DARBY LITERARY
translation rights management for bestselling fiction and non-fiction
about mary
Books, reading and travel have always been a huge part of my life. Rights combines all these things that I love.
I started my career in books in 2010, working at Stanford's Map and Travel Book Shop and in the Rights Department at Bloomsbury Publishing. I then spent thirteen years at Darley Anderson as Head of Rights, working with some of the UK's bestselling commercial fiction authors, building writing careers in over fifty languages.
Whether it's commercial fiction, literary fiction or narrative non-fiction, I love the escapism I find when reading a great book. Selling translation rights is our core focus and I aim to build long-term careers in other languages and markets for our authors, seeing each deal as a stepping stone to the next.
I was shortlisted for the British Book Awards Rights Professional of the Year 2022.
Darby Literary is a member of the Authors' Agents Association and abides by their rules and practices.
what I do
As well as working directly with the agency’s own authors, I collaborate closely with my partner agencies in the UK, the US and Australia, representing their authors’ rights internationally.
I’m very proud to be working with a select list of self-published authors, growing their readership outside of the English language.
clients
Greenstone Literary Agency
Greenstone Literary Agency was founded by Tanera Simons and Laura Heathfield in 2024, and represents international bestselling authors of commercial fiction and non-fiction.
Eve White Literary Agency
Eve White Literary Agency is a boutique London-based agency that represents bestselling and prize-winning authors of commercial and literary fiction and non-fiction.
Confluence Literary Agency
Confluence Literary Agency was formed in 2026 and is home to a wide range of commercial and literary fiction, SFF and horror authors, commercial and upmarket non-fiction, as well as middle-grade and YA.
Rye Literary
Founded in 2025 by Nicola Barr and based on Peckham’s diverse Rye Lane, Rye Literary aspires to be a literary agency representing writers from all walks of life.
The Naher Agency
The Naher Agency, based in Sydney, Australia, is run by Gaby Naher and represents prize-winning, ambitious, intelligent, high concept fiction and non-fiction authors, as well as international bestselling crime/thrillers.
Talcott Notch Literary
Founded in 2002, Talcott Notch Literary is a five-member, full-service literary agency representing both adult and juvenile fiction and nonfiction. With an impressive list of New York Times, USA Today and #1 Amazon bestsellers as well as a vast array of award-winning fiction and nonfiction.
contact
For author and title rights availability information, please contact me on mary@darbyliterary.com.
If you are a publisher or literary agency and would like to discuss a co-agenting partnership, please get in touch, we’d love to hear from you.
If you are an author and would like us to consider your work, please do check back here. We will re-open submissions soon.