
Client Highlights


Free Speech And Why It Matters
Andrew Doyle
Free Speech And Why It Matters
Andrew Doyle
Little Brown

You Are Beautiful and You Are Alone
Jennifer Otter Bickerdike
You Are Beautiful and You Are Alone
Jennifer Otter Bickerdike
Faber

Biracial Britain
Remi Adekoya
Biracial Britain
Remi Adekoya
Constable

The Madness of Crowds
Douglas Murray
The Madness of Crowds
Douglas Murray
Bloomsbury

SMALL HOURS: THE LONG NIGHT OF John Martyn
Graeme Thomson
SMALL HOURS: THE LONG NIGHT OF John Martyn
Graeme Thomson
Omnibus

Stories For Boys Who Dare To Be Different
Ben Brooks
Stories For Boys Who Dare To Be Different
Ben Brooks
Quercus

Decline and Fail
John Crace
Decline and Fail
John Crace
Guardian Faber Publishing
Client News


Fleet Reveals Cover For Seamas O’Reilly’s Memoir
March 27, 2021
Thrilled to reveal the cover and date for Did Ye Hear Mammy Died?, a memoir of childhood in 90s Derry with a widowed dad, ten siblings, 800 films taped off the telly, and at least one relatively notable IRA bomb.

The legendary rock critic Nick Kent is back with his first novel The Unstable Boys
February 13, 2021
Nick Kent, who is as close as British music journalism ever came to producing a legend, finally stopped writing about rock in 2007. “There was really nothing around that sparked my imagination,” he tells me. “There was no mystery, and …

Paul Mason’s New Book ‘ How To Stop Fascism’ Sold To Allen Lane
October 6, 2020
Allen Lane will publish Paul Mason’s How to Stop Fascism, an “original and challenging history of fascism and guide to resisting it”, in spring 2021….

The Madness of Crowds by Douglas Murray is a Sunday Times Bestseller
September 29, 2020
The new and expanded paperback edition of The Madness of Crowds went into the Sunday Times bestseller list at #5 and has now been in the top 10 for 3 weeks…
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The Hamilton Agency is a literary agency based in Holland Park in London. It was founded March 2019 by Matthew Hamilton, who was an agent with Aitken Alexander Associates for over twelve years. Previously he was a Publishing Director and Board member at Bloomsbury, and Editorial Director at 4th Estate.
Matthew Hamilton has represented bestsellers such as The Madness of Crowds by Douglas Murray, Postcapitalism by Paul Mason and Stories For Boys Who Dare To Be Different by Ben Brooks. He has a particular interest in politics and current affairs, music, narrative non-fiction, memoir, biography, sport and entertainment.
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