Children's & YA

As a growing UK literary agency seeking new authors, we are accepting submissions in all book categories.

The children’s and YA department represents a huge range of talent, from critically acclaimed prize-winners to commercial bestsellers. Our extensive relationships with publishers and knowledge of the market means your debut is in excellent hands. Last year, we garnered over $2m for children’s debuts alone in the UK and US. In 2020, we launched the UK’s bestselling YA debut and in 2021 two out of four of the bestselling MG debuts. Last year, Katie Kirby became an instant no.1 Sunday Times Bestseller with her third book on publication.

In 2021, Danielle Jawando was the only debut to be shortlisted for the YA Book Prize. Last year, Maisie Chan won the Jhalak Children’s & YA Prize and the Branford Boase Award and Benjamin Dean won the Diverse Book Awards. Our children’s authors have also been shortlisted for the Waterstones Childen’s Book Prize, the Costa Children’s Book Award and the prestigious Carnegie medal. In the last three years, our department has bagged four coveted Waterstones Children’s Books of the Month slots.

We are committed to building authors’ careers year on year, taking them from strength to strength, from the submissions inbox to a leading brand. The children’s market is a smaller one, largely driven by big names, and so we are focused on taking on a select number of authors whose potential for huge and long-term success we really believe in.