All genres of fiction and non-fiction (generally upmarket to mass market), children's books. No poetry, screenplays or short stories. No reading fee. Film/TV rights handled by Sam North. Picture books, fiction for 5-8 and 9-12 year-olds, teenage fiction, series fiction and film/TV tie-ins (home 15%, overseas 20%).
Also handles adult literary and commercial fiction and non-fiction. Submit first 3 chapters, cover letter, synopsis and sae. No reading fee.
Clients
Literary and commercial fiction across a spectrum from the Booker Prize winner D.B.C. Pierre to recent shortlist nominees such as Sarah Hall and Hisham Matar, and the Orwell Prize winner Delia Jarrett-Macauley;
and commercial novelists such as Isabel Wolff, Matt Dunn and Michael Cordy.
Non-fiction authors include historians such as Tom Holland and Helen Castor,
science writers such as Simon Singh, Richard Wiseman and Ian Stewart, travel
writers such as Tahir Shah and the poet Ruth Padel, prize-winning journalists
such as Misha Gelnny and Michael Bywater. Also handles the Estate of the artist
Francis Bacon. Children's and young adult list ranges from John Burningham to
Steve Voake and the Estate of Astrid Lindgren (Pippi Longstocking).
Founded 2000.
Association of Authors' Agents
