Experience

Sheil Land Associates

• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Agent

  • 2009 - Present

  I represent a wide range of clients writing both fiction and non-fiction and ranging from commercial through to literary. A recent highlight is Nadine Dorries' bestselling The Four Streets series which has now sold over 2,500,000 copies since it was published in May 2015. Other titles include CS Quinn's The Thief Taker a bestseller for Amazon and The Wrong Side of the Galaxy by Roald Dahl Prize winner Jamie Thomson. A sample of recent deals for new authors include a literary thriller about the Mau Mau uprising in 1950s Kenya by an ex head of the Channel Four News investigative unit, an autobiography of Dr Claire Guest, the founder of Medical Detection Dogs, a remarkable insight into the shadowy world of 19th century asylums through the life Dr Margaret Orange by a Research Fellow of Birkbeck College, a debut psychological thriller about a woman living with Chronic Pain Syndrome by a Private Eye staff writer, a biography of Judas by an ex editor of the Catholic Herald and a remarkable children's picture that deals with questions of safeguarding and abuse. Show less



Headline Publishing Group

• United Kingdom
• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Commissioning Editor

  • 2005 - 2008

  Creating a new list and exploring new areas of business relating to games, online publishing and graphic novels. Set up a teenage fiction list. Published a wide range of titles e.g: the 500,000 + bestselling Cityboy: Beer and Loathing in the Square Mile as well as prize winning fiction, such as the Edgar winning Sarah Langan. Creating a new list and exploring new areas of business relating to games, online publishing and graphic novels. Set up a teenage fiction list. Published a wide range of titles e.g: the 500,000 + bestselling Cityboy: Beer and Loathing in the Square Mile as well as prize winning fiction, such as the Edgar winning Sarah Langan.