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    JULA Ltd is a dynamic literary agency based at Somerset House in London. The agency represents debut and best-selling authors published in the UK, US and internationally.  Whilst always looking for the best publishing deals and relationships for their authors, JULA Ltd also works closely with talent agencies in London and LA for book to film deals.

    Please note that we are temporarily closed to submissions from 24th June. Please find more details on our submissions page.

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Our approach

The agency offers a carefully tailored approach.  Jo is determined to offer each author whatever they need, managing their careers with thought, ambition, care and, wherever possible, a sense of fun.

JULA Ltd is a member of the Association of Authors’ Agents (AAA), a British voluntary trade association providing a collective voice for all UK-based literary agents. The AAA’s members are devoted to promoting authors’ works in the domestic and global markets and to defending authors’ rights in the UK, abroad and online.

Our authors

Richard Ayoade

Richard Ayoade

Karen Campbell

Karen Campbell

Emma Smith-Barton

Emma Smith-Barton

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Submissions

Have a book you want us to read? It’s difficult to say what we’re looking for until we see it, but it needs to be as good as you can possibly make it if we are to offer representation. If you can make us laugh or cry or – even better – both, then you’re definitely on the right track. We only represent poetry or picture books in exceptional circumstances, or when they’re by our existing authors, and science fiction is better represented by specialists in the field.

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News

Publications, publications, publications!

Five incredible books by JULA authors have been published in the last seven days. Nadia Shireen’s Billy and the Dragon, The Sound of the Hours by Karen Campbell, Emma Smith-Barton’s debut The Million Pieces of Neena Gill, Kit de Waal’s The Trick to Time in paperback AND her debut YA novel Becoming Dinah!

Unmissable books!

The Bookshop on the Shore by Jenny Colgan and Brian Bilston’s Diary of a Somebody have been named as ‘books you have to read for June‘ by the Reader’s digest. Both books are published this week.

Queenie in best books of 2019 list

Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams has been named by the Guardian as one of the best books of 2019 so far – this of course is no surprise to us. See the article here.

Billy and the Beast is shortlisted for the Book Trust Storytime Prize

We are delighted! Congratulations Nadia!

Hooray for Jo!

Photo by Jonathan Ring

Jo Unwin has been shortlisted for Literary Agent of the Year 2019. The winner will be revealed tonight at the British Books Awards. We are all so proud of you Jo!

Stibbe crowned Comedy Queen!

The Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction 2019 has been awarded to our very own Nina Stibbe for her brilliant, warm and hilarious novel Reasons to Be Cheerful. We are so pleased – well done Nina! Read more here.

Emma’s the One to Watch!

Congratulations to Emma Smith-Barton’s whose debut novel The Million Pieces of Neena Gill has been chosen as The Bookseller’s One to Watch for July! UK publication is 11th July.

‘a moving and entertaining portrait of love and race today’

Queenie has been published in the UK and is having the incredible reception it deserves! Read the Guardian review here.

Publication day for Scar!

The explosive finale to the best-selling INK trilogy is out today!

 

 

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