When over 33,000 publishing professionals and book lovers walk through the same doors, you know the books on display matter. Studio of Books was proud to bring such masterpieces at the much-anticipated 2026 London Book Fair.
“Gone Surfing!: Ice Queen’s Cave” by Donna Voss stepped onto the international stage at the 2026 London Book Fair, held 10–12 March at Olympia, London. This year, the book fair welcomed 1,005 exhibitors and more than 33,000 visitors.
The London Book Fair (LBF) is one of the most prestigious events in the publishing world, uniting authors, publishers, literary agents, and industry professionals from over 100 countries. Far beyond a traditional book fair, it is a global marketplace for the sale and distribution of content across print, audio, film, and digital media — where deals are made, voices are amplified, and new stories find their readers.
This is where authors meet publishers, literary agents pitch to foreign buyers, and book lovers discover their next great read. It is, above all, where ideas become movements.
The world is vast. And yet, look closely enough, and it is surprisingly small.
Gone Surfing!: Ice Queen’s Cave is a collection of short stories and poems that traces the unexpected threads connecting lives that, on the surface, could not seem more different. A surfer chasing waves across the globe. World-class pilots and the children of a farm. Veterans returning home from war, carrying the weight of shared experiences that words rarely capture — but poetry can.
Donna Voss writes about the distances between people and then, quietly, closes them. Each piece in this collection is a reminder that beneath the vastness of the world we inhabit, there is a common current running through all of us — one that surfaces in the most unexpected places, between the most unexpected people.
Intimate, imaginative, and alive with the kind of detail that only comes from someone paying close attention, Gone Surfing! is a collection that lingers.
Donna Voss finds her stories in the spaces most of us overlook — the threshold between sleeping and waking, the quiet language of the natural world, and the open expanse of sky above. She writes from that in-between place with a clarity and warmth that makes even the unfamiliar feel like home.
