Translation Rights Management for Bestselling Fiction and Non-Fiction
We are a specialist translation rights agency, with over fifteen years' experience in commercial fiction. We offer full rights management, in all territories, to independent, self-published and debut authors.
We also partner with top literary agencies, representing their clients internationally.
Greenstone Literary Agency was founded by Tanera Simons and Laura Heathfield and represents international bestselling authors of commercial fiction and non-fiction.
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.
Rights Across The World
With over fifteen years' experience representing some of the UK's biggest publishing brands, placing our authors with the top publishers across the world is at the heart of everything we do.
Travelling to the major international book fairs and meeting regularly with our extensive network of publishers, we have also teamed up with leading co-agents in Asia and Eastern Europe, who are our expert feet on the ground in these important markets.
Grayhawk Agency, founded by Gray Tan in 2008 is based in Taipei and is now one of the biggest literary agencies in the East Asian markets. Grayhawk Agency represents our authors in Taiwan, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand and Indonesia.
Corto Agency, founded by Diana Matulić, has its headquarters in Zagreb, Croatia. Experts in commercial fiction and non-fiction, Corto represents our authors in Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Hungary, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia.
Alice Agency was recently founded by Alice Moon in Seoul and represents our authors on an exclusive basis in South Korea.
Japan Uni was established in 1967. Based in Tokyo, it is the longest running agency in Japan and represents our authors on an exclusive basis.
Mary Darby founded Darby Literary in 2024
Contact Me
For rights availability information, please contact me on mary@darbyliterary.com.
If you are a publisher or literary agency and would like to discuss a c0-agenting partnership, please get in touch for our current availability.
If you are an author and would like us to consider your work please do check back here. We will re-open submissions soon.
Email: mary@darbyliterary.com
About Me
I lived in Papua New Guinea as a child and have always been curious about culture and languages. Studying French and Spanish at the University of Newcastle enabled me to spend a year abroad doing ERASMUS in Chambéry in France and Granada in Spain. Upon graduating I joined the British Council's Teaching Assistant program and moved to Guadeloupe in the Caribbean for a year to teach English in Primary Schools. Books, reading and travel have been a huge part of my life, for as long as I can remember. 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 very happy years at Darley Anderson, working with some of the UK's bestselling commercial fiction authors, building writing careers in up to fifty languages.
Whether it's commercial fiction, literary fiction or narrative non-fiction, I love the escapism I find when reading a great book. I believe this escapism is a feeling shared throughout the world by writers and readers, which is why I founded Darby Literary Rights Agency. With selling translation rights being our core focus, I build long-term careers in other languages and markets for our authors, seeing each deal as a stepping stone to the next. By taking immense care in matching each book and each author to the right publisher, I ensure the best and fairest deal for everyone.
I was shortlisted for the British Book Awards Rights Professional of the Year 2022.