James Gill

Jim is a founding partner of the agency.  He has worked in publishing and literary representation since 1995.

He acts for a broad range of both fiction and non-fiction authors writing for the general-trade market, and is always on the look-out for the original and the excellent.

Jim has represented Sunday Times #1 and top-ten bestsellers in fiction and non-fiction, acting for clients who have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the Baillie Gifford Prize, the Nibbie Novel of the Year Award, the Theakston’s Crime Novel of the Year Award, the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize, the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, the André Simon Awards, the HWA Gold Crown Award, the Stanford’s Travel Writing Awards, and the Writers Guild Book of the Year Award, and authors who have won the Wolfson History Prize, the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award, the Whitbread Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Award, the Betty Trask Prize, the McIlvanney Prize, the Dolman Travel Book Award, the Wainwright Prize, the Ondaatje Prize, the Fortnum & Mason Food and Drink Award, the Parliamentary Book Award, the Edinburgh International Book Festival First Book Award, the Grand Prix du Livre d’Idées and the Royal Historical Society’s Gladstone Prize.