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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Doug is an associate agent at PEW Literary. He has worked in the book industry for over three decades, including 17 years as a publishing director at Penguin Random House. He joined PEW in 2019. He is drawn to non-fiction such as history, popular science, politics and memoir, as well as the occasional off-the-wall novel.
Genres:Commercial Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Historical Non-Fiction · Literary Fiction · Memoir +3 more
Genres:Business · Crime · Current Affairs · Fantasy · Food & Drink +10 more
Ed is an agent and director at Johnson & Alcock, representing fiction and non-fiction from new voices to established, bestselling and award-winning authors. He works editorially with his authors to help shape their books. He also looks after the majority of the agency's estates, including Beryl Bainbridge, Dick Francis, William Trevor and Elizabeth Taylor.
Genres:Commercial Fiction · Crime · Current Affairs · Fantasy · Historical Non-Fiction +8 more
Ed is a literary agent at The Blair Partnership, representing crime, thriller, mystery and book club fiction. He was previously Publishing Director at Little, Brown, where he published bestselling authors including Mark Billingham, Chris Brookmyre and Carl Hiaasen. He later became Little, Brown's IP Director, working with authors on original concepts that became major rights sales successes.
Genres:Commercial Fiction · Crime · Horror · Literary Fiction · Mystery +3 more
Genres:Children's Books · Contemporary Fiction · Fantasy · Middle Grade · Young Adult
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
Elise is a literary agent based in London, representing literary and general fiction and non-fiction. She became an agent in 2012, having previously worked as a commissioning editor at Virago Press. She co-founded the Diversity in Publishing Network in 2004 and has judged several literary prizes, including the OCM Bocas Fiction Prize and the SI Leeds Prize.
Genres:Biography · Commercial Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Literary Fiction · Memoir +2 more
Elise became a literary agent in 2012, having previously been a commissioning editor at Virago Press. She co-founded the Diversity in Publishing Network in 2004, which received the New Venture Award from Women in Publishing in 2005. Her authors have won or been nominated for awards including the Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, the Caine Prize, the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, the Forward Prize and the Women's Prize for Fiction.
Genres:Biography · Food & Drink · Literary Fiction · Memoir · Narrative Non-Fiction +2 more
Genres:Biography · Commercial Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Literary Fiction · Memoir +2 more
Elizabeth is a native New Yorker whose publishing career has spanned both sides of the Atlantic. She worked within the United States editorial departments of Oxford University Press and Alfred A. Knopf before joining the Elaine Markson Literary Agency in 1996. In 2004, Elizabeth moved to London to set up and run their United Kingdom office, then joined Curtis Brown in 2006 as a Senior Agent and Director. In 2012, Elizabeth moved to WME, representing a broad range of award-winning and best-selling authors in literary fiction, biography, journalism and cultural history. Elizabeth has served on the Creative Council of the Aspen Institute’s Summer Words Festival, on the faculty of the Breadloaf Writers’ Conference, and as a featured speaker at the University of East Anglia MFA writing programme, the Oxford Summer Books Programme, and Trinity College Dublin.
Genres:Literary Fiction · Memoir · Narrative Non-Fiction · Other Non-Fiction
Joined Curtis Brown in 2022 and is an Associate Agent working alongside Gordon Wise. Previously worked for Albatross Agency in Stockholm and as a scout at Eccles Fisher Associates, and before publishing taught English literature at secondary schools in London.
Genres:Biography · Historical Fiction · Historical Non-Fiction · Literary Fiction · Other Non-Fiction +2 more
Elly is director and agent at HHB Agency Ltd. She joined the agency in 2007 to work alongside its founder, Heather Holden-Brown, and became sole director in 2024 after Heather's retirement. Before working as an agent, she worked in television and film development, looking for great storytellers and original voices.
Genres:Biography · Commercial Fiction · Crime · Food & Drink · Historical Non-Fiction +9 more
Emily is a literary agent at The Blair Partnership who represents non-fiction for mainstream audiences. Before becoming an agent, she spent a decade working at HarperCollins, Orion and Little, Brown, where she was latterly the Publisher of Sphere Non-Fiction. The books she edited and published included Sunday Times bestsellers, award nominees and winners, and titles translated and exported internationally. She has extensive insider experience across the spectrum of non-fiction.
Genres:Current Affairs · Food & Drink · Health & Wellness · Historical Non-Fiction · Narrative Non-Fiction +4 more
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's assistant. She joined DHH as an assistant to David Headley, becoming an agent in 2020 and a Director in 2022. Her clients include Heather Darwent, Suzie Edge and Becca Day.
Genres:Commercial Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Fantasy · Historical Fiction · Horror +5 more
Emily is an agent in the Books Department at 42 Management & Production, building her own list. She joined the agency in 2019, working with Eugenie Furniss across her clients before establishing her own list.
Genres:Commercial Fiction · Crime · Literary Fiction · Narrative Non-Fiction · Thriller
Emily is a hands-on, creative and energetic literary agent based in London, working with Aevitas Creative Management. She spent ten years as an editor in trade publishing houses before becoming an agent. She takes a personal, collaborative approach with authors, focusing primarily on non-fiction and placing clients with publishers ranging from the major houses to smaller independents. Her broad UK and US client list includes journalists, chefs, academics and health professionals.
Genres:Biography · Current Affairs · Food & Drink · Health & Wellness · Historical Non-Fiction +4 more
Emily is a literary agent representing children's illustrators and authors of picture books, middle grade, young adult and non-fiction. She started at United Agents in 2013 in the foreign rights department, handling overseas rights for UA's children's authors and illustrators, before moving into primary agenting in 2015. Before that, she worked in a primary school, reading with children every day and learning what they enjoy reading.
Genres:Children's Books · Contemporary Fiction · Fantasy · Graphic Novels · Horror +5 more
Emma is a Literary Agent at Madeleine Milburn specialising in non-fiction, with a list that has secured major deals around the world. She champions leading experts including historians, archaeologists, economists, investigative journalists, philosophers, environmentalists, psychologists and scientists, and particularly enjoys working with academics to build and shape the kernel of a book idea into a proposal for the trade. Before agenting she spent over a decade in publishing at Penguin Press and then Bloomsbury, leading campaigns for non-fiction and launching the careers of Nobel prize-winning economists, Pulitzer prize-winning journalists, historians, scientists, memoirists, activists and poets, among them Peter Frankopan, Rutger Bregman, William Dalrymple, Claudia Rankine, Lisa Taddeo, Owen Jones and Patricia Lockwood.
Genres:Biography · Food & Drink · Historical Non-Fiction · Memoir · Narrative Non-Fiction +2 more
Emma represents a growing list of writers of fiction and narrative non-fiction at C&W Agency. She reads widely across both areas and is drawn to strong voices and character-driven stories. Editorial work is one of her favourite parts of the job, and she is committed to helping writers shape their work before it goes to publishers.
Genres:Commercial Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Crime · Food & Drink · Historical Non-Fiction +7 more
Emma founded Children's Books North Agency in 2024 and represents authors and illustrators of picture books, fiction and non-fiction. She has 25 years of children's publishing experience, including a role at Hachette Children's Group as Group Picture Book Publisher, where she commissioned and launched several successful series. She is co-founder of Children's Books North Network and mentors with the AOI, Children's Books North Network and SYP North.
Genres:Children's Books · Young Adult
Emma is a literary agent at Janklow & Nesbit, representing literary to commercial fiction. She studied Psychology and Law before joining the agency in 2019, becoming a primary agent in 2024. Her clients include Chukwuebuka Ibeh, Dr. Ally Louks and Grace Murray. She enjoys championing new writers and nurturing long-term careers.
Genres:Commercial Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Crime · Horror · Literary Fiction +7 more
Emma is a Director at Aitken Alexander Associates. She joined the agency in 2018 after eight years at other literary agencies. She is a member of the Booker Prize Foundation Advisory Committee and an honorary fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She represents writers of fiction, non-fiction and poetry, including a number of bestselling and prize-winning authors.
Genres:Biography · Contemporary Fiction · Crime · Fantasy · Historical Fiction +9 more
Emma Shercliff founded Laxfield Literary Associates in 2020. She has over 20 years of experience in the publishing industry and has worked for publishing houses in Paris, Melbourne, Abuja and London. She was formerly Sales & Rights Director of Cassava Republic Press UK and Publishing Director for Ankara Press, an African romance imprint.
Genres:Commercial Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Fantasy · Literary Fiction · Memoir +4 more
Enrichetta founded Red Kite Literary in January 2026. Originally from Italy, she moved to the UK to complete a DPhil in Modern Languages at Oxford University. She spent ten years at Curtis Brown, working in translation rights and as a primary agent, before starting her own list representing UK-based and international writers and illustrators across adult and children's.
Genres:Children's Books · Graphic Novels · Middle Grade · Romance · Thriller +1 more
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