OUR WRITERS MEAN BUSINESS
OUR WRITERS MEAN BUSINESS 
The Darley Anderson Literary, TV and Film Agency was founded in 1988 by ex-publisher Darley Anderson and is based in London with a regional office in the book town of Hay-on–Wye on the English/Welsh borders.
The Agency handles a broad range of bestselling commercial Fiction, Non-Fiction and Children’s books.
A market leader, our wide ranging Fiction list includes thrillers, mysteries, crime, horror, fantasy, accessible literary, romantic comedy, chick-lit, women in jeopardy, sagas and historicals.
Many of the Fiction Writers talent spotted and represented by Darley Anderson himself are amongst the highest paid bestselling authors in the world. Most notably Martina Cole, Lee Child, John Connolly, Lesley Pearse, Tana French and Alex Barclay. Other top selling Fiction writers are Chris Mooney, Rani Manicka, Pat Dunne, Carmen Reid, Clare Dowling, Rebecca Shaw, Margaret Dickinson and Annie Murray, Chris Carter, Lee Weeks, Milly Johnson and Jane Costello.
Martina Cole is the biggest selling adult Fiction hardback novelist in the UK.
Recent newcomers who are set for future bestsellerdom include Lee Weeks, Jane Costello, Lucy Summers, Chris Carter, Tara Hyland, Cally Taylor, Milly Johnson and Tim Weaver, Carolyn Jess-Cooke and Sean Slater.
The oldest writer ever to be taken on at the Agency is Elizabeth Waite aged 70 who has now published 17 books. The two most prolific writers at the Agency are Anne Baker and Lynda Page. Other prolific writers of long standing include Gloria Cook, David Wishart, Fr Ken Leech and Tessa Barclay.
Adrian Plass, bestselling author of 32 books has been at the Agency since its inception.
Working with Darley Anderson at the Agency to further build on the enormous success he has had with top selling international crime and thriller writers is Camilla Bolton. Only four months after joining the Agency Camilla talent spotted a new writer whom she subsequently sold in the US for a high six-figure advance.
Zoë King at the Agency is expanding the list of Non-Fiction writers which is currently strong in the areas of memoir, health, popular psychology, self-help, animal books, gardening, inspirational and religious.
Among the bestselling Non-Fiction authors are: Constance Briscoe (author of the No 1 bestseller Ugly), Adrian Plass, Allan and Barbara Pease Why Men Don’t Listen and Women Can’t Read Maps (with world wide sales of 10 million copies), Graeme Sims and Paul Hauck. Zoë also handles the Billy Bunter, Denise Robins and Joan Jonker Estates.
The Darley Anderson Children’s Book Agency Ltd was recently set up as a separate company and is dedicated to building a prestigious Children's and Young Adult list. Among the Bestselling writers represented are Cathy Cassidy, Michelle Harrison, Helen Grant and Rob Stevens.
US book sales are handled directly by the Darley Anderson Agency. But for sales of books or original scripts to US Film and TV companies the Agency works as it has for the last 15 years, in association with top Talent Agent Steve Fisher of the APA Agency in Los Angeles.
In foreign language book sales, the Darley Anderson Agency has great success in placing books with international publishers around the world.
Over the past twenty years the Agency has built up an extensive worldwide network of foreign contacts, working with leading subagents and directly with foreign publishers.
Madeleine Buston, ably assisted by Kasia Behnke, oversees all aspects of the rights department; holding regular auctions, negotiating major deals and meeting over two hundred foreign editors at every major international book fair.
The focus at the Agency is on making our writers international bestsellers. The trans-Atlantic No.1 bestseller, Lee Child, is now sold in 38 territories. His worldwide sales are an astonishing 30 million copies.
The Rights Team has negotiated almost 30 translations rights deals each for other individual writers including Martina Cole, John Connolly, Tana French and Rani Manicka. And out writers have been bestsellers in countries including Germany, France, Italy, Portugal, and in as faraway places as Taiwan.
Our Agency motto is : ‘Our writers mean business’.