As of 9 October 2026, we list 404 UK literary agents across 132 agencies, and 299 are open to submissions. See what each one is looking for and when we last checked.
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Patrick is a literary agent at PEW Literary. He was born and brought up in Venezuela and studied law at Cambridge before becoming an agent. He co-founded Conville & Walsh in 2000, later selling it to Curtis Brown, before founding PEW Literary in 2016.
Genres:Commercial Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Crime · Historical Non-Fiction · Literary Fiction +3 more
Paul is the Managing Director of Bell Lomax Moreton. He joined the agency in 2000 from Penguin Books, where he was Head of Children's Book Sales. He represents children's books across all age ranges, along with narrative non-fiction, biography, sport, music and autobiography.
Genres:Biography · Children's Books · Commercial Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Crime +10 more
Penny is a literary agent at Holroyde Cartey, representing authors and illustrators across fiction and non-fiction. She has worked for publishers Walker Books in the UK and Candlewick Press in the US and later as an agent with Caroline Sheldon. She has a particular love for the picture book.
Genres:Children's Books · Other Non-Fiction
Genres:Commercial Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Fantasy · Health & Wellness · Historical Fiction +9 more
Peter founded The Ampersand Agency in 2003, representing fiction and non-fiction writers and several literary estates. He was the youngest member of the editorial board of Penguin Books before moving to New York as a commissioning editor with the New American Library. He later worked as a full-time writer, producing books, films, plays, journalism and scripts for television and radio. 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
Genres:Biography · Children's Books · Commercial Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Crime +23 more
Genres:Commercial Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Crime · Historical Non-Fiction · Literary Fiction +5 more
Philip is an agent at Greyhound Literary, representing fiction and non-fiction. He spent thirty-three years as an editor and publisher, roughly half in corporate publishing and half in independent publishing, before moving into agenting in spring 2023. He was Publisher of Picador at Pan Macmillan, Scribe UK, Granta & Portobello Books, and Flamingo and Fontana Press at HarperCollins. Writers he published won prizes including the Nobel, Booker, Pulitzer and Women's Prize for Fiction.
Genres:Other Non-Fiction
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.
Genres:Commercial Fiction · Historical Fiction · Historical Non-Fiction · Literary Fiction · Narrative Non-Fiction +2 more
Philippa founded PSA Ltd in 2024 and works with authors from pitch to publication. She studied Classical Civilisation at Leeds University and took a Masters in Publishing at Kingston University. She then worked at literary agencies including Peters, Fraser + Dunlop, Sheil Land and David Godwin Associates, spending ten years building her list.
Genres:Commercial Fiction · Literary Fiction · Other Non-Fiction
Genres:Commercial Fiction · Literary Fiction · Other Non-Fiction
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.
Genres:Commercial Fiction · Crime · Current Affairs · Historical Non-Fiction · Literary Fiction +5 more
Polly is a literary agent at Georgina Capel Associates. She joined the agency in 2021. She studied Literature at the University of Oxford and holds an MA in Creative Writing Prose Fiction from the University of East Anglia. Her clients include winners of the Hawthornden Prize, the RSL Encore Award, the Wingate Literary Prize and the Banjo Prize.
Genres:Commercial Fiction · Literary Fiction
Genres:Biography · Commercial Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Crime · Fantasy +16 more
Rachael co-founded Creative Roots Studio, where she works as a literary agent. She has over ten years of publishing experience as an author, having published more than 25 books spanning picture books, young adult and adult non-fiction, including her debut young adult title which sold at auction to Walker Books and Macmillan US. She also serves as a trustee for English PEN and a non-executive director for ALCS.
Genres:Children's Books · Middle Grade · Other Non-Fiction · Young Adult
Rachel has run The Sayle Literary Agency since 1993.
Genres:Biography · Contemporary Fiction · Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Narrative Non-Fiction +2 more
Rachel is a director at Georgina Capel Associates, representing literary, book club and commercial fiction. She studied Literature at King's College London and joined the agency in 2010 after working at various publishing houses and literary agencies. She became a director in 2016. Her clients have been longlisted for the Booker Prize and Desmond Elliott Prize, and are winners of the Manchester Fiction Prize and RSL Giles St Aubyn Award.
Genres:Commercial Fiction · Food & Drink · Historical Non-Fiction · Literary Fiction · Narrative Non-Fiction +3 more
Joined Curtis Brown in 2022 and is now an Associate Agent, assisting Jonathan Lloyd while actively building her own list. Keen to hear from debut novelists, and counts working editorially with authors among her favourite parts of the job.
Genres:Biography · Contemporary Fiction · Historical Fiction · Historical Non-Fiction · Literary Fiction +3 more
Rachel represents a broad range of work at CAA, from commercial to literary fiction, with some non-fiction, across adult, young adult and middle-grade markets. She spent ten years editing and commissioning fiction for young people at houses including Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster, and was global publishing director at the Roald Dahl Story Company. She became an agent in 2018 and joined CAA in 2023.
Genres:Commercial Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Literary Fiction · Middle Grade · Narrative Non-Fiction +1 more
Rachel is the founder and director of RML, which she established in 2019. She previously worked as a literary agent at Furniss Lawton and as Agent and International Business Director at Peters Fraser and Dunlop, where she sat on the Executive Board. Before that she worked in publishing at Penguin and Random House. Over twenty years in the industry, she has secured major publishing and screen deals for a wide range of authors.
Genres:Biography · Food & Drink · Health & Wellness · Narrative Non-Fiction · Other Non-Fiction
Genres:Biography · Commercial Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Crime · Fantasy +10 more
Rachel is a literary agent at Mushens Entertainment, representing both literary and commercial fiction with a preference for darker stories. She began her publishing career at HarperCollins before working as an editor at Hachette for six years, most recently as a Commissioning Editor at Orion. She joined Mushens Entertainment in 2022 and became a Literary Agent in 2023 after covering Juliet Mushens' maternity leave.
Genres:Commercial Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Crime · Fantasy · Horror +7 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.
Genres:Children's Books · Fantasy · Horror · Middle Grade · Other Non-Fiction +3 more
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.
Genres:Commercial Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Fantasy · Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction +4 more
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