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About

Connor joined Andrew Nurnberg Associates in 2025 after a career as an editor, primarily at Penguin Random House, most recently as editorial director at Viking, Penguin, and previously at The Bodley Head.

He has worked with a wide range of bestselling and prize-winning authors of upmarket non-fiction, and was named a Bookseller Rising Star in 2023.

Looking for

  • upmarket non-fiction that combines intellectual depth with compelling storytelling: work that offers a fresh perspective, advances an ambitious idea with international appeal, and is written with clarity and style.
  • his subject areas span history and archaeology, politics, philosophy and economics, psychology and neuroscience, science, health and technology, and arts and culture.

Not looking for

  • fiction and poetry.

Clients include

  • Duncan Astle
  • Claire E. Aubin
  • A.C. Grayling
  • Adam Hart
  • Alex J. Kay
  • Neil Lee
  • Friederike Otto
  • Vaclav Smil
  • Zoé Whitley
  • Adam Zeman

Agency submission guidelines

Submissions are by email only, to submissions@nurnberg.co.uk, addressed to a specific agent and named in the subject line. The agency represents fiction and non-fiction for adults and children, welcomes writers of all backgrounds and charges no reading fee. What to send: a covering letter in the body of the email, a one page synopsis and the first three chapters or fifty pages as attachments. For non-fiction, send an overview, chapter outlines and three sample chapters. Worth knowing: children's picture books and scripts for film, TV, radio or theatre are not represented. If you have not heard back after three months, assume the submission has been unsuccessful; the agency cannot enter into correspondence about submissions.

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