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Emma Bal
Madeleine Milburn Agency
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About
Emma Bal is a literary agent at the Madeleine Milburn Literary, TV & Film Agency, a prominent UK-based agency. She joined the agency as an agent and works across adult and children's fiction. She is known for championing commercial and upmarket fiction with broad audience appeal.
Currently Looking For
My favorites include… Some favourite books The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow Free by Lea Ypi Edible Economics by Ha-Joon Chang The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk Empireland by Sathnam Sanghera The Book of Trespass by Nick Hayes Atlas of Remote Islands by Judith Schalansky Original Sins by Matt Rowland Hill 1599 by James Shapiro Super-Infinite by Katherine Rundell The Flavour Thesaurus by Niki Segnit Islands of Abandonment by Cal Flynn The Story of Art Without Men by Katy Hessell Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood Dishoom by Shamil Thakrar Three Women by Lisa Taddeo The Earth Transformed by Peter Frankopan Caste by Isabel Wilkerson Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe Humankind by Rutger Bregman How the World Made the West by Josephine Quinn Ultra-Processed People by Chris van Tulleken
Submission Guidelines
The Madeleine Milburn Agency accepts submissions via their online submissions portal. Prospective authors should submit a query letter, a synopsis, and the first three chapters or approximately fifty pages of their manuscript. Authors should check the agency website to confirm Emma Bal is currently open to submissions before querying.
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