At this year’s London Book Fair, U.S. agents will feature works by Eve Babitz, Harlan Coben, Dave Eggers, Barbara Kingsolver, and Emily St. John Mandel, among others. We will continue to update this list of rights on offer at the 2026 London Book Fair through the fair’s opening on March 10. Submissions can be sent in using our Google form. (Please note: the listings are open to only literary agencies with U.S. operations, with a limit of four titles per agency).
Aaron M. Priest Literary Agency
■ Plot Twist: Life, Craft, and the Messy First Draft—A Memoir about Writing
Harlan Coben (Grand Central, Fall 2026). This memoir offers a glimpse into the author’s life and writing process.
■ Every Lie I Told
Hilary Davidson (Blackstone, Summer 2026). A thriller about an ambitious PR executive who is determined to help police solve the murder of her sexually predatory former mentor—until she discovers her own sister is the killer.
■ London Station
David McCloskey (W.W. Norton, Fall 2026). In this spy thriller, London devolves into a covert battleground between British and American intelligence services, causing agents run by both services to die.
■ Twenty Years Together
Tom Rob Smith (S&S UK, Spring 2026). Danny and Luis have been a couple for twenty years, and while celebrating the 20th wedding anniversary of their close friends, Danny realizes he’s ready for more from his relationship with Luis. He proposes to Luis, and the moment he does, he risks everything they’ve built falling apart.
Andrea Brown Literary Agency
■ The Mortal Enemy Murder Club
Gloria Chao (Park Row, July 2026). In the second book in the Hu Done It series, the Ex-Girlfriend Murder Club is back after solving the murder of their shared ex-boyfriend, and this time, the women have to save their mortal enemy from murder.
■ The Boredom Monster
Mariana Ellery, illus. by Clara Reschke (Beaming Books, Aug. 2026). A boy is pulled into the land of Boredom, where everything seems terribly tedious and drowsily dull, but with the help of the boredom monster, he learns to celebrate the silence of a distraction-free world and finds his creative spark.
■ The Snips: Enter the Wigmaster!
Raúl the Third (Little Brown Ink, Jan. 2026). In their latest comic caper, the Snips take on the dastardly Wig Master and his wignions who are intent on nothing less than world domination.
■ The Roommate Subtext
Elia Winters (Severn House, Fall 2026). A struggling writer sent to unmask a notorious online kinkster falls for her sweet, nerdy roommate—never suspecting he’s the man behind the mask—in this romance about risk, desire, and the courage to be truly known.
Ayser Ali Agency
■ I Met My Killer
Can Dündar (Winter 2025). A memoir by exiled journalist Dündar, recounting the assassination attempt against him and the political persecution that followed.
■ The King’s Evil
Will Heinrich (Thousand Horsemen, Feb. 2026). A novel following Joseph Malderoyce, a solitary lawyer who shelters a battered, abandoned boy in a remote northern village.
BookEnds Literary
■ Amid Clouds and Bones
Ella Fields (Scarlett, Spring 2026). A fantasy novel in which a princess—a half-faerie daughter of a human king—is determined to survive a forced arranged marriage to a heartless fae prince. She is saved by a twist of fate that could destroy their world.
■ The Ascended
Bree Grenwich and Parker Lennox (Kensington, Summer 2026). The first book in the Aesymarean duet in which twins Thais and Thatcher Morvaren are thrust into the deadly Trials of Ascension to navigate brutal competitions and forbidden desires.
■ The Carousel of Forgotten Places
S. Hati (Angry Robot, Summer 2026). For 500 years, immortal timekeeper Ryka has run a cozy magical fair on the edges of time. Eventually, the carousel at the heart of the fair begins showing signs of time rot, causing ruptures that culminate in a human falling through time and landing at her feet, throwing the fair into chaos.
■ The Blue Moon Café & 24-Hour Occult Emporium
Lexie Sharabianlou (Dell, Summer 2026). In the tiny town of Pine Hollow, barista and fledging sorceress Talula Smith runs the Blue Moon Café & 24-Hour Occult Emporium. The café’s horrible reputation hides its true purpose: providing new identities and safe passage to at-risk magical beings while keeping humans far, far away.
Creative Artists Agency
■ The Past Selves Club
Julie Buxbaum (Avid Reader; pub date TBA). Approximately once a decade, Hazel Stein inexplicably finds herself on a party bus hurtling through space-time with seven other versions of herself.
■ The Weekend Wife
Phoebe Lapine (Morrow, Summer 2027). When a struggling painter becomes a fake social media star, one high-stakes weekend with the single dad who made her famous threatens to expose the con—and force her to choose who she really wants to be.
■ The Fight Back
Maria Ressa (Harper, Fall 2026). A playbook that shows citizens how to stand against tyranny to defend their democracy and how to use digital security and psychological resilience to defend themselves.
■ The Power of Commitment
Reza Satchu (Viking, Fall 2027). This book posits that commitment is the most important skill in attaining success.
Curtis Brown
■ What to Make of a Life
Jim Collins (HarperCollins, Apr. 2026). Lessons on constructing—and reconstructing—a life through the turning points we all will face repeatedly in our lives.
■ Notes on Postcards
Jennifer Croft (Catapult, Nov. 2026). A memoir about wanderlust, love, and motherhood seen through a lifelong collection of postcards.
■ How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder
Nina McConigley (Pantheon, Jan. 2026). A debut novel that begins with an uncle dead and his tween niece’s private confession to the reader—she and her sister killed him, and they blame the British.
■ Exit Party
Emily St. John Mandel (Knopf, Sept. 2026). A novel about doubles, shadow worlds, and fractured timelines as a man disappears from a glittering Los Angeles party, and a woman—a gunrunner, an art collector, an operative of the State—searches for answers.
DeFiore and Company
■ Saying No to New: Why New Things Are Stealing Your Time, Money, and Happiness—and How to Take Back Your Life
Eric Athas (Balance, Sept. 2026). The New York Times editor offers a framework for reshaping our relationship to new things.
■ Wild Aster
Anna Hogeland (Bloomsbury, Dec. 2026). A woman with a talent for survival reinvents herself against the backdrop of the Depression and World War II, pursuing stability amid the personal upheavals of marriage and motherhood.
■ The Great Whatever
Shannon Sanders (Holt, July 2026). A family saga in which an impulsive and heartbroken woman inherits her father’s share of a Tennessee farm.
■ Because of a Dog: How an Enchanted Italian Village Mended a Broken Heart
Matthew Sigman (Sourcebooks, Aug. 2026). A memoir about an unlikely friendship and the embrace of a tiny Italian mountain village that mended the author’s broken heart after the loss of his beloved dog.
Focused Artists
■ The Husband Trainer
Marikah Baran (Fable Forage, 2025). Writer Kate pitches a bold idea to her intimidating boss: an article about her accidental role as a “husband trainer.”
■ The Bonnet Brigade
Christy Matheson (Dragonblade, 2026). In Regency England, a spirited Irish woman and her friends form the Bonnet Brigade, appoint a Madam General, and strategize to escape the net of the London marriage mart.
Folio Literary Management
■ The Rules of Emotional Intelligence
Justin Bariso (GCP Balance, Winter 2028). From business coach, author, and columnist Bariso comes a collection of tools that will help readers tap into their EQ.
■ Technosexual: Authentic Intimacy in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Kaamna Bhojwani (Hay House, Feb. 2027). An examination of intimacy in the age of AI, exploring the rise of digisexuality, the psychology of AI companions, the future of marriage and monogamy, AI matchmaking, the new gender wars, pornography and sex work, and the ethical frameworks that will guide the next decade.
■ The Last Lilies of Giverny
Duncan Murrell (Harper Select, Mar. 2027). A biographical novel that paints a portrait of Claude Monet, told in two braided chronologies.
■ Barbie Just Won’t Die!
Tanya Pell (Gallery, Oct. 2026). A feminist slasher that takes on Hollywood’s beauty standards as a former scream queen is pursued by a serial killer impersonating the antagonist of her films.
Francis Goldin Literary Agency
■ Project 1933: The Death of Democracy Then, Now, and Beyond
Adrian Daub (Astra House, Oct. 2026). A comparison of the first year of Donald Trump’s second term to Hitler’s first year in power based on the author’s popular podcast, In Bed with the Right.
■ Partita
Barbara Kingsolver (Harper, Oct. 2026). Livia, a farm wife who abandoned a brilliant future as a classical pianist, is suddenly forced to confront her past when she receives a phone call from out of the blue.
■ Empires and Isotopes: The Third Science Revolution and the True Story of How Humans Connected the Globe
Jacob Mikanowski (FSG, Spring 2029; Fern Press, Spring 2029). A look at how the new science of history is revolutionizing our understanding of the human past, showing how human interconnectedness and mobility date back much further than previously known.
■ Tomorrow We’ll Be Prey
Anna Polonyi (Ecco, Fall 2027). A dual narrative alternating between a maid in 18th-century France who battled the legendary Beast of the Gevaudan and a modern-day queer archivist who sets out to discover the true history behind this fairy tale.
Gelfman Schneider Literary Agency
■ The Collateral Heart
Jeffery Deaver (Putnam, Nov. 2026). A thriller featuring forensic criminalist Lincoln Rhyme and detective Amelia Sachs as they investigate a series of arson cases in New York City.
■ Preparing for Nothingness
Alan Lightman (Pantheon, Dec. 2026). A novel about life, death, and what might follow.
■ All We Have Left
Emily Paxman (Titan, June 2026). Thirty years after the end of the world, a young woman enters into a marriage of convenience with a man she hardly knows so she can secure vital medical care for her beloved younger sister.
■ The Gatepost
Tim Weed (Podium, May 2026). One woman’s quest to find her vanished father pushes her beyond the boundaries of space, time, and the human mind.
Hill Nadell Literary Agency
■ Kitty Capers: A Peanut, Butter & Crackers Story
Paige Braddock (Nosy Crow UK, July 2026). In the fifth YA graphic novel from Braddock, Butter the cat wants some quiet time alone away from dogs. But is this a case of be careful what you wish for?
■ Safe Passage: The Untold Story of Diplomatic Intrigue, Betrayal, and the Exchange of American and Japanese Civilians by Sea During World War II
Evelyn Iritani (FSG, Mar. 2026). A story of idealism, betrayal, and behind-the-scenes American–Japanese contacts in World War II.
■ In Trees: An Exploration of Ancient Living Wisdom, From Wild Branches to Deep Roots
Robert Moor (S&S, Apr. 2026). A journey through the wilds of nature and the gnarls of history, exploring how trees can teach us to grow wise.
■ Returns and Exchanges
Kayla Rae Whitaker (Random House, May 2026). The story of one family’s rise and fall in 1980s Kentucky.
Jane Rotrosen Agency
■ You’ll Be Sorry
Lisa Gardner (Grand Central, Aug. 2026). A newlywed couple each with their own secrets. An abandoned lodge with a decades-old mystery. And a small mountain town where everyone believes they know their neighbors… except they don’t.
■ The Divorce
Freida McFadden (Sourcebooks, May 2026). When Naomi’s husband tricks her into abandoning their family as grounds for divorce, hires the town’s best lawyers, then moves his younger girlfriend into their home, Naomi takes matters into her own hands.
■ Mother Daughter Sister Stranger
Hank Phillippi Ryan (St. Martin’s, Sept. 2026). Bea and Eliza were bonded by the plane crash that killed their parents, but spared the two sisters. On the anniversary of that tragedy, Bea doesn’t show up to retrieve her daughter from Eliza’s house, leading Eliza to question everything she knows about her family’s history as she searches for clues to her sister’s disappearance.
■ You are the Parent: Stop Overparenting and Become the Leader Your Child Needs
Siggie Cohen (Harper Harvest, Sept. 2026). The social media influencer and child development specialist’s debut guide to helping parents become calm, confident, and in charge by finding a balance between overly firm or overly permissive parenting.
Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency
■ The Love Operation
Melissa R. Collings (Montlake, Fall 2026). A rom-com about an overachieving doctor who participates in a cutting-edge memory experiment that allows her to revisit her past relationships with stunning clarity, and becomes determined not to repeat her past mistakes in a promising new relationship.
■ Don’t Look Close
Jaima Fixsen (Sourcebooks, Aug. 2026). A crime novel set in a 1950s mining town about a photographer with polio who is determined to clear his sister's name after she's become a suspect in a murder investigation.
■ The Bookkeeper
Mary McGarry Morris (Union Square & Co., 2027). A novel about a fastidious and obsessively devoted bookkeeper in her town's mill, who will do anything to ensure the success of the mill’s careless owner.
■ Horn
Alexandra Renwick (Disney-Hyperion, Spring 2027). A slow-burn urban romantasy about a male unicorn who lives part of his life in human form, and a woman who is desperate to find “the one” in a sea of loser guys, as their budding romance becomes threatened by a wealthy financier whose family have hunted unicorns for generations.
Jill Grinberg Literary Management
■ A Tangled Magic
Andrea Eames (Erewhon, July 2025). A Rapunzel reimagining in which a woman with amnesia—and hair magic—searches for her lost memories while navigating a web of royal intrigue and dangerous bone magic in a kingdom on the brink of civil war.
■ Time Travel for Beginners
Jaclyn Moriarty (Berkley, Aug. 2026). Three strangers’ lives are forever changed when they’re all drawn to a mysterious agency claiming to have unlocked the secret to time travel.
■ Massif
Garth Nix (HarperVoyager, Fall 2026). The crew of a small ship hitching a ride on a star-faring mountain range must deal with the aftermath of a battle and the unwinding of a mystery that has transported humanity across the universe.
■ The Mortons
Scott Westerfeld and Justine Larbalestier (Pamela Dorman, July 2026). A psychological epic following a modern-day, old-money crime family for whom homicide is heritage, and the consequences of their twisted intergenerational dramas.
J&N Agency
■ Eating Veronica
Maddison Dawn (Grand Central, June 2027). A psychological horror debut about beauty standards and empowerment, following the bloody glow-up of a young woman who spawns a carnivorous monster that feeds on her enemies and peers.
■ Small Pond
Monica Heisey (Morrow, May 2027). A novel tracking a group of friends vying for success in the fields of comedy and entertainment, as tensions come to a head and each must grapple with their own ideas of ambition, success, love, friendship, and community.
■ A Gay Girl in Damascus
Oscar Schwartz (Random House, Fall/Winter 2027). A debut novel set in 2011 inspired by true events, about a young journalist whose correspondence with a woman blogging about her life as a pro-Democracy activist in Damascus becomes increasingly intimate, then obsessive, then transforms into something else entirely.
■ Stoned Sapiens: A New World History
Norman Ohler (on submission). The first planetary history of humanity under the influence, revealing how we’ve consumed, ritualized and criminalized drugs.
KT Literary
■ There's Something Fishy About My Boyfriend
Gloria Duke (Sourcebooks Casablanca, May 2026). A beachy rom-com in which a woman reluctantly running a family bed & breakfast invites a handsome stranger to help out in the off season in exchange for room and board, only to find out he’s a merman stranded in her world.
■ A Killer For Christmas
Kim Harrington (Crooked Lane, Sept. 2026). The first in a cozy rom-com mystery series in which a newly single social media manager moves to her beloved childhood vacation destination of Christmasville, Maine, for a fresh start, but the picture-perfect charm is threatened by a series of murders.
■ Anatomy of a Betrayal
Grace D. Li (Tiny Reparations, May 2027). Two Stanford graduate students—and longtime academic rivals—find themselves on opposite sides of an FBI investigation when one is accused of spying for the Chinese government.
■ The Inevitable Undoing of Zahara Douglass
Leslye Penelope (Redhook, Aug. 2026). After watching her twin sister get hustled into a stranger's car and disappear, a young woman finds that no one, including her own family, remembers her sister’s existence. More than five years later, she finally discovers proof that her sister was real, and starts to investigate her family’s shadowed past.
Metamorphosis Literary Agency
■ The Diary of a Serial Killer's Daughter
L.A. Detwiler (Independent, Spring 2020). Ruby Marlowe's father raised her alone after her mother's death. Now, she's discovered his secret: he's a serial killer. As his body count rises, Ruby must choose between turning him in or becoming his accomplice.
■ Broccoli Is Trying to Kill Me
Katie Evans, illus. by Savannah Allen (Holiday House, Spring 2026). A girl confronts her vegetable fears in this picture book.
■ Fae Away: A Royal Romantic Portal Fantasy
Rose Garcia (Independent, Spring 2021). Princess Celyse breaks two forbidden rules when she crosses a portal to meet Julio, a human who sees her magic—and whose touch becomes an obsession that could destroy her kingdom or save them both.
■ Pawn
Karen Lynch (Independent, Spring 2020). When Jesse James’s bounty-hunting parents vanish without a trace, the college-bound 18-year-old must navigate a treacherous hidden world of faeries to find them before time runs out.
Nordlyset Literary Agency
■ Springsteenomics: Economics Through the Music of the Boss
Leah Greden Mathews and Melissa Mahoney (The New Press, 2027). An exploration of the economic forces that shape our lives and address the failure of the American dream through the music of Bruce Springsteen.
■ I See You: Parenting Through the Chaos of the Teen Years
Jenny Hwang (Penguin Life, Dec. 2026). Dr. Hwang advocates for revolutionizing how parents see disconnection with teens.
■ Seek Purpose: A Spiritual Guide to Health
Colleen Rivers (on submission). Rivers argues that all the data in the world won't set you on the path to meaningful changes to your health without the essential and clarifying purpose that anchors the desire for change.
■ Insatiable: Why the Rich Are Never Rich Enough
W. Russ Neuman (on submission). An exploration of the psychology of wealth—and why our brains are wired to seek ever more.
Regal Hoffman
■ The Unicorn Hunters
Katherine Arden (Del Rey, June 2026). A literary fantasy set in medieval France in which legend becomes reality.
■ Scion
James Islington (Saga, Sept. 2026). The first in a new series of cyperpunk thrillers.
■ A Dark and Narrow House
Usman T. Malik (Putnam, Spring 2027). Inspired by 1001 Nights, this debut novel is set in a grand haveli on the Pakistani-Indian border.
■ Life Out of Order
Audrey Niffenegger (Hanover Square, Oct. 2026). The sequel to Niffenegger’s The Time Traveler’s Wife, a novel about art, human connection, resistance, and the end of the world.
Sanford J. Greenburger Associates
■ The Curse Breaker
Jen Calonita (Sourcebooks, Mar. 2026). The second book in the middle grade Isle of Ever series, blending politics, history, pirates, and magic with characters from both the past and present.
■ Southern Dons
Will Damron (Blackstone, Fall 2027). In this first of a new series, the new female CEO of a family enterprise discovers it's actually a front for a generations-old crime syndicate.
■ A Girl to Kill
Alex Kiester (Sourcebooks, June 2027). A thriller about two broke writing majors who team up to con their fellow student out of her enormous trust fund.
■ Run Club
Catherine Nguyen Wilson (preempted by Dutton, 2028). This debut novel follows the stumbling exploits of a young woman who becomes obsessed with the celebrity triathlete narrator of her run club app.
Sterling Lord Literistic
■ Just a Shot Away: Martin Scorsese’s Life in Film
Mark Binelli (Metropolitan, Nov. 2026). The first major biography of Martin Scorsese, drawing on previously unseen sources, original research, and new interviews.
■ Tommy from the Moon
Daisy Garrison (Flatiron, Dec. 2026). A romantic coming-of-age novel set during a Broadway production of Romeo and Juliet, about an unknown actress whose co-star is her longtime celebrity crush.
■ How to be Okay When Nothing is Okay: Tips and Tricks That Kept Me Alive, Happy, and Creative in Spite of Myself
Jenny Lawson (Penguin Life, Mar. 2026). The first book of advice from Lawson, aka the Bloggess.
■ Dodge City
Patrick deWitt (Ecco, Sept. 2026). A novel about a young man on an amphetamine-fueled cross-country road trip, fleeing the draft for the safe haven of Canada.
Transatlantic Literary Agency
■ It’s Not You, It’s the World: A Mental Health Survival Guide for Us All
Joanna Cheek (Hachette Go, Feb. 2026). A survival guide of mental health tools to care for ourselves and our collectives in an increasingly disordered world.
■ The Birthing Tree
Amanda Peters (Catapult, Sept. 2026). A novel about family and legacy, following one woman as she confronts buried truths and the fragile future she alone must protect.
■ Return to Breakneck Island
Tom Ryan (Atlantic Crime/Grove, Fall 2026). Long-buried secrets resurface in this mystery set in the seaside town of Maple Bay.
■ Lucky
Marissa Stapley (S&S, Fall 2022). A heist goes terribly wrong.
Trellis Literary Management
■ Keep Coming Back
Rebecca Herman (Cardinal, Summer 2027). A literary novel about a bereaved mother who accepts a job running HR for a to-be-built eco-resort on an island north of Antarctica, touching on themes of parenthood, addiction and recovery, and climate change.
■ The Poison Daughter
Sheila Masterson (independently published, Oct. 2025). A dark romantasy about a vigilante FMC who uses her poison kiss to murder abusive men—until she’s forced into a marriage of inconvenience with the only man immune to her magic.
■ Treatable: Rethinking Addiction and How to Get Care Right
Sarah Wakeman (Flatiron, Jan. 2027). A book about addiction and addiction care.
Triada US Literary Agency
■ Mothsblood
Lynn D. Jung (Bloomsbury, Fall 2026). Set in modern-day Paris, an ambitious alchemist must uncover the dark secrets of her university when the murder of an immortal professor forces her to confront the mysterious past she’s trying to escape.
■ Twig's Traveling Tomes
Gryffin Murphy (Bindery, Fall 2026). Book witch Louella Twig lives her life sequestered with her stories, just as she likes it. But when a handsome rogue and Loella’s former tutor come looking for a stolen grimoire, her literary sanctuary is upended and adventure awaits.
■ My Unfamiliar
Mara Rutherford (Wednesday, Fall 2026). A grumpy mage and a familiar matchmaker must navigate their surprising magical connection.
Trident Media Group
■ Too LA
Eve Babitz (NYRB, June 2026). A collection of the author’s letters, both sent and unsent.
■ The Depths
Penelope Barsetti (Oct. 2026). Hanne was destined to take the throne upon her 22nd birthday, but no woman has ever ruled her kingdom, especially one who is unwed. Just when she decides to step back and let the crown be decided by the first-ever election, a man who has been like an uncle to her intervenes.
■ The Hard Line
Mark Greaney (Berkley, Feb. 2026). The Gray Man, the world’s deadliest assassin and apex predator, discovers he’s really the prey.
■ Material
Raven Leilani (FSG, Spring 2027). A group of women is forced to parse the traumatic experiences they’ve had with the same esteemed artist when an article exposing his abusive behavior is published.
Vertical Ink Agency
■ Operation Sparrow: The Incredible True Story of the Spies Who Tricked Hitler and Won the War
Jason Bell (Hanover Square, Sept. 2026). The first book to tell the full story of Operation Sparrow, one of the greatest yet least known missions of WWII.
■ Absence
Andrew Dana Hudson (Soho, May 2026). A speculative crime debut in which the world is unraveling from an epidemic of human vanishing, and two novice investigators are dispatched to small-town Kansas to interview a woman who claims to have returned from “Absence,” offering answers to everything.
■ Be Well
Sarah Flocken (Heliotrope, June 2026). A wellness industry satire set in post-crash 2009 LA that explores how easy it is to believe in something unquestioningly when everything feels uncertain.
■ The Five-Tool Team: Bringing Out the Best in People to Make Better Decisions
Ricardo Valerdi (Regalo, Sept. 2026). Explained through the lens of sport, decision-making is reframed as not just an individual skill, but as a team competence, illustrating how poor decision-making processes can have outsized consequences in business and in life.
The Wylie Agency
■ Contrapposto
Dave Eggers (Knopf, June 2026). A novel about friendship, love, and the lifelong pursuit of art.
■ Sea Change: America's New Great Game in the Arctic Circle
Rana Foroohar (Crown, Oct. 2026). A book following the crew of the Healy, America’s only icebreaker vessel, to discover the new Great Game being played out in the frigid waters of the Arctic.
■ Assault Contre la Frontiere
Leila Slimani (Gallimard, Mar. 2026). The author contends with writing in a language different from that of her native country.
■ Anti-Fascist Economics
Isabella Weber (Random House, Oct. 2026). In this book, Weber offers us an alternative to the dystopian status quo, one that takes affordability seriously as a foundation of democracy.
