'Fearless and funny' Hughes memoir snapped up by Quercus

Quercus has landed comedian London Hughes’ memoir and life guide, Living My Best Life, Hun.  

Editor Alison MacDonald acquired world rights from Gordon Wise and Tiffany Agbeko at Curtis Brown. The book will be published in September 2022. North American rights have been acquired by Colin Dickerman at Grand Central. 

Quercus said: “Frank, fearless and funny, Living My Best Life, Hun will inspire readers to ditch the self-loathing, start the self-loving and engage with their inner winner. Because London is the best person in the whole wide world to take them on that journey, having had her fair share of disastrous experiences in terms of friendships, relationships and career choices, and learned to focus on building her self-esteem as a result. Each one of these fiascos has, with hindsight, proved to be a formative life lesson, and has made her the person she is today, and she is grateful for that.  

“All her life, London longed to be a badass, an awesome bulletproof star nobody could mess with – someone who takes no shit – and in this book she shows us how she got there, so that we don’t have to learn the hard way.” 

Hughes, who is originally from Croydon and who is now based in Los Angeles, said: “This book is the best thing to ever happen to you. It’s self-help, it’s sexy, it’s comedy, it’s tragedy, it’s triumph. It’ll make you cry, make you laugh, make you laugh until you cry and make you love yourself. It’s basically Beyoncé in book form.” 

MacDonald commented: “London Hughes is a star, and it’s impossible not to be inspired by her irrepressible self-belief and talent at turning her experiences into comedy gold. Her book is going to be a laugh-a-minute, no-holds-barred and life-affirming look at the highs and lows of her life so far – and there are some incredible highs, from telling her first joke at the age of eight to sharing the stage with her childhood heroes. In Living My Best Life, Hun, London will show us exactly how she achieved levels of success she always dreamed of – and how her readers can, too.”  

Hughes is the first British Black woman to be nominated for the Edinburgh Comedy Best Show Award for her show, “To Catch a D*ck”, which was released on Netflix as her debut comedy special. Hughes has multiple feature films in development including comedy feature "Hot Mess", with Will Packer Productions and Universal. 

Further credits include co-hosting “The Netflix Afterparty” and she has featured in “Sex: Unzipped” and “The History of Swearwords” hosted by Nicholas Cage. She appeared in the BBC/Amazon series “Fleabag” and was also awarded the Royal Television Society Award for Best Entertainment Performance for her work on ITV2’s hip-hop comedy quiz show “Don’t Hate The Playaz”. She also created, wrote and starred in her own YouTube comedy series, “No Filter”, and her dating podcast “London, Actually” is available on Spotify.