I read modern history at New College, Oxford before going into publishing: editing partworks and magazines before joining HarperCollins in 1994. I became Publishing Director at Weidenfeld & Nicolson in 2003. I published the Sunday Times Top Ten bestsellers REAL BRAVO TWO ZERO (Michael Asher), BLENHEIM (Charles Spencer) and LAST POST (Max Arthur) as well as the landmark history of France in IndoChina, THE LAST VALLEY (Martin Windrow).

I joined Sheil Land Associates in 2007. Of the authors I have worked with as an agent, Angus Donald was the first to break into the mass market fiction top 20. Robert Fabbri, James Wilde and Mark Lawrence all made the 2011 Top 20 UK hardback debut fiction list.

Best known for historical fiction, Fantasy/SF, action/adventure, as well as popular history, I am looking for new clients.

Hugh Bicheno, Elspeth Cooper, Mark Chadbourn, Angus Donald, Janet Edwards, Robert Fabbri, Jaine Fenn, Peter Hart, Aidan Harte, Jack Hight, David Isby, Mark Lawrence, Ian Mackersey, Patrick Mercer, Charles Messenger, Anthony Seldon, Robert Scott, Julian Spilsbury, Martin Windrow, James Wilde

Angus Donald, OUTLAW (Sphere)
Elspeth Cooper, SONGS OF THE EARTH (Gollancz)
Mark Chadbourn, THE SWORD OF ALBION (Bantam)
Mark Lawrence, PRINCE OF THORNS (Ace in USA and Voyager in UK)
Robert Fabbri, VESPASIAN (Corvus)
James Wilde, HEREWARD (Bantam)

Peter Higgins, WOLFHOUND CENTURY: a stunningly original SF/Fantasy trilogy acquired by Gollancz, at auction, in October 2011.

PRINCE OF THORNS is now sold in 11 languages.
VESPASIAN: Tribune of Rome is now sold in 6 languages.

Please email proposals with
a) the first couple of chapters of your manuscript attached as a Word doc (or .docx)
b) a few lines about you and a one line summary of why someone would pay their own cash money to read your book.

Andrew Zack