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in a drink-driving accident, Dubliner Danny is startled to see his ghost every time he drinks.


Agent Bethany Ferguson


He’s a 10 Jessica Yale Will the head of player care at Covenly FC break her employment contract when she falls for star signing Tony Garratt, a player in more ways than one?


Agent Saskia Leach


Runaway Jo Simmonds A lesbian coming-of-age story about two teenage runaways who grab a vintage Mustang for a road-trip across America.


Agent Bethany Ferguson


LBA The Seven Moxie Anderson “The Lovely Bones meets Texan noir” in this début thriller in which Ellie, a pregnant 18-year-old in a small town, is found murdered, and the local sheriff struggles to solve the crime when everyone has a good reason to stay quiet.


Agent Luigi Bonomi


Three Wishes and a Curse Laura Wood “Emily Henry crossed with ‘Practical Magic’” in the first adult rom-com début from YA star Wood: when Clemmie is dumped, her sisters conjure a spell to mend her broken heart, but when global


London Book Fair Special Agents' Hotlists


heartthrob Theo Eliott strides into her life, is there more than magic in the air?


Agent Louise Lamont Rights Brazil (Verus), Italy (Giunti)


Unromance Erin Connor Début in which a heartbroken actor enlists a jaded novelist to ruin romance for him—one rom-com trope at a time—only for them to find themselves on the verge of an unlikely happily ever after: “Beach Read meets Netflix’s ‘The Holidate’”.


Agent Hannah Schofield Rights UK and Commonwealth (HQ), North America (Forever/ Grand Central), Brazil (Rocco), Poland (Foksal)


The Country Village Allotment Cathy Lake Three women strike up an unlikely friendship through gardening and find that community, love and the wonders of nature can truly be powerful healers.


Agent Amanda Preston Rights World English (Bonnier)


Small Secrets Lucy Goacher Years ago, true crime podcasters Stevie and Nate accused the wrong person in a murder case in their hometown. Now they need to make things right—even if it kills them.


Agent Hannah Schofield Rights World English (Tomas & Mercer)


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Fervour Toby Lloyd Début literary tale of an orthodox Jewish family in London, with elements of horror.


Agent Becky Tomas Rights UK (Sceptre), US (Avid Reader), France (Gallimard), Italy (Neri Pozza), Finland (Kosmos)


Man-Eating Typewriter Richard Milward The first novel in 11 years from the author of Apples, which details an anarchist’s memoir written in Polari, with a corresponding plot in the footnotes by the pulp press he sent it to.


Agent Becky Tomas Rights (UK) White Rabbit


Divisible by Itself and One Kae Tempest Latest poetry collection from Tempest “taking its title and bearings from the prime number, and… concerned with how to live an honest relationship with oneself and others”.


Agent Becky Tomas Rights UK (Picador), Germany (Suhrkamp), France (L’Arche), Spain (Arrebato Libros)


The Cat Prince and Other Poems Michael Pedersen New collection of poems from one of Scotland’s best-loved poets and the author of the acclaimed Boy Friends, touching on themes of friendship, loss, nature and love.


Agent Becky Tomas Rights UK (Corsair)


Little Boxes Cecilia Knapp First prose title from the former London Poet Laureate is a story of sacrifice, violence and growing up different— told against the heat and claustrophobia of a seaside city in summer. It was nominated for the Author’s Club Best First Novel award.


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Agent Becky Tomas Rights UK (Te Borough Press)


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Believe Me Dreda Say Mitchell & Ryan Carter The third team-up of Mitchell and Carter has lawyer Gabby working on a property dispute, only to discover her dead mother’s name on one of the deeds, plunging into a search for answers to her parent’s mysterious death.


Agent Lorella Belli Rights World English (Tomas & Mercer)


While You Were Dreaming Alisha Rai American romance author Rai’s first move to YA has a girl with undocumented family members who goes viral after saving her crush’s life in disguise.


Agent Lorella Belli Rights World English (Quill Tree)


The Case for Nature: Pioneering Solutions for the Other Planetary Crisis Siddarth Shrikanth The biologist turned climate investor’s positive manifesto for regenerating our planet through the power of “natural capital”: restoring biodiversity through technological and financial innovation.


Agent Lorella Belli Rights UK and Commonwealth (Duckworth), English Indian subcontinent (Allen Lane), UK and Commonwealth audio (W F Howes)


The Love I Could Have Had C J Connolly Second novel from the RNA awards shortlistee is “an extraordinary and unforgettable novel for anyone who has ever believed in destiny and soulmates”.


Agent Lorella Belli Rights World English (Joffe)


Everything She Feared Rick Mofina A teen falls off a cliff while babysitting nine-year-old Katie. But when Katie’s mother Sara arrives to comfort her daughter she starts being gnawed by the fear that the


babysitter’s death was no accident.


Agent Lorella Belli Rights North America (Mira)


Lutyens & Rubinstein


The Search Party Hannah Richell Richell’s fifth title is psychological suspense set against “the unforgiving cliffs of Cornwall” as a group of friends’ 20 years of friendship are pushed to the limit and they realise “the wildest places are those found within”.


Agent Sarah Lutyens Rights UK and Canada (Simon & Schuster), US (Atria)


The Modern Fairies Clare Pollard Pollard’s latest is set at Louis XIV’s Versailles, a novel “of stories within stories; familiar tales spun with fresh and provocative meaning”.


Agent Jenny Hewson Rights UK (Fig Tree)


Palace of Shadows Ray Celestin Celestin’s first UK-based crime novel after the conclusion of the US-set City Blues Quartet is a “gothic masterpiece” of how the lives of three men are undone as the chilling truth at the heart of a haunted labyrinth is slowly revealed.


Agent Jane Finigan Rights UK (Mantle)


Nadezhda in the Dark Yelena Moskovich The latest from acclaimed Ukrainian author Moskovich is a novel-in-verse set across a single night in Berlin encompassing decades of Russian and Ukrainian history.


Agent Jane Finigan Rights UK (Footnote)


Madeleine Milburn


Instrumental Harriet Constable Journalist Constable's life of the almost-forgotten orphan, musical prodigy and favourite student of Antonio Vivaldi, Anna Maria della Pietà—who we may have to thank


for Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons”.


Agent Madeleine Milburn Rights UK and Commonwealth (Bloomsbury), US (Simon & Schuster), Canada (HarperCollins Canada), Croat (Znanje), Dutch (Signatuur), Finnish (Bazar Kustannus), French (Albin Michel), German (HarperCollins), Greek (Pedio Books), Hungarian (Libri), Italian (Piemme), Portuguese EU (Leya), Romanian (Bookzone), Spanish (Planeta)


The Garden Nick Newman In “a place and time unknown”, two elderly sisters tend a vast garden of a crumbling estate. They only know each other and the estate, all else is forgotten: until something from the outside comes in.


Agent Olivia Maidment


The Lotus Shoes Jane Yang


“Richly atmospheric” historical début about a poor slave maid in 19th-century China whose extraordinary embroidery talents pave her way to freedom and love, while shining a light on the cruel and the underexplored Celibate Sisterhood movement.


Agent Madeleine Milburn Rights UK and Commonwealth (Sphere)


The Confidence Games Tess Amy “Fun and escapist” heist story where confidence tricksters Emma and Nellie are blackmailed into stealing one of Tiffany’s most precious jewels from a high-profile gallery exhibition: “‘Ocean’s 8’ meets The Maid”.


Agent Hayley Steed


A Stunning Display of Unbelievable Folly Alexander Hurst A memoir about what a young writer really gained after making—and losing—a million dollars trading risky stocks.


Agent Emma Bal


Marjacq Scripts Gemma Lauren A Forry Psychological thriller “for


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