Founded 1986.
High quality non-fiction; biography, history, natural history, lifestyle, humour;
TV tie-ins, some literary fiction. No science fiction or children's.
Commission terms are: 15% for sales to UK publishers, 20% for sales to US
publishers and in translation, 15% for film and TV rights.
The agency works in association with Aitken
Alexander Associates for the sale of translation rights (www.aitkenalexander.co.uk)
and with a number of specialist sub-agents for the sale of US rights, of TV and
film rights and merchandising.
Preliminary letter (NOT email) essential; no unsolicited
MSS.