The world’s largest book fair, Frankfurter Buchmesse, once again opened its doors from October 15–19, 2025, in Frankfurt, Germany—welcoming dreamers, storytellers, and innovators from across the globe. Known as the beating heart of the publishing world, this grand event gathers more than 7,500 exhibitors from over 100 countries, with an expected 280,000 attendees and 10,000 media professionals. It’s not just a fair — it’s a global celebration of literature, culture, and creativity.
This year’s fair raises the bar even higher, offering more than 4,000 seminars and roundtable discussions that spotlight the evolving future of books and storytelling. From bold new voices to literary legends, the Frankfurt Book Fair 2025 remains the ultimate hub for discovering stories that inspire, unite, and challenge perspectives.
Adding a splash of cultural pride, this year’s Guest of Honour — Philippines — brings its vibrant literary tradition and storytelling heritage to the world stage. With colorful themes of faith, family, and identity, the Philippines’ participation breathes new life into this year’s fair, reminding everyone that imagination knows no borders.
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As the fair celebrates another successful year of bringing together the brightest minds in publishing, Citi of Books proudly joins the festivities at the 77th Frankfurter Buchmesse, showcasing inspiring titles from its talented authors. Among the featured works in the Book Gallery is Guilty in Mississippi by Percy Lynchard, a tense, Southern legal thriller that probes race, power, and the cost of truth in a small Delta town.
Percy Lynchard — is a Mississippi native whose background in law and lifelong familiarity with the region inform this novel’s authenticity. Drawing on memories of desegregation-era Mississippi and a sharp legal imagination, Lynchard writes with courtroom knowledge and a deep sense of place, giving readers a narrator who knows the law and the landscape. (Author bio provided by the contributor and press notes.)
In Guilty in Mississippi, life in the Mississippi Delta in 1969 is upended when two young women are murdered in a tight-knit, racially tense community. Paul Lane, a young lawyer turned investigator for the local district attorney, is assigned the case. The sheriff quickly points the finger at Tyrone Braid, a black former high-school football star and recent parolee, and the town—fanned by the local Citizens Council, an offshoot of the Klan—quickly assumes his guilt. Lane must navigate a web of circumstantial evidence, leaked information, vigilantism, and a hired hitman while trying to protect Tyrone and find the real killer.
Lynchard layers vivid Southern detail, legal realism, and moral complexity: Parchman Farm’s brutal reputation, the unfair sentencing that shadows black men, and the quiet, everyday prejudices that make a wrongful accusation seem inevitable. The plot moves with steady suspense, populated by well-drawn characters on both sides of the law, and ends with a twist that underscores the novel’s themes of justice, redemption, and the corrosive power of mob certainty.
A lesson to take from this book is that pursuing justice takes courage and moral clarity—especially when a community would rather accept an easy answer than face the truth.
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