Sarah Lutyens

An agent with Lutyens & Rubinstein Literary Agency (see other agents at this agency).

About

I launched the agency with Felicity in 1993 following a career in bookselling at Heyward Hill, then at the Literary Review and various publishing Rights Departments. We opened the L&R book shop in 2009 partly as a solution to the diminishing shelf space in our own homes. In 2023 it embarked on a new chapter under the ownership of Daunt Books as The L&R Bookshop and I will now be competing to be its most devoted customer. As well as looking after my own clients, I work with the independent Australian publisher Text selling UK rights in their wide range of fiction and non-fiction. I read crime fiction obsessively and unputdownable is my favourite blurb adjective but I have eclectic taste and also love a wide range of literary fiction and non-fiction which makes you think and question the world we live in. Realistically, I am focussed more now on my existing clients and the business as a whole but I still find it hard to resist the rare project which brings out that Messianic glint in the eye.

Country

United Kingdom

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Audience:

Open to a broad Audience.

Genres:

General
Mystery/Crime Subgenre: Crime

Lengths:

Novel

Styles:

Open to all/most Styles, including: Literary, Mainstream.

Topics:

Open to all/most Topics.

Submissions:

Method: Email.
Simultaneous submissions: Simultaneous submissions are allowed.

Collapse section Nonfiction Open

Audience:

Open to a broad Audience.

Lengths:

Book

Styles:

Open to all/most Styles, including: Literary, Mainstream.

Topics:

Open to all/most Topics.

Submissions:

Method: Email.
Simultaneous submissions: Simultaneous submissions are allowed.

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Dates

Last Updated: 07 Sep 2026

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