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The Ampersand Agency Ltd

Contacts
Ryman's Cottages

Little Tew, Oxfordshire OX7 4JJ
United Kingdom
tel: 
(01608) 683677
fax: 
(01608) 683449
email: 
amd@theampersandagency.co.uk
email: 
info@theampersandagency.co.uk
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  • Peter Buckman
  • Anne-Marie Doulton

Literary and commercial fiction and non-fiction. Contemporary and historical novels, crime, thrillers, women's fiction, memoirs, history and biography. No reading fee. Will suggest revision.

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Coombs Moylett Literary Agency

Contacts
3 Askew Road

London, W12 9AA
United Kingdom
tel: 
020-8740 0454
fax: 
020-8354 3065
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  • Lisa Moylett

Commercial and literary fiction and non-fiction (home 15%, overseas 15%, film/TV 15%). Fiction: thrillers, crime/mystery; women's literary and contemporary. Non-fiction: biography; history and current affairs.

Send synopsis, first 3 chapters and sae (essential). No disk or email submissions. No reading fee.

Works with foreign agents.

Robert Dudley Agency

Contacts
50 Rannoch Road

London, SW6 9SR
United Kingdom
tel: 
+44 0 7879 426574
email: 
info@robertdudleyagency.co.uk
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Proprietor

  • Robert Dudley

Specialises in history, biography, sport, management, politics, militaria, current affairs

No reading fee. Will suggest revision. All material sent at owner's risk. No MSS returned without sae.

Founded 2000.

Diane Banks Associates Ltd

Contacts
London,
United Kingdom
email: 
submissions@dianebanks.co.uk
email: 
info@dianebanks.co.uk
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  • Diane Banks

Commercial literary agency based in central London representing commercial fiction and personality-led, media or current affairs based non-fiction in the UK, US and foreign language markets.

Handles rights in the majority of territories directly rather than via sub-agents, ensuring career development with publishers worldwide including film and TV rights.

Founded in 2006  Read more

Johnson & Alcock Ltd

Contacts
Clerkenwell House
45-47 Clerkenwell Green
London, EC1R 0HT
United Kingdom
tel: 
020-7251 0125
email: 
info@johnsonandalcock.co.uk
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Contacts

  • Michael Alcock
  • Andrew Hewson
  • Anna Power
  • Merel Reinink

Main Contact

  • Anna Power

Literary and commercial fiction, children's fiction; general non-fiction including current affairs, biography and memoirs, history, lifestyle, health and personal development; film and music, graphic novels.

Children's fiction and non-fiction; ages 9-12, teenage fiction, young adult, series fiction.

Also accept adult fiction and non-fiction.
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Andrew Lownie Literary Agency

Contacts
36 Great Smith Street

London, SW1P 3BU
United Kingdom
tel: 
020-7222 7574
fax: 
020-7222 7576
email: 
lownie@globalnet.co.uk
Andrew Lownie Literary Agency website
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andrewlownie
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Director

  • Andrew Lownie

Full-length MSS. Biography, history, reference, current affairs, and packaging journalists and celebrities for the book market (worldwide 15%).

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The Sayle Literary Agency

Contacts
1 Petersfield

Cambridge, CB1 1BB
United Kingdom
tel: 
(01223) 303035
fax: 
(01223) 301638
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Proprietor and Agent

  • Rachel Calder

Fiction: general, literary and crime. Non-fiction: current affairs, social issues, travel, biographies, history.

No plays, poetry, textbooks, children's, technical, legal or medical books.

Submitted work must be double-spaced, single-sided, numbered, typed or word processed with clear contact details. Do not send an SAE as all rejected material is recycled.  Read more

Jeffrey Simmons

Contacts
15 Penn House
Mallory Street
London, NW8 8SX
United Kingdom
tel: 
020-7224 8917
email: 
jasimmons@btconnect.com
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Specialises in fiction (no science fiction, horror or fantasy), biography, autobiography, show business, personality books, law, crime, politics, world affairs. Full-length MSS (home from 10%, overseas from 15%).

Will suggest revision. No reading fee, but preliminary letter essential.

The Science Factory Ltd

Contacts
2 Twyford Place

Tiverton, Devon EX16 6AP
United Kingdom
tel: 
020-7193 7296
email: 
info@sciencefactory.co.uk
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Director

  • Peter Tallack

Serious popular non-fiction, particularly science, history and current affairs, by academics and journalists; also novels of ideas (home 15%, overseas 20%).

No reading fee. Will suggest revision.
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The Ethan Ellenberg Literary Agency

Contacts
548 Broadway
Suite 5E
New York, NY 10012
United States
tel: 
212-431-4554
email: 
agent@ethanellenberg.com
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President Agent

  • Ethan Ellenberg

Fiction and non-fiction (home 15%, overseas 20%). Commercial fiction: thrillers, mysteries, children's, romance, women's, ethnic, science fiction, fantasy and general fiction; also literary fiction with a strong narrative. Non-fiction: current affairs, health, science, psychology, cookbooks, new age, spirituality, pop-culture, adventure, true crime, biography and memoir.  Read more

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15 July 2019 - What's new

July 2019
  • 'The best books come from someplace deep inside. You don't write because you want to, but because you have to. Become emotionally involved. If you don't care about your characters, your readers won't either. Those of us who write do it because there are stories inside us burning to get out. Writing is essential to our well-being. If you're that kind of writer, never give up!
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'For me, writing [was] a question of survival...I could not trust anyone, even my family. The atmosphere was so poisoned. People even in your own family could turn you in.'

— Gao Xingjian, refering to writing during the Cultural Revolution of Mao Tse-Tung

Write from the Inside

15 July 2019

'The best books come from someplace deep inside. You don't write because you want to, but because you have to. Become emotionally involved. If you don't care about your characters, your readers won't either.
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1 July 2019 - What's new

July 2019
  • ‘There's been a great democratisation of the world of poetry, In the past, it was seen as only certain kinds of people wrote poems, but now there isn't that same divide. There's all sorts of different forms: spoken-word poetry, Instagram poetry... Poets like Hollie McNish have taken off and are selling lots.
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