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Open
Submission route
Email
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Assume no reply = no after 12 weeks
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14 days ago

About

Michael is Managing Director of Andrew Nurnberg Associates and an agent working across UK and US rights and film and TV.

He began his career in publishing in 2016 as Andrew Nurnberg's assistant and has remained with the agency since, representing New York Times and Sunday Times bestsellers across fiction and non-fiction along with prestigious literary estates, among them winners of the Pulitzer Prize, the Baillie Gifford Prize, the Prix Goncourt, the Strega Prize, the CWA Gold Dagger, the International Prize for Arabic Fiction and the Hugo Award.

Looking for

  • history
  • current affairs
  • biography
  • geopolitics, with particular interest in intelligence studies and the history of war
  • international thrillers
  • espionage

Clients include

  • Konstantin Akinsha
  • Boris Akunin
  • Tariq Ali
  • Charles Beaumont
  • Antony Beevor
  • Mikhail Bulgakov
  • Eileen Chang
  • Peter Chappell
  • Jessica Clarke
  • Jackie Collins
  • Peter Conradi
  • Don DeLillo
  • Isaac Deutscher
  • Alex Garland
  • Paul Ham

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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