The Darley Anderson Children’s Book Agency specialises in children’s books for all readers. The DACBA list includes picture books, younger fiction, middle grade, YA and crossover fiction and non-fiction titles for all ages. The Darley Anderson Children’s Book Agency was founded by CEO Darley Anderson in 2008, and is based in London. Under MD Clare Wallace, the agency has become one of the largest and most exciting specialist children’s agencies in the UK. The authors and illustrators they represent have been Sunday Times and New York Times bestsellers, Irish Book Award winners, Diverse Book Awards winners, Waterstones Children’s Book Prize shortlisted and category winners, picked as Waterstone’s Children’s Book of the Month, Branford Boase shortlisted and winners, IBC award winners, Carnegie shortlisted and a Shadowers' Choice Award winner, to name a few. Their clients include Adeola Sokunbi, Ashley Thorpe, Bill Wood, Beth Reekles, Claire Powell, Dave Rudden, Josh Silver, J P Rose, Judith Eagle, Nathanael Lessore and Tom Tinn-Disbury.

Johnson & Alcock is an established literary agency, now in its seventh decade and constantly expanding and innovating. They act for a vibrant list of authors, both new and emerging writers and the long-established, in fiction and non-fiction. These include prize-winning and bestselling authors and literary estates across the genres and in all forms of media, both in the U.K. and internationally. They pride themselves on representing their authors with care, creativity and hard work.

Founded in 1970, Watson, Little Ltd is a long-established literary agency that offers a full service to its clients across all aspects of media. It has an outstanding track record, and has represented a number of celebrated, bestselling and prize-winning authors over the years, and handles an unusually wide range of adult, children’s and Young Adult fiction. Watson, Little represent our writing coach Mahsuda Snaith and our member Shylashri Shankar.

Founded in 2000, Bell Lomax Moreton represents a wide range of distinguished authors writing adult fiction and middle-grade children’s books. They aim to offer an exceptional level of service to their clients and help them achieve their full potential in all aspects of their writing and illustration careers. Rights in the United States are handled by Helen Edwards, formerly Rights Director at Transworld. Film and TV rights are looked after by Valerie Hoskins Associates.

Founded in 2012, Hardman & Swainson is a dynamic London-based literary agency with a diverse range of clients and an international focus. They represent writers in all genres of commercial fiction and children’s middle-grade fiction, including Meg Cabot, Miranda Dickinson, Helen Fields and Giovanna Fletcher.

A U.K.-based literary agency representing internationally published authors. Eve White was shortlisted for the BIA 2015 Literary Agent of the Year award, and the British Book Awards’ 2017 Literary Agent of the Year award. Their literary agents represent authors such as Ruth Ware, Luan Goldie, Rachael Blok and Rebecca Reid. They also represent middle-grade fiction and their author Sarah Naughton was shortlisted for the Costa Children’s Book Award for her novel The Hanged Man Rises. BookTrust has featured their author Andy Stanton’s You’re a Bad Man, Mr Gum!  on its list of ‘100 Best Books of the Last 100 Years.’

Founded by David H. Headley in 2008, this literary agent team of passionate book lovers with a huge commercial fiction client list are devoted to finding new talent and growing writing careers. The literary agents at DHH particularly enjoy crime, women’s commercial fiction, romance, and literary fiction. In 2017 Broo Doherty was voted Literary Agent of the Year at the Romantic Novelists’ Association.

Westwood Creative Artists is one of Canada’s oldest and most respected literary agencies, with six full-time book agents supported by an in-house international rights agent and an outstanding network of 24 international co-agents. They have a list of exceptional writers who have won and been shortlisted for such esteemed prizes as the Booker Prize, the Nobel Prize, and the Giller Prize.

Northbank Talent Management is a literary and talent agency based in London representing writers, content creators, broadcasters, and speakers across all media throughout the world.

Their team has decades of collective experience in the publishing, broadcast, brand licensing, and corporate speaking industries, which makes for a powerful offering in full-service talent representation. They place a particular emphasis on growing their clients’ audiences across digital channels, building authors into brands, opening them up to partnership deals, and increasing the value of subsequent book deals.

42 are a management and production company who represent actors, writers, and directors and produce film, television, and content. The book division at 42 represents a number of bestselling and prize-winning authors published in over 40 languages. Their literary agents focus on storytelling above all else and are led by Eugenie Furniss, twice shortlisted for Literary Agent of the Year at the British Book Awards. Authors include Matthew Reilly, Celia Walden and Adriana Trigiani.

Paper Literary is a transatlantic agency that combines big agency negotiating experience with small agency personalized care. Founded in 2021, they've established themselves as tastemakers in the industry with a roster of New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling and award winning clients. They have an emphasis on developing debut talent and a strategic, global mindset to build long-lasting careers.

Founded by Charlotte Colwill and Kay Peddle, Colwill & Peddle is an independent literary agency based in the U.K. Charlotte is a former bookseller and Kay is a former editor, and their agency represents a wide range of award-winning non-fiction (including memoir and expert-based non-fiction as well as creative non-fiction) and fiction for adults and children, including historical fiction, literary fiction, Young Adult, and middle grade. Charlotte represents commercial and genre fiction and children’s, Kay represents non-fiction, and Milly Reilly, who joined the team in 2023, represents literary fiction and non-fiction.