Keelie Hawk

Kathleen Jamie

City of Silk

Glennis Virgo

Swimming Wild Ireland

Anna Deacon and Vicky
Allan

Seal on the Beach

Illustrator Brita Granstrom (by Mara Bergman)

The List

Keith Gray

Jenny Brown Associates

Leading literary agency
From Scotland to the World
We Love Books

Latest news

Jenny Brown Associates’ Award is for debut novelists resident in the UK aged 50 and above. We will run the Award again in 2025; details will be posted soon.

November has Book Week Scotland (18-24th) with twelve events from our fantastic authors across the whole week. This month, our writers’ events span from London (for Flora Johnston’s paperback launch and Malachy Tallack’s launch in the Trafalgar Square Waterstones) all the way to the highlands
for Mallaig Book Festival (organised by Polly Pullar). We have the Pentlands Book Festival, St Andrews Book Festival (London), Cove and Kilcreggan Book Festival, AND end our month with more musical launch events for Malachy Tallack.

Click here for the calendar & tickets for our writers’ events in November.

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Submissions

How to submit your work

We love reading new work but, as a small agency, we can only consider submissions at certain points of the year.

Jenny's list

Closed to submissions while I catch up with reading.

Lucy's list

Closed to submissions while I catch up with reading.

Lisa's list

Closed to submissions while I catch up with reading.

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International rights

We sell translation rights directly to publishers throughout the world for fiction and non-fiction titles via our network of sub-agents and relationships with literary scouts.

We have secured deals in more than 20 languages into established markets such as Germany, Spain, France, Holland, Italy, and Scandinavia, as well as emerging markets including China and Korea.

Rights Catalogue Autumn 2024

About us

Founded in 2002, Jenny Brown Associates is the leading agency in Scotland and one of the foremost independent literary agencies in the UK.