling” espionage story set against the backdrop of the Second World War, and a young woman propelled through history’s most dangerous times as student, secretary, sister—and spy.


Agent Eugenie Furniss Rights Australia and New Zealand (Pan Macmillan)


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The Vintage Dress Shop on Primrose Hill Annie Darling First in a new series from the author of The Little Bookshop of Lonely Heart has Sophy on the cusp of a move to Australia, but torn between the lure of the beaches of Sydney and her irresistible chemistry with Charles. Can she really leave her home, a budding romance and her dress shop?


Agent Rebecca Ritchie Rights UK (Hodder), German (Penguin), Swedish (Historiska)


Julia Sandra Newman “It's a bright cold day in March, and the clocks are striking thirteen…” a bold retelling of Orwell’s classic Nineteen Eighty-Four.


Agent Victoria Hobbs Rights UK (Granta), US (Mariner), Italy (Ponte alle Grazie), Dutch (de Bezige Bij) and 16 others


Talking Heads: The New Science of How Conversation Shapes Our Worlds Shane O’Mara A deep dive into the science of how and why we talk to each other, and what happens when we do, from a Trinity College, Dublin neuroscientist.


Agent Bill Hamilton Rights UK (Te Bodley Head)


The Labyrinth: A New History of Latin America Timo Schaefer University of Edinburgh historian Schaefer’s “panoramic” look at Latin America, arguing that the region has birthed both colonial and anti-colonial ideologies that shape the world today.


Agent Tom Killingbeck Rights UK (Simon & Schuster), US (Basic), Brazilian Portuguese (Todavia), offers in three others


Q: The Hidden Power of Questions In a World That Wants Answers Lani Watson


In a book that spans the death of Socrates to the dawn of AI, an Oxford philosopher explores how a better understanding of questions and how


AMARA SAGE'S DÉBUT NOVEL, INFLUENTIAL, EXPLORES ONLINE FAME


they shape our reality can enrich our personal, professional and political lives.


Agent Tom Killingbeck


Aevitas Creative Management


Group Think Colin Fisher A “major” smart-thinking début from UCL professor Fisher delves deep into the science underlying the fascinating, life-changing and occasionally bizarre world of group dynamics. He looks into how groups shape our thoughts and behaviours and, when they lead us astray, how we can do better.


Agent Max Edwards Rights World English (Avery)


Going Home David Goodhart The bestselling writer, social commentator and founder of Prospect sets out to reinvent domesticity and private life in an age of gender equality.


Agent Toby Mundy Rights UK and Commonwealth exc Canada (Swift Press)


Narrow Islands of Light Melanie Maure Twin sisters Aelish and Isabel become orphaned in Second World War Belfast and are taken into the care of the Sisters of Bethlehem; despite their incredible bond, the girls are propelled in opposing directions.


Agent Sara O’Keeffe Rights North America (Harper Perennial)


Quarterlife Devika Rege In the background of the Hindu nationalist Bharat Party coming to power, Wall Street consultant Naren returns home to Mumbai with his American partner Maureen. As they come to grips with new India, how do well-meaning, ordinary citizens create an atmosphere in which violence gets out of hand?


Agent Maria Cardona Rights Indian subcontinent (4th Estate)


The Agency


Peregrine Quinn and the Cosmic Realm Ash Bond Bond’s début mythological middle-grade series kicks off with an edge-of-your- seat race between worlds as Peregrine is swept into an adventure of immortal proportions.


Agent Jessica Hare Rights World English (Piccadilly), French (Casterman), German (cbj)


Influential Amara Sage Début YA which is a “heartfelt, whip-smart deep dive” into what it would really be like to be internet famous at 17: Almond Brown has no friends in real life… but 3.5 million followers online.


Agent Jessica Hare Rights World (Faber), Brazilian (Jangada, Pensamento), Polish (Wydawnictwo Literackie), Albanian (Dukagjini)


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