Sarah Lutyens
- Submission status
- Open
- Submission route
- Response time
- Aims to reply within 8 weeks
- Last checked
- 2 days ago
About
Sarah launched the agency with Felicity in 1993 following a career in bookselling at Heyward Hill, then at the Literary Review and in various publishing rights departments.
In 2009 she co-opened the L&R bookshop, which in 2023 embraced a new chapter under the ownership of Daunt Books as The L&R Bookshop, and Sarah will now be competing to be its most devoted customer. She looks after her own clients and works with the independent Australian publisher Text, selling UK rights in their wide range of fiction and non-fiction. Sarah reads crime fiction obsessively and her favourite blurb adjective is “unputdownable”, but her tastes are eclectic, encompassing literary fiction and thought-provoking non-fiction. Although Sarah is now more focused on her existing clients and the overall business, she still finds it hard to resist a rare project that brings out that Messianic glint in her eye.
Genres
Looking for
- Sarah is particularly drawn to crime novels that grip from the first page, as well as literary works and non-fiction that challenge perspectives and question the world we live in.
- she values projects described as “unputdownable” and remains open to exceptional manuscripts that ignite her passion.
Agency submission guidelines
Send a covering letter, a short synopsis and the first three chapters (or up to 5000 or so words) to submissions@lutyensrubinstein.co.uk. If you have a particular agent in mind, let Susannah know. Plays and film/television scripts are not accepted. Do not post unsolicited manuscripts; the agency cannot be held responsible for material sent by post or by hand.
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Clients include
- Bella Pollen
- David Hare
- Garry Disher
- Graeme Simsion
- Helen Garner
- John Ajvide Lindqvist
- Kate Grenville
- Lloyd Jones
- Mark Billingham
- Michelle de Kretser
- Peter Temple
- Sam Neill
- Sybille Bedford
- Tim Flannery
- Willy Russell
Other agents at Lutyens & Rubinstein
Anna Boyce
Anna is a junior agent at Lutyens & Rubinstein. She joined the agency in 2019, working in the bookshop before moving to the agency full-time in 2022. She works closely with Sarah and Felicity, assisting them with their clients, and has recently begun to build her own list of authors.
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Daisy Parente
Daisy joined Lutyens & Rubinstein in 2008 and she has run her own list since 2012. She is always open to submissions and loves to think about how books work in the world, delighting in being swept away and unable to put a book down. Daisy’s list includes award-winning writers in food writing, young adult and middle-grade books, narrative non-fiction and memoir, contemporary and historical fiction, travel and nature writing, crime, music books including biographies and autobiographies, and poetry.
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Felicity Rubinstein
Felicity began her career in books at a small literary agency in New York and, after a decade working across publishing on both sides of the Atlantic, left her role as Managing Director of Macmillan Publishers London to co-found Lutyens & Rubinstein with Sarah Lutyens. She and her colleagues flourished, even opening a beautiful independent bookshop in 2009 that offered invaluable insights into reader choices and showcased their authors. By 2023, the agency had outgrown the shop’s basement location and moved into separate offices.
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Jane Finigan
Jane is a literary agent and partner at Lutyens & Rubinstein, representing fiction and non-fiction. Jane joined the agency in 2006 and became a partner in 2016, later becoming a full partner and co-owner of the agency in 2023. Jane oversees the agency's Rights and Contracts Department, working on translation, overseas deals, audio and film and TV for clients.
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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.
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