Overview

• Organizers reported 120,000 private visitors and 118,000 professional attendees over five days, with figures up from 115,000 each in 2024.
• The fair hosted 4,350 exhibitors and around 7,800 media representatives, both slightly higher than last year.
• Readers were admitted from Friday and could buy books throughout the event, and the new 'Meet the Autor' signing marathon will return in 2026.
• The Literary Agents & Scouts Centre sold out, with 321 agencies from 32 countries booking tables to trade rights.
• Reported deals included HarperCollins acquiring four new titles by R. F. Kuang and Faber taking Ben Markovits’s novel Starting Out, as the Philippines concluded its guest-of-honour role and the Czech Republic was named for October 7–11, 2026.