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| Gillon Aitken's early career was in publishing, latterly as Managing Director of Hamish Hamilton, which he left in the mid-1970's to found the literary agency which became Aitken Alexander Associates, to which he has since been dedicated. His authors include: Pat Barker, Sarah Bradford, Gordon Burn, Sebastian Faulks, Helen Fielding, Germaine Greer, V. S. Naipaul, Jonathan Raban, Piers Paul Read, Nicholas Shakespeare, Salley Vickers and A. N. Wilson. |
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Clare Alexander became an agent in 1998 after more than 20 years as a publisher. Novelists whom she represents include Kitty Aldridge, Clare Allan, Clare Clark, Emma Darwin, Sarah Dunant, Susan Elderkin, Diana Evans, Mark Haddon, Virginia Ironside, Liz Jensen, Lucy Kellaway, James Scudamore, Gillian Slovo, Frank Tallis, Jane Elizabeth Varley and Penny Vincenzi. She also represents best selling children’s book author Louise Rennison. Clare is particularly noted for discovering new fiction writers, most recently Mohammed Hanif and Jennie Rooney, whose novels will be published in 2008. She also represents a number of writers of narrative non-fiction, including Philip Ball, John Cornwell, Mary Laven, Caroline Moorehead, Lyndal Roper, Ben Shephard, Nicholas Stargardt, Rory Stewart, Adam Tooze and Andrew Wilson, and specialises in the areas of history and memoir. Clare was named Orion Publishing Group Literary Agent of the Year at the 2007 British Book Industry Awards and has just been awarded the 2008 Kim Scott Walwyn Prize, which honours outstanding achievements by women in publishing. Clare is a member of the Women's Committee of the Orange Prize and is on the advisory board to the London Book Fair. |
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| Kate Shaw joined Aitken Alexander Associates in 2000 after several years working in publishing, latterly as publicity director at Fourth Estate and at Penguin. Her client list is small and select, comprising writers of literary and popular fiction for adults, such as Melanie Finn, Julia Gregson and Chris Haslam; and children's fiction authors, including Rachel Anderson, L.J. Adlington, Helen Fox and Alan Macdonald. |
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| Lesley Thorne joined Aitken Alexander Associates in the Autumn of 1999, after two years working in an editorial role at Hamish Hamilton and Viking, and before that at Fourth Estate. Her natural inclination is towards accessible literary fiction and well-written and edgy crime/thrillers. For non-fiction the quality of writing is equally important – memoir, travelogue/adventure, biography and popular culture being her main areas of interest. Novelists whom she represents include Nicholas Blincoe, Kathy Page and Willy Vlautin, and non-fiction authors include the Times journalist Emma Mahony, New Order’s Peter Hook and Nicholas Guyatt. |
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| Ayesha Karim joined Aitken Alexander Associates in November 2002 after abandoning a successful career in ebusiness design and consultancy in San Francisco and New York. She started as the assistant to Gillon Aitken during which time she worked closely with Germaine Greer and V.S. Naipaul and began to develop a careful list of fine fiction and strong non fiction where her interests lie in memoir, travelogue, history and current affairs. Her clients include Edna Fernandes, Tina Biswas, Roopa Farooki, Manjushree Thapa, Michele Roberts and Sadanand Dhume. |
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| Matthew Hamilton started his career at Bloomsbury, where he set up the paperback division and went on to become Publishing Director. He has also worked for Fourth Estate and Conville and Walsh. He’s interested in literary fiction, thrillers and popular culture. Clients include the bestselling Irish novelist Ronan O’Brien, the writer and broadcaster Sam Delaney and house music legend Danny Rampling. |
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| Andrew Kidd, who joined the agency in April 2008, was until recently Publisher of Picador and Macmillan, where his authors included John Banville, Tim Binding, Jim Crace, Don DeLillo, Edward Docx, Bret Easton Ellis, Patrick French, Alan Hollinghurst, Jackie Kay, Matthew Kneale, Andrew Marr, Cormac McCarthy, V.S. Naipaul, Jonathan Raban, Oliver Sacks, Edward St Aubyn, Graham Swift, Colm Toibin and Tim Winton. Before that he was Editorial Director at Penguin, where he published, amongst others, Jonathan Safran Foer, Sandor Marai, Lucy Moore, Patrick McGrath, Andrew Rawnsley and John Updike. |
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