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We are a dedicated, editorially-led team passionate about collaborating closely with our authors to elevate their stories. Through a hands-on, tailored approach, we refine narratives, strengthen voices, and shape compelling, high-quality books that captivate readers. Our expertise lies in nurturing talent, providing insightful editorial guidance, and ensuring that every story, fiction and non-fiction, reaches its full potential.
Lisa Moylett
Agent
Lisa has worked in publishing for over 30 years and founded Coombs Moylett Literary Agency in 1997. Born in London but brought up in both Africa and the Middle East, Lisa graduated from Chelsea Art School and set up her first business as an agent for photographers and illustrators – representing Pixies' photographer, Simon Larbalestier, illustrator Richard Caldicott and portrait photographer Chris Garnham.
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Lisa represents an eclectic list of authors and writers and is currently looking for well-written, commercial women’s fiction with a strong hook, twisty plots, lots of emotion and lots of drama.
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Her client list includes: continuation 007 Bond author, John Gardner, best-selling crime writers, Lisa Hall, Simon Brett and Catriona McPherson. Lexicographer and foremost authority on Anglophone slang, Jonathon Green. Journalist, author and broadcaster Malachi O’Doherty and political pundit Ian Dunt.
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Jamie Maclean
Agent
Jamie specialises in both fiction and non-fiction and is particularly interested in sexual politics, relationship, lifestyle how-to’s, erotica, thrillers, whodunit and historical crime.
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Educated at Edinburgh College of Art, Jamie was fortunate enough to join the pilot scheme of the Sotheby’s Works of Art Course. Subsequently he worked for Sotheby’s and briefly ran the newly formed Victorian paintings department before moving to Michael Parkin Fine Art, a gallery specialising in modern British art. His next job was at Wildenstein & Co, the international art dealers. Three years later he set up his own dealership, the Maclean Gallery, holding exhibitions of paintings, drawings and prints from the 18th century to the present day, for which he produced several catalogues. In 1985 he curated the first exhibition of erotic art to be held legally in the UK.
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At about this time he was asked to cover the art auction scene for House and Garden and wrote a column for seven years. He has also written for the Observer, Evening Standard and New Statesman.
In 1995 Jamie Maclean founded the Erotic Review, handing over the editorship to Rowan Pelling after two years but remaining as publisher; together they continued to build up the magazine's readership, which eventually reached 30,000. He resumed as ER’s editor in 2007. Contributors included Naim Attallah, Joseph Connolly, Kate Copstick, Alan Jenkins, Simon Raven, Auberon Waugh, Alain de Botton, A.C. Grayling, DBC Pierre, Barry Humphries, Brian Sewell, Malachi O’Doherty and many others. In 2016 he co-edited an anthology of erotic short fiction with Mariella Frostrup, Desire.
Zoë Apostolides
Editor
Zoë works on the agency’s editorial side, helping new and existing writers to shape and develop their manuscripts across a range of crime, commercial fiction and non-fiction lists. She has a particular interest in horror fiction, non-fiction relating to education, politics and feminism.
Elena Langtry
Assistant
Elena has assisted Lisa Moylett since 2017, maintaining systems behind the scenes and processing contracts and rights. Elena has a degree in Human Biology and has worked at leading marketing and advertising agencies with blue chip pharmaceutical clients. Elena is interested in fresh and easy to read commercial women's fiction with quirky and current life stories, big hooks and diverse characters, as well as original, pacy psychological thrillers and cutting-edge non-fiction from popular science to true crime.
Sheila David
Book to Screen Agent
Sheila David is the founder and owner of Catapult Rights. She has worked in the industry since 2006, and has always leant into book to screen rights management, most recently having spent ten years representing dramatic rights for the Darley Anderson Literary Agencies.
Catapult represents dramatic rights in articles and books across non-fiction and fiction, working with literary agents in the UK and the US. The list ranges from the commercial to the literary, and takes in pre-school titles, graphic novels, intelligent narrative non-fiction, all the way across to chilling contemporary horror and fantasy.
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