Client Highlights
Street Level Superstar: A Year With Lawrence
Will Hodgkinson
Street Level Superstar: A Year With Lawrence
Will Hodgkinson
Nine Eight Books
On Democracies and Death Cults
Douglas Murray
On Democracies and Death Cults
Douglas Murray
HarperCollins
Bless Me Father
Kevin Rowland
Bless Me Father
Kevin Rowland
Ebury Spotlight
Our Secrets Are The Same
Charlie Burchill and Jim Kerr with Graeme Thomson
Our Secrets Are The Same
Charlie Burchill and Jim Kerr with Graeme Thomson
Constable
The Rage of Party
George Owers
The Rage of Party
George Owers
Constable
Reparations: Slavery and the Tyranny of Imaginary Guilt
Nigel Biggar
Reparations: Slavery and the Tyranny of Imaginary Guilt
Nigel Biggar
Swift Press
168 Songs of Hatred and Failure: A History of Manic Street Preachers
Keith Cameron
168 Songs of Hatred and Failure: A History of Manic Street Preachers
Keith Cameron
White Rabbit
Client News
168 Songs of Hatred and Failure: A History of Manic Street Preachers by Keith Cameron is a Sunday Times Bestseller
September 23, 2025
Writing with the band’s full co-operation, Keith Cameron tells the history of Manic Street Preachers in 168 songs, “a forensic exploration of their compositions and recordings, and everything that has been poured into them…completely definitive.” MOJO ★★★★★
Holt pre-empts North American rights for GIRLS: Generation Z and the Commodification of Everything by Freya India
July 29, 2025
Author of the Substack GIRLS and staff writer at After Babel Freya India’s non-fiction debut explores the ruthless commercialisation of the inner lives of young women and the effect it has had on this misunderstood generation.
Constable wins eight-way auction for Simple Minds memoir, Our Secrets Are The Same
July 23, 2025
“Jim Kerr and Charlie Burchill, together with Graeme Thomson, have written an outstanding memoir that transcends the music genre…as much about the bonds of friendship and rootedness as it is about becoming one of Britain’s most influential bands.”
Kevin Rowland’s memoir Bless Me Father is a Sunday Times bestseller
July 21, 2025
“Blazingly honest … a confessional book ― at times almost recklessly candid ― but it’s also a profoundly sad family memoir.” Victoria Segal, The Sunday Times
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About Us
The Hamilton Agency is an independent literary agency based in London. It was founded in 2019 by Matthew Hamilton, who was previously an agent with Aitken Alexander Associates, and a Publishing Director and Board member at Bloomsbury.
He is on the Writers’ Advisory Council of the Free Speech Union.
The agency primarily represents serious and popular non-fiction, with a particular interest in politics and culture from across the ideological spectrum, and music writing.
Sunday Times bestselling clients include Nigel Biggar, Konstantin Kisin, Paul Mason, Douglas Murray, Kevin Rowland, Will Sergeant and Adelle Stripe. Prizewinning authors include Benjamin Moser, who was awarded the Pulitzer, and Penderyn Music Book Award winners Michael Cragg and Will Hodgkinson.
ILA handles translation rights for The Hamilton Agency. For rights enquiries only please contact:
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We work with a number of leading American literary agents on the sale of US rights.
Leah Middleton at Marjacq represents film, tv, podcast, and radio rights for The Hamilton Agency.