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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.

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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

Jesse Armstrong

Jesse Armstrong

Nina Stibbe

Nina Stibbe

Maudie Smith

Maudie Smith

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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

‘This is Yesterday is a song for the outsiders, a hymn to the suburban misfits’ Benjamin Myers, author of The Offing

Rose Ruane’s stunning debut is out now!

Becoming Dinah nominated for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2020!

We’re over the moon – huge congratulations to Kit.

Queenie on Waterstones Book of the Year shortlist

Congratulations Candice, long may Queenie reign!

Tamsin Grey on BBC National Short Story Award shortlist

Huge congratulations to Tamsin who has been shortlisted on the BBC National Short Story Award with My Beautiful Millenial! You can listen to her fantastic story here.

Queenie and Becoming Dinah on BAMB shortlists

Not one but two JULA authors have been shortlisted for the Books Are My Bag Readers’ Awards 2019. A huge congratulations to Candice Carty-Williams, who has been shortlisted for the Breakthrough Author Award for her debut novel Queenie, and to Kit de Waal whose first YA novel, Becoming Dinah, is on the Young Adult Award shortlist. Time to get voting!

Ayoade on Top out now!

Ayoade on Top – Richard’s ‘funniest creation yet’ (Jesse Eisenberg) – is out now. Listen to Richard talk about the book on Saturday Live
and then get yourself a copy!

Dear Mrs Bird on HWA Debut Crown Shortlist!

Dear Mrs Bird by AJ Pearce has been shortlisted for the Historical Writers’ Association’s Debut Crown Award 2019. Congratulations AJ!

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.

 

 

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