What they represent
Commercial Fiction, Health & Wellness, Other Non-Fiction, Politics
Peter is a literary agent and the founder and Managing Director of Redhammer, which he set up in 2001 to work across London and New York, keeping a deliberately small list of writers.
He is himself the bestselling author of more than twenty books, including Why You Don't Need Meat, and his clients have included the novelist Michelle Paver and the journalist and former MP Martin Bell. He also founded Litopia, an online community for writers.
Commercial Fiction, Health & Wellness, Other Non-Fiction, Politics
Bill McGuire, Jonathon Porritt, Julian Caldecott, Michelle Paver, Norman Baker, Peggy Brusseau
Redhammer takes submissions from unpublished authors through the form on its Submissions page. Published authors should use the Contact form instead. What to send: a page on the book and a paragraph about you, with the opening thirty pages, as polished as you can make them. Worth knowing: Redhammer represents a handful of writers at a time by design, and handles everything from publishing rights to film, theatre and streaming. It reads everything it receives and replies to every submission within eight weeks.
James is Managing Director at Watson Little and 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 and is a former Secretary of the Association of Authors' Agents. He is passionate about reading and good writing and is hugely enthusiastic about his authors' work.
Represents crime, horror, literary fiction, memoir, mystery and 7 more.
Donald is a literary agent at Watson, Little. He studied English Literature and History at Queen Mary, University of London and University College London. He began his career at Penguin Press before moving to A P Watt, where he worked for five years building a list of non-fiction and fiction for adults. He joined Watson, Little as an agent in 2013.
Represents business, commercial fiction, contemporary fiction, crime, current affairs and 8 more.
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.
Represents children's books, fantasy, horror, middle grade, other non-fiction and 3 more.
Jane runs her own literary agency, specialising in high quality adult non-fiction and fiction and young adult fiction for young teens. She was a publisher before establishing the agency in 1987, which she now runs from London and Cornwall. Her non-fiction interests range across natural history, memoir, biography, history, cookery, current affairs, humour, lifestyle and TV tie-ins.
Represents biography, commercial fiction, current affairs, food and drink, historical non-fiction and 4 more.
Haico joined Sebes Bisseling Kleuver UK after working for a number of years in foreign rights at the De Bezige Bij Publishing House in Amsterdam and as a literary translator. They're actively building a list of fiction and non-fiction writers working in English. Both in fiction and non-fiction Haico's tastes are wide-ranging. Having lived in various countries and coming from a mixed background, they're drawn to novels with a strong sense of place, as well as those about immigration, community, identity and memory. Some of their favourite authors are: Fernanda Melchor, Percival Everett, Svetlana Alexievich, Jessica Au, Selva Almada, Claudia Rankine, Paulo Scott, Olga Tokarczuk, Antonio di Benedetto, Patrick Radden Keefe, Toni Morrison, Dan Saladino, Rachel Cusk, Maxim Februari, David Graeber and Jacques Ranciere.
Represents commercial fiction, food and drink, historical fiction, historical non-fiction, literary fiction and 2 more.
Susan Smith is Contracts Manager at MBA as well as an agent in her own right. She is currently focused on millennials - particularly young women with a solid platform.
Represents other non-fiction.
