Full-length MSS. Literary and commercial fiction and non-fiction, children's, performance rights. Also handles adult literary and commercial fiction and non-fiction; 20% of list is for children's market.
Handles picture books, fiction for 5-8 and 9-12 year-olds, teenage fiction, series fiction, film/TV tie-ins and non-fiction.
No science fiction, screenplays, poetry or short stories except for established clients.
Agents in USA and all European countries and Japan. Fiction and non-fiction from age 5 to young adult.
Submission Guidelines:
- Does not accept submissions via email or through this website.
- Submissions should be printed no smaller than 12 point Times New Roman font.
- Double-spaced and printed on one side only of A4 paper.
- Consist of the first three chapters or approximately the first fifty pages to a natural break.
- Be accompanied by a covering letter and brief synopsis.
- Please include return postage if you require the material to be returned. AM Heath is not responsible for material once it has been posted back.
- Does not accept International Reply Coupons, please include an email address if submitting from overseas.
- Endeavours to respond to all submissions within four weeks of receipt
- Does not accept picture books.
Overseas associates in USA, Europe, South America, Japan and the Far East.
Clients include Prof. Christopher Andrew, Nadeem Aslam, Bella Bathurst, Anita Brookner, Prof. Kathleen Burk, Joseph Connolly, Stevie Davies, John Dougherty, Geoff Dyer, R.J. Ellory, Katie Fforde, Graham Hancock, Tobias Hill, Conn Iggulden, Marina Lewycka, Lucy Mangan, Hilary Mantel, Maggie O'Farrell, Tim Pears, Susan Price, Ben Richards, Clive Stafford Smith, Barbara Trapido.
Children's authors include Nicholas Allan, John Dougherty, Nick Gifford, Joanna Nadin, Susan Price, John Singleton, Rose Wilkins, Leslie Wilson, the Estates of Noel Streatfeild, Helen Cresswell and Joan Aiken.
Founded 1919.