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.
“Secret Torment” by Ethel Ann Pemberton 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.
On the outside, Jenna Browning has everything. On the inside, she has been quietly falling apart for years.
Beautiful, composed, and shaped by a lifetime of other people’s expectations — a father who demanded perfection, a husband who expected the same — Jenna has spent more time performing her life than living it. Until she stops. She quits her job. She leaves her marriage. And she steps, uncertain and unguarded, into the kind of self-discovery that does not come with guarantees.
What follows takes her to the edge of heaven and hell — sometimes in the same breath.
Along the way, she does what writers do: she puts it all on the page. A romance novel born from her own wreckage, populated by the husband who hurt her, the friend who betrayed her, and the lawyer who would like nothing more than to take her ex-husband’s place. It is equal parts therapy and reckoning.
But beneath all of it, one figure refuses to leave her alone — a memory she cannot shake and was never meant to keep. An arrogant young man with brooding black eyes, met only once. Impossible to forget.
Secret Torment is a story of survival, self-reclamation, and the haunting persistence of the heart — and the things it chooses to hold onto, long after reason says to let go.
