United Kingdom

Literary agents in the United Kingdom sit at the centre of a market where the home sale and the export sale are handled by the same office. British agencies read submissions with an eye on London editors first, then on the translation and film rights that follow. The agents below work from that position.

Madeleine Milburn and United Agents both work out of London, and that single fact shapes what they can sell: a submission lands in a market where a debut can be pitched to editors in the same city, and where foreign rights are handled by the agency itself rather than through a partner abroad. United Agents carries a broad client roster across fiction and nonfiction, while Madeleine Milburn builds authors book by book. Where a United States or Canadian agency often looks first to its own territory, these two treat the British market as the home sale and everything else as the export.