Here are five British agents actively seeking writers. You don't have to be British to submit to these agents. Most British agencies accept writers from just about anywhere. They also maintain international contacts through sub-agents, as well as offices in New York and elsewhere. So feel free to query.
Always check the agency website before submitting. Agents may switch agencies or close their lists, and submission requirements can change. Note: Don't query two agents in the same agency simultaneously.
If these agents don't suit your needs, you can find a comprehensive list of new and established agents seeking clients here: Agents Seeking Clients.
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Kerry Glencorse studied Classics at Oxford University and Political Science at Sciences Po in Paris. After two years as a management consultant, she started her publishing career in 2000 at Editions Flammarion before moving to the Paris office of Susanna Lea Associates. In 2007 she moved back to the UK and set up the London office. She handles the agency’s clients in the UK and Australia and has a growing list of her own clients including novelists Alice Adams, Marie Phillips, Louisa Hall, Andrea Carter and Joanna Bolouri and non-fiction writers Tom Service, Caroline Jones and Ted Kessler.
What she is seeking: Literary and upmarket commercial fiction; well-written genre fiction, including crime, thrillers, women’s fiction, and historical. And on the non-fiction side: memoir, narrative non-fiction, popular science, social and cultural history, and cookery.
How to submit: Send query, synopsis and 3 chapters to london@susannalea.com
Mandy Suhr of StoryWise
StoryWise is a new boutique children’s literary agency, established in 2023 by Mandy Suhr. Dynamic and creative, we are passionate about what we do. We are deliberately small, ensuring we can offer a hands-on and personal service, tailored to the specific needs of each talented creative we represent.
What she is seeking: Children's fiction.
How to submit: Follow submission guidelines HERE.
Hayley Steed of Janklow & Nesbit UK
Kerry Glencorse studied Classics at Oxford University and Political Science at Sciences Po in Paris. After two years as a management consultant, she started her publishing career in 2000 at Editions Flammarion before moving to the Paris office of Susanna Lea Associates. In 2007 she moved back to the UK and set up the London office. She handles the agency’s clients in the UK and Australia and has a growing list of her own clients including novelists Alice Adams, Marie Phillips, Louisa Hall, Andrea Carter and Joanna Bolouri and non-fiction writers Tom Service, Caroline Jones and Ted Kessler.
What she is seeking: Literary and upmarket commercial fiction; well-written genre fiction, including crime, thrillers, women’s fiction, and historical. And on the non-fiction side: memoir, narrative non-fiction, popular science, social and cultural history, and cookery.
How to submit: Send query, synopsis and 3 chapters to london@susannalea.com
StoryWise is a new boutique children’s literary agency, established in 2023 by Mandy Suhr. Dynamic and creative, we are passionate about what we do. We are deliberately small, ensuring we can offer a hands-on and personal service, tailored to the specific needs of each talented creative we represent.
What she is seeking: Children's fiction.
How to submit: Follow submission guidelines HERE.
Hayley is a Literary Agent primarily representing writers of fiction. She previously worked for seven years at Madeleine Milburn Literary Agency, joining Janklow & Nesbit in September 2023. Before that she worked in book PR, after completing a degree in English. Her authors include The Sunday Times and The New York Times bestselling authors, and she has been named both a Trailblazer and a Rising Star by the UK book trade.
What she is seeking: Commercial fiction across all genres including smart women’s fiction; contemporary women’s fiction; uplifting love stories; high concept novels; grounded sci-fi; speculative fiction; feminist reads; magical realism; tense crime and thrillers; cross-genre books; 14+ YA; non-fiction focused on sport.
How to submit: Please read guidelines HERE.
Kate Burke at Blake Friedmann
Kate was born in Dublin but grew up in Brussels. She joined Blake Friedmann as Senior Agent in January, 2019, and was previously at Northbank Talent Management where she worked with many award-winning and Sunday Times bestselling authors, among them Will Dean, Dani Atkins, Fiona Ford, Rebecca Tinnelly and Jo Bell.
Before becoming an agent, Kate was an editor at Headline and HarperCollins, and an editorial director at Penguin Random House. After ten years of publishing fiction, she moved to the agency side to pursue her love of discovering new writers. She still loves to edit and works very closely with her clients on all aspects of their writing and publishing.
What she is seeking: Kate is actively taking on new clients and is looking for all genres of adult fiction excluding science fiction and fantasy. She has a particular love of women’s fiction (big, sweeping love stories; family dramas; issue-based emotional wringers, high-concept romances, and everything in between), contemporary and historical crime fiction of all kinds (serial killer or domestic thrillers, detective-led mysteries, psychological suspense – basically anything dark and/or violent with a mystery at its heart) and more general historical fiction (WWI and WWII sagas, book club and literary fiction, set in any era post-1800 and anywhere in the world) but is happy to also consider genre-blending fiction and speculative literary fiction.
How to submit: Please send a query letter, a full synopsis of approx. 500 words, and your first three chapters/10,000 words to Kate (kate[at]blakefriedmann[dot]co[dot]uk)
Chloe Seager at Madeleine Milburn Literary, TV & Film Agency
She began her career at Titan Books and it was working with V.E. Schwab that made her realise her true passion was in YA and children’s. She joined Northbank Talent in 2015 where she built a children’s and YA list from scratch, selling rights in the UK and internationally. Whilst there she worked with Carnegie nominated author Emily Critchley, the children’s tie-in titles of Rachel Wells’ bestselling Alfie series, and discovered debut authors including Anna Fargher, Ben Oliver and Inky Willis. In 2019 she joined the team at Madeleine Milburn.
What she is seeking: Romance; dark academia; magical middle-grade; adventure; sci-fi and fantasy with a strong hook; gothic; horror; thriller; contemporary middle-grade with a big heart; funny books across all ages; interesting/inspiring non-fiction across all ages; diverse authors.
How to submit: Please see detailed submission requirements here.
What she is seeking: Commercial fiction across all genres including smart women’s fiction; contemporary women’s fiction; uplifting love stories; high concept novels; grounded sci-fi; speculative fiction; feminist reads; magical realism; tense crime and thrillers; cross-genre books; 14+ YA; non-fiction focused on sport.
How to submit: Please read guidelines HERE.
Kate was born in Dublin but grew up in Brussels. She joined Blake Friedmann as Senior Agent in January, 2019, and was previously at Northbank Talent Management where she worked with many award-winning and Sunday Times bestselling authors, among them Will Dean, Dani Atkins, Fiona Ford, Rebecca Tinnelly and Jo Bell.
Before becoming an agent, Kate was an editor at Headline and HarperCollins, and an editorial director at Penguin Random House. After ten years of publishing fiction, she moved to the agency side to pursue her love of discovering new writers. She still loves to edit and works very closely with her clients on all aspects of their writing and publishing.
What she is seeking: Kate is actively taking on new clients and is looking for all genres of adult fiction excluding science fiction and fantasy. She has a particular love of women’s fiction (big, sweeping love stories; family dramas; issue-based emotional wringers, high-concept romances, and everything in between), contemporary and historical crime fiction of all kinds (serial killer or domestic thrillers, detective-led mysteries, psychological suspense – basically anything dark and/or violent with a mystery at its heart) and more general historical fiction (WWI and WWII sagas, book club and literary fiction, set in any era post-1800 and anywhere in the world) but is happy to also consider genre-blending fiction and speculative literary fiction.
How to submit: Please send a query letter, a full synopsis of approx. 500 words, and your first three chapters/10,000 words to Kate (kate[at]blakefriedmann[dot]co[dot]uk)
She began her career at Titan Books and it was working with V.E. Schwab that made her realise her true passion was in YA and children’s. She joined Northbank Talent in 2015 where she built a children’s and YA list from scratch, selling rights in the UK and internationally. Whilst there she worked with Carnegie nominated author Emily Critchley, the children’s tie-in titles of Rachel Wells’ bestselling Alfie series, and discovered debut authors including Anna Fargher, Ben Oliver and Inky Willis. In 2019 she joined the team at Madeleine Milburn.
What she is seeking: Romance; dark academia; magical middle-grade; adventure; sci-fi and fantasy with a strong hook; gothic; horror; thriller; contemporary middle-grade with a big heart; funny books across all ages; interesting/inspiring non-fiction across all ages; diverse authors.
How to submit: Please see detailed submission requirements here.
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