Literary Agents
for Children's Books
There are currently 62 UK-based literary agents accepting submissions for children's books. See who represents it, who's open right now, and when we last checked.
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Abi Fellows
Abi is a literary agent at DHH Literary Agency, which she joined in 2023. She began her career in bookselling before moving into agenting at Georgina Capel Associates, then spent seven years in literary scouting. She later built a list at The Good Literary Agency focused on amplifying writers from marginalised backgrounds.
Genres:Children's Books · Commercial Fiction · Historical (Non-Fiction) · Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction +8 more
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Alice Caprio
Alice is a Literary Agent at Peters Fraser + Dunlop, working primarily on the children's list. After an MA in Publishing from UAL she spent five years as a scout at London Literary Scouting, specialising in children's, young adult and science fiction and fantasy across all ages and working with publishers and media companies around the world. She joined the agency in 2026 from Felicity Bryan Associates, where she was a literary agent. Alongside building her own list she sells foreign rights in the agency's children's and young adult titles across many territories.
Genres:Children's Books · Fantasy · Middle Grade · Romance · Romantic Fantasy +3 more
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Alice Williams
Alice is delighted to be open to submissions from writers and illustrators working on children’s and young adult book projects. Alice represents UK and Ireland, based talent and is interested in fiction, picture books, non-fiction and illustration.
Genres:Children's Books · Other Non-Fiction · Young Adult
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Amber Caravéo
Amber is a children's literary agent and co-founder of Skylark Literary. She was previously Editorial Director at Orion Children's Books and Senior Commissioning Editor for Random House Children's Books. She began her publishing career at Working Partners, working on series including Rainbow Magic. Amber now uses her experience to support children's authors and build relationships between writers and publishers.
Genres:Children's Books · Middle Grade · Young Adult
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Amy Fitzgerald
Amy joined Bright in 2020 and represents a diverse list of authors and illustrators working across all genres and age ranges, with a particular passion for non-fiction, an area she has been actively growing. Before Bright she built a varied career in publishing as both an agent and an editor, working with creatives ranging from established franchises to debut talent.
Genres:Children's Books · Middle Grade · Young Adult
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Becca Langton
Becca is a Senior Literary Agent at the Darley Anderson Children's Book Agency, with a focus on North American rights. She joined in 2021 after ten years in IP development, editorial consultancy and scouting, and has spent four years building a children's, illustration, young adult and crossover to new adult list with a focus on the North American market. Recent deals include USA Today and New York Times bestsellers and YALSA Award winners, with sales across the Big Five publishers and independent houses. Becca is an editorial agent who likes to work closely with authors and illustrators from concept to finished manuscript, and is particularly interested in creators writing from marginalised perspectives.
Genres:Children's Books · Fantasy · Graphic Novels · Horror · Middle Grade +2 more
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Becky Bagnell
Becky founded the Lindsay Literary Agency in 2008. She has worked in publishing for over 25 years, beginning her career at Trinity College Dublin before moving to Macmillan in London in 1996 as a commissioning editor. There she worked alongside authors including Max Hastings, Robert Service and John Simpson, and commissioned Bear Grylls' debut, Facing Up.
Genres:Children's Books · Young Adult
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Bryony Woods
Bryony represents an eclectic mix of writers, with a list spanning children's fiction and young adult through to adult fiction and selected non-fiction. She set up her own agency in 2012, after working in specialist bookshops and libraries and at the Caroline Sheldon Literary Agency. She has an MA in Publishing from University College London.
Genres:Children's Books · Contemporary Fiction · Fantasy · Literary Fiction · Memoir +5 more
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Callen Martin
Callen is a Literary Agent at Madeleine Milburn, specialising in accessible middle grade (7 and up), young adult and science fiction and fantasy, with an action and adventure focus. He joined the agency in January 2026 from Bell Lomax Moreton, where he worked as an assistant and then as maternity cover for a senior agent's list before building his own children's, young adult and new adult list. He grew up in foster care and completed Bath Spa University's MA in Writing for Young People in 2019, the first care-experienced person in East Sussex to study at postgraduate level, and began in publishing with placements at Chicken House, Walker Books and Penguin Michael Joseph before working freelance as a submission reader, competition judge, sensitivity reader and manuscript assessor. In 2026 he was named the agent judge for the Times and Chicken House Children's Fiction Competition.
Genres:Children's Books · Fantasy · Middle Grade · Science Fiction · Thriller +1 more
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Catherine Clarke
Catherine has been building a list of adult non-fiction and children's fiction writers since 2001. She co-founded the Kim Scott Walwyn Prize in 2003 to recognise women's achievements in publishing. In 2017 she was named Literary Agent of the Year in the British Book Awards, and from 2022 to 2024 she was President of the Association of Authors' Agents.
Genres:Biography · Children's Books · Historical (Non-Fiction) · Memoir · Narrative Non-Fiction +1 more
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Catherine Pellegrino
Catherine is a literary agent at Marjacq Scripts, representing children's and adult fiction. She began agenting at Rogers, Coleridge and White in 2007, before setting up her own agency, CPA, in France in 2011. She joined Marjacq in 2015 and is now based in London.
Genres:Children's Books · Commercial Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Historical Fiction · Middle Grade +3 more
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Charlotte Atyeo
Charlotte represents a select number of non-fiction, children's and fiction authors. Before agenting, she spent twenty years as an editor, including ten years at Bloomsbury, where she was Publisher of prize-winning narrative sport titles, general non-fiction titles, The Nightwatchman quarterly, and Wisden Cricketers' Almanack. In the decade before that, she worked across cookery, fiction, gift, humour and business publishing.
Genres:Children's Books · Other Non-Fiction
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Christabel McKinley
Christabel came into publishing via teaching English in Korea, where she taught literature to children between six and eleven years of age. She believes children's books should be accessible, inclusive and unpatronising, as well as impactful and a pleasure to read. She represents authors and illustrators across the spectrum of writing and illustrating for children and young adults, spanning fiction to non-fiction and picture books to graphic novels.
Genres:Children's Books · Fantasy · Graphic Novels · Historical Fiction · Middle Grade +3 more
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Claire Cartey
Claire is an agent at Holroyde Cartey. She has worked in children's publishing for over twenty years, as Art Director at Hodder Children's Books and in design for Random House.
Genres:Children's Books · Other Non-Fiction
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Claire Wilson
Claire is a director at RCW Literary Agency, representing an eclectic list of prizewinning and bestselling children's, young adult and adult authors. She joined RCW in 2007, having previously worked in publishing sales and rights, and became a director in 2015. She is currently President of the Association of Authors' Agents. She was awarded Literary Agent of the Year at the British Book Awards in 2023.
Genres:Children's Books · Young Adult
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Clare Pearson
Clare Pearson founded Eddison Pearson and represents a small list of authors and author-illustrators. She read History at Cambridge before training in publishing and working as an editor at Walker Books for five years. She enjoys nurturing talent and helping authors build their careers.
Genres:Children's Books · Contemporary Fiction · Fantasy · Middle Grade · Young Adult
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Clare Wallace
Clare has been working with Darley Anderson since 2011 and is Managing Director and a literary agent at the Darley Anderson Children's Book Agency. Her clients have been Sunday Times and New York Times bestsellers and Irish Book Award winners, shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize, picked as Waterstones Children's Book of the Month, shortlisted for the Branford Boase, and nominated, longlisted and shortlisted for the Carnegie, with many titles adapted for or in development for the screen. In 2024 she was shortlisted for Agent of the Year by the British Book Awards. Before joining Darley Anderson she proof-listened to audio books, took a Masters in Creative Writing, coached international students, worked as a research assistant, assisted at a specialist non-fiction agency, waitressed and bartended for years, cherry-picked for months in Gumeracha, and worked one night in a casino emptying ashtrays. Working closely with her clients she is in it for the long term, and she loves creative discussions and developing ideas as much as the satisfying polish of a last line edit. She represents everything from picture books through to young adult, alongside a boutique list of adult fiction, and is always led by standout voices and characters. She is passionate about inclusivity and keen to read submissions from under-represented writers.
Genres:Children's Books · Contemporary Fiction · Fantasy · Graphic Novels · Historical (Non-Fiction) +7 more
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Dorie Simmonds
Dorie is a literary agent who represents general nonfiction, commercial fiction and children's books. She has worked in the publishing industry on both sides of the Atlantic, including within publishing houses, and is herself a published author. Dorie studied at Vassar College and The London School of Economics, and worked at William Morrow & Company and Dell Publishing in the US, as well as Dorling Kindersley and Reed Children's in the UK, before opening her own agency.
Genres:Children's Books · Commercial Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Literary Fiction · Middle Grade +3 more
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Emily Talbot
Emily is a literary agent representing children's illustrators and authors of picture books, middle grade, young adult and non-fiction. She started at United Agents in 2013 in the foreign rights department, handling overseas rights for UA's children's authors and illustrators, before moving into primary agenting in 2015. Before that, she worked in a primary school, reading with children every day and learning what they enjoy reading.
Genres:Children's Books · Middle Grade · Other Non-Fiction · Young Adult
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Emma Layfield
Emma founded Children's Books North Agency in 2024 and represents authors and illustrators of picture books, fiction and non-fiction. She has 25 years of children's publishing experience, including a role at Hachette Children's Group as Group Picture Book Publisher, where she commissioned and launched several successful series. She is co-founder of Children's Books North Network and mentors with the AOI, Children's Books North Network and SYP North.
Genres:Children's Books · Other Non-Fiction · Young Adult
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Eve White
Eve is the founder and owner of Eve White Literary Agency. She started the agency in 2003 after twenty years working as an actress. Her company has grown to represent work ranging from prize-winning literary fiction to bestselling picture books worldwide. She works closely with each author, both editorially and in shaping their careers.
Genres:Children's Books · Literary Fiction · Other Non-Fiction
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Gaia Banks
Gaia is a primary agent at Sheil Land Associates. She has worked in publishing for over twenty years, beginning in translation rights at John Murray before joining Sheil Land as an agent in 2004. For seventeen years she looked after the agency's translation rights alongside her own list, becoming a full-time primary agent at the start of 2022. She takes on one or two new writers a year, looking for projects with wide international appeal.
Genres:Biography · Children's Books · Contemporary Fiction · Fantasy · Health & Wellness +6 more
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Gemma Cooper
Gemma is the founder of Gemma Cooper Literary, representing children's books, young adult books and certain adult genres. She has been a literary agent since 2011, including as a director at The Bent Agency. Her list is typified by big-concept, commercial series fiction. She has lived and worked in New York, Chicago and London, giving her a global approach to representation.
Genres:Children's Books · Contemporary Fiction · Cosy Mystery · Crime · Fantasy +7 more
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Georgia Garrett
Georgia is deputy managing director at RCW Literary Agency, representing fiction, narrative non-fiction and children's books. She joined RCW as a director in 2011, having been joint deputy managing director of AP Watt and an agent at the Wylie Agency. Before that, she was editorial director at Picador and an editor at Victor Gollancz.
Genres:Children's Books · Literary Fiction · Memoir · Narrative Non-Fiction
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Georgia Tournay-Godfrey
Georgia's passion is ideas: finding them, shaping them and connecting them with the right publishing homes. She works across picture books, preschool, non-fiction and graphic novels, helping writers and illustrators develop their storytelling, refine their concepts and build long-term careers. Championing under-represented voices drives her work, particularly creators from working-class and lower socioeconomic backgrounds whose stories and perspectives have been overlooked.
Genres:Children's Books · Middle Grade · Other Non-Fiction
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Georgina Capel
Georgina represents literary, film, television and radio clients at Georgina Capel Associates. She joined William Heinemann's rights department in 1983 before becoming Rights Director at Secker and Warburg and then Jonathan Cape. She later became Group Rights Director of Random House and has negotiated international deals for authors for over twenty-five years.
Genres:Biography · Children's Books · Historical (Non-Fiction) · Poetry · Politics +1 more
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Gill McLay
Gill is a literary agent at Bath Literary Agency with over two decades of experience in publishing. She has worked with independent publisher Barefoot Books and global publisher Egmont, giving her a strong understanding of sales, marketing and commercial roles across the industry. Gill co-founded the Bath Festival of Children's Literature and now runs Events of Wonder with her husband, John McLay. Gill works closely with writers of poetry, picture books, young fiction, middle grade fiction, young adult fiction and non-fiction, as well as author/illustrators.
Genres:Children's Books · Middle Grade · Other Non-Fiction · Young Adult
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Gyamfia Osei
Gyamfia joined ANA in 2023 as a literary agent in the United Kingdom department, having previously been at The Good Literary Agency, where she began building a list of award-winning and bestselling authors writing from middle grade and young adult up to adult fiction. A Bookseller Rising Star, she now focuses on expanding the agency's list of children's authors, particularly in genre fiction and crossover, while representing a select list of adult commercial fiction and narrative non-fiction, and she oversees the English-language representation of ANA's international children's authors.
Genres:Children's Books · Fantasy · Food & Drink · Graphic Novels · Health & Wellness +8 more
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Hellie Ogden
Hellie is co-head of WME's UK Book division and a Partner at the agency. She joined WME's London office in 2023 and became a Partner in 2026. She was shortlisted for Literary Agent of the Year at the 2025 British Book Awards and sits as President of the Association of Authors' Agents. She is an editorially focused agent with a particular interest in helping to develop and nurture debut writers.
Genres:Children's Books · Crime · Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Memoir +8 more
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Isabel Atherton
Isabel is an experienced literary agent with an eye for commercial potential, representing prize-winning authors and illustrators from around the world. She founded Creative Authors in 2008. Isabel holds a BA in English Literature and an MA in Contemporary Approaches to English Studies, both from Goldsmiths College, University of London.
Genres:Biography · Children's Books · Commercial Fiction · Health & Wellness · Historical (Non-Fiction) +3 more
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Isobel Boston
Isobel joined David Higham in 2025 after more than ten years working as an editor in illustrated children's publishing. She began her career at Templar Publishing and Big Picture Press, commissioning across a boutique list of illustrated books, and was later Commissioning Editor at Walker Books. She is building a list of children's book creators and works across all formats.
Genres:Children's Books · Graphic Novels · Middle Grade · Narrative Non-Fiction · Other Non-Fiction
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Jenny Savill
Jenny is from Nottingham, studied medieval history at St Andrews, and joined ANA as assistant to Andrew Nurnberg in 2002, after several years in the theatre. She initiated and built the agency's children's list, added adult fiction to her roster in 2012, and is known for building award-winning writing careers across both children's and adult books. She led ANA as managing director between 2022 and 2025, following the retirement of founder Andrew Nurnberg, and is a longstanding visiting speaker at universities and literary festivals across the United Kingdom.
Genres:Children's Books · Crime · Historical Fiction · Horror · Literary Fiction +7 more
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Jo Williamson
Jo is a literary agent at Antony Harwood Literary Agency. She started working in children's publishing PR in 1995 and later worked at DK, HarperCollins and Orion before becoming a literary agent with Antony Harwood in 2008. She has built up a list of clients and enjoys close working relationships with her authors, focusing on building long-term careers for them.
Genres:Children's Books · Commercial Fiction · Other Non-Fiction · Young Adult
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Joanna Moult
Joanna co-founded Skylark Literary and works as a children's literary agent. She began her career at Hodder Children's Books before running the Children's Editorial Department at Simon & Schuster Children's Books. She later became Editorial Director for Children's Fiction at Mulcahy Conway Associates, seeking out new talent and editing submissions to publishers.
Genres:Children's Books · Middle Grade · Young Adult
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Jodie Hodges
Jodie is a children's book agent at United Agents, representing picture books, young fiction, illustrators and graphic novel creators. She began working with Rosemary Canter in 2006, assisting her on her list, and became an agent in 2010. Her interests have stayed consistent over the years, spanning picture books, young fiction, classic storytelling for 8-12s, and illustrators and writer/illustrators with a distinctive style.
Genres:Children's Books · Fantasy · Historical Fiction · Middle Grade
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Julia Churchill
Julia runs the children's books department at A.M. Heath. She represents writing for all ages from three upwards, with a particular interest in finding new writers for middle grade and young adult readers. She is drawn to picture books and to the wonder she felt reading as a child, and that sense of discovery continues to shape the writing she hopes to find.
Genres:Children's Books · Middle Grade · Young Adult
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Justine Smith
Justine is Bell Lomax Moreton's Development Editor, building a boutique list of her own clients. She joined the agency from Pan Macmillan, where she commissioned and acquired picture books. Justine is an experienced editor and ex-publisher who has worked on baby, preschool and picture books, non-fiction, chapter books and middle-grade fiction. She has also worked in animation as a script editor and holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Children's Illustration.
Genres:Children's Books · Middle Grade
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Kat Lenahan
Kat is a Junior Agent and Agency Assistant at the Darley Anderson Children's Book Agency, and is building her own list alongside supporting Clare Wallace. Before joining in May 2024, Kat worked as a production assistant in visual effects on The Witcher and The Wheel of Time, then completed an MA in Creative and Critical Writing. She is drawn to the editorial side of agenting and likes to work with authors she can help develop.
Genres:Children's Books · Contemporary Fiction · Horror · Middle Grade · Mystery +2 more
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Kirsty McLachlan
Kirsty founded Morgan Green Creatives in 2020. She represents award-winning writers, including novelists, non-fiction authors, children's book writers, poets, journalists, scriptwriters and illustrators. She brings over twenty years of experience working in the industry.
Genres:Children's Books · Commercial Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Other Non-Fiction · Poetry
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Laura Williams
Laura is a literary agent at Greene & Heaton. She joined the agency in 2018, having previously worked at PFD from 2011, after studying Classics at Oxford. She represents a broad list of fiction across different genres, alongside a smaller non-fiction and children's book list.
Genres:Children's Books · Commercial Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Fantasy · Historical Fiction +11 more
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Lauren Gardner
Lauren is a literary agent at Bell Lomax Moreton, representing children's and young adult fiction, adult fiction and adult non-fiction. She joined the agency in 2014 and has built a list of authors whose books have won or been shortlisted for prizes including the Waterstones Children's Prize, the Carnegie Medal and the Branford Boase. In 2020 she was named one of The Bookseller's Rising Stars. She lives just outside London with her family.
Genres:Biography · Children's Books · Health & Wellness · Historical (Non-Fiction) · Middle Grade +6 more
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Lorna Hemingway
Lorna is a Literary and Illustration Agent at the Darley Anderson Children's Book Agency. She started agenting in 2019 at Bell Lomax Moreton and moved to Darley Anderson in 2025, where she represents award-winning and Sunday Times bestselling authors and illustrators. Her list has won or been shortlisted for awards including the Klaus Flugge Prize, the Inclusive Books for Children Award, the Indie Book Awards, the BookTrust Storytime Prize and the World Illustration Awards, with work featured in The Observer, The Sunday Times, The Guardian and Waterstones best books of 2023 and 2025.
Genres:Children's Books · Graphic Novels · Middle Grade · Other Non-Fiction · Young Adult
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Mariam Keen
Mariam is the founder and managing director of Whispering Buffalo Literary Agency, providing personal representation across all media. She graduated from King's College London and, before launching her own agency, worked with Darley Anderson and Ali Gunn.
Genres:Children's Books · Commercial Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Literary Fiction · Middle Grade +1 more
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Millie Van Grutten
Millie is an agent at RCW with a particular interest in illustrators, picture books and chapter books. She read Classics at university and has long valued strong narrative in both text and illustration. She champions the work of authors and illustrators, helping them find their place among readers.
Genres:Children's Books · Middle Grade
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Molly Jamieson
Molly is an Associate Agent at United Agents, working across children's and adult fiction. She joined the agency in 2017 as an assistant and now works closely with Jodie Hodges and Emily Talbot on their lists of children's authors and illustrators. She also builds her own list, representing debut and established adult writers, including million-copy and #1 Sunday Times bestsellers.
Genres:Children's Books · Fantasy · Horror · Romance · Science Fiction
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Molly Ker Hawn
Molly joined David Higham as a director of the company in 2025, after fourteen years running the United Kingdom arm of the Bent Agency. Her primary focus is books for children and young adults, and she has worked in publishing for most of the last thirty years. She sells directly to publishers in the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada and Australia, and about half her clients are American or Canadian. Her authors' books have been New York Times, Sunday Times and international bestsellers, and have won or been shortlisted for the Michael L. Printz Award, the William C. Morris Debut Award, the Barnes & Noble Children's Book Award, the Costa Book Award, the Waterstones Children's Book Prize and the Carnegie Medal. She served for three years on the governing committee of the Association of Authors' Agents.
Genres:Children's Books · Contemporary Fiction · Fantasy · Graphic Novels · Historical Fiction +5 more
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Natalie Jerome
Natalie represents fiction, non-fiction, young adult and children's books, with a taste for big, expansive, game-changing stories. She looks for narratives that move her emotionally and speak to the human condition. She represents Sir Lenny Henry's children's publishing and is drawn to voices and stories from under-represented backgrounds.
Genres:Biography · Children's Books · Literary Fiction · Memoir · Middle Grade +2 more
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Nicky Lander
Nicky specialises in projects, across all genres and age ranges, that are humorous, quirky, or designed to open up great conversations.
Genres:Children's Books · Middle Grade · Young Adult
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Paul Moreton
Paul is the Managing Director of Bell Lomax Moreton. He joined the agency in 2000 from Penguin Books, where he was Head of Children's Book Sales.
Genres:Children's Books · Commercial Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Crime · Fantasy +7 more
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Penny Holroyde
Penny co-founded Holroyde Cartey, representing authors and illustrators across fiction and non-fiction. Penny worked for publishers Walker Books in the UK and Candlewick Press in the US, and later as an agent with Caroline Sheldon. Penny has a particular love for picture books.
Genres:Children's Books · Other Non-Fiction
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Rachel Petty
Rachel represents children's fiction and non-fiction up to young adult and crossover. Before joining The Blair Partnership, she was editorial director at Macmillan Children's Books. There she worked with authors including Frances Hardinge, Chris Riddell and Tomi Adeyemi.
Genres:Children's Books · Fantasy · Horror · Middle Grade · Other Non-Fiction +3 more
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Ruth Cairns
Ruth founded Featherstone Cairns in 2015. She previously worked as a publicist, handling campaigns for authors including Elton John, Pope Francis, Jeffrey Archer and Booker Prize winners. Since 2020 she has represented authors with exceptional stories, building a strong record of Sunday Times bestsellers.
Genres:Children's Books · Commercial Fiction · Literary Fiction · Other Non-Fiction
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Saffron Dodd
Saffron joined the ASH Literary team in 2022 as agency assistant and was promoted to Associate Agent in 2023. She has a background in media and communications, and recently completed a Masters in Children's Literature. She has always loved reading books for children and young adults, and is extremely passionate about highlighting and supporting diverse voices in publishing.
Genres:Children's Books · Young Adult
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Sam Copeland
Sam is a director at RCW Literary Agency, representing writers of literary and commercial fiction across a wide range of genres. He worked as a bookseller for several years before moving into publishing in 2001. He joined RCW in 2006 and became a director in 2016. He is also a published children's author.
Genres:Children's Books · Commercial Fiction · Crime · Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction +3 more
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Silvia Molteni
Silvia is head of the children's and young adult books department at PFD. She runs her own list of clients and sells foreign and audio rights in the agency's children's and young adult titles. The Bookseller named her its Rising Star in 2019.
Genres:Children's Books · Commercial Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Fantasy · Horror +8 more
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Sophie Hicks
Sophie runs Sophie Hicks Agency, representing adult and children's authors across fiction and non-fiction. She spent 25 years at Ed Victor Ltd, starting in foreign rights before building her own list and becoming Managing Director in 1999. She founded her own agency in 2014. Her authors have won prizes including the Costa Book Award and Carnegie Medal, and have sold tens of millions of copies worldwide.
Genres:Children's Books · Contemporary Fiction · Narrative Non-Fiction · Thriller · Young Adult
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Susan Yearwood
Susan runs the Susan Yearwood Agency, representing debut and published writers in adult fiction, non-fiction and children's/young adult fiction. She gained experience at Virago, Museum Quilts Plc and Penguin Books Ltd in the early to mid-nineties. She founded her agency in 2007, launching debut writers' careers and re-establishing previously published authors.
Genres:Business · Children's Books · Commercial Fiction · Crime · Food & Drink +7 more
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Thérèse Coen
Thérèse is a literary agent at Susanna Lea Associates, building her own list of authors while also selling translation rights. She was born and raised in Belgium and moved to England in her late teens, later studying History at University College London. She began her career in the rights department at Bloomsbury Publishing before moving to Ed Victor's agency. She has been building her own list of authors since early 2016.
Genres:Children's Books · Crime · Fantasy · Historical (Non-Fiction) · Historical Fiction +6 more
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Veronique Baxter
Veronique joined David Higham Associates in 1999 and was made a Director in 2007, and has built an eclectic list of adult fiction, children's books and non-fiction. She represents authors of literary and genre fiction alongside a substantial children's list, and is a keen reader of non-fiction, with recent projects spanning narrative history, travel, memoir and true crime. Her authors have won or been shortlisted for prizes including the Women's Prize for Fiction, the Sunday Times New Writer of the Year, the Costa Prize, the Carnegie Medal, the Greenaway, the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, Granta's Best of Young British Novelists, the Desmond Elliott First Novel Prize, the Booker Prize and the Orwell Prize. Her taste in adult fiction and non-fiction is broad, but she is predominantly attracted by quality of prose, strong and distinct voices, nuanced characterisation, ambitious storytelling and compelling, original plots.
Genres:Children's Books · Commercial Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Crime · Current Affairs +14 more
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Vicki Willden-Lebrecht
Vicki founded The Bright Agency in 2003, one of the fastest-growing and established children’s literary and illustration agencies with a global reach. Thrice Nominated for Literary Agent of the Year, she has spent the last 22 years as principal author/illustrator agent for the company.
Genres:Children's Books · Middle Grade · Young Adult
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Yasmin Kane
Yasmin runs Kane Literary Agency, which represents fiction, nonfiction, young adult fiction and children's fiction. She originally trained as a lawyer. She ran her own imprint, Three Hares Publishing, from 2014 to 2021.
Genres:Children's Books · Literary Fiction · Middle Grade · Other Non-Fiction · Young Adult
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Zoë Plant
Zoë is a literary agent at The Bent Agency, representing both children's and adult books across a variety of genres. She joined the agency's London office in 2019, after five years working with publishers worldwide as a literary scout. Her client list includes New York Times and international bestsellers, with books that have won and been shortlisted for the Nero Book Award, the Barnes & Noble Children's Book Award, and the Waterstones Children's Book Prize. Across the board, her tastes lean towards commercial, entertaining, accessible books with clever hooks and something to say about the world.
Genres:Children's Books · Commercial Fiction · Fantasy · Horror · Middle Grade +4 more
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Ludo Cinelli
Ludo is an Agent and the Managing Director at Eve White Literary Agency, representing fiction, non-fiction and children's authors across genres. He joined the company in 2017 and began building his client list in 2018. He holds an MA in Creative Writing from Royal Holloway, University of London. He was shortlisted as British Book Awards Literary Agent of the Year in 2022 and 2026.
Genres:Children's Books · Commercial Fiction · Contemporary Fiction
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Alice Sutherland-Hawes
Alice represents authors and illustrators working from board and picture books through to crossover young adult. She co-founded ASH Literary in September 2020, alongside Saffron Dodd. Alice is based in London.
Genres:Children's Books · Contemporary Fiction · Fantasy · Literary Fiction · Middle Grade +6 more
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Anne Clark
Anne is keen to hear from talented writers from all backgrounds, whether this is their first book or they have already been published. Anne particularly welcomes submissions from writers who are currently under-represented in publishing. Anne hopes to find distinctive voices, unforgettable characters and exciting ideas, and stories which make her laugh, cry or think, or all three. Anne is currently looking for fiction for younger readers, middle grade and young adult, as well as non-fiction for children and teenagers, but is not looking to take on new picture book writers.
Genres:Children's Books · Middle Grade · Other Non-Fiction · Young Adult
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Caroline Sheldon
Caroline set up the Caroline Sheldon Literary Agency in 1985, which became part of RCW Literary Agency in January 2024. She continues to work as a consultant. Her clients have won awards including the Booksellers Association Books are My Bag Readers Award and the CLiPPA Poetry Award, and she has represented two Children's Laureates.
Genres:Children's Books
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Charlie Viney
Charlie is a Senior Agent at ACM UK. He spent twenty-five years in general trade publishing, holding senior executive roles in international sales and marketing and serving as a board director at Little, Brown UK, before becoming an agent in 2002. He joined Aevitas Creative Management UK as a Senior Agent in 2024.
Genres:Children's Books · Historical (Non-Fiction) · Memoir · Narrative Non-Fiction · Other Non-Fiction
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Charlotte Colwill
Charlotte is a literary agent at Colwill & Peddle, representing fiction and children's books. She began her career as a bookseller in independent bookshops in London and Melbourne, most recently running the children's department at Foyles on Charing Cross Road, before becoming an agent in 2018. She has worked at Tibor Jones and Jo Unwin Literary Agency, building her own list of authors.
Genres:Children's Books · Crime · Fantasy · Horror · Literary Fiction +4 more
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Chloe Davis
Chloe is the Agency’s Associate Agent, having joined as an assistant in 2019. Following a post-university stint as a bookseller at Waterstones and time spent working in the Rights team at Macmillan Children’s Books, Chloe decided she wanted a taste of life on the other side of Publishing and is now actively building her own list, alongside supporting Clare Wallace and her list of clients.
Genres:Children's Books · Fantasy · Middle Grade · Mystery · Young Adult
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Fiz Osborne
Fiz Osborne co-founded Creative Roots Studio and works as an agent, author, editor and former publisher with twenty years of experience in children's books. She is a highly creative and well-connected children's book specialist with a proven track record in acquiring bestsellers, IP creation, list strategy, negotiation and talent development. Her career includes acquiring and commissioning leading picture book creators and building a strategic, profitable picture book list as a publisher.
Genres:Children's Books
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Hannah Sheppard
Hannah runs Hannah Sheppard Literary Agency, representing adult and children's fiction as well as a small amount of non-fiction. She spent a decade working in-house in editorial at Pan Macmillan and Headline Publishing Group. She joined DHH Literary Agency in 2013 before launching her own agency in 2023.
Genres:Children's Books · Contemporary Fiction · Crime · Fantasy · Horror +4 more
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Jenny Brown
Jenny founded Jenny Brown Associates in 2002. She was previously Head of Literature at the Scottish Arts Council, a presenter of book programmes for Scottish Television, and founder Director of the Edinburgh International Book Festival. She represents around 50 writers and works closely with them, most of whom are based in Scotland.
Genres:Children's Books · Crime · Literary Fiction · Narrative Non-Fiction · Women's Fiction +1 more
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Kate Shaw
Kate founded The Shaw Agency in 2019, after eighteen years as a literary agent at Aitken Alexander Associates and The Viney Agency. During her career she has represented writers who have topped the New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller lists, including titles selected for major book clubs and adapted for film and television. Kate's aim is to support her clients across all aspects of their writing careers, to negotiate deals for them internationally, and to discover and nurture new talent.
Genres:Children's Books · Commercial Fiction · Literary Fiction · Middle Grade · Narrative Non-Fiction +1 more
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Louise Lamont
Louise is a literary agent at LBA Books. Louise studied English Literature and Medieval Studies at university and worked at AP Watt Ltd, working with Caradoc King and his clients for seven years while building her own list. Louise moved to LBA Books in 2013.
Genres:Children's Books · Young Adult
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Lucy Juckes
Lucy represents writers and illustrators for children. She is co-founder and currently Chair of Barrington Stoke, the children's publisher specialising in books for reluctant readers. She has also worked as Sales Director of Bloomsbury and co-founded Picture Hooks, a scheme supporting new illustrators through mentoring, conferences and exhibitions.
Genres:Children's Books
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Mandy Suhr
Mandy founded StoryWise, a children's literary agency, in 2023. She has 30 years of experience in children's publishing, including 13 years as an agent at Miles Stott. She has held senior editorial and publisher roles at houses including Orchard Books, Macmillan, Walker, HarperCollins and Puffin. She brings this editorial experience to each creative she represents, helping them shape their work for publication.
Genres:Children's Books
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Marina de Pass
Marina joined The Soho Agency in 2016 after working for several years in the editorial departments of Little, Brown and HarperCollins. She works with number one New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling authors, and number one Kindle and Audible bestsellers. Her clients' books have been selected as Waterstones and WHSmith Books of the Month and for the BBC Radio 2 Book Club. In 2023 she was named a Bookseller Rising Star. She is building a list of authors writing upmarket commercial, reading group and accessible literary fiction, alongside a select and eclectic children's, young adult and non-fiction list, and gravitates towards stories told through a female lens.
Genres:Children's Books · Commercial Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Crime · Historical Fiction +10 more
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Rachael Davis-Featherstone
Rachael Davis-Featherstone is an agent and co-founder of Creative Roots Studio, with over ten years of publishing experience. She is a multi-award-nominated author who has published more than 25 books, spanning picture books to adult novels and non-fiction. She is recognised by the publishing industry as a champion of diversity in literature. She also serves as a Trustee for English PEN and a Non-Executive Director for ALCS, combining her background in analytics and strategy with creative and governance experience.
Genres:Children's Books · Other Non-Fiction · Young Adult
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Stevie Finegan
Stevie is a literary agent at Zeno Agency Ltd. Stevie joined Zeno at the beginning of 2020, having previously worked at Gollancz, Icon, and in Waterstones bookshops across London. Stevie's degree specialised in children's literature, including a dissertation on Young Adult fiction. These experiences shape Stevie's interest in stories that explore LGBTQIA+, BAME, disability, mental health and other marginalised experiences.
Genres:Children's Books · Commercial Fiction · Fantasy · Graphic Novels · Health & Wellness +10 more
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