Translation Rights · mary@darbyliterary.com · darbyliterary.com
Translation rights for bestselling fiction and non-fiction.
Building writing careers in 50+ languages.
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Ruth Ware
PTPortuguese edition of The Woman in Suite 11
Chris Carter
DEGerman edition of Hide and Seek
Candice Fox
Beth O'Leary
FIFinnish edition of The Flatshare
Paul Cooper
Jo Spain
DEGerman edition of Sleeping Beauties
Ally Zetterberg
Mandy Baggot
DEGerman edition
Kate Galloway Smith
DEGerman edition of Wild Swimming
Fleur McDonald
Erin Hortle
Natalie Cooper
DEGerman edition of Iris Is More Than Okay
Sally Page
FRFrench edition of The Book of Beginnings
Joy Mullett
Sophie White
DEGerman edition of Such a Good Couple
Anna Fury
Chris Carter
DEGerman edition of The Still Place
Kirsten King
Ali Mercer
Ruth Ware
NLDutch edition of One Perfect CoupleWorking closely with partner agencies in the UK, the US and Australia, representing their authors' rights internationally.
Representing publishers' rights across international markets — bringing European authors to English-language readers, and taking independent presses into new territories.
Seeking UK & US representation? Let's talk →Representing the translation rights of Darby Literary's own authors across international markets.
Founded by Tanera Simons and Laura Heathfield in 2024, representing international bestselling authors of commercial fiction and non-fiction.
A boutique London-based agency representing bestselling and prize-winning authors of commercial and literary fiction and non-fiction.
Founded in 1908 and part of the Holtzbrinck group, one of Germany’s leading trade houses, publishing international fiction and non-fiction across Rowohlt, Rowohlt Berlin, Kindler, Wunderlich and rororo.
Founded in 2025 by Nicola Barr on Peckham’s Rye Lane, aspiring to represent writers from all walks of life.
Run by Gaby Naher, representing prize-winning, ambitious, high-concept fiction and non-fiction, and international bestselling crime and thrillers.
Founded in 2002, a five-member full-service agency representing adult and juvenile fiction and non-fiction, with New York Times, USA Today and #1 Amazon bestsellers.
Books, reading and travel have always been a huge part of my life. Rights combines all the things 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 and building writing careers in over fifty languages.
Whether it's commercial fiction, literary fiction or narrative non-fiction, I love the escapism of a great book. Selling translation rights is our core focus: 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.
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, 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.