Literary Agents
for Health & Wellness
There are currently 19 UK-based literary agents accepting submissions for health & wellness. See who represents it, who's open right now, and when we last checked.
19open to submissions
Charlotte Merritt
Charlotte joined Andrew Nurnberg Associates in 2018, having returned to London after living and working in India and Hong Kong. Before that she spent over a decade in London publishing, first at Bloomsbury and then at Hodder & Stoughton. She works closely with her clients to develop their ideas, drawing on that experience to help shape their book projects.
Genres:Current Affairs · Health & Wellness · Historical (Non-Fiction) · Memoir · Narrative Non-Fiction +2 more
OpenLast checked 4 days ago
Ciara Finan
Ciara Finan has broad and ever-evolving reading tastes, but is consistently drawn to bold voices, unforgettable characters, unexpected narratives, and fresh takes on themes like love, friendship, family, loss and coming-of-age. She’s passionate about championing stories from underrepresented voices and is particularly interested in commercial fiction across a range of genres, as well as select non-fiction with wide appeal.
Genres:Contemporary Fiction · Crime · Fantasy · Health & Wellness · Historical Fiction +6 more
OpenLast checked 16 days ago
Emily Sweet
Emily is a hands-on, creative and energetic literary agent based in London. Before becoming an agent, she spent ten years as an editor in trade publishing houses, focusing primarily on non-fiction. She takes a personal, collaborative approach with her authors, placing them with publishers ranging from major houses to smaller independents. She works as part of Aevitas Creative Management, a full-service literary agency.
Genres:Biography · Current Affairs · Food & Drink · Health & Wellness · Historical (Non-Fiction) +4 more
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Florence Dodd
Florence is an agent in WME's International Rights group, based in the London office. She handles translation and UK rights sales for a wide range of projects and titles. She is bilingual in French and English and is passionate about international publishing. She also offers some primary representation to UK and international authors.
Genres:Health & Wellness · Memoir · Other Non-Fiction · Sports
OpenLast checked 4 days ago
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
OpenLast checked 4 days ago
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
OpenLast checked 4 days ago
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
OpenLast checked 7 days ago
Jenny Hewson
Jenny Hewson is a Literary Agent at Lutyens & Rubinstein. Jenny joined the agency in 2019, having started out as an agent at Rogers, Coleridge & White in 2010. Jenny represents a wide range of award winning and bestselling authors from around the world, many of whom have been nominated for or won major literary prizes.
Genres:Commercial Fiction · Fantasy · Health & Wellness · Historical (Non-Fiction) · Historical Fiction +5 more
OpenLast checked 2 days ago
Joanna Kaliszewska
Joanna is the Rights Director at The bks Agency, as well as developing her own list as an agent. She began her career in rights at Aitken, Stone and Wylie, then spent 20 years at Hachette, latterly as Head of Rights for John Murray Press. There she worked with authors including Fiona Mozley and Mick Herron. Her literary taste is broad, spanning literary fiction, reading group fiction and crime procedurals.
Genres:Commercial Fiction · Crime · Health & Wellness · Thriller
OpenLast checked 2 days ago
Julian Alexander
Julian has been an agent his entire professional life. He represents an eclectic list that includes bestselling fiction and non-fiction of all kinds, from history and medicine through heart-warming memoir and illustrated books to edgy detective novels and fast-paced thrillers. He also handles the book output for a number of high-profile creators of intellectual property and helps develop and package projects for his clients, planning long-term careers.
Genres:Commercial Fiction · Health & Wellness · Historical (Non-Fiction) · Memoir · Mystery +2 more
OpenLast checked 19 days ago
Karolina Kaim
Karolina is a nonfiction agent at WME's London office. She joined the agency in 2024 after more than eight years of commissioning experience at publishing houses in the UK and abroad. She trained in intellectual property law and works closely with her US colleague to find homes for the agency's talent.
Genres:Business · Health & Wellness · Memoir · Narrative Non-Fiction · Self-Help
OpenLast checked 4 days ago
Keshava Guha
Keshava is an agent at Aevitas UK, building an international list that is primarily non-fiction with select fiction projects. He was previously a senior editor at Juggernaut Books in New Delhi, where he published literary fiction, history and current affairs. He is also a novelist and essayist. He holds degrees from Harvard College and the Columbia Publishing Course, and a master's in creative writing from Goldsmiths, University of London.
Genres:Biography · Health & Wellness · Historical (Non-Fiction) · Other Non-Fiction · Sports
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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
OpenLast checked 11 days ago
Lucy Balfour
Lucy is a literary agent at WME's London office, offering UK representation to clients across the agency. She joined WME in 2023 after seven years working as a literary scout for an extensive list of international publishers, as well as film and television clients. She is building a list of her own authors.
Genres:Commercial Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Health & Wellness · Memoir · Middle Grade +5 more
OpenLast checked 2 days ago
Matilda Forbes Watson
Matilda is a Partner and Co-Head of the UK Book division at WME, representing a diverse list of bestselling adult fiction and non-fiction. She joined WME in 2013 and enjoys working with debut authors in the early stages of developing a project, as well as writers with established careers. She supports authors from submission through to publication, connecting them with the specialists and resources available at WME.
Genres:Contemporary Fiction · Health & Wellness · Literary Fiction · Narrative Non-Fiction · Self-Help
OpenLast checked 2 days ago
Rebecca Ritchie
Rebecca represents authors of fiction and non-fiction at A.M. Heath. Her fiction list spans the commercial spectrum, from contemporary and reading group fiction to historical fiction, saga, crime, thriller and psychological suspense. Her authors have been shortlisted for and won Romantic Novelists' Association Awards and the Comedy Women in Print Book Prize, and several have been Richard and Judy Book Club picks. She has taken on many of her authors as debuts and enjoys working with writers throughout the writing process.
Genres:Commercial Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Crime · Food & Drink · Health & Wellness +7 more
OpenLast checked 13 days ago
Sabhbh Curran
Sabhbh Curran represents a wide range of non-fiction and select fiction, working closely and editorially with authors to help shape long-term careers. She’s particularly interested in working with experts, academics and journalists who can combine deep knowledge with broad appeal. Her list includes cookbooks, memoir, narrative non-fiction, and distinctive, genre-blurring fiction. Sabhbh is not the right agent for children’s, young adult, or fantasy fiction.
Genres:Contemporary Fiction · Crime · Food & Drink · Health & Wellness · Historical (Non-Fiction) +10 more
OpenLast checked 16 days ago
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
OpenLast checked 2 days ago
Tom Killingbeck
Tom is a literary agent at A.M. Heath specialising in non-fiction. He joined the agency in 2022. He represents a select list of nonfiction authors, including Sunday Times bestsellers such as Zeinab Badawi, Julia Boyd and Peter Ross. Previously, he was an editorial director at Penguin and HarperCollins.
Genres:Business · Health & Wellness · Historical (Non-Fiction) · Narrative Non-Fiction · Other Non-Fiction +1 more
OpenLast checked 13 days ago
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Julia Silk
Julia represents fiction and non-fiction at Greyhound Literary. She worked as a bookseller and editor for 18 years, latterly as Publisher of digital crime imprint The Murder Room at Orion, before becoming an agent in 2016. She has an MA in Comparative Literature from UEA.
Genres:Commercial Fiction · Crime · Health & Wellness · Historical Fiction · Horror +5 more
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Araminta Whitley
Araminta represents a wide range of fiction and non-fiction. Her clients are Sunday Times and New York Times bestsellers and have won awards including the CWA Gold Crime Dagger, the RNA Awards, the John Creasy Award, the Andre Simon Memorial Prize and the PEN Pinter Prize, with titles longlisted for the Wellcome and Baillie Gifford Prizes and chosen as Richard and Judy and Zoella book club picks.
Genres:Business · Commercial Fiction · Crime · Food & Drink · Health & Wellness +6 more
ClosedLast checked 19 days ago
Carol Heaton
Carol is a literary agent at Greene & Heaton, where she has worked continually since 1968. She gained her publishing experience at Penguin, spending twelve years as their Rights Director with a particular focus on selling American rights. She returned to the agency full time in 1988 and built a list of writers working in biography, history, current affairs, travel, gardening, health and fiction.
Genres:Biography · Current Affairs · Health & Wellness · Historical (Non-Fiction) · Other Non-Fiction +1 more
ClosedLast checked 8 days ago
Caroline Hardman
Caroline co-founded Hardman & Swainson. She was previously an agent at the Christopher Little Literary Agency and The Marsh Agency, where she specialised in translation rights. She has an excellent understanding of global trade publishing and has sold rights on behalf of many renowned writers.
Genres:Commercial Fiction · Crime · Current Affairs · Health & Wellness · Historical Fiction +6 more
Closed (conditions apply)Last checked 4 days ago
Charlotte Howard
Charlotte co-founded Fox & Howard Literary Agency in 1992, a UK-based agency that specialises in commercial non-fiction. She previously worked as a publisher at Virgin Books, Pan Macmillan and Methuen Books.
Genres:Biography · Business · Health & Wellness · Historical (Non-Fiction) · Narrative Non-Fiction +1 more
ClosedLast checked 2 days ago
Chelsey Fox
Chelsey co-founded Fox & Howard Literary Agency in 1992, a UK-based agency that specialises in commercial non-fiction. She previously worked as a publisher at Virgin Books, Pan Macmillan and Methuen Books.
Genres:Biography · Business · Health & Wellness · Historical (Non-Fiction) · Narrative Non-Fiction +1 more
ClosedLast checked 2 days ago
Emily Barrett
Emily is a literary agent at The Blair Partnership, representing non-fiction for big, mainstream audiences. Before becoming an agent, she spent a decade working at HarperCollins, Orion and Little, Brown, latterly as Publisher of Sphere Non-Fiction. Books she edited during that time included Sunday Times bestsellers, prize nominees and winners, titles translated into multiple languages and works that sold TV options. This gives her broad insider experience across non-fiction publishing.
Genres:Current Affairs · Food & Drink · Health & Wellness · Historical (Non-Fiction) · Narrative Non-Fiction +3 more
ClosedLast checked 2 days ago
Hannah Weatherill
Hannah is Watson, Little's Literary and Book-to-Screen Agent, representing commercial and upmarket fiction and non-fiction. She joined Watson, Little in 2024 after four years as an agent at Northbank Talent Management and a year at Penguin Random House UK. She also represents book-to-screen rights for the agency and stays closely connected with the international film and TV industry.
Genres:Contemporary Fiction · Crime · Food & Drink · Health & Wellness · Historical Fiction +6 more
ClosedLast checked 11 days ago
Jason Bartholomew
Jason co-founded The bks Agency after two decades working in publishing rights in New York and London. He was Rights Director at Hachette UK across Hodder & Stoughton, Headline Publishing Group, Quercus Books, and John Murray Press, and later became Publishing Director of Quercus US. He is also CEO of the cultural communications agency Midas, which provides PR, social and marketing services for arts and publishing clients.
Genres:Biography · Business · Commercial Fiction · Current Affairs · Fantasy +8 more
ClosedLast checked 2 days ago
Jenny Bent
Jenny is President and Literary Agent at The Bent Agency. Jenny has represented a great many award-winning and New York Times-bestselling authors, including Stephanie Garber, Liv Constantine, Gary John Bishop, Lori Nelson Spielman, Goldy Moldavsky, Tiffany D. Jackson, Elise Kova, Yangsze Choo, Dustin Thao, Arvin Ahmadi, Lynsay Sands, JT Geissinger and Samantha Bailey.
Genres:Commercial Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Fantasy · Health & Wellness · Horror +7 more
ClosedLast checked 2 days ago
Kate Barker
Kate is a literary agent based in London with over twenty years of experience in publishing. She has worked as an agent, commissioning editor and ghostwriter. She spent ten years at Penguin, where she was an Editorial Director for Viking, acquiring fiction and non-fiction. She has also worked for Orion, a major UK literary agency, digital publisher Bookouture and a speakers bureau.
Genres:Biography · Commercial Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Crime · Health & Wellness +11 more
Closed (conditions apply)Last checked yesterday
Kristina Pérez
Kristina is managing director and literary agent at Pérez Literary & Entertainment. She has a decade of experience in publishing as both an author and an agent, with a background in medieval literature and journalism. She has written young adult novels and is publishing her first novel for adults. She sees each client relationship as a partnership, working with clients to develop the right strategy for their careers.
Genres:Fantasy · Health & Wellness · Historical (Non-Fiction) · Horror · Memoir +5 more
ClosedLast checked 2 days ago
Laetitia Rutherford
Laetitia is a literary agent at Watson, Little. She has fifteen years' experience and has worked with award-winning writers including Chris Cleave, Rana Dasgupta, Xiaolu Guo and Evie Wyld. She has also worked with authors who write in English as a second language, such as Xinran and Diane Wei Liang. Over a decade at the agency she built a successful crime fiction list, including Jenny Blackhurst, Alex Marwood and Ajay Chowdhury.
Genres:Health & Wellness · Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Self-Help
ClosedLast checked 4 days ago
Louise Buckley
Louise is an Associate Literary Agent at Hannah Sheppard Literary Agency, representing adult fiction and non-fiction. She has worked in publishing for over fifteen years, with roles including a bookseller at Waterstones, an editor at Pan Macmillan and an Associate Literary Agent at Zeno Agency Ltd. She also works as an Editorial Consultant and writes about editing and publishing on her Substack.
Genres:Fantasy · Health & Wellness · Horror · Literary Fiction · Other Non-Fiction +3 more
Closed (conditions apply)Last checked 5 days ago
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
ClosedLast checked yesterday
Valeria Huerta
Valeria is a Senior Agent at ACM UK, having joined the agency in 2024. She previously spent eight years running her own literary agency, specialising in lifestyle, health and personal development titles. Her career began in Rome, working in foreign rights and as a commissioning editor at Fazi Editore, before moving into rights management roles in London at Faber and Faber, Hachette, Hodder & Stoughton, Headline, John Murray and Quercus.
Genres:Health & Wellness · Narrative Non-Fiction · Poetry · Self-Help
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Viola Hayden
Viola Hayden began her career in publishing before moving into agenting at Curtis Brown. She now represents a wide range of fiction and non-fiction, with a particular focus on commercial work, and also co-agents alongside Jonny Geller on his high-profile list. Her background as a publisher gives her a deep understanding of the editorial and market potential of a book, and she’s passionate about championing writers whose stories are both compelling and commercially resonant.
Genres:Commercial Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Crime · Health & Wellness · Historical Fiction +6 more
Closed (conditions apply)Last checked 16 days ago