David Riding

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Sport and a broad range of nonfiction, including journalism, sports figures, actors, TV personalities, doctors, business figures, and military history. Also novelists, and memoir and autobiography from public figures with a distinctive story to tell.

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Submit first 3 chapters and synopsis as attachments and covering letter in body; attachments in Word, PDF, or Final Draft; address FAO relevant agent. David Riding is a Director at MBA with a background at Penguin Books. His clients include multiple Sunday Times number one and Top Ten bestsellers, among them cricketer Jonny Bairstow, boxer Ricky Hatton, and Yorkshire Vet star Julian Norton. He takes an editorial and commercial approach to all submissions, and the agency does not accept postal submissions.