Veronique Baxter

I joined David Higham Associates in 1999 and was made a Director in 2007. I’m very proud of the eclectic list of adult fiction, children’s books and non-fiction I have built since then.

I represent authors of literary and genre fiction including Naomi Alderman, Belinda Bauer, Carys Bray, Oliver Harris, Holly Gramazio, Sarah Hilary, S.E Lynes, Stephen Kelman, Charlotte Philby, Sarah Pinborough, M. L. Rio, Rachel Seiffert, Harriet Tyce, Scarlett Thomas, Nicola Upson, Tim Winton and Charlotte Wood.

On the children’s side my clients include Cressida Cowell, Nick Crumpton, Maz Evans, Nicola Davies, Jamila Gavin, Diana Wynne Jones, Geraldine McCaughrean, Michael Morpurgo, Jonathan Stroud and Jenny Valentine.

I’m also a very keen reader of non-fiction and my most recent projects give a good indication of my taste. They include Jonathan Dimbleby’s Endgame 1944, Anthony Bales’ A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages, Cato Pedder’s Moederland: Nine Daughters of South Africa, Timothy Phillip’s The Curtain and the Wall: A Modern Journey Along Europe’s Cold War Border, Philip Short’s Putin: His Life and Times and Jane Robinson’s Trailblazer: The First Feminist to Change our World.

My authors have won or been shortlisted for many prizes and accolades including the Women’s Prize for Fiction, the Sunday Times New Writer of the Year, the Costa Prize, the Carnegie Medal, the Greenaway, the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize, Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists, the Desmond Elliott First Novel Prize, the Booker Prize, the Orwell Prize among others.

I love to receive submissions and I’m always on the look out for exciting new projects. My taste in both adult fiction and non-fiction is broad but I’m predominantly attracted by the quality of the prose, strong and distinct voices, nuanced characterisation, ambitious storytelling and compelling, original plots.

Country & Year Established

United Kingdom

Agent since 1999

Professional Associations

Member of AAA

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