LONDON, 13 March 2025: On the ultimate day of The London E-book Truthful, the biggest e book commerce and publishing occasion of the spring, the Truthful reported over 1,000 exhibitors, greater than 550 tables within the Worldwide Rights Centre [a 10% increase from last year], and stable customer figures, with round 30,000 attendees over the three days.
Guests lined up for a collection of riveting classes targeted on the subsequent era of readers, together with classes with Merky Books authors William Rayfet Hunter and Taylor-Dior Rumble, Waterstones Youngsters’s Laureate Frank Cottrell-Boyce, The Ladies’s Prize Belief, and the Studying Company.
Adam Ridgway, Director of The London E-book Truthful, stated: “With the third and closing day of The London E-book Truthful coming to a detailed, we’re delighted with the suggestions we’ve obtained from exhibitors saying what a profitable Truthful this has been for them. We’ve welcomed fascinating audio system and consultants who’ve explored books from a world perspective, artistic content material throughout the trade, and – in right this moment’s classes – fostering the subsequent era of readers. Thanks to everybody who got here alongside and made this yr’s LBF such an uplifting second within the e book trade calendar.”
All through the Truthful, the Worldwide Rights Centre was the location of many thrilling offers with brokers and publishers exchanging rights for books by the likes of Lucy Foley, Sylvester Stallone, Mariella Frostrup, Tom Holland, Rebecca Yarros, Nicholas Sparks, and M Evening Shyamalan, and extra.
Highlights from Day Three of the Truthful (Thurs 13 March):
Natasha Poliszczuk, Journalist, Editor, and Content material Director of BookBrunch, gave the welcoming deal with. Joined by Keynote Audio system, non-fiction writer William Rayfet Hunter and Taylor-Dior Rumble, writer of The Situationship, they mentioned the significance of range and illustration in literature and the way this will form the way forward for studying.
Youngsters’s Writer of the Day, Frank Cottrell-Boyce, spoke on the Most important Stage. The screenwriter and novelist is at the moment the Waterstones Youngsters’s Laureate, finest recognized for his debut youngsters’s novel, Tens of millions, (which gained him the CILIP Carnegie Medal). He chatted to Louisa Lewis, Deputy Editor on the As we speak Programme, about his laureateship and profession.
Within the Highlight On: Dyslexia at Writer HQ, Barrington Stoke Writer Ailsa Bathgate, Writer Gil Lewis, Accessibility Supervisor at Bloomsbury Publishing Elizabeth Kellingley, and Dr. Alistair Sims, Writer and Supervisor of Books on the Hill/BOTH press, mentioned their ideas on whether or not the publishing trade is accessible and the way to finest meet the wants of these with dyslexia.
The Turning The Web page: Publishing’s Position in Holding the Give attention to Sustainability session with Gvantsa Jobava, President of the Worldwide Publishers Affiliation and Mary Gleen, Chief of United Nations Publications within the Division of International Communications, targeted on the challenges of remaining dedicated to sustainability. It additionally examined what publishers have performed to fulfill sustainability targets and what extra must be achieved.
At Writer HQ, The Ladies’ Prize for Fiction celebrated its thirtieth anniversary. The Ladies’s Prize Belief, the charity behind the worldwide prize, reminisced over its achievements throughout the final three many years, while exploring what’s now wanted to realize real fairness on this planet of books. Claire Shanahan, the Belief’s Govt Director, spoke to writers Package de Waal and Chloe Timms about the way to take away limitations for writers from all backgrounds.
Cassie Rocks, Co-Director of The FLIP (Feminine Management in Publishing), Rowzat Burton, Head of Expertise and Growth at Hachette UK, Cally Poplak, Managing Director and Writer of HarperCollins’ Youngsters’s Books and Farshore, and Briony Grogan, Director of Folks & Tradition for Pan Macmillan, addressed what advocacy ought to seem like at a publishing office, and the way to advocates for ourselves higher, specializing in The FLIP’s “3 Ms” philosophy; cash, administration, and mentorship.
Dr. Carina Spaulding, Head of Analysis and Analysis at The Studying Company – the 2025 Charity of the 12 months – with authors Clare Waterproof coat and Package de Waal shared and mentioned the present statistics on the studying and literacy disaster, alongside how we will work collectively to construct the subsequent era of readers and customers on the Fast Reads: Constructing a Various and Inclusive Studying Neighborhood discuss on the Most important Stage.
Within the Why We Want Working Class Writers and Readers panel session, Richard Benson, Editor in Chief for The Bee/New Writing North, Damian Kerlin, Journalist with bylines in Perspective, The Telegraph, and The Impartial, Claire Malcolm, the CEO of New Writing North, and Nosa Novia, Author and Novelist at New Writing North, mentioned the subject of what working class folks wish to write about and examine.
The Literary Translation Centre’s Behind the E-book session examined the method of translating literature, its journey from concept to publication and readership. This panel – chaired by Writer and Chair of the Worldwide Booker Prize Max Porter and comprised of Agent Laurence Laluyaux, Translator Martin Aitken, and Jacques Testard, Founder and Writer at Fitzcarraldo Editions demystified the journey from the very earliest levels of a translated e book’s beginnings.
LBF 2025 TOP DEALS
Day One Offers
- Writer Natasha Bardon at HarperVoyager acquired Commonwealth Rights of a brand new fantasy sequence from writer Jay Kristoff.
- New impartial Akoya Publishing has acquired world rights for North of the Winter Solar: What I Heard within the Waves by Norwegian writer Veronica Skotnes from Cappelen Damm Company.
- Little Brown imprint Abacus has swooped for the debut memoir, Splav: Adventures with My Household on the River Spava, from prize-winning author Dr Mary Ethna Black.
- HarperCollins acquired writer Lucy Foley’s new e book The Visitor Record, which might be a full-length continuation of Agatha Christie’s Sleeping Homicide that includes Miss Marple.
- Lifeless Ink Books’ editor Harriet Hirshman has acquired the rights to No Physique, No Crime, a romance-action thriller e book by American writer Tess Sharpe.
- Cara Armstrong, Editorial director at DK RED, has purchased the world rights to Menolicious: Eat Your Approach to a Higher Menopause by broadcaster and menopause campaigner Mariella Frostup and chef and founding father of The Nice Style Firm, Belles Berry.
- Comic, actress, and Taskmaster champion Sophie Duker’s first novel, Dong, has been acquired by Suzie Dooré, The Borough Press’ editor-at-large.
- Macmillan Youngsters’s Books has acquired 5 middle-grade titles from bestselling writer and illustrator Rob Biddulph in a significant six-figure deal kicking off with The Moonhaven Chronicles.
- Bonnier Books UK imprint Zaffre has acquired Jesse’s Want, a brand new novel from bestselling writer Heather Morris.
- Simon & Schuster has acquired the rights to Catriona Byers’ new novel Morgue: Demise, Tragedy and the Beginning of True Crime in Nineteenth-century Paris.
- Anne Meadows, director of Picador publishing, has acquired prize-winning poet Stephanie Sy-Quia’s debut novel A Non-public Man.
- Sphere has acquired a three-book deal for a romance sequence from BookToker Tierney Web page, starting with The Different Brother.
- Fig Tree has pre-empted the UK and Commonweath rights to Miss Archer, a debut novel from screenwriter and playwright, Jordan Harrison, whereas the US rights had been acquired by William Morrow in a 13-way public sale.
- Canongate has acquired the world English rights to writer Chloe Dalton’s second e book, Pet.
- Oxford College Press Youngsters’s has acquired a four-book diary-format e book deal from author-illustrator Harriet Muncaster, with the primary being The Diary of Wiska Wildflower: The New College.
- Ten Velocity Graphic, Piatkus, and Entangled Publishing have acquired a six-book deal to publish graphic novels of romantasy famous person writer Rebecca Yarros’ bestselling Empyrean sequence.
Day Two Offers
- The Borough Press has acquired the rights to Henry, a up to date retelling of Henry VIII’s six wives by debut novelist Caroline Wray.
- Seven Dials has triumphed in a 16-publisher UK public sale to land The Steps, the long-awaited memoir from film-maker and world famous person Sylvester Stallone.
- Canongate is now set to publish At Sea, the debut grownup novel from former engineer turned writer and activist, Yassim Abdel-Magied, writing as YM Abdel-Magied.
- Pan Macmillan has acquired the rights to We’re Not a Household, a “survival information to personalities” by Nell Montgomery and Elisa Morris.
- Ebury Self has acquired We Can Do Arduous Issues by sisters Glennon and Amanda Doyle and Glennon’s spouse Abby Wambach.
- Canongate has acquired the rights to Meridian, a brand new genre-bending romance novel from Patrick Ness.
- DK Youngsters’s has signed Classics podcaster Liv Albert’s first two youngsters’s books: two illustrated retellings primarily based on Greek and Roman fantasy.
- Headline has pre-empted The Sea Stone Sisters, a duel-timeline novel by Eleanor Buchanan.
- Granta Books has acquired Open Heavens, a brand new novel by Danish writer Jonas Eika in an unique submission.
- Sphere has acquired Stay, a romantic-thriller collaboration from Nicholas Sparks and M Evening Shyamalan.
- John Murray has acquired Alan Opts Out by writer Courtney Maum in a five-figure pre-empt.
- Baskerville has acquired The Burning Library, a page-turning, escapist thriller from bestselling writer Gilly Macmillan.
- Sphere has acquired educational rivals novel, Coronary heart Racer, by Kentucky-based writer Megan Avery.
- HarperVoyager and eight different world HarperCollins divisions might be publishing a trilogy from bestselling American writer Lexi Ryan in her first transfer into grownup fantasy, starting with Evening Tide.
- Faber has acquired About to Fall Aside from writer Ashley Hickson-Lovence.
Day Three Offers
- John Murray Press imprint Renegade Books and Hachette US’ Grand Central Publishing have collectively pre-empted Religion Gladwin’s horror debut Révérence for six figures.
- Little Brown imprint Abacus purchased UK and Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada, to historian Tom Holland’s new title The New Reformation: How the 60s Created Our Ethical World, from Patrick Walsh at PEW Literary. Walsh offered North American rights to Lara Heimert at Primary Books.
- Chatto & Windus acquired world English-language rights for Anders Lustgarten’s novel Kill Billionaire.
- Serpent’s Tail has snapped up actor Rosie Day’s Vipers from YMU.
- Joe Wicks will transfer to Bonnier Books UK’s new wellness and way of life imprint LEAP for a two-book deal.
- Batch has introduced a brand new interval of growth following landmark US offers with Hachette and Simon & Schuster.
- HarperVoyager has scooped Katie Ellis-Brown and Becky Hunter’s Blood Sure – written beneath the pseudonym Ellis Hunter – in a six-figure deal.
- Phoenix will publish the “heartbreaking and revelatory memoir from bestselling novelist Louise Doughty, On This Spot Fell One Tear of Love.
- Penguin Michael Joseph senior commissioning editor Grace Lengthy has acquired Iliana Xander’s self-published Love, Mother in a 24-hour pre-empt, plus two different books.
- HQ has triumphed in a “hotly contested” seven-way public sale for Rose Ferguson’s The Reset “ground-breaking information to reclaiming well being and steadiness.”
- Harper NonFiction has purchased a “uncooked” memoir from tennis legend Boris Becker about his life throughout and after his jail sentence for hiding £2.5m in property and loans.
- DK RED is ready to publish a “game-changing” e book on intrusive ideas and OCD from nervousness specialist, counsellor and podcaster Jenna Overbaugh.
