London Book Fair 2024: Many Faces, Old and New

Many of Malaviya's colleagues-both at his company and in the industry at large-agree. An ebullient Dominique Raccah, CEO and publisher of Sourcebooks called the fair "probably the busiest show I've seen since Covid"-not just in London, but out of all international fairs. Raccah said she is particularly excited to visiting the U.K. and Europe after If Only I Had Told Her by Laura Nowlin reached #1 on two continents-a feat, Raccah noted, that even the majors have trouble doing. "There's a ton of expansion opportunities for us," Raccah said. "International is vibrant. It's cooking."

Supporting the rumblings among fairgoers that the Americans have increased their presence here in Old Smoke this year, a number of veteran fairgoers have noted the presence of a number of new faces among the crowd. "There's new faces-I'm not the only person who's been like, 'this is my second fair or my third fair,'" said Lisa Lucas, senior v-p and publisher of Pantheon and Schocken. "It's been good to watch this much interchange, this much investment, this much international collaboration."