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David H Headley
Managing Director

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David Headley studied theology in London and Durham before co-founding and becoming the Managing Director of Goldsboro Books, a much admired, leading independent bookseller, based in central London.

David has spent the last 21 years establishing Goldsboro Books and building good relationships with editors within the UK’s major publishing houses. He has a good eye for what readers want to read and he has gained a reputation for championing debut authors. He created the UK’s largest collectors’ book club and is influential in selling large quantities of hardback fiction in the UK. David has won awards for bookselling and in 2015 and 2020, he was included in the Top 100 most influential people in publishing by The Bookseller.

David is the managing director of the D H H Literary Agency which he founded in 2008 and represents an eclectic range of best-selling and award-winning authors.

David is actively looking for: character-driven debuts and epic sweeping stories with big universal themes. Issue-driven crime and thrillers, high concepts and fear-inducing suspense. Thought-provoking stories, original narrative voices, uplifting fiction and emotional journeys - "stories that I don't want to end". David also accepts non-fiction submissions, from memoir, biography and history to politics, science, popular culture and food.

David is not looking for books for children, young adult [YA], poetry, plays, screenplays & short stories / novellas. For the time being, he is also not looking for books covering a pandemic or virus.


Submission: submission@dhhliteraryagency.com
Please send your cover letter, one-page synopsis and first three chapters. 

​CLIENTS


​A - C
Bartlett, Graham
Björg Ægisdottir, Eva
Bridgestock, R.C.
​Brown, Caraline
Burston, Paul
Collard, Paul Fraser
Craven, M.W.
​Curran, John
​D - H
Devani BEM, Kishan
Featherstone, Rachael
​Fennell, David
Fennell, J.D.
Fishlove
Frank, Anita
​Fox, Essie
Green, Erin
​Hilton, Lisa
​I - L
Innes, Dixie
Jonasson, Ragnar
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​Júlíusdóttir, Katrín
Levy, Jean
​Lusk, Sean
​Lyons, Jo
​M - R
Magson, Adrian
​McGilloway, Brian
Millman, Janie
O'Reilly, Noel
​S - Z
Scragg, Robert
Selman, Victoria
Swanston, Andrew
​Tattersfield, Eleanor
Thomas, Jo
Bar Tozino
Tyler, L.C.
​Walker, Stephen
​Watts, Jon
​West, A. J.
Whitfield, Clare
​Wright, Mic

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