At this year’s London Book Fair, U.S. agents will feature works by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Jinwoo Chong, Laila Lalami, Patricia Lockwood, and Brandon Stanton, among others, at the show’s International Rights Center. We will continue to update this list of rights on offer at the 2025 London Book Fair through the fair's opening on March 11. Submissions can be sent in using our Google form. (Please note, the listings are open to U.S. literary agencies only, with a limit of four titles per agency).
BookEnds Literary Agency
■ An Unlikely Coven
AM Kvita (Orbit, Fall 2025). The outcast daughter of a powerful family of New York City witches returns home to the disastrous news that someone has turned an unmagical human into a powerful witch.
■ Metal Slinger
Rachel Schneider (Saturday Books, Spring 2025). A romantasy following a young woman living among a community exiled to live over the sea.
■ Only Lovers in the Building
Nadine Gonzalez (Canary Street Press, Summer 2025). A burned-out attorney and an award-winning writer discover their mutual love of romance novels, form a building book club, and unintentionally become love gurus to their neighbors.
■ That Devil, Ambition
Linsey Miller (HarperCollins, June 2025). A dark academia fantasy following three friends whose loyalties are tested when they attempt to earn their university's prized tuition waiver by completing one final exam: killing the demon summoned to teach their class before he kills all of them at graduation.
CAA
■ A Word Appears: Searching for Consciousness in the Brain and Beyond
Michael Pollan (Penguin Press, Spring 2026). The story behind the quest to solve the greatest mystery in nature: how, and why, are we conscious?
■ The Unexpected Journey: Finding Hope and Purpose on the Caregiving Path
Emma Heming Willis (The Open Field, Sept. 2025). A support guide that helps caregivers care for themselves while they navigate a loved one’s dementia.
■ Will There Ever Be Another You
Patricia Lockwood (Riverhead, Sept. 2025). A novel about a woman’s descent into illness and insanity.
■ A Different Kind of Power
Jacinda Ardern (Crown, June 2025). From the former prime minister of New Zealand comes a memoir chronicling her extraordinary rise and offering inspiration to a new generation of leaders.
The Charlotte Gusay Literary Agency
■ Walking in the Sacred Manner: Healers, Dreamer, and Pipe Carriers—Medicine Women of the Plains Indians
Mark St. Pierre & Tilda Long Soldier-St. Pierre (Simon & Schuster). An exploration of the myths and culture of the Plains Indians.
■ A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe
Mark Dawidziak (St. Martin’s Press, 2024). A dual-timeline narrative alternating between Edgar Allan Poe’s increasingly desperate last months and his brief but impactful life.
■ Kingdom of No Tomorrow
Fabienne Josaphat (Algonquin/Hachette, 2024). A story of a young, aspiring physician, who escapes the trauma of Haiti’s dictatorship in the early seventies, moves to Oakland, CA, and joins the Black Panther Party.
■ Land of Tears: A Journey of Language, Loyalty, and War from an Iranian-American Translator Serving with U.S. Marines in Afghanistan
Sanjar Rohãm (Milspeak Publishing, 2024). Rohãm walks away from his glamorous but unfulfilling Hollywood life to pursue a life as a translator for the U.S. Marines in the heart of war-torn Afghanistan.
Chiara Tognetti Rights Agency
■ Rest in Pieces
Karmaket (Balaena Islet, 2024). A collection of horror graphic short stories.
■ Put Your Pyjamas On
Lee Do Woo (Soobaksultang, 2024). From best-selling Korean author Lee Do Woo comes a coming-of-age novel that evokes the nostalgia of childhood.
■ The Spirit Is Watching Us
Hong Kali (Wisdom House, 2021). An autobiographical, queer exploration of spirituality in Korea through Hong’s personal experience as a Korean shaman.
Curtis Brown Ltd.
■ Backstitch
Idrissa Simmonds-Nastilli (Flatiron Books, Sept. 2026). A multi-generational epic, centered on the disappearance of a little girl from Brooklyn’s J’ouvert celebrations, spanning from 1920s Haiti to 1990s New York.
■ The Primrose Murder Society
Stacy Hackney (William Morrow, Spring 2026). A newly single mom moves into a luxurious retirement building with her crime-obsessed young daughter and finds herself pulled into the mystery of an unsolved murder in the building decades earlier.
■ How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder
Nina McConigley (Pantheon, Jan. 2026). A meditation on race, family, language, colonialism, trauma, and the meaning of independence.
DeFiore and Company
■ Aristotle’s Guide to Self-Persuasion: How Ancient Rhetoric, Taylor Swift, and Your Own Soul Can Help Change Your Life
Jay Heinrichs (Crown, July 2025). Heinrichs, the bestselling author of Thank You For Arguing, helps readers persuade their most difficult audiences—themselves—by using techniques invented by the likes of Aristotle and Cicero and deployed by our culture’s most persuasive characters.
■ Face with Tears of Joy: A Natural History of the Emoji
Keith Houston (Norton, July 2025). An exploration of the world’s newest language―where it came from, how it works, and where it’s going.
■ Dear New York
Brandon Stanton (MacMillion, Oct. 2025). The ultimate love letter to New York City and its humans.
■ The Story of CO2 is the Story of Everything: How Carbon Dioxide Made Our World
Peter Brannen (Ecco, Aug. 2025). The award-winning science journalist reveals carbon dioxide’s fundamental role in the operation and maintenance of our planet.
Denise Shannon Literary Agency
■ The Antidote
Karen Russell (Knopf, Mar. 2025). A dust bowl epic about five characters whose fates become entangled after a storm ravages their small Nebraska town.
■ Pan
Michael W. Clune (Penguin Press, July 2025). A strange and brilliant teenager attempts to understand his panic attacks through the lens of Wilde, Baudelaire, and illicit substances.
■ The Felons’ Ball
Polly Stewart (Harper, July 2025). A thriller about a powerful Virginian family, centering around an annual party called “The Felons’ Ball” in which a yoga teacher finds herself caught up in the vortex of her family’s history and the Ball’s deadly consequences.
Eve White Literary Agency
■ The Woman in Suite 11
Ruth Ware (S&S UK, Summer 2025). The bestselling author returns with the sequel to The Woman in Cabin 10.
■ A Beautiful World
James Norbury (Penguin, fall 2025). Big Panda and Tiny Dragon are back in this new adventure.
■ poyums annaw
Len Pennie (Canongate, fall 2025). A follow-up collection from the bestselling poet-activist.
■ Monster Study
Han Smith (on submission). Two babies mysteriously disappear in this queer coming-of-age novel.
FinePrint Literary Management
■ Queen of the Dead
Sarah Broadway (Angry Robot, Nov. 2025). A paranormal urban fantasy about a girl who can converse with the dead.
■ Vile Lady Villains
Danai Christopoulou (Michael Joseph/PRH UK, Mar. 2026). A horrormantasy bringing together literature’s most murderous queens: Klytemnestra and Lady Macbeth.
■ Painting the Cosmos: How Art and Science Intersect to Reveal the Secrets of the Universe
Nia Imara (BenBella Books, Jan. 2025). A portrait of our universe as seen through the lenses of astronomy and art.
■ The Center of the Universe: Transforming the 27 Types of Narcissism from the Inside Out
Sterlin L.Mosley (Rowman & Littlefield, July 2025). Mosley offers readers a guide for recognizing the 27 narcissistic subtypes at the individual, relational, collective, and systemic levels of human life.
Focused Artists
■ In A League of Her Own: Celebrating Female Firsts in Sports
Bonnie-Jill Laflin (Rowman and Littlefield, 2024). An exploration of women from the field to the front office who achieved record-breaking accomplishments and changed expectations in a variety of sports.
■ Bloom How You Must: A Black Woman’s Guide to Self-Care
Tara Pringle Jefferson (Amistad, 2025). Part guide and part journal featuring exercises and cultural context to put each self-care segment of wellness into practice.
■ The Mirror in the Mountain
Dana Evyn (City Owl Press, 2024). A romantasy journey into the fae realm.
■ The Forgotten Witch
Jessica Dodge (KDP, 2022). After a spontaneous purchase of a 500-year-old cottage in Scotland, Helen Kent unearths the local legend of a 16th century witch.
Folio Literary Management
■ Brilliant Little Bees: Wisdom from the Hive
Erika Thompson (HarperCollins, Spring 2027). Thompson explores the often overlooked but important role that bees play in our ecosystem.
■ Fire in the Belly: Using the Science of Motivation to Get the Best from Ourselves and Everyone Else
Monica Wadhwa (Simon Element, 2027). An exploration of the science behind motivation, explaining what motivation is, what kind of rewards motivate us, and why losing can ignite the fire in the belly.
■ Eight Million Ways to Happiness: Wisdom for Healing and Inspiration from the Heart of Japan
Hiroko Yoda (Tiny Reparations Books, Dec. 2025). Certified Shinto cultural historian and New Yorker contributor Yoda’s journey through Japan’s uniquely flexible approach to spirituality and nature.
■ Who Knows You by Heart
C. J. Farley (William Morrow, Nov. 2025). A tale of Big Tech, new money, relationships, race, and discovering what’s real in an age of artificial intelligence.
Frances Goldin Literary Agency
■ On Repair
Jenny Odell (Knopf, Spring 2028). An exploration of the act of repair—from material objects to entire ecosystems—as a practice of care and attention that can restore our agency and feeling of belonging in, and to, the world.
■ Two Left Feet
Kallie Emblidge (Bantam Dell, January 2026). A debut rom-com about an injured star midfielder who is forced to mentor the team’s newest addition, a younger hotshot called up to replace him.
■ Trauma Plot: A Life
Jamie Hood (Pantheon/Random House, Mar. 2025). A nonfiction work blending memoir, poetry, and cultural criticism to examine the limitations around how society understands and discusses sexual violence post-#MeToo.
■ The Last Iceberg Tasting Menu
Erin Jones (Roxane Gay Books, Spring 2027). The story of a not-too-distant future in which a billionaire steals the world’s last iceberg to serve in his upscale restaurant.
Gelfman Schneider Literary Agents
■ The Jackal’s Mistress
Chris Bohjalian (Doubleday, Mar. 2025). In this Civil War love story, inspired by a real-life friendship across enemy lines, the wife of a missing Confederate soldier discovers a wounded Yankee officer and must decide what she’s willing to risk for the life of a stranger.
■ South of Nowhere
Jeffery Deaver (Putnam, May 2025). Reward seeker Colter Shaw races against the clock to save a flooding town from a disaster, where the culprit lurks in plain sight.
■ We Are Watching
Alison Gaylin (William Morrow, Jan. 2025). A tale of psychological suspense and family bonds, in which a mother and daughter are desperate to protect one another as they become targets of a group of violent conspiracy theorists.
■ The Shape of Wonder: How Scientists Think, Work, and Live
Alan Lightman and Martin Rees (Pantheon, Nov. 2025). An exploration of the life and work of numerous scientists in order to demystify the scientific process and show that scientists are concerned citizens, just like the rest of us.
Hill Nadell Literary Agency
■ North to the Future: An Offline Adventure through the Changing Wilds of Alaska
Ben Weissenbach (Grand Central, July 2025). The author embarks on a series of scientific adventures across the wilds of Alaska.
■ Returns and Exchanges
Kayla Rae Whitaker (Random House, Spring 2026). The story of one family’s rise and fall in 1980s Kentucky.
■ The Channel: The History, Science, and Insanity of the World’s Most Famous Swim
David McGlynn (Gallery/S&S, 2028). An examination of what it takes to accomplish the world’s most iconic swim wrapped in a tale of personal adventure.
■ In Trees
Robert Moor (Simon & Schuster, Spring 2026). The sequel to On Trails, In Trees will explore the role of trees through narratives about the art of bonsai in Japan, tree house dwelling inhabitants in New Guinea, and how trees factor into human imagination.
Jane Rostrosen Agency
■ Love’s a Witch
Tricia O’Malley (Gallery, Sept. 2025). A hexed witch returns to Scotland to break a family curse only to clash with one grumpy Scotsman determined to protect his small town from her haywire magic.
■ The Midnight Estate
Kelly Rimmer (Graydon House, July 2025). A book-within-a-book mystery set against the Gothic backdrop of a crumbling family estate.
■ The Second Chance Cinema
Thea Weiss (Atria, Oct. 2025). A recently engaged couple stumbles upon a magical movie theater playing key memories from their respective pasts, and as the memories creep closer to the present, they discover they’re both keeping secrets from each other.
■ The Tenant
Freida McFadden (Sourcebooks, May 2025). A man’s plans to make ends meet with a roommate turns into a trap.
Jill Grinberg Literary Management
■ Untitled
Jaclyn Moriarty (Berkley, Summer 2026). A speculative novel in which three people’s stories intersect at the Time Travel Agency.
■ The Escape Game
Marissa Meyer and Tamara Moss (Putnam Books for Young Readers, Spring 2026). Four teens must solve a murder while competing on a high-stakes reality TV show where they have to gather clues, crack codes, escape puzzle rooms, and stay alive.
■ How to Menopause
Tamsen Fadal (Balance/Grand Central Publishing, Mar. 2025). Fadal synthesizes research, stories, and strategy to offer women a guide to menopause.
■ The Mortons
Scott Westerfeld and Justine Larbalestier (Pamela Dorman Books/Viking, 2026). This joint adult debut follows a modern-day, old-money crime family for whom homicide is heritage, and the consequences of their twisted intergenerational dramas that emerge.
KT Literary
■ You Are the Detective: The Creeping Hand Murder
Maureen Johnson and Jay Cooper (Ten Speed Press, Sept. 2025). An interactive murder mystery.
■ Overdue
Stephanie Perkins (Saturday Books, Oct. 2025). A cheerful librarian and her partner of over eleven years decide to separate for a month to date other people before getting married.
■ Savage Blooms
S.T. Gibson (Orbit, Oct. 2025). A dark trilogy of faery magic and forbidden desires following two American travelers stranded in a world of mind games, ancestral sins, and deceit at a crumbling Scottish estate.
■ Mischief Girls
Aashna Avachat (Delacorte BYR, Sept. 2026). A crossover thriller in which a freshman must delve into her college's dark history after a classmate she was responsible for goes missing.
Larry Weissman Literary
■ They Poisoned the World: Life and Death in the Age of Forever Chemicals
Mariah Blake (Crown, May 2025). An investigation of the chemical industry’s decades-long campaign to hide the dangers of forever chemicals.
■ The Einstein of Sex: Dr. Magnus Hischfeld, Visionary of Weimar Berlin
Daniel Brook (W.W. Norton, May 2025). A portrait of a lost thinker, German-Jewish sexologist, and activist, Magnus Hirschfeld, the first to argue that gender and sexuality were fluid.
■ The Sexual Evolution: How 500 Years of Sex, Gender, and Mating Shape Modern Relationships
Nathan H. Lents (Mariner, Feb. 2025). An exploration of sexual behavior throughout the animal kingdom.
■ The Monsters We Make
Rachel Corbett (Norton, Nov. 2025). A work of true crime that tells the story of criminal profiling from Victorian times to our own.
Laura Gross Literary Agency
■ Detective Aunty
Uzma Jalaluddin (Harper Perennial, May 2025). A contemporary take on Miss Marple, in which a middle-age Muslim widow returns to the tight-knit community she once called home to clear her daughter's name of a murder charge.
■ Held Together: A Shared Memoir of Motherhood, Medicine, and Imperfect Love
Rebecca Thompson (HarperOne, April 2025). A Harvard- and Stanford-educated physician’s memoir of her tumultuous journey toward parenthood.
■ Lucky Girl
Allie Tagle-Dokus (Tin House, Nov. 2025). The author’s debut novel about a young dance prodigy, the absurd and fleeting nature of childhood fame, and the ever-evolving desire for family and forgiveness.
■ The Paris Bookshop
Mark Pryor (Kensington, April 2026). Hugo Marston, recently retired head of security at the US embassy in Paris, starts his next chapter as a bookseller in the city of light, only to find himself investigating blackmail and murder at a chocolate factory.
Lima Literary Agency
■ Overwhelmed: The Art of Embracing High Sensitivity
Åsa Vikman (Winter 2024). A science-based, personal guide for highly sensitive people (HSPs), offering insights and practical strategies to navigate a world that often overlooks their needs.
Robin Straus Agency, Inc.
■ The Slightest Green
Sahar Mustafah (Interlink Press, Oct. 2025). A woman must go to Palestine to pay her final respects to her dying father who has been imprisoned for two decades, but arriving in his village of Bayt al-Hawa, and meeting his mother, she discovers what it means to be a stranger in her ancestral land.
■ Plunder
Carole DeSanti (Zando Books, 2026). A tale of betrayal and revenge, set in the early 1700s and the present, that reimagines the lives of the infamous Mary Read and Anne Bonny.
■ Sons and Daughters
Chaim Grade (Knopf, Mar. 2025). The English translation of a work that chronicles the last decade of a world succumbing to the march of modernity, centering around Rabbi Sholem Shachne Katzenellengoen and his family.
Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency
■ Rook & Rebel
Kate Crew (Avon, Spring 2026). A dark revenge romance filled with tattooed bikers, banter, heat, and high speeds.
■ A Curse of Shadows and Ice
Cat Maura (Hachette, Nov. 2025). A Beauty and the Beast retelling featuring a cursed emperor, a princess who possesses forbidden magic, and a marriage that could save them all.
■ Romantic Friction
Lori Gold (Harper, May 2025). When a best selling fantasy romance writer learns another author has used AI to imitate her, the only way to preserve her art is to commit a felony.
■ Five Found Dead
Sulari Gentil (Poisoned Pen, Aug. 2025). A murder mystery on a train, where there are only so many places to hide.
Simon Trewin Creative
■ Life Interrupted
Aly Mennuti (on submission). When empty nester Abby and her newly single sibling Noah wake up as teenagers in 1996, they are given the chance to rewrite their pasts.
■ The Visit
Neil Tully (Bonnier, May 2026). A novel set in June 1963, during John F. Kennedy’s visit to New Ross and against the backdrop of a country on the verge of social change.
■ Klepto
Mina Odile (on submission). Martin Martin, an illegal immigrant who skip-dives for scraps, lives in fear of detection.
■ Rubblewomen
Alix Christie (on submission). Three women emerging from the destruction of Nazi Germany must face the extraordinary choices they have made as they begin rebuilding Berlin.
Sterling Lord Literistic, Inc.
■ A Land So Wide
Erin A. Craig (Pantheon Books, Sept. 2025). From the bestselling author of The Thirteenth Child, this blend of dark fairytale and romantic fantasy is set in the beautiful but brutal Canadian wilderness.
■ I Leave It Up to You
Jinwoo Chong (Ballantine, March 2025). A novel about a young man who wakes up from a coma to find that the love of his life has left him, forcing a reluctant homecoming to his parents’ struggling sushi restaurant in New Jersey.
■ Speak to Me of Home
Jeanine Cummins (Henry Holt & Co, May 2025). From a Puerto Rican wedding to the American Midwest, three generations of women grapple with love, loss, and the meaning of home, as buried secrets surface amidst a family crisis.
■ Daughters of the Bamboo Grove: From China to America, A True Story of Abduction, Adoption, and Separated Twins
Barbara Demick (Penguin Random House, May 2025). The story of twin sisters torn apart by China’s one-child policy and the rise of international adoption.
Taryn Fagerness Agency
■ White Lights
Lauren Kate (Grand Central, June 2026). A new dark academia romantasy.
■ The Ex-Girlfriend Murder Club
Gloria Chao (Mira, June 2025). A murder mystery about three women who discover they are dating the same man and team up to get revenge, only to discover he’s already been murdered.
■ Our Dark Incantations
Wanda Hellmund (no US pub yet). An enemies-to-lovers romantasy featuring a war wounded woman who is accepted to a magical university where she is placed into the Dark Magic faculty and paired with a dangerous man on a mysterious investigation.
Trident Media Group
■ Zone Rouge
Michael Jerome Plunkett (Unnamed Press, Fall 2025). A modern reimagining of the Sisyphus myth through the eyes of a minesweeper in the “Red Zone” of northeastern France.
■ The Binary Delusion: Our Biological Traits Related to Sex and Gender
Ari Berkowitz (Beacon Press, Winter 2027). An exploration of how we could spark a cultural shift that recognizes sex as complex and nuanced in the same way so many of us now view gender.
■ I Am the Ghost Here
Kim Samek (Dial Press, Spring 2026). An examination of the absurdities of living through seemingly unending unprecedented times and questioning the engineering of human connection through technology, social media, and reality television.
■ The Dream Hotel
Laila Lalami (Pantheon Books, Spring 2025). In the near future without privacy, a museum archivist gets detained after a predictive algorithm uses her dreams to determine she will commit a crime.
United Talent Agency
■ The Joy of X
Mireille Silcoff (on submission). Building on her New York Times Magazine cover story, Silcoff explores how Generation X is redefining middle age.
■ You Are Not Your Job
Gabrielle Judge (on submission). Known as the @Anti-WorkGirlboss, Judge challenges the belief that our worth is tied to our professional achievements and provides tools and insights to create a healthier, more sustainable work culture.
■ Alan Opts Out
Courtney Maum (Little, Brown, Fall 2026). Alan—a visionary advertising executive always on the hunt for lucrative opportunities—has a sudden change of perspective after witnessing a Gen Z anti-capitalist speech.
■ Phoebe Berman’s Gonna Lose It
Brooke Averick (Crown, Summer 2026). A debut novel in which a woman with severe intimacy and relationship anxiety becomes determined to lose her virginity by her 30th birthday.
Verve Talent & Literary Agency
■ Food Person
Adam Roberts (Knopf, May 2025). A comedy of manners about cooking, ambition, and friendship set in the food world as a young and socially awkward writer takes a job ghostwriting the cookbook for a famous Hollywood starlet.
■ Little Movements
Lauren Morrow (Random House, Sept. 2025). A debut novel about a woman who must figure out whether being creatively fulfilled is compatible with being happily married, and what it means to be a Black artist in one of the whitest parts of America.
■ Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance
Laura Delano (Viking, Mar. 2025). A memoir of one woman’s experience with psychiatric diagnoses and medications, and her journey to discover herself outside the mental health industry.
■ The Familiar
Amanda Mortlock (Emily Bestler Books, 2026). In this romantasy retelling of the classic vampire and familiar relationship, a fiercely independent woman who transforms into a cat falls for a brooding musician and witch, only to confront a dark history that threatens their connection.
Westwood Creative Artists
■ Seven Days in March
Patricia Finn (Grand Central, Summer 2026). A successful Hollywood executive, newly retired with his wife to a Hawaiian dream house, is summoned back to his hardscrabble hometown by the news that he’s been named guardian of four children he didn’t know existed.
WLA
■ The Last Extinction: The Real Science Behind the Death of the Dinosaurs
Gerta Keller (Diversion Books, Sept. 2025). The story behind the world-shattering discovery that dinosaur extinction was not caused by asteroid impact.
■ Family of Spies: A World War II Story of Nazi Espionage, Betrayal, and the Secret History Behind Pearl Harbor
Christine Kuehn (Celadon, Dec. 2025). A true detective story that unearths the lives of the spies who cued the world-changing attack on Pearl Harbor.
■ All Our Pretty Songs: The Misunderstood Marriage of Courtney Love and Kurt Cobain
Mike Guy (St. Martin’s Press, Fall 2026). Veteran journalist and editor Mike Guy examines the wildly misunderstood relationship of two legendary and transformative artists in their own right.
■ Blood & Bedlam
T.C. Kraven (Diversion Books, Jan. 2026). A fresh take on the New Orleanian myths of “The Vampires of the Quarter” and “Casket Girls.”
The Wylie Agency
■ Dream Count
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Knopf, Mar. 2025). The story of four women and their loves, longings, and desires.
■ This Is For Everyone
Tim Berners-Lee (FSG, Sept. 2025). A memoir from the inventor of the World Wide Web.
■ All the Way to the River
Elizabeth Gilbert (Riverhead, Sept. 2025). In her first nonfiction book in a decade, the bestselling writer shows how to break free.
■ Things That Disappear
Jenny Erpenbeck (New Directions, Oct. 2025). A series of short essays meditating on the disappearance and impermanence of things.
