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Caroline Davidson Literary Agency

has specialised in repres­enting authors of literary fiction and cerebral non-fiction, since 1988.

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Submissions

CDLA accepts submissions for certain types of fiction and non-fiction.

If you are thinking of making a submission, please read our Submissions Guide carefully. We are very selective in taking on new authors.

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Authors

CDLA enjoys working with a diverse group of authors.

Some write novels, literary criticism, plays or screenplays. Others produce books on subjects such as art, gastronomy, history, social commentary, or science. Click the link below to find out more.

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News


  • Emma Donoghue’s ROOM is one of 25 parti­cipating novels, copies of which will be given away by volunteers all over the UK.

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  • Andrew Dalby and Sally Grainger have compre­hensively updated their best-selling book on the cuisine of ancient Greece and Rome.

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  • Emma Donoghue’s historical novel, THE SEALED LETTER, has been long-listed for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2012.

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Books



  • The Treatise of Walter of Bibbesworth is a didactic poem in Anglo-Norman which surveys a host of practical matters in thirteenth-century England.

    Andrew Dalby has produced the first modern trans­lation of this gem, so far undis­covered by the wider public.

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  • A sparkling novel by Chris Greenhalgh that captures the love affair between two unfor­gettable people: Ingrid Bergman and Robert Capa.

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  • An accident, a suicide, an act of criminal negligence… and a near-death experience.
    These stories by Emma Donoghue – set in France, the USA and Canada – bring together calamities from two centuries.

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  • Following on from her triumphant 2009 volume on roasts, Laura Mason returns with another book for Anova’s National Trust imprint.

    GOOD OLD-FASHIONED PIES & STEWS casts its net wide. It contains inspiring recipes for all sorts of ingredients (from meat to fish to vegetables to fruit), drawing on Laura’s knowledge of tradi­tional cookery and food history.

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  • Andrew Dalby has produced the first modern trans­lation into English of this important Byzantine compilation of ancient texts on farming and agriculture.

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