BOOKS
A social history of the last century told through the hidden stories of how music shaped resistance, from Nazi Germany to Apartheid South Africa; from Jim Crow America to Fela Kuti’s Nigeria. Includes new reporting from Ukraine.
Agent Kay Peddle Rights UK and Commonwealth exc Canada (Icon)
The Magickal Summer of Evie Edelman Harriett de Mesquita “Fresh, funny” commercial fiction about a young woman living in a tight- knit Jewish community in Leeds in 1981 who is diagnosed with autism, but it's all a big misunderstanding— actually, she's a witch.
Agent Charlotte Colwill
A Necessary Kindness: Stories from the Frontline of Abortion Care Juno Carey A midwife turned abortion care nurse delivers a “visceral and vital” account of the reality of abortion care, why it is so important for patients, and the threats it is facing.
Agent Charlotte Colwill Rights UK and Commonwealth (Atlantic)
Curtis Brown
What Will Survive of Us Howard Jacobson The Booker winner’s latest is a “funny, passionate, lyrical and provocative exploration of a love affair through time”.
Agent Jonny Geller Rights UK (Cape)
Instructions for Heartbreak Sarah Handyside Début asking what if life—and love—came with a manual, following four friends creating a handbook to help them mend their broken hearts: “Expectation meets The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants”.
Agent Lucy Morris Rights German (Goldmann), Portuguese (ASA/Leya) and Serbian (Vulkan)
If I Were You Cesca Major
16 31st March 2023
London Book Fair Special Agents' Hotlists
Darley Anderson Children’s Book Agency
The Dragon Code S F Williamson R F Kuang’s Babel meets Code Name Verity in a YA fantasy début set in a Bletchley Park that has dragons.
WOMEN'S PRIZE SHORTLISTEE MEENA KANDASAMY DELIVERS A TRANSLATION OF ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT TAMIL TEXTS
“Funny and emotional” story of a couple struggling to communicate properly who accidentally swap bodies on their way to one very important wedding weekend.
Agent Alice Lutyens Rights UK (HarperCollins), Netherlands (Meulenhoff), Germany (Piper Verlag GmbH)
The Abuse of Power Theresa May The former PM’s “searing exposé of injustice and an impassioned call to exercise power for the greater good”.
Agent Jonathan Lloyd Rights UK (Headline)
Went to London, Took the Dog Nina Stibbe Stibbe’s first return to the diary format after Love, Nina, reflecting on turning one’s life around at age 60.
Agent Felicity Blunt Rights UK (Pan Macmillan)
Darley Anderson
The Man I Loved Before Sara Bragg “Sweeping, atmospheric” book club début about love, trauma and how a single moment can change your life.
Agent Tanera Simons
Claire, Darling Callie Kazumi Thriller in which Claire discovers her fiancé has been lying to her for months and is now
blocking her calls. As she tries to find him, she is thrust into the recesses of her childhood traumas and begins to realise how little she knew him…and herself.
Agent Camila Bolton
The Land of Lost Things John Connolly Much-anticipated sequel to Connolly’s 2006 fantasy bestseller, The Book of Lost Things.
Agent Darley Anderson Rights UK and Commonwealth (Hodder), North America (Atria), options in 12 languages
The Hunter Tana French French's second book featuring Cal Hooper after 2020’s The Searcher, as he is drawn back into sinister small-town secrets.
Agent Darley Anderson Rights UK and Commonwealth (Viking), North America (Viking), Germany (Fischer), options in 41 languages
The Time of the Fire Emma Kavanagh “Urgent and timely” speculative eco-thriller, set over one day against the backdrop of a devastating California wildfire, exploring the concept of family, nature versus nurture and power imbalances between the corporate and the natural world.
Agent Camilla Bolton Rights UK and Commonwealth (Orion)
Agent Lydia Silver Rights UK and Commonwealth (HarperCollins), North America (HarperCollins), Poland, the Netherlands, Romania
The No-girlfriend Rule Christen Randall “Big-hearted”, queer, slow-burn romance set across an all-female, D&D-inspired roleplay game: “Heartstopper meets Fangirl with the fat pride of ‘Dumplin’”.
Agent Becca Langton Rights UK and Commonwealth (Pushkin), North America (Atheneum)
The Summer Switch-off Beth Reekles Newest from The Kissing Booth author centres on three new friends, all with post-high school crises, on a holiday with no phones allowed: “Will it be a summer to remember or one they’d rather forget?”
Agent Clare Wallace Rights UK and Commonwealth (PRH), North America (Delacorte), options in eight languages
Love You to Death Gina Blaxill New YA thriller about toxic relationships and teenage obsession from the Carnegie-nominated author. When the girl who's been turning herself into Mia's doppelganger is found dead, can Mia work out the link—and avoid becoming the next victim?
Agent Lydia Silver Rights UK and Commonwealth (Scholastic), options in Poland and Brazil
Mysteries at Sea: Peril on the Atlantic A M Howell First in a new historical adventure series from Howell has Alice at sea in a grand ship where she and her new friend Sonny uncover a dark sabotage plot, and soon secrets in
their own lives come to the surface…
Agent Clare Wallace Rights UK and Commonwealth (Usborne), options in six languages
David Godwin Associates
Winnie & Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage Jonny Steinberg The little-told story of the marriage between Winnie and Nelson Mandela; a relationship that affected the entire South African nation.
Agent David Godwin Rights UK (HarperCollins), US (Knopf), Holland (Atlas)
A Day of Fallen Night: The Roots of Chaos Samantha Shannon A standalone prequel to Shannon’s The Priory of the Orange Tree: when the Dreadmount erupts, bringing with it terror and violence, three women must protect humankind from a devastating threat.
Agent David Godwin Rights UK and US (Bloomsbury), Brazil (VR Editora), Czech Republic (Host), France (Eilean), Hungary (Next 21 Kiado), Italy (Mondadori), Poland (Wydawnictwo SQN), Spain (Roca)
shortlistee's “luminous” translation of the “Kāmattu-p-pāl”, a 2,000-year-old song of female love and desire, one of the most important texts in Tamil literature.
Agent David Godwin Rights UK (Galley Beggar), India (PRH India)
Our City, That Year Geetanjali Shree “Explosive, raw and uncompromising” novel offering a devastating examination of Hindu nationalism that dominates contemporary Indian politics and government.
Agent David Godwin
David Higham Associates
The Husbands Holly Gramazio “Hugely entertaining” début about a woman whose attic creates her an endless supply of husbands.
Agent Veronique Baxter Rights UK and Commonwealth exc Canada (Chatto), German (dtv)
Neighbors and Other Stories Diane Oliver Rediscovered short stories exploring race and racism in mid 20th-century America by the Black feminist author who died in 1966 aged just 23.
Agent Elise Dillsworth Rights US (Grove Atlantic), UK (Virago), German (Aufau), Italy (Bompiani)
Out of the Darkness: The Germans, 1942-2022 Frank Trentmann Birkbeck history professor Trentmann’s newest tells the dramatic story of the Germans from the middle of the Second World War, through the division into East and West, to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the reunited nation's search for a place in the world.
Agent David Godwin Rights UK (Allen Lane), US (Knopf), Canada (McClelland & Stuart), Germany (S Fischer), the Netherlands (De Arbeiderspers), Russia (Corpus), France (Grasset)
The Book of Desire Meena Kandasamy The Women’s Prize
The Sleepwalkers Scarlett Thomas A contemporary gothic novel about an unravelling marriage set on a Greek island at the end of the season: “A clever page- turner brimming with revelations, ideas and secrets”.
Agent Veronique Baxter Rights UK (Scribner), US (Simon & Schuster)
Iron Mountain Phil Tinline The BBC Radio 4 documentarian’s second book looks at a 1960s literary hoax that still resonates today and explores, in the post- truth age, what the real costs are of not knowing
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