Becky Thomas

After landing a fluke temping job in 2005 at Faber & Faber, Becky decided faxing Seamus Heaney was infinitely preferable to working in travel insurance above a KFC (her other temping job after finishing her English Literature degree). While there, she spent four years looking after the Estates and unagented poets in the Rights Department, where she learned that she had a knack and passion for negotiation and author care, and that would be the perfect combination to move into agenting. She became Contracts Director at Abner Stein before moving to WME, where she began to grow her list of authors, energised by the live scene she plugged into when booking festival line ups for the literary tents. After the success of her first few deals – Viv Albertine’s seminal memoir Clothes Music Boys, and Kae Tempest’s Hold Your Own – she joined Fox Mason in 2013, where she could foster a versatile approach to representation that felt the most rewarding. Johnson & Alcock acquired Fox Mason in 2015 and she has spent the last six years building a definitive and diverse list of talent. She focuses on literary and reading group fiction, memoir, pop culture, narrative non-fiction and essays, but always genre and format-defying. She is especially interested in finding under-represented voices, be that because of class, region, ethnic group or gender, and uncovering stories both familiar and relatable, but that show her something new about the world.

She was named Literary Agent of the Year at the 2022 British Book Awards.

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United Kingdom

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