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Creative Roots Studio

Agents include:Fiz Osborne · Rachael Davis-Featherstone

Genres:Children's Books · Other Non-Fiction · Young Adult

Cull & Co. Ltd

Agents include:Tom Cull

Genres:Biography · Current Affairs · Historical (Non-Fiction) · Memoir · Politics +2 more

Curtis Brown Ltd

Agents include:Alice Lutyens · Cathryn Summerhayes · Ciara Finan · Elliot Prior +15 more

Genres:Biography · Business · Commercial Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Crime +23 more

Daisy Chandley

Peters Fraser + Dunlop

Daisy is an agent in the books department at PFD, and works with Tim Bates as the United Kingdom sub-agent for New Directions Publishing in the United States. She joined the company in 2019 after graduating from the University of Oxford with a degree in politics, philosophy and economics.

Genres:Contemporary Fiction · Fantasy · Food & Drink · Horror · Literary Fiction +8 more

Daisy Parente

Lutyens & Rubinstein

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.

Genres:Biography · Contemporary Fiction · Crime · Food & Drink · Historical Fiction +7 more

Dame Caroline Michel

Peters Fraser + Dunlop

Caroline Michel DBE has been chief executive of PFD since 2007, and chairs the Hay Festival, having previously served as its trustee. She was formerly chair of the BFI Trust, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and of the Royal Society of Literature, vice president of the London Library and a trustee of Historic Royal Palaces. She has sat on boards including the BFI and Somerset House, served on the Booker Prize Advisory Committee, and has been a longstanding champion of libraries and librarians.

Genres:Biography · Contemporary Fiction · Historical (Non-Fiction) · Literary Fiction · Other Non-Fiction

Darley Anderson

Darley Anderson Literary, TV and Film Agency

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

Darley Anderson Children’s Book Agency

Agents include:Becca Langton · Chloe Davis · Clare Wallace · Kat Lenahan +2 more

Genres:Children's Books · Contemporary Fiction · Fantasy · Graphic Novels · Historical (Non-Fiction) +10 more

Darley Anderson Literary, TV and Film Agency

Agents include:Camilla Bolton · Clare Wallace · Darley Anderson · Jade Kavanagh +1 more

Genres:Commercial Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Crime · Fantasy · Graphic Novels +9 more

Darryl Samaraweera

Artellus

Darryl is an agent at Artellus, with interests in literary fiction, social history, travel and cookery. He studied English Literature at Christ's College, Cambridge and worked as a freelance copywriter before joining Artellus. His debut novel, 'Vicky Had One Eye Open', was published in 2008 and was short-listed for a World Book Day prize.

Genres:Food & Drink · Historical (Non-Fiction) · Literary Fiction · Narrative Non-Fiction · Travel

David Godwin

David Godwin Associates Ltd

David is a literary agent at David Godwin Associates. He has been an agent for thirty years. He previously worked as a publisher at Heinemann, Secker and Warburg, and then Cape.

Genres:Commercial Fiction · Contemporary Fiction

David Godwin Associates Ltd

Agents include:David Godwin · Sebastian Godwin

Genres:Commercial Fiction · Contemporary Fiction

David H Headley

DHH Literary Agency

David is the Managing Director of DHH Literary Agency, which he founded in 2008, and represents an eclectic range of best-selling and award-winning authors. He co-founded Goldsboro Books, a leading independent bookseller in London, and has spent 26 years building relationships with publishers throughout the UK. David has won awards for bookselling and has been named among The Bookseller's Top 100 most influential people in publishing several times.

Genres:Commercial Fiction · Literary Fiction

David Higham Associates

Agents include:Andrew Gordon · Christabel McKinley · Elise Dillsworth · Esme Bright +12 more

Genres:Biography · Business · Children's Books · Commercial Fiction · Contemporary Fiction +27 more

David Luxton

David Luxton Associates

David runs David Luxton Associates, a literary agency dedicated to non-fiction publishing, with particular interests in sport, music, food-writing and politics. He began his career at Sports Pages, London's leading sports bookstore. He established the Luxton Harris Agency in 2003 before founding David Luxton Associates in 2011. He represents a diverse range of authors including many high-profile sports personalities.

Genres:Food & Drink · Narrative Non-Fiction · Other Non-Fiction · Politics · Sports

David Luxton Associates

Agents include:David Luxton · Nick Walters

Genres:Business · Food & Drink · Narrative Non-Fiction · Other Non-Fiction · Politics +2 more

DHH Literary Agency

Agents include:Abi Fellows · Broo Doherty · David H Headley · Diana Beaumont +2 more

Genres:Biography · Children's Books · Commercial Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Crime +20 more

Diana Beaumont

DHH Literary Agency

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

Diane Banks

Northbank Talent Management

Diane is the founder and CEO of Northbank Talent Management, drawing on more than 25 years of experience in the media industry. She devises and oversees content monetisation strategies for the agency's roster of broadcasters, writers, speakers and creators, and for brands. Outside work, she serves as a non-executive director, charity ambassador and arts trustee for several organisations.

Genres:Commercial Fiction · Literary Fiction · Other Non-Fiction

Donald Winchester

Watson, Little Ltd

Donald is a literary agent at Watson, Little, representing non-fiction and fiction for adults. He studied English Literature and History at Queen Mary, University of London and University College London. He began his publishing career at Penguin Press before moving to A P Watt, where he worked for five years and began building a list of non-fiction and fiction. He joined Watson, Little as an agent in 2013.

Genres:Commercial Fiction · Historical (Non-Fiction) · Literary Fiction · Memoir · Other Non-Fiction +3 more

Donna Greaves

Colwill & Peddle

Donna is an agent at Colwill & Peddle, building a list across adult commercial, book club and accessible literary fiction, and non-fiction. She joined the agency in 2025, having previously spent seven years at Jo Unwin Literary Agency. Before working in publishing, she trained and worked as a speech and language therapist in the NHS.

Genres:Commercial Fiction · Crime · Horror · Literary Fiction · Mystery +2 more

Dorie Simmonds

Dorie Simmonds Agency Ltd

Dorie is a literary agent who represents general nonfiction, commercial fiction and children's books. She has worked in the publishing industry on both sides of the Atlantic, including within publishing houses, and is herself a published author. Dorie studied at Vassar College and The London School of Economics, and worked at William Morrow & Company and Dell Publishing in the US, as well as Dorling Kindersley and Reed Children's in the UK, before opening her own agency.

Genres:Children's Books · Commercial Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Literary Fiction · Middle Grade +3 more

Dorie Simmonds Agency Ltd

Agents include:Dorie Simmonds

Genres:Children's Books · Commercial Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Literary Fiction · Middle Grade +3 more

Dotti Irving

Greyhound Literary

Dotti is an agent at Greyhound Literary, representing narrative non-fiction. She spent a decade at Penguin before founding Colman Getty, a publishing PR agency, working with writers including William Boyd, Germaine Greer and J.K. Rowling. She sold the company in 2012 and returned to an independent career in 2022. She is a trustee of the Deborah Rogers Foundation and Deputy President of the Royal Literary Fund.

Genres:Narrative Non-Fiction