LONDON, 14 March 2024: The London Guide Honest had its third and remaining day at this time, bringing the biggest spring e-book commerce and publishing occasion on this planet to a detailed, with over 1,000 exhibitors and 30,000 attendees over the three days.
From publishers to authors, literary brokers to booksellers, translators and VIPs, the final three days have seen representatives from the worldwide e-book business do enterprise, share experience, community and attend periods masking key points throughout the business.
Gareth Rapley, Director of The London Guide Honest, mentioned: “What an excellent Honest it’s been. We’re delighted to see an extremely robust attendance stage throughout all days with pleasure from begin to end – a testomony to our compelling seminar programme and Honest providing general. We’ve beloved having Joseph Coelho and Michael Sheen attend at this time alongside many different inspiring panel audio system and VIP visitors, and hope everybody loved every day they got here alongside and so they had a productive Honest. We’re already trying ahead to 2025!”
Clockwise from Left to Proper: BookTok Panel with Joe.reads, Amy Andrawos, Anya Smith, Zubs; Caroline Cummins PA, Dame Caroline Dinenage MP, Chair of the Tradition, Media and Sport Choose Committee, Gareth Rapley; Joseph Coelho, Kids’s Writer of the Day; Elmer the Elephant at Writer HQ
Highlights from Day Three of the Honest:
The ultimate day of The London Guide Honest opened with opening remarks from creator and podcaster Kelechi Okafor, a video deal with by Bodour Al Qasimi, CEO of Kalimat Group, unveiling the shortlist of the PublisHER Excellence Awards, and a keynote panel on the Fundamental Stage from SheEOs in Publishing, made up of Judith Curr the President & Writer of the HarperOne Group, HarperCollins Publishers, Ameena Sayid, Founder and Managing Director of Lightstone Publishers and Emma Home the Founding father of Oreham.
Kids’s Writer of the Day, Joseph Coelho took to the Fundamental Stage for a dialogue with actor and broadcaster Greg McKenzie, the place they shared insider suggestions for literary sources, inspirations, and the way Joseph truly signed his first deal at LBF!
Over on Writer HQ, YA Highlight: How To Get Observed in a Crowded Market, noticed authors, Danielle Jawando and Lex Croucher be part of, Charlotte Eyre from The Bookseller and content material creator Samantha Soar to speak about tips on how to utilise BookTok with full impression to chop by way of the noise.
Again on the Fundamental Stage, Nicola Usborne, Managing Director at Usborne Publishing, Helen Freeman, Director of Oxford Kids’s at Oxford College Press, Cassie Chadderton, Chief Government of World Guide Day, Jonathan Douglas, CEO of Nationwide Literacy Belief and Kelechi Okafor, sat down for a chat about cultivating a tradition of studying for pleasure in a quickly evolving digital world, sharing their insights into what the business can do to captivate readers of all ages.
The Honest additionally welcomed Michael Sheen, Actor and Philanthropist, Farrah Storr from Substack, Tracey Markham, the Head of UK at Audible, author Sunjeev Sahota, and Katy Shaw, Professor of Up to date Writing and Publishing at Northumbria College, to the Fundamental Stage for an exceptional dialogue about entry and illustration, exploring the state of play within the artistic industries and entry schemes and missions which might be shaping the artistic panorama.
Upon visiting the truthful, Dame Caroline Dinenage MP, Chair of the Tradition, Media and Sport Choose Committee mentioned: “The £11 billion worth of the publishing business to the British economic system was obvious from at this time’s go to to the London Guide Honest. From kids’s books to fiction to educational textbooks, the UK has the strongest literary custom on this planet, and it’s the publishing business that maintains that custom. I’m very grateful to the Publishers Affiliation for internet hosting me on the Guide Honest at this time and for talking to me concerning the challenges that the sector faces, which is able to significantly inform the work that the Committee is doing to help the UK’s world-beating artistic industries.”
Diving into all issues BooKTok, content material creators Joseph Corridor (@joe.reads), Amy Andrawos, Anya Smith, and Zubs Malik mentioned BookTok’s simple affect on the e-book gross sales market sharing skilled suggestions and recommendation for authors desirous to make their mark on the digital sphere.
SEMINAR PROGRAMME HIGHLIGHTS
This yr’s London Guide Honest introduced collectively internationally acclaimed authors, illustrators and translators from throughout the globe in addition to thrilling debut writers, together with: Richard Osman, Dr Julie Smith, Steven Bartlett, Flavia Z Drago, Joseph Coelho, Kat Brown, Ameena Sayid, Geeta Pendse, Jonathan Karp, Jasmine Richards, Vicky Palmer, Taylor Jenkins Reid, Danielle Jawando and extra.
LBF 2024 TOP DEALS
Day One Offers
- Gollancz has acquired The Unmagical Lifetime of Briar Jones by creator Lex Croucher, putting a six-figure deal for the novel and the creator’s second standalone title
- DK has acquired the brand new cookbook, Flavour, from chef and Darjeeling Specific Proprietor Asma Khan
- John Murray has acquired Sir David Attenborough and Colin Butfield’s “landmark” e-book on the ocean after a five-way public sale.
- Headline Publishing Group, extra particularly, non-fiction writer Martin Redfern has acquired world all-language rights to Homicide within the Gulag: The Life and Dying of Alexei Navalny by veteran journalist and documentary maker John Sweeney
- HQ has acquired Birthing, Davina McCall’s “constructive information” to conception, being pregnant and delivery
- Viking has acquired The Quest for Unusual: Why the Future Will Be Far Higher and Far Weirder Than We Can Think about, the debut e-book from Adam Mastroianni, experimental psychologist and author of the Substack Experimental Historical past
- Hodder & Stoughton has acquired debut novel of Scottish journalist Emma Cowding, The Present Girl
- In a seven-way public sale, writer Michelle Kane of Fourth Property has acquired memoir, Inconceivable by Rebecca Coxon
- Sphere has acquired debut novel The Retirement Plan by Sue Hincenberg
- Pan Macmillan has acquired World Heptathlon Champion Katarina Johnson-Thompson’s “inspirational” memoir/manifesto, Unbroken
- Penguin Michael Joseph has acquired Dying on the White Hart, debut novel of “Broadchurch” creator Chris Chibnall
- Hodder & Stoughton has acquired two veteran monetary journalists’ examination of underground monetary offers in System One, Caroline Reid and Christian Sylt’s e-book Quick Cash: The Backroom Offers, Company Espionage, and Legendary Energy Struggles that Drive System One
- Publishing director Sarah Braybooke from Ithika Press, has purchased world-English language rights to the e-book The Eighth Home: A homicide, a mom, a haunting, an element true crime, half memoir title from historic researcher Linda Segtnan
- Profile Books has acquired What Does Israel worry from Palestine?, the brand new e-book by 2023 Nationwide Guide Award finalist and human rights campaigner Raja Shehadeh
- Sizzling Key Books has acquired YA fantasy Damien Ike and the Fallen Home of Draven by artist and musician David Arlo and Glow Up, Lara Bloom creator Dee Benson
- The Borough Press has acquired Deep Cuts by Holly Bricklet, billed as Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow meets Daisy Jones and the Six.
- Magic Cat has acquired She Speaks: The Girls of Greek Myths, a feminist Greek fable reimagining title by “the brand new Mary Beard,” classicist Honor Cargill-Martin
- Scriber has signed with two-time Nationwide Guide Award Winner Jesmyn Ward. The primary e-book is an essay assortment, On Witness and Respair, which is to be printed in 2025.
- Summit Guide has acquired Rob Franklin’s Nice Black Hope, a “propulsive, glittering” debut novel about “race, class, dependancy and love in all its difficult varieties.”
- Europa editions has acquired Amanda by H.S Cross, set to be printed in 2025.
- Ingrid Gnerlich at Princeton College has acquired world rights to An Exploration of Time, by BBC host an creator Jim Al-Khalili
- Atria has acquired Life and Dying within the Loop by Chicago Reader reporter Katie Prout
- Bantam has acquired North American rights to 2 untitled crime fiction novels by outstanding civil rights legal professional Ben Crump, meant to be a collection
Day Two Offers
- Headline Overview has acquired The Moonlit Maze, the debut grownup novel from award-winning YA creator Zoe Marriot
- Sceptre has acquired the primary historic novel from Australian creator Emily Maguire, Rapture.
- Harper Collins has pre-empted a literary horror debut novel from Emma Cleary, All these Strangers
- HarperCollins is to publish The Collected Poems of JRR Tolkien by Christina Scull and Wayne G Hammond in September 2024
- Canongate has acquired creator and artistic writing tutor Cathy Rentzenbrink’s e-book The Agatha Curve
- Head of Zeus has acquired former international correspondent Alan Philips’ The Kremlin: Behind the Partitions of Moscow’s Citadel
- Quarto Youngsters has acquired a “heartwarming tribute to like…,” My Vibrant Shining Star, by Olympic medallist and javelin thrower Fatima Whitbread
- Eriu has acquired champion Irish jockey Davy Russell’s autobiography, My Autobiography
- Hamish Hamilton has signed a graphic novel challenge with bestselling nature author Robert Macfarlane, actor-musician Johnny Flynn and artist Dave McKean to retell the Epic of Gilgamesh
- The Bridge Avenue Press has acquired world rights to Ben Wilson’s Coastlines: A 4-Billion Yr Journey Alongside the World’s Seashores, for launch in September 2026
- Hodder Fiction has acquired Social gathering of Liars, a thriller set from debut creator Kelsey Cox
- HarperNorth has acquired Unhealthy Women of Historical Greece by debut creator Lizzy Tiffin
- Faber has acquired Diaries of Observe by Letters of Observe founder Shaun Usher
- One Extra Chapter has landed a four-book cope with British Guide Awards-shortlisted creator Evie Woods, whose The Misplaced Bookshop was a digital-first hit that additionally was a print bestseller
- Penguin Michael Joseph has acquired You Yeong-Gwang’s “uplifting and transportive novel,” The Rainfall Market
- Quercus Fiction has acquired the rights to Emma Pei Yin’s debut When Sleeping Girls Wake and one different novel
Day Three Offers
- Walker Books has acquired a trio of books by Flavia Z Drago, the Illustrator of the Honest on the 2024 London Guide Honest
- Manilla has pre-empted Niamh Ni Mhaoileoin’s “charming” debut, Atypical Saints, exploring “household grief, queer identification and the legacy of the Catholic Church in Eire”
- Penguin Michael Joseph has acquired publishing director Leodora Darlington’s debut thriller The Exes
- John Murray has acquired Damaged Nation by Clare Leslie, a “love triangle with the heart beat of a thriller
- Bloomsbury Publishing has acquired Jo Harkin’s transfer to historic fiction together with her novel The Pretender
- Del Rey UK and US have acquired Silvercloak, the primary romantic fantasy from award-winning YA creator Lauren Steven
- Canongate has signed up Simon Garfield’s “vigorous, idiosyncratic and world historical past” of The Pen
- Yellow Kite has signed with self-development coach, inspirational speaker and manifesting skilled Roxie Nafousi; the as-yet-untitled new e-book will probably be printed in spring 2025
- HarperCollins has pre-empted Lime Juice Cash by debut creator Jo Morey, which mixes “the transportation of The Seashore with the earthy intoxication of The Paper Palace.”
- Granta has acquired Dr. Kulbhushansingh Suryawanshi’s The Ghost of the Mountains: Unravelling the Secrets and techniques of the World’s Most Elusive Massive Cat
- Irish indie Little Island Books has signed a two-book cope with Leon Diop, co-author of Black&Irish: Legends, Trailblazers and On a regular basis Heroes, which received the teenager and YA award on the 2023 An Put up Irish Guide Awards and is on the Kids’s Non-Fiction Guide of the Yr shortlist on the British Guide Awards
William Collins has acquired the primary e-book by Patrick Grant, designer, tailor and decide on the BBC’s “The Nice British Stitching Bee”.
