Literary Agents
for Thriller
There are currently 114 UK-based literary agents accepting submissions for thriller. See who represents it, who's open right now, and when we last checked.
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Adam Gauntlett
Adam heads the books division at PFD and represents a wide range of prize-winning and bestselling authors, among them Sunday Times and New York Times names. He joined the company in 2010, after completing a Masters in English Literature at King's College London. The Bookseller named him its Shooting Star in 2017.
Genres:Commercial Fiction · Crime · Historical (Non-Fiction) · Historical Fiction · Memoir +5 more
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Alexander Cochran
Alexander is actively building his list and is always on the lookout for new writers of speculative fiction, literary fiction, crime and thriller and serious non-fiction. He is particularly interested in dark thrillers and crime novels, science fiction and fantasy that push boundaries or cross genres but are rooted in believable, playful literary fiction, and novels that don't shy away from darker aspects of humanity. On the non-fiction side, he tends towards serious books with big ideas that subvert our assumptions, serious histories, and narrative non-fiction focused on contemporary events and issues.
Genres:Crime · Current Affairs · Fantasy · Historical (Non-Fiction) · Literary Fiction +3 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 Lutyens
Alice represents an eclectic list, from commercial women's fiction to lyrical literary fiction, and works across a wide range of genres including love stories, books about magic and witches, crime and thrillers, and historical fiction. She is motivated by nurturing and growing each of her authors, whether debut or established, and values a hands-on editorial relationship alongside the reach of a large agency in the United States and internationally. She has taken several authors from debut through to the Sunday Times bestseller list, Richard & Judy book club picks and prize lists, and represents a number of Curtis Brown Creative alumni. She was the first to discover Jane Harper through Curtis Brown Creative, representing her first four books in the United Kingdom.
Genres:Commercial Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Horror · Literary Fiction · Psychological Suspense +2 more
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Alice Saunders
Alice loves storytelling in all its forms, whether fiction or narrative non-fiction, and works across literary, audio, live audience, film and television representation. She is actively looking for new talent in crime, thrillers, epic family sagas, book club literary fiction and memoir, in fact everything apart from science fiction and fantasy. As head of the agency's speaker business, she also matches talent to corporate, industry and public sector events.
Genres:Commercial Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Crime · Literary Fiction · Memoir +2 more
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Amanda Preston
Amanda is a literary agent at LBA Books, representing a wide range of best-selling and award-winning authors across fiction and non-fiction. She has worked as an agent for over 25 years and co-founded LBA in 2005, working with a network of publishers around the world. In 2018 she won the RNA Literary Agent of the Year award.
Genres:Contemporary Fiction · Crime · Historical Fiction · Memoir · Narrative Non-Fiction +4 more
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Amy O'Shea
Amy is an agent at Graham Maw Christie Literary Agency, working across non-fiction and a select list of crime, thriller and horror fiction. She joined the agency in early 2023, assisting Jane and Jen with social media, admin, royalties and submissions, alongside working on her own projects. Amy graduated from the University of Edinburgh with a degree in Linguistics and English Language.
Genres:Crime · Fantasy · Horror · Memoir · Mystery +5 more
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Anna Power
Anna is the Managing Director of Johnson & Alcock. She looks after a diverse list of best-selling and prize-winning authors, as well as emerging voices in fiction and narrative non-fiction.
Genres:Crime · Current Affairs · Food & Drink · Historical (Non-Fiction) · Historical Fiction +7 more
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Anne-Marie Doulton
Anne-Marie is a literary agent at The Ampersand Agency, with particular interests in literary fiction, narrative non-fiction and thrillers and mysteries. She has been an agent for over ten years and is based in London. Before joining Ampersand, she worked as a commissioning editor for general publishers and as a literary scout.
Genres:Literary Fiction · Mystery · Narrative Non-Fiction · Thriller
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Antony Topping
Antony is a literary agent at Greene & Heaton, representing fiction and non-fiction across a wide range of genres and subjects. He joined the agency in 1995, having previously worked for several years as a fiction buyer for a major chain bookstore. Originally from Stockport, he studied English at St Anne's College, Oxford.
Genres:Commercial Fiction · Crime · Historical (Non-Fiction) · Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction +4 more
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Bill Goodall
Bill has more than 30 years’ experience in the United Kingdom book industry, having worked for leading publishers including Simon & Schuster, Jessica Kingsley Publishers and Frances Lincoln. Bill co-founded A for Authors Literary Agency in 2014 and became a solo agent under his own name in late 2018. Bill’s passion for books remains undiminished, as does the excitement that comes with discovering new and talented writers.
Genres:Commercial Fiction · Crime · Literary Fiction · Other Non-Fiction · Thriller
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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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Camilla Bolton
Camilla is Managing Director and an agent at Darley Anderson, which she joined in 2007. She was named a publishing Rising Star by The Bookseller in 2013 and shortlisted for Literary Agent of the Year in 2022, and has built some of the fastest-growing commercial brands in the thriller market, with five of her authors selling over a million copies in the United Kingdom alone. Her list includes many Sunday Times, New York Times and number one ebook global bestsellers, with authors picked for Reese Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine Book Club and BBC Two's Between the Covers, five Richard & Judy Book Club picks, and titles adapted for BBC One, Channel 5 and Netflix. She works closely with her authors editorially and strategically, negotiating six and seven-figure deals in the United Kingdom and United States.
Genres:Commercial Fiction · Crime · Horror · Mystery · Psychological Suspense +1 more
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Cathryn Summerhayes
Cathryn Summerhayes is a literary agent at Curtis Brown, representing a wide-ranging and high-profile list of authors across fiction and non-fiction. She previously spent several years at WME, where she built an acclaimed and eclectic client list that includes bestselling authors such as Chris Whitaker, Lucy Foley, and Dr Adam Kay, as well as public figures and creatives including Anita Rani, Shappi Khorsandi, Grace Dent, Sir Ranulph Fiennes, and Johanna Basford. Cathryn also represents a number of United States-based authors through partnerships with UTA and CAA, including Lisa Taddeo, Jennifer Coolidge, and Ashley Flowers. She was named Literary Agent of the Year at The British Book Awards in 2019 and remains actively involved in the wider literary community, serving on the Committee of The Book Society and working with organisations such as Literature Wales and The Hay Festival. Earlier in her career, she worked in PR and events, including on campaigns for the Booker Prize and with high-profile clients such as Nigella Lawson and JK Rowling.
Genres:Contemporary Fiction · Crime · Literary Fiction · Memoir · Narrative Non-Fiction +3 more
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Charlie Campbell
Charlie is co-founder and director of Greyhound Literary, representing a wide range of fiction and non-fiction. He began his career at Literary Review, becoming deputy editor, before moving into agenting at Johnson & Alcock and then Ed Victor Ltd, where he spent ten years building his list. He set up his own agency in 2014, which became Greyhound Literary in 2022 when Sam Edenborough joined as Rights Director.
Genres:Commercial Fiction · Crime · Literary Fiction · Memoir · Narrative Non-Fiction +4 more
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Chloe Seager
Chloe is a Director and Literary Agent at Madeleine Milburn, specialising in science fiction and fantasy, horror, young adult and middle grade, and shortlisted for Agent of the Year at the British Book Awards in 2024 and 2026. She joined the agency in 2019 from Northbank Talent, having begun her career in publicity at Titan Books, where she worked on the campaign for Vicious by V.E. Schwab. She is also an author, with several young adult and middle grade books for publishers including HQ and Scholastic, an adult debut, Open Minded, in 2024, and P.S. You're The Worst in November 2025.
Genres:Contemporary Fiction · Fantasy · Horror · Middle Grade · Romance +4 more
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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
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Ciara McEllin
Ciara is an Associate Agent at Watson, Little, working across fiction and non-fiction. She is building her list with writers she can work closely and considerately with to build a career. In fiction she reads widely across literary, upmarket and book club fiction, and in non-fiction she enjoys narrative, memoir and essay collections.
Genres:Literary Fiction · Memoir · Narrative Non-Fiction · Other Non-Fiction · Thriller
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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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Darley Anderson
Darley is the founder and proprietor of the Darley Anderson Literary, TV and Film Agency, and an ex-publisher with fifty years' experience across general trade publishing. He started the agency single-handedly in 1988 with three writers, a large bank overdraft and no financial backing, and has since built an international reputation as a leading talent spotter. His writers include Lee Child, Martina Cole, John Connolly, Tana French, Chris Carter, Adrian Plass, Annie Murray, Margaret Dickinson, Jacqui Rose, Stephen Spotswood, Anna-Lou Weatherley and Hazel Prior. Almost all were unknown and unpublished when they first wrote to him. He works editorially with his authors before selling their work, and has negotiated some of the highest seven and eight-figure advances achieved for British and Irish writers.
Genres:Crime · Psychological Suspense · Thriller
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Diana Beaumont
Diana is a literary agent at DHH Literary Agency, representing smart commercial fiction and non-fiction. She joined DHH in 2024, having previously agented at Rupert Heath Literary Agency, TAG and Marjacq Scripts. Before that, she was a senior commissioning editor at Transworld.
Genres:Commercial Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Crime · Food & Drink · Historical Fiction +6 more
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Ed Wilson
Ed is an agent and director of Johnson & Alcock, representing fiction and non-fiction, from new voices to established authors. He works editorially with his authors to help make their books the best they can be. He also looks after several of the agency's literary estates, including Beryl Bainbridge, Dick Francis, William Trevor and Elizabeth Taylor. He gives talks to writers' groups and university courses about publishing, and has acted as a mentor and podcast guest.
Genres:Commercial Fiction · Crime · Fantasy · Historical (Non-Fiction) · Literary Fiction +7 more
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Ed Wood
Ed is a literary agent at The Blair Partnership, representing crime, thriller, mystery and book club fiction. Before joining the agency, he was Publishing Director at Little, Brown, where he published bestselling crime, thriller and book club authors including Mark Billingham and Carl Hiaasen. He later became IP Director at Little, Brown, working with authors on original concepts that led to major rights sales and international bestsellers.
Genres:Commercial Fiction · Crime · Mystery · Thriller
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Eleanor Lawlor
Eleanor is an Associate Agent at The Soho Agency, which she joined in 2021. She works alongside Rowan Lawton and Lydia Silver across their lists, from commercial women's fiction, book club and narrative non-fiction to picture books, middle grade, young adult and graphic novels, and is building her own list.
Genres:Fantasy · Horror · Mystery · Paranormal Romance · Romance +3 more
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Emily Glenister
Emily is a Director and literary agent at DHH Literary Agency. She trained as an actress at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School before working as a theatrical agent and assistant, representing performers such as Charlotte Rampling and Sir Roger Moore. She joined DHH as an agent in 2020, after assisting David Headley for four years, and became a Director in 2022. Her clients include Heather Darwent, Suzie Edge and Becca Day.
Genres:Biography · Commercial Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Crime · Fantasy +10 more
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Emma Finn
Emma represents fiction and narrative non-fiction at Conville & Walsh. She is drawn to strong voices and character-driven stories, especially gripping thrillers, atmospheric mystery and novels about families and relationships. She also values editorial work, helping writers shape their manuscripts before they go to publishers.
Genres:Commercial Fiction · Crime · Food & Drink · Literary Fiction · Memoir +4 more
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Emma Leong
Emma is a literary agent at Janklow & Nesbit representing writers of contemporary fiction and non-fiction. She began her publishing career at Janklow & Nesbit in 2019, having studied Psychology and Law. She cares about the craft of writing and about developing and nurturing careers for her clients. She is editorially focused and keen to champion first-time writers, working closely with the New York office and translation rights team to find them publishers across the globe.
Genres:Crime · Horror · Literary Fiction · Narrative Non-Fiction · Other Non-Fiction +3 more
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Emma Paterson
Emma represents writers of fiction, non-fiction and poetry, among them a number of bestselling and prize-winning authors. She joined Aitken Alexander Associates in 2018, having previously spent five years at Rogers, Coleridge & White and worked before that at The Wylie Agency. She is a Director of the agency and, since 2020, a member of the Booker Prize Foundation Advisory Committee, and in 2023 she was elected an honorary fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Genres:Biography · Contemporary Fiction · Crime · Fantasy · Historical (Non-Fiction) +7 more
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Euan Thorneycroft
Euan loves novels with propulsive stories, fascinating characters and great heart, whether commercial fiction or something more literary. He seeks first-in-class storytelling that makes the reader care. He specialises in crossover literary/commercial fiction (“Bookclub fiction”) that starts conversations and taps into the zeitgeist, with examples including Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid and The List by Yomi Adegoke, as well as immersive, transporting novels like Still Life by Sarah Winman and Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason. He reads crime and thrillers, from police procedurals to spy fiction, psychological suspense and full-throttle action adventure, and seeks unusual and imaginative hooks. He is drawn to authors such as Mick Herron, Cara Hunter, MJ Arlidge, TM Logan and Chris Whitaker, and to boundary-pushing crime novels like My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite, Eight Detectives by Alex Pavesi and The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton. Historical fiction is another passion, whether a historical crime series in the vein of Laura Shepherd Robinson or Elodie Harper, or stand-alone novels such as The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins and The Leviathan by Rosie Andrews, with vivid setting and complex characters. In non-fiction, he loves memoirs, stand-outs include Educated by Tara Westover, The Shepherd’s Life by James Rebanks and Do No Harm by Henry Marsh, and works with experts in history, science, technology, politics and nature to craft narrative-driven books.
Genres:Commercial Fiction · Crime · Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Memoir +3 more
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Florence Rees
Florence loves the feeling of having to read one more chapter, whether in fiction or non-fiction. She has spent memorable hours weeping over heart-wrenching memoirs such as When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanthi and The Last Act of Love by Cathy Rentzenbrink. Florence also adores contemporary novels that blend humour with meaty themes, like Rachel's Holiday by Marian Keyes and We All Want Impossible Things by Catherine Newman. Florence is drawn to clever, gripping page-turners such as An Anatomy of a Scandal and Such a Fun Age, and consistently delights in relationship-centred stories, from In Memoriam and Greta & Valdin to Just For The Summer and Yours Truly. Florence has long been a fan of young adult and NA fantasy, inhaling series from Garth Nix, Robin Hobb and Mary Hoffman, as well as works by Carissa Broadbent and Sarah J. Maas.
Genres:Contemporary Fiction · Fantasy · Memoir · Thriller · Young Adult
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Francesca Riccardi
Francesca is a literary agent at Kate Nash Literary Agency. She has over fifteen years of experience in publishing, beginning at RNIB where she transcribed books into accessible formats for blind and partially sighted readers. She has since worked in sales and marketing roles at Canelo, Atlantic Books, Constable & Robinson and HarperCollins.
Genres:Crime · Thriller
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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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Gordon Wise
Gordon Wise joined Curtis Brown in 2005, bringing with him over a decade of experience as an editor and publishing director at Pan Macmillan and John Murray/Hachette. He began his career in the book world as a student bookseller in 1989 and has since become a prominent figure in the industry. He has served as President of the Association of Authors' Agents, co-Managing Director of the Curtis Brown Books Department, and was named Agent of the Year at the British Book Awards. He has also featured in The Bookseller's list of the 100 most influential people in publishing. Known for his collaborative, strategic approach, Gordon has a strong reputation for brand development, editorial matchmaking, and guiding writers through reinvention. He works closely with Elliot Prior and takes on a highly selective list of clients across both fiction and non-fiction.
Genres:Biography · Commercial Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Crime · Historical (Non-Fiction) +5 more
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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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Hannah Ferguson
Hannah is a literary agent at Hardman & Swainson, representing fiction and non-fiction. She grew up above her family's bookshop in the Midlands and later studied Creative Writing at Goldsmiths. She began her career as an intern at The Marsh Agency, staying seven years before becoming an agent and selling her first author. She joined Hardman & Swainson in 2014.
Genres:Crime · Narrative Non-Fiction · Thriller · Women's Fiction
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Hannah Schofield
Hannah is a literary agent at LBA Books, representing commercial and book club fiction, and select non-fiction. She joined LBA in 2018. She previously worked for a literary scout and in translation rights. Hannah grew up in Luxembourg, giving her an international perspective on the publishing market.
Genres:Commercial Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Fantasy · Historical (Non-Fiction) · Historical Fiction +6 more
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Hannah Todd
Hannah is a literary agent representing writers of adult commercial fiction. She previously worked at the Madeleine Milburn Literary Agency before joining Janklow & Nesbit in January 2025. Before becoming an agent, she worked as an editor at independent and 'Big 5' publishers, including Avon, Head of Zeus and Bookouture.
Genres:Commercial Fiction · Crime · Fantasy · Historical Fiction · Mystery +3 more
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Hattie Grünewald
Hattie represents commercial and upmarket fiction, including book club fiction, crime and thriller, historical and contemporary fiction, and some non-fiction in the areas of lifestyle and personal development. She is currently open to commercial and upmarket fiction submissions with a strong pitch, believable characters and an engaging voice. Hattie is particularly keen to see novels for the book club market with conversation-starting topics and a “you need to read this” quality, including multi-layered family dramas, high-concept love stories and classic storytelling. She seeks sexy and funny rom-coms, unusual escapist historical fiction often featuring mysteries or love stories, ambitious detective fiction, puzzle-y mysteries, humorous cosy crime with series potential and regional crime.
Genres:Commercial Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Crime · Historical Fiction · Romance +3 more
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Hayley Steed
Hayley is a literary agent primarily representing writers of fiction. She spent seven years at Madeleine Milburn Literary Agency before joining Janklow & Nesbit in September 2023, where she is now a Director. Before working in publishing she worked in book PR, having completed a degree in English.
Genres:Commercial Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Crime · Historical Fiction · Horror +6 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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Imogen Morrell
Imogen is a literary agent at Greene & Heaton, representing literary and upmarket fiction and non-fiction. Imogen joined the agency in 2018. Before that, Imogen studied English Literature at King's College London and gained an MSt in Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Oxford.
Genres:Biography · Contemporary Fiction · Fantasy · Food & Drink · Historical (Non-Fiction) +9 more
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Imogen Pelham
Imogen is a literary agent at Marjacq Scripts who represents non-fiction and literary and upmarket fiction. Her non-fiction list covers history, science, memoir, cookery, cultural criticism, social issues and psychology.
Genres:Food & Drink · Historical (Non-Fiction) · Literary Fiction · Memoir · Narrative Non-Fiction +3 more
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Isobel Dixon
Isobel is MD and Head of Books at Blake Friedmann Literary Agency, where she represents writers from around the world, including bestsellers and international prize winners. Her clients' work spans contemporary, historical and literary fiction, crime and thrillers, memoir, biography and narrative history. She was born and educated in South Africa and in Edinburgh, where she completed master's degrees in English Literature and Applied Linguistics.
Genres:Biography · Contemporary Fiction · Crime · Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction +3 more
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Jack Fogg
Jack co-founded DunnFogg with Ben Dunn in 2021 and represents fiction and non-fiction as a literary agent. He worked as an editor and publisher for seventeen years, starting at Bloomsbury in 2004 before moving to 4th Estate, Hodder, Penguin Random House and HarperCollins. In 2019 he set up the Mudlark imprint at HarperCollins, which focuses on quality non-fiction.
Genres:Business · Crime · Food & Drink · Historical Fiction · Memoir +4 more
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Jade Kavanagh
Jade is a Literary Agent and Head of Books at Darley Anderson, representing thriller, horror and book club authors, and working selectively in non-fiction. She joined in April 2020, building on her experience at the Caroline Sheldon Literary Agency. Her first client's debut, The Shallows by Holly Craig, published in September 2023 and became an instant Kindle bestseller across the United States, United Kingdom and Australia. As Head of Books she works closely with the Managing Director in shaping and supporting the agency's books list, alongside building her own.
Genres:Commercial Fiction · Crime · Horror · Mystery · Psychological Suspense +3 more
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James Wills
James is Managing Director at Watson Little, where he looks after a dynamic and wide-ranging list of writers. He has a BA in English and Italian and an MA in 20th Century Literature from the University of Leeds. He is a former Secretary of the Association of Authors' Agents.
Genres:Crime · Horror · Literary Fiction · Memoir · Mystery +7 more
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Jamie Cowen
Jamie represents commercial fiction at The Ampersand Agency. He has worked in publishing for 20 years. Before joining Ampersand in 2013 he was a commissioning editor at HarperCollins, and before that he worked in legal and contracts departments at HarperCollins and the Hachette Group.
Genres:Crime · Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction · Sports +1 more
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Jemima Forrester
Before joining David Higham in 2016 Jemima was Senior Commissioning Editor at Orion Publishing Group, and she has brought that collaborative, editorial way of working into her role as an agent.
Genres:Commercial Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Crime · Fantasy · Historical Fiction +7 more
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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 Bell
Jo is a literary agent at Bell Lomax Moreton, representing adult fiction and non-fiction. She has over twenty years of experience in the publishing industry. Jo has worked for HarperCollins and Parragon Books as Sales Director, working with authors, editorial teams, licensors, production and major retailers across the UK.
Genres:Commercial Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Crime · Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction +6 more
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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
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Joanna Swainson
Joanna co-founded Hardman & Swainson with Caroline. She previously worked as a reader and in-house editor for Christopher Little, where the two met, having earlier freelanced for several London literary agencies after a degree in French. She enjoys the editorial side of agenting and has a lifelong love of reading, from Agatha Christie to Charles Dickens.
Genres:Contemporary Fiction · Crime · Fantasy · Historical (Non-Fiction) · Historical Fiction +5 more
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Jon Wood
Jon is a director at RCW Literary Agency, representing bestselling and critically-acclaimed fiction and non-fiction writers. He has worked in UK publishing for over twenty-five years, starting out at Orion before joining RCW in 2019 and becoming a director in 2022. He has particular expertise in the long-term brand management of established writers.
Genres:Commercial Fiction · Crime · Fantasy · Historical (Non-Fiction) · Historical Fiction +4 more
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Jonathan Pegg
Jonathan collaborates closely with writers to launch and advance their careers. He pays careful attention to their priorities, communicates his strategies and any concerns straightforwardly, and negotiates fair terms with a resolve acquired through long experience of the business. Jonathan has worked in the publishing industry since 1997, became a fully-fledged agent in 2002 at Curtis Brown Group Ltd, and founded JPLA in 2008, swiftly establishing a rounded portfolio and a robust independent agency. He divides his time roughly 70/30 between an office in Winchester and a club in London’s West End.
Genres:Commercial Fiction · Literary Fiction · Narrative Non-Fiction · Thriller
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Jonny Geller
Jonny Geller joined Curtis Brown in 1993 after a brief career as an actor. He became a literary agent in 1995 after discovering a debut novel in the unsolicited pile, which went on to sell rights internationally. He played a key role in the Management Buyout of Curtis Brown in 2001 and became CEO in 2012. He now serves as CEO of The Curtis Brown Group, which includes Curtis Brown, C&W, Ed Victor Ltd, Curtis Brown Creative (CBC), Tavistock Wood, Markham Froggatt and Irwin, and Cuba Productions. He is also Chair of Curtis Brown Creative. Widely recognised for his influence in the publishing industry, Jonny has been named Literary Agent of the Year, listed annually on The Bookseller’s 150, and included in the Evening Standard’s 1000 Most Influential People in London. He has spoken at numerous industry events, hosted a TEDx Talk on ‘What Makes a Bestseller’, appeared on the Always Take Notes podcast, and was recently interviewed by The Bookseller to mark Curtis Brown’s 125th anniversary. He is also the creator of The Literary Agent, an online course for Curtis Brown Creative, and the author of Yes, But is it Good for the Jews (Penguin, 2006).
Genres:Commercial Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Literary Fiction · Other Non-Fiction · Thriller +1 more
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Judith Murray
Judith is a literary agent at Greene & Heaton, representing genre fiction and literary non-fiction. She joined the agency in 1995. Before that she worked as a talent scout for translation publishers and as an editor for various publishers. She studied English literature at Wadham College, Oxford.
Genres:Biography · Crime · Fantasy · Historical (Non-Fiction) · Historical Fiction +6 more
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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.
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Juliet Mushens
Juliet is a literary agent at Mushens Entertainment, representing adult fiction across the genres. She became an agent in 2011 after starting her career at HarperCollins Publishers in 2008. More than a dozen of her clients are Sunday Times bestsellers, including Jessie Burton, Richard Osman, Saara El-Arifi and Claire Douglas. She sits on the advisory board of Book Brunch, is President of the British Fantasy Society and sits on the board of the Women's Prize Trust.
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Kate Burke
Kate is a literary agent at Blake Friedmann representing crime, thriller and women's fiction writers. She was previously an editor for ten years, publishing fiction at Penguin, HarperCollins and Random House. Over the past ten years as an agent, she has built up a wide-ranging list of prize-winning and bestselling crime and thriller writers, and authors of contemporary and historical women's fiction. Her editorial background gives her a hands-on approach, editing and developing authors' work with a view to building long-term writing careers.
Genres:Crime · Historical Fiction · Thriller · Women's Fiction
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Kate Evans
Kate is an agent representing books and journalism. She studied English literature and journalism in Australia and New York, and worked in music, magazines and literary festivals before beginning her publishing career at Hachette Australia in 2012. She has been at PFD since 2014.
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Katie Fulford
Katie is a literary agent at Bell Lomax Moreton with a long career in publishing and rights management. She spent 25 years at HarperCollins in roles including Group Rights Director and Managing Director of Collins non-fiction. She was Executive Producer on Channel 4's adaptation of The Tiger Who Came To Tea, which won an international Emmy. Her broad experience across publishing and rights puts her in a strong position to guide authors across media and markets.
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Katie Greenstreet
Katie Greenstreet is a literary agent at Paper Literary Ltd. She trained as a corporate lawyer before moving into publishing, starting as an assistant at ICM Partners in New York and later building her own list at C&W in London. She discovered a passion for amplifying undiscovered voices and getting involved in projects editorially. She has sold six- and seven-figure deals in the US and UK.
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Kimberley Atkins
Kimberley is a literary agent at WME representing commercial fiction and non-fiction. She joined WME's UK Book division in 2025 after sixteen years working at Big Five publishing houses in London and Sydney. She previously acquired and published multiple bestselling authors, including Lucy Score, Stephanie Garber and Gillian McAllister. Before becoming an agent, she held senior editorial roles at Penguin Michael Joseph, Hodder & Stoughton and Head of Zeus, and also worked at Penguin Random House Australia.
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Kirsten Lang
Kirsten is a literary agent at Zeno Agency Ltd. She joined Zeno in 2024, having previously worked at another literary agency and as a bookseller at Foyles in Charing Cross. Kirsten holds a BA in English from Edinburgh Napier University and a Masters in Children's Literature from Reading University. She currently focuses on selling Zeno's translation rights.
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Kiya Evans
Kiya is an agent at Paper Literary, building a list of debut authors. She joined the agency in 2025, having started her career at Mushens Entertainment in 2020 as an intern before becoming an assistant and then Associate Agent. There, she worked closely with a list of both debut and brand authors, including Sunday Times and New York Times bestsellers such as Richard Osman, Abigail Dean, Jessie Burton, Claire Douglas and Saara El-Arifi. She has judged numerous writing prizes, including the Brick Lane Books Short Story Prize, the First Novel Prize and the Goldfinch Novel Award.
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Laura Heathfield
Laura is a Director and literary agent at Greenstone Literary, representing commercial fiction and non-fiction. She studied law at university and spent over twenty years working at Virgin Atlantic. She co-founded Greenstone Literary in 2024 after three years working alongside Tanera. In 2025, she was shortlisted for the Romance Novelists' Association Rising Star Award.
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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.
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Lina Langlee
Lina is a literary agent at The North Literary Agency, representing fiction across genres for adults and younger readers. Originally from Sweden, she moved to Scotland to study for her undergraduate and master's degrees. She worked in publishing for a number of years before becoming an agent, and has been shortlisted for the RNA Agent of the Year award in 2019, 2020 and 2023.
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Liza Deblock
Liza is a literary agent at Greenstone Literary, representing both fiction and non-fiction authors. She began her publishing career as an assistant at Eccles Fisher Associates in 2018, before moving into literary agenting at a boutique agency. She built a curated list of authors, selling their rights in the UK, US and beyond. Liza was a Bookseller Rising Star in 2022 and works with Black Girl Writers.
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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.
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Lucy Morris
Lucy Morris represents a list of acclaimed fiction and non-fiction authors, known for her editorial insight and strong author relationships. She joined Curtis Brown after starting her career in publishing and works closely with debut and established writers alike. She is passionate about helping shape projects from the earliest stages and is especially proud to represent several Curtis Brown Creative graduates, including Hazel Barkworth, Benji Waterhouse, Elizabeth Lee and Tina Orr Munro. Lucy is the founder of the Curtis Brown First Novel Prize and represents both the winner, Chịkọdịlị Emelụmadụ, and runner-up, Lucy Barker, whose debut novels were published in 2023. She is also part of the team behind Discoveries, a talent development programme for unpublished women writers in partnership with the Women’s Prize Trust, Audible, and Curtis Brown Creative.
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Maddalena Cavaciuti
Maddalena studied English Literature at the University of Bristol and joined David Higham Associates in 2017 after a spell working in marketing and events. In 2019 she helped to run the first of many David Higham Open Days for Under-Represented Writers. She is the agency's Head of Audio and works with Managing Director Lizzy Kremer on selected projects.
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Maddy Belton
Maddy is a Literary Agent at Madeleine Milburn, specialising in science fiction and fantasy and in romance, which she joined in 2022. Her list includes bestselling authors Lucy Jane Wood and Alexandra Christo, and number one Sunday Times bestseller Maithree Wijesekara. She represents adult and young adult fantasy, science fiction, horror and romance, alongside some select middle grade.
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Madeleine Milburn
Madeleine is the founding director of Madeleine Milburn Literary, TV & Film Agency and sits on the committee of the Association of Authors’ Agents. She has appeared on The Bookseller’s list of the 150 most influential people in the book trade every year since 2017. Awarded Literary Agent of the Year at the British Book Awards in 2018 and shortlisted again in 2020, Madeleine has discovered bestselling and award-winning authors including Nita Prose, Gail Honeyman, Ashley Audrain, Elizabeth Macneal, Fiona Barton, Beth Morrey and Holly Bourne, and represents crime and thriller writers such as C.L. Taylor, C.J. Tudor, Mark Edwards and Teresa Driscoll. Madeleine reads across all areas of fiction but is immediately drawn to powerful, voice-led book club fiction, high-concept thrillers and suspense, epic multi-generational dramas, powerful love stories with mysteries at their heart and historical fiction with universal themes. Madeleine values an original, enticing hook, a compelling protagonist and a distinctive narrative voice.
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Margaret Halton
Margaret is an agent and Head of Rights at PEW Literary. She studied English at Oxford and has worked for publishing houses and literary agencies on both sides of the Atlantic, including ICM and Rogers, Coleridge & White. She has sold international rights in non-fiction and fiction titles by authors including Margaret Thatcher, Naomi Klein, Toni Morrison, Richard Ford, Zadie Smith and Nick Hornby. She later worked as an editor at Granta Books, where she acquired titles by Mohsin Hamid, Kamila Shamsie, Herta Muller and Colson Whitehead, and now develops her own list of authors, focusing mainly on fiction.
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Maria Brannan
Maria is Greyhound Literary's translation rights manager and a fiction, non-fiction and young adult agent. She works with Sam Edenborough on translation rights for the agency's clients and is building her own list of authors as a primary agent. She previously spent over five years as a literary scout at Maria B. Campbell Associates in London, advising international publishers in more than 12 countries and scouting books for Netflix.
Genres:Contemporary Fiction · Crime · Fantasy · Historical (Non-Fiction) · Historical Fiction +7 more
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Mark Lucas
Mark began his professional life in the editorial department at Futura in Camberwell before becoming a director at Fraser & Dunlop Scripts, later part of The Peters Fraser & Dunlop Group. In 1996 he co-founded LAW with Julian Alexander and Araminta Whitley. His grounding came in the art of mass-market paperback design and from a New York-based mentor who taught that 'we should aim to publish the gleam in the author's eye'. Over the years he has represented a diverse range of national and international bestsellers, and is interested in romance, thriller, memoir, historical non-fiction and edgy humour, always prioritising story above all else.
Genres:Historical (Non-Fiction) · Memoir · Romance · Thriller
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Megan Carroll
Megan is a literary agent at Watson, Little. She graduated from Goldsmiths with a degree in English and American Literature in 2013. She joined the agency in 2014, first as an assistant and now working as a literary agent.
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Michael Dean
Michael began his career in publishing in 2016 as Andrew Nurnberg's assistant and has remained with the agency since. He represents 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 and the Hugo Award.
Genres:Biography · Current Affairs · Historical (Non-Fiction) · Politics · Thriller
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Natalie Barracliffe
Natalie is an Associate Agent at Sheil Land Associates. She studied Comparative Literature and Culture at Royal Holloway, University of London, graduating in 2018. She gained experience at Rogers, Coleridge & White before joining Sheil Land Associates in 2019 as an assistant to two agents, including CEO Sonia Land. She was promoted to Associate Agent in 2024.
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Oli Munson
Oli is a literary agent at A.M. Heath, representing both fiction and non-fiction. His list includes award-winning, bestselling authors of crime, suspense and thrillers, as well as speculative fiction, horror and narrative non-fiction. He has given talks to writers' groups, university courses and international book fairs, and was a Frankfurt Book Fair Fellow in 2010. He is a former committee member of the Association of Authors' Agents.
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Olivia Maidment
Olivia is a Director and Literary Agent at Madeleine Milburn, specialising in literary, upmarket and book club fiction, and always keen to discover bold, original voices from around the world. Since joining the agency in 2020 she has built a list of prizewinning authors and emerging voices including Oisín McKenna, Julia Armfield, Freya Bromley and Sarvat Hasin, with clients recognised by the Polari Prize, the Nero Book Award, the RSL Encore Award and the Observer's debut novelists list. She works closely and editorially with her authors from early drafts through to publication, building long-term global careers, and is passionate about launching debut fiction.
Genres:Contemporary Fiction · Literary Fiction · Psychological Suspense · Thriller
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Patrick Walsh
Patrick is an agent at PEW Literary. He was born and brought up in Venezuela and studied law at Cambridge before becoming a literary agent. He co-founded Conville & Walsh in 2000, sold the agency to Curtis Brown, then founded PEW Literary in 2016. His clients have won or been shortlisted for numerous literary awards.
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Peter Buckman
Peter founded The Ampersand Agency in 2003. He was previously an editor at Penguin Books and the New American Library before becoming a full-time writer. He loves a good story, whether fiction or non-fiction, peopled by credible characters and told in a distinctive voice.
Genres:Crime · Historical Fiction · Other Non-Fiction · Thriller
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Philip Patterson
Philip heads the book department at Marjacq. He joined in 2003 from Curtis Brown, where he was a film, television and theatre agent. Before that he worked for HarperCollins Publishers. He represents adult fiction and non-fiction.
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Piers Blofeld
Piers represents a wide range of clients writing fiction and non-fiction, literary and commercial. He is a columnist for Writing Magazine. He has a taste for the unlikely and likes to be surprised and transported.
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Rachel Conway
Rachel is a director at Georgina Capel Associates, representing literary, television, radio and foreign rights clients. She studied Literature at King's College London and, after time at various publishing houses and literary agencies, joined Georgina Capel in 2010. She became a Director of the agency in 2016.
Genres:Commercial Fiction · Food & Drink · Historical (Non-Fiction) · Literary Fiction · Narrative Non-Fiction +4 more
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Rachel Neely
Rachel is a Literary Agent at Mushens Entertainment. She began her publishing career at HarperCollins before moving to Hachette, where she worked as an editor for six years, most recently as a Commissioning Editor at Orion. Her editorial background informs her collaborative approach to agenting, and she enjoys helping authors craft the best version of their story. She is focused on building fulfilling, long-term careers for her clients.
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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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Rachel Yeoh
Rachel is a Literary Agent at Madeleine Milburn, working with the agency's bestselling brand authors and building a list in literary, upmarket and book club fiction, as well as select narrative non-fiction. She read Law and Politics at university and joined the agency in 2019. Her list includes Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize shortlistee Hanako Footman, Foyle Young Poet of the Year winner Charlotte Runcie and TedX speaker Canwen Xu.
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Rebecca Carter
Rebecca founded Rebecca Carter Literary in 2023 and represents novelists and non-fiction writers with original perspectives on the world. She worked as an editor at Random House between 1997 and 2012, then became an agent at Janklow & Nesbit UK in 2012 before setting up her own agency. She has a long-standing interest in literary fiction, crime and thriller, and non-fiction that speaks to the present moment through history, science or culture.
Genres:Contemporary Fiction · Crime · Current Affairs · Historical (Non-Fiction) · Narrative Non-Fiction +2 more
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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.
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Rosie Pierce
Rosie Pierce joined Curtis Brown in 2018 after beginning her publishing career in editorial at an independent publisher in Edinburgh. She now works alongside Felicity Blunt while also building her own list of authors. Rosie particularly enjoys the editorial process and is passionate about working closely with writers to develop their manuscripts. She is currently open to submissions and welcomes both fiction and non-fiction.
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Rowan Lawton
Rowan joined The Soho Agency in 2019 after almost two decades in the industry. She started her agenting career at WME and latterly ran Furniss Lawton, the literary division of YMU. Her authors are Sunday Times, Kindle, Apple and Audible number one bestsellers, and have been awarded and shortlisted for prizes including the British Book Awards, the Crime Writers' Association Daggers, the Irish Book Awards, the Sunday Times Sports Book Award and Romantic Novel of the Year. She has judged fiction prizes including Richard & Judy Search for a Bestseller, the Bristol Short Story Prize and the Blue Pencil First Novel Award, and was a Bookseller Rising Star in 2012.
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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.
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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.
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Sara Langham
Sara is actively building a list of literary and upmarket fiction and non-fiction. Generally, Sara is looking for wonderful, clear writing with beauty at its heart, great hooky plot-driven stories and/or a combination of both. Sara admires authors such as Elif Batuman, Miranda July, Sarah Moss, Katie Kitamura, Miriam Toews, Sarah Hall, Catherine Newman, Ali Smith, Ann Patchett and Helen Garner. Sara loves speculative and genre-bending fiction such as The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley and The Echoes by Evie Wyld, and novels that play with form and structure, such as Theory and Practice by Michelle de Kretser and Fair Play by Louise Hegarty. Sara is interested in short stories, both dark and gentle comedies, and books on the edges of horror. Sara would love to find a really wild idea that is immaculate on the page. Sara is keen to find a great love story set against the backdrop of historical events as well as swoony contemporary love stories. Sara loves literary crime and is interested in detective novels and literary thrillers such as Sebastian Barry’s Old God’s Time, Eleanor Catton’s Birnam Wood or Kate Atkinson’s Jackson Brodie series. In non-fiction, Sara is always looking to learn new things and enjoys works such as A Thread of Violence by Mark O’Connell, Monsters by Claire Dederer, A Month in Siena by Hisham Matar and Question 7 by Richard Flanagan. Sara would love to find a graphic novel on any subject.
Genres:Contemporary Fiction · Crime · Graphic Novels · Historical Fiction · Horror +6 more
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Sara O’Keeffe
Sara is a literary agent at Andrew Nurnberg Associates, representing commercial and literary fiction. She has twenty-five years of publishing experience and works with best-selling and award-winning authors from around the world. She also secures television and film deals for her clients.
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Sarah Ballard
Sarah is a literary agent at Conville & Walsh, representing fiction and non-fiction. She trained in editorial at Sceptre, Hodder & Stoughton, then worked as an in-house editor at PFD, notably alongside Pat Kavanagh. In 2008 she co-founded United Agents, where she worked as an agent for sixteen years before joining Conville & Walsh in 2024.
Genres:Biography · Commercial Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Crime · Current Affairs +9 more
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Sarah Harvey
Sarah is a literary agent at CAA Publishing, building a list of commercial to reading-group fiction for the UK market alongside a curated list of commercial non-fiction. She joined CAA in 2022 after working at some of the UK's leading publishing houses and agencies, including HarperCollins, Hachette, Pan Macmillan, The Curtis Brown Agency and David Higham Associates. Her background is in translation rights, and she also represents US and translated authors in the UK.
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Sarah Hornsley
Sarah is a literary agent, actively building a list of adult fiction and non-fiction. After graduating from Durham University, she worked at the Orion publishing house and then briefly in script development before becoming an agent in 2015. She has since built an award-winning list that includes Sunday Times bestselling authors, and in 2019 was named a Rising Star by the Bookseller.
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Sarah Williams
Sarah is a director at the Sophie Hicks Agency, where she represents a wide range of fiction and non-fiction authors. She began her publishing career in publicity and editorial in Canada before moving to London in 2010 to work with Ed Victor. She joined the Sophie Hicks Agency in 2014 and also runs its film and television department, working with scouts, agents and studios to sell dramatic rights.
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Siân Ellis-Martin
Siân represents authors across a range of fiction and non-fiction, from commercial to the accessible end of the literary spectrum, at Blake Friedmann Literary Agency. She is keen to hear from authors whose voices are underrepresented in publishing. It matters to her to work with authors from a wide variety of backgrounds.
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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.
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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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Steph Thwaites
Steph Thwaites is Head of the Book Department at Curtis Brown, where she has worked for over 20 years after starting as an intern in 2003. She studied English Literature at Leeds and McGill Universities, and knew from her first day that agenting was the perfect fit. She has remained with Curtis Brown ever since, helping writers and creative talent shape their stories from the earliest ideas to publication. Steph represents a wide range of authors, from debuts to bestselling names, and works closely with storytellers from across the entertainment industry. Her collaborative, strategic approach focuses on long-term career building and developing projects with broad appeal.
Genres:Commercial Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Horror · Literary Fiction · Politics +3 more
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Stephanie Glencross
Stephanie joined David Higham Associates in 2018, having previously been the Editor at Gregory and Company Authors' Agents, where she worked alongside Jane Gregory building the client list and working with authors on their manuscripts and ideas. She is proud to have edited many award-winning authors including Val McDermid, Mo Hayder, Catherine Ryan Howard, Paula Daly, Tan Twan Eng and Belinda Bauer, and brings a lot of editorial experience to her agenting. Before becoming an editor she spent several years at the BBC, first in the Radio Drama department and then in the Story Department of EastEnders, where she learned a great deal about the power of characterisation and the construction of cliffhangers. She was a judge on the Crime Writers' Association Debut Dagger Award for several years, and her love affair with crime fiction started with Nancy Drew and was nurtured by Sara Paretsky, Patricia Cornwell and Michael Connelly.
Genres:Commercial Fiction · Crime · Mystery · Psychological Suspense · Thriller
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Susan Armstrong
Susan is a literary agent at Conville & Walsh, representing a broad range of fiction. She enjoys discovering new and original voices, helping debut writers launch their careers, and working with published novelists who want a change in direction. She looks for strong prose, great storytelling, vivid characters and true originality of vision in the writers she represents.
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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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Victoria Hobbs
Victoria is a literary agent at A.M. Heath representing fiction and non-fiction. She represents novelists including Kamila Shamsie, Maggie O'Farrell, Conn Iggulden and Sandra Newman, alongside non-fiction writers such as journalists and cultural and political figures. Her authors have been Sunday Times bestsellers and have won or been nominated for prizes including the Booker Prize, the Women's Prize, the Folio Prize and the Costa Book Award. She has represented some of her writers for over twenty-five years.
Genres:Contemporary Fiction · Crime · Food & Drink · Literary Fiction · Narrative Non-Fiction +2 more
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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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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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Steven Evans
Steven is an Agent and the Company Manager at Eve White Literary Agency. He grew up in Newcastle upon Tyne and studied French and Italian at Queens' College, Cambridge, before completing an MPhil in Comparative Film and Literature. He then lived in Paris, working as a university language assistant and a freelance scout, before joining Eve White Literary Agency in 2021.
Genres:Contemporary Fiction · Historical Fiction · Middle Grade · Mystery · Thriller +2 more
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Annette Green
Annette handles a wide range of work across both fiction and non-fiction. Annette is particularly interested in literary fiction, general and mass market fiction (including thrillers, comedies and horror), current affairs, history, science, politics, popular culture (film, TV, sport and music), memoir, biography, and older children’s and teenage fiction. Annette does not usually handle science fiction or fantasy, and Annette does not consider poetry or dramatic scripts.
Genres:Biography · Commercial Fiction · Current Affairs · Historical (Non-Fiction) · Horror +7 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
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Ariella Feiner
Ariella represents bestselling, critically acclaimed and award-winning authors across fiction and non-fiction at United Agents. She began her career at PFD in 2006 before moving to United Agents. In 2017, The Bookseller named her a Rising Star.
Genres:Contemporary Fiction · Crime · Fantasy · Historical (Non-Fiction) · Historical Fiction +5 more
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Broo Doherty
Broo is a director and literary agent at DHH Literary Agency. She trained at Downing College, Cambridge, and has worked in publishing for twenty years, across publishing houses and as an agent. She particularly enjoys crime, women's commercial fiction, literary fiction and quirky non-fiction. In 2017 she was voted Literary Agent of the Year at the Romantic Novelist's Association.
Genres:Commercial Fiction · Crime · Historical (Non-Fiction) · Literary Fiction · Other Non-Fiction +3 more
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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
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Charlotte Seymour
Charlotte is a literary agent at Johnson & Alcock, building a list across fiction and non-fiction. She studied modern languages and began her career as a literary scout at Eccles Fisher Associates, before becoming an agent at Andrew Nurnberg Associates in 2015. She joined Johnson & Alcock in 2022. She enjoys working editorially and champions a select number of titles in translation each year.
Genres:Crime · Food & Drink · Literary Fiction · Memoir · Narrative Non-Fiction +3 more
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Claudia Young
Claudia is a literary agent at Greene & Heaton. She joined the agency in 2009. She represents cooking and food journalism, comedy, travel writing, literary fiction, historical novels, crime fiction and thrillers. She also works closely with radio and television production companies and the speakers and presenters' side of the agency.
Genres:Contemporary Fiction · Crime · Food & Drink · Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction +2 more
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Elly James
Elly is director and agent at HHB Agency, where she represents non-fiction and commercial fiction. She joined HHB Agency in 2007 to work alongside founder Heather Holden-Brown and became sole director in 2024 when Heather retired. Before that, she worked in television and film development, seeking storytellers and original voices.
Genres:Commercial Fiction · Crime · Food & Drink · Historical (Non-Fiction) · Horror +7 more
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Emily MacDonald
Emily is an agent in the Books Department at 42 Management & Production. She joined 42 in 2019, working with Eugenie Furniss across her clients. She is now building her own list of authors.
Genres:Commercial Fiction · Crime · Literary Fiction · Narrative Non-Fiction · Thriller
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Felicity Blunt
Felicity Blunt joined Curtis Brown in 2005, following a career change from law and internships at both the Wylie Agency and Curtis Brown. She has worked from both the London and New York offices and represents authors across the literary and commercial spectrum. Her list includes Booker Prize-shortlisted Claire Keegan, Women’s Prize-shortlisted Meg Mason, Gillian McAllister, Rosamund Lupton, and Renée Knight, as well as bestselling debut authors Abi Daré and Bonnie Garmus. She also represents the Estates of Daphne du Maurier and Jilly Cooper, and co-agents major international authors in collaboration with UTA and CAA, including Pulitzer Prize winner Jennifer Egan and Women’s Prize winner Ann Patchett. In 2024, she served as Executive Producer on the Disney+ adaptation of Jilly Cooper’s Rivals.
Genres:Commercial Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Crime · Food & Drink · Historical Fiction +9 more
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Gabrielle Demblon
Gabrielle is Foreign Rights Manager and Literary Agent at Watson, Little. Gabrielle joined the agency in 2024 after six years as a literary scout. Gabrielle heads up the foreign rights department, working with Ayesha Mukherjee to help authors find publishers worldwide. Gabrielle is also building a personal list of authors.
Genres:Crime · Food & Drink · Horror · Literary Fiction · Other Non-Fiction +4 more
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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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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
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Harry Illingworth
Harry is a director and literary agent at DHH Literary Agency. He studied English Literature and Creative Writing at Northumbria University and completed internships at Michael O'Mara Books, HarperCollins and Pan Macmillan. He then worked at Goldsboro Books and DHH, spending five years as Marketing and Communications Manager while building his list before becoming a full-time agent. His clients include prize-winning and bestselling authors.
Genres:Commercial Fiction · Crime · Fantasy · Horror · Mystery +2 more
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Helena Maybery
Helena originally trained and worked as an actor before moving into publishing in 2021. She assisted the managing director of a boutique literary agency for two years before joining Curtis Brown to assist Sheila Crowley in April 2024, reading Sheila's submissions daily and looking out for new talent.
Genres:Commercial Fiction · Crime · Food & Drink · Memoir · Psychological Suspense +3 more
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Jamie Maclean
Jamie is an agent at CMM Agency who represents fiction and non-fiction. He trained at Edinburgh College of Art and later worked at Sotheby's before running galleries including his own, the Maclean Gallery. In 1995 he founded the Erotic Review, later returning as its editor, and has written for publications including the Observer and New Statesman.
Genres:Crime · Historical Fiction · Mystery · Politics · Self-Help +1 more
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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
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John Baker
John is a genre-fiction Literary Agent at Peters Fraser + Dunlop, specialising in fantasy, science fiction, horror, and commercial crime and thriller for adult and young adult readers. His authors have won the Future Worlds Prize and the Imagined Futures Prize and been shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize, the British Science Fiction Association and British Fantasy awards, the Shirley Jackson Awards and the Bram Stoker Awards, with titles on the Sunday Times and USA Today bestseller charts and work adapted for global cinema by Oscar-winning collaborators.
Genres:Crime · Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction · Thriller +1 more
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John Berlyne
John is the founder of Zeno Agency and a long-time champion of high-concept, plot-driven storytelling. He gravitates toward speculative fiction where characters face real problems and narrative momentum drives the story. A lifelong fan of science fiction and fantasy, John has a sharp eye for originality and a low tolerance for derivative work or overly whimsical narratives.
Genres:Crime · Fantasy · Historical Fiction · Horror · Science Fiction +1 more
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John Silbersack
John is a publishing professional with deep experience as editor, publisher and agent. He spent 17 years at Trident Media Group as Executive Vice President, representing bestsellers by fiction and non-fiction authors. Before that, he built his publishing background at companies including HarperCollins, Warner Books and Penguin Putnam. He has an AB from Brown University and is the author of several books.
Genres:Biography · Business · Commercial Fiction · Current Affairs · Fantasy +12 more
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Julian Friedmann
Julian represents script writers and book writers across a broad range of genres and formats. He started as an editor for two academic publishers in the early 1970s before setting up his own publishing company. He set up a literary agency in 1976, later merging with Carole Blake to form Blake Friedmann. He has lectured worldwide on the business of scriptwriting and published two books on the subject.
Genres:Crime · Thriller
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Julie Crisp
Julie is a literary agent at Julie Crisp Literary Agency, representing science fiction, fantasy, horror and mythical retellings. She is a long-term fan of these genres and looks for character-driven, own voices stories with a speculative edge.
Genres:Crime · Fantasy · Historical Fiction · Horror · Science Fiction +1 more
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Julie Fergusson
Julie is a literary agent representing fiction across a range of genres, from commercial to literary. She has worked in the publishing industry for over a decade, first in Scottish publishing and then UK-wide as a freelance editor and now agent. She has a degree in mathematics and a master’s degree in creative writing, both from the University of Edinburgh.
Genres:Commercial Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Literary Fiction · Romance · Thriller
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Julie Gourinchas
Julie champions a selective list focused on upmarket and literary adult and new adult fiction across a wide variety of genres. Writers she represents have won or been nominated for awards including the British Book Awards, the Hugo Awards, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Stoker Awards, the BSFA Awards, the Betty Trask Award, and the Saltire National Book Awards. She is a member of the Association of Authors' Agents Bridge Committee, which focuses on junior agent development.
Genres:Contemporary Fiction · Fantasy · Historical Fiction · Horror · Literary Fiction +5 more
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Justin Nash
Justin is Managing Director at Kate Nash Literary Agency. He holds a BA in History and an MA in Medieval Studies from Birkbeck, University of London. He worked for a number of years as a teacher of History and Politics. He has edited and helped research new editions of books on the Far East Prisoner of War experience in World War Two.
Genres:Crime · Fantasy · Historical Fiction · Narrative Non-Fiction · Science Fiction +1 more
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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
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Marilia Savvides
Marilia founded The Plot Agency in 2024 and represents an eclectic list of authors. She began her career at Peters Fraser and Dunlop, working first as an international rights agent and later as a literary agent building her own list. She then worked as a literary agent at 42MP, helping to launch its Book Division. She holds a law degree from UCL and trained on the Columbia Publishing Course in New York.
Genres:Biography · Contemporary Fiction · Crime · Horror · Mystery +7 more
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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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Meg Davis
Meg founded Ki Agency in 2011, representing authors and scriptwriters. She worked in theatre and bookselling before becoming an agent, and spent some years at MBA. She has been involved in the wider industry, including as Chair of the Writers' Organisations Advisory Group and on the committee of the Association of Authors' Agents.
Genres:Commercial Fiction · Crime · Fantasy · Horror · Mystery +5 more
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Robin Wade
Robin founded Wade & Co Literary Agency in 2001. The agency represents fiction and non-fiction for adults and young adults.
Genres:Commercial Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Crime · Fantasy · Historical Fiction +9 more
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Samantha Brace
Sam is an agent representing books alongside PFD's contemporary classics authors. After a degree in classics and English at Memorial University of Newfoundland, she worked across a range of roles and industries in Canada. She joined PFD in 2017, after the inaugural Columbia Publishing Course at Oxford, and went on to run Agora Books as publisher, working across editorial, production, sales and design; there she launched the Lost the Plot writers' competition and the Uncrowned Queens of Crime series, celebrating forgotten female crime writers. She is now building a list of crime and reading-group fiction and running PFD's contemporary classics department.
Genres:Contemporary Fiction · Crime · Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Mystery +2 more
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Sheila Crowley
Sheila Crowley represents a wide range of authors, from award-winning novelists to million-copy-selling non-fiction writers. Authors are at the heart of her work, and she is deeply involved at every stage of the publishing process. Originally from Dublin, Sheila began her career at Poolbeg Press before moving to London in 1991. She went on to hold senior sales and marketing roles at major publishers including HarperCollins and Hodder, gaining extensive experience across United Kingdom, Irish, and international markets. She transitioned into agenting in 2003 and brings a strong commercial sensibility, industry insight, and a passion for helping authors build long-term careers. Sheila is keen to work with both debut authors and published writers looking to reinvigorate or redirect their careers.
Genres:Biography · Business · Commercial Fiction · Crime · Historical Fiction +11 more
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Tanera Simons
Tanera is a director and literary agent at Greenstone Literary, representing commercial fiction. She has worked in publishing for ten years, including seven as a literary agent, before co-founding Greenstone Literary with Laura Heathfield. Her authors are based in both the US and the UK, and their work has been adapted for television and film. She was named Agent of the Year at the 2025 Romantic Novelists' Association Awards.
Genres:Historical Fiction · Psychological Suspense · Romance · Romantic Fantasy · Thriller +1 more
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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
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