The Marsh Agency was founded in 1994 by Susie Nicklin and her late husband Paul Marsh.
We represent authors from all over the world, with a specialism in international rights sales. There are authors for whom we sell translation rights only, and those for whom we also sell English language rights. We also sell English and translation rights on behalf of many literary agents in the UK, ROI, US & Canada and Australia.
Today we are a team of expert agents, with more than 50 years’ experience between us, who regularly meet with publishers based in the UK and also attend major book fairs and undertake overseas trips to make deals, pitch books, maintain and develop relationships with customers and acquire relevant market intelligence.
The agents are ably supported by an experienced office-based staff handling diary management, contract, permissions and tax form administration, and client accounts.
The Marsh Agency Team
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Susie Nicklin
Susie, CEO of the MILD group, began her career at The Bodley Head publishers and as a translation rights agent before becoming Director of English PEN and subsequently Director of Literature at the British Council. She represents writers, sells foreign rights, works as a bookseller and curates and chairs literary events.
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Camilla Ferrier
Camilla has been the MD of the Marsh Agency since 2012 and with the company since 2002 having started her publishing career at HarperCollins. She sells translation rights in multiple territories and represents Estates worldwide. She is a member of the foreign rights sub-committee for the Association of Authors’ Agents.
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Jemma McDonagh
Jemma joined The Marsh Agency in 2010 and is now Deputy Managing Director. She started her publishing career in the editorial department at Orion, before moving into rights selling at Gregory & Company Authors’ Agents. Jemma sells translation rights and works with our clients on the sale of UK rights. She is currently an ordinary member for the Association of Authors’ Agents.
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Sarah McFadden
Sarah is our client accounts manager and has worked at the agency since 2006. She was previously at Curtis Brown.
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Saliann St-Clair
Saliann joined us in March 2017 in the newly created role of Operations Manager. She works in the areas of contracts, accounts, double taxation agreements and office management for the agency. She graduated from the Creative Writing BA at Birkbeck and is also a published poet. She comes to us via higher education, law and fitness.
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Katie James
Katie joined The Marsh Agency fresh out of university in August 2019 in the role of Client Accounts and Office Assistant. She supports both the rights and accounts teams at the company. A graduate of the Warwick Writing Programme, she has some of her own short stories and poetry published in literary magazines.
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Brittany Poulin
Brittany joined The Marsh Agency in January 2020 following four years with a rights technology company. Originally from Canada, and with a background in foreign rights and audience development, she sells translation rights into over 15 languages.
Contact Details
Address: 50 Albemarle Street, London, W1S 4BD
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Most of our clients join us through recommendations, so we are not accepting any unsolicited manuscripts at this time in order to give our full attention to our current clients. We would recommend authors looking for representation talk first to Cornerstones a UK literary consultancy with a division in the USA who work mainly by word of mouth within the industry. They offer professional editorial feedback, are a teaching-focussed company, and scout for agents. If and when your manuscript is ready to submit to agents they may refer you back to us.
Since 2009 we have been based in offices in the heart of London’s Mayfair at 50 Albemarle Street in the iconic John Murray building, just off Piccadilly.
We are members of the Association of Authors’ Agents and subscribe to its code of practice.