BOOKS


Rights UK (Hodder), Germany (Penguin)


The Nightingale’s Castle Sonia Velton Seventeenth-century Hungary tale told through the eyes of a young woman who has gone to work for the infamous Countess Bathory—but are the rumours about her true?


Agent Juliet Mushens Rights UK (Little, Brown), US (HarperCollins), Hungary (Libri), Slovakia (Albatros)


The Method


Chris MacDonald A famed method actor on the Oscar campaign trail is threatened by dark rumours from his time at drama school.


Agent Juliet Mushens Rights UK (Penguin Michael Joseph)


A Script for Buried Voices L M Rees In 17th-century London, a poor maid illegally copies Shakespeare’s plays at the Globe to earn enough money to open a bookshop.


Agent Liza DeBlock


The Woman in the Wallpaper Lora Jones Two sisters working at a wallpaper factory in 18th-century Paris realise there’s something uncannily familiar about the scenes in the paper’s patterns: they seem to mirror their lives.


Agent Rachel Neely


London Book Fair Special Agents' Hotlists


The North Literary Agency


Plot Twist Breea Keenan Début “perfect for the fans of Emily Henry and Beth O’Leary” where two aspiring authors meet online and agree to spend the summer together to work on their books and forget their baggage—but a romance unexpectedly blossoms.


Agent Julie Fergusson


The Maiden and the Mechanist of the North Lizy Simonen Fantasy inspired by Finnish folklore: alongside a resurrected boyfriend, a flying metal bird and a bear god, magicless Saskia must cross a militarised borderland to save her archmage sister from the evil Witch of the North.


Agent Lina Langlee


Thirteen Ways to Kill Lulabelle Rock Maud Woolf The début satirical sci-fi from a former Forbidden Planet bookseller has washed-up movie star Lulabelle Rock employing a new clone of herself to assassinate the 12 previous versions; but this clone might have other ideas.


Agent Lina Langlee Rights UK (Angry Robot), Germany (Tor), Russia (Eksmo)


Thieves School Peter Burns Middle-grade where young pickpocket Tom


is recruited into a school for thieves and is thrown headfirst into a world of international intrigue and derring-do—but is something even darker afoot?


Agent Julie Fergusson


Indigo Bright and the Cinderman Alex Atkinson Atkinson’s début middle- grade has Indigo finding her entire village covered in ashes the day after she accidentally knocked over an urn in a secret crypt. Now she, her twin brother Rusty, and pet pheasant Phrank have until sunset until the evil Cinderman will claim them all for eternity.


Agent Lina Langlee


Northbank Talent Management


The Women Who Wouldn’t Leave Victoria Scott A story of courage and friendship, as the residents of a rural council estate fight the council who want to evict them to make way for a new development.


Agent Elizabeth Counsell Rights UK and Commonwealth exc Canada (Head of Zeus)


Sunburn


Chloe Michelle Howarth LGBTQ+ literary début about first love set in rural Ireland in the 1990s, from an exciting new talent.


Agent Elizabeth Counsell Rights UK and Commonwealth exc Canada (Verve), UK and Commonwealth exc Canada audio (W F Howes)


The Elevator Claire Cooper A fast-paced thriller with a killer twist, “for fans of Nicci French’s The Lying Room and Louise Candlish’s Those People”.


Agent Elizabeth Counsell Rights World English (Bookouture)


Food Therapy Pixie Turner


SYMBIOSIS IN TOGETHERNESS


BIOLOGIST ROWAN HOOPER EXPLORES LIFE ON EARTH THROUGH THE LENS OF


24


“Much-needed” book which presents a fresh new approach to rehabilitating our relationship with food from a nutritionist


Paper Literary Teddy


Emily Dunlay “Taut and assured” book club début set in 1960s Rome which follows the wife of an American diplomat as she tries with increasing desperation to contain a scandal she fears will have deadly consequences for her back home.


Agent Katie Greenstreet


Carpet Bomb Christine Murphy A “bold and confronting” début about rape culture, where a PhD student believes that a vigilante is killing accused rapists on campus and begins her own reckoning with vengeance.


Agent Catherine Cho Rights US (Knopf)


Ares House Will Piovano A “Big Brother”-style reality show travels to space for the first time in this near-future suspense: “The heart and science of The Martian plus the humour and twists of ‘Knives Out’”.


Agent Katie Greenstreet PEW Literary


Togetherness: Symbiosis and the Revolution in Our Understanding of Life Rowan Hooper Biologist and New Scientist writer Hooper uses symbiosis as the lens through which to tell an


and “intuitive eating” specialist.


Agent Matthew Cole Rights UK and Commonwealth exc Canada (Piatkus)


Young Bloomsbury Nino Strachey A “Gatsby made real” history of the often overlooked second generation of “Bloomsburies”, a group of writers and artists who celebrated sexual freedom and gender expression in the 1920s. By the historian and descendent of Lytton Strachey.


Agent Matthew Cole Rights UK and Commonwealth (Two Roads), US (Atria)


“entirely fresh” story about life on Earth, pivoting between our deep past and our future survival.


Agent Patrick Walsh Rights UK and Commonwealth (Vintage), US (Knopf), Canadian (Signal)


Fatology: Why Fat is Not All About Food Alanna Collen Cutting-edge science with a self-help spin as Collen demonstrates how the hypothalamus in the brain controls our “Weight Set Point” and how modern phenomena has raised it— plus gives practical ways that you can attempt to restore it.


Agent Patrick Walsh Rights UK and Commonwealth (HarperCollins), Taiwanese (Suncolor)


Earth, Wind & Fire: How Trees Conquered the World Harriet Rix Biochemist and botanist Rix explores the wonderful and revelatory story of how trees shaped our world by manipulating fire, splitting rocks to create soil and learning how to control the elements.


Agent Doug Young


Nesting Roisín O’Donnell The award-winning short story writer’s début novel is a powerful portrait of one woman’s fight to escape a controlling relationship, overcome homelessness and rebuild a life for herself and her children.


Agent Eleanor Birne Rights UK and Commonwealth (Scribner), US (Algonquin), German (Blessing), Hebrew (Tchelet)


The Wardrobe Department Elaine Garvey Début novel about a young Irish woman establishing her identity in London and returning to her hometown—partly inspired by “Buile Suibhne”, an old Irish poem about a king who is transformed into a bird and exiled from his people.


Agent Eleanor Birne


PFD


Worthy Opponents Danielle Steel The billion-copy seller Steel’s latest is a “riveting and dynamic tale of family, wealth and success”.


Agent Caroline Michel Rights UK (Pan Macmillan), US (Ballantine), Bulgaria (Bard), France (Presses de la Cité), Poland (Znak)


Resolution Irvine Welsh “Explosive” finale to the internationally bestselling author’s Crime trilogy, featuring the troubled Detective Inspector Ray Lennox.


Agent Lucy Barry Rights UK and Commonwealth, exc Canada (Vintage)


Monumental Simon Warrack Stonemason Warrack on the stories behind some of the greatest buildings and monuments that he has helped to conserve, from the Trevi Fountain to Angkor Wat and Canterbury Cathedral.


Agent Adam Gauntlett Rights UK (HarperCollins), US (Norton)


Deadly Games Michael Caine Highly anticipated début novel from one of the world’s most beloved actors, Michael Caine, and the first novel in a “thrilling” crime series following DCI Harry Taylor.


Agent Caroline Michel Rights World English (Hodder)


A Passage to India E M Forster Arguably the masterpiece of giant Forster—whose literary rights are now with PFD—and basis for the classic 1980s “Merchant Ivory” film, on the clash of cultures in late British Empire India.


Agent Adam Gauntlett Rights UK (Penguin), Italy (Mondadori), Spanish (Navona)


Rachel Mills Literary


The Secrets of the Warrah Place Kate Kemp


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