About the Agency
Jonathan Clowes Ltd. is a literary agency, formerly based for many years in Primrose Hill, now in Marylebone, founded in 1960 by Jonathan Clowes. Specialising in book, film and TV rights, the agency represents a select list of clients.
The royalty manager is the inimitable Terence Wong-Lane.
The Team
Ann Evans is Executor to the Estates of Doris Lessing and Elizabeth Jane Howard. Ann famously represented Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln, authors of THE HOLY BLOOD AND THE HOLY GRAIL. She is not currently accepting submissions.
News
Maureen Duffy is the first recipient of the RSL Pioneer Prize founded by Bernadine Evaristo.
Toby Vieira's second novel THE UNDROWNED has been published to acclaim:
John Self, The Times: “When a book makes you laugh on the first page – and the last time that happened to me was with Evelyn Waugh’s Decline and Fall – you know you’re in business. [A]nyone who read [Vieira's] 2016 debut novel Marlow’s Landing – a steamy tale of diamond smuggling – will have been looking forward to his follow-up. And it’s even better.
This is a page-turner that provokes, then moves the reader. A novel that made me laugh on the first page had me sitting in awed silence by the end. The Undrowned is a keeper.”
Also The Daily Telegraph:
"Vieira confidently transplants the exploits of a mid-century hero to the current moment, and with it reveals something impressively desolate. This might be the first piece of art that deals deftly with the idea of a pandemic without recalling something unbearable. Instead, The Undrowned shows a different kind of isolation – one that occurs most disconcertingly from the self.”
