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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.
Our Submissions Guide »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.
Authors We Represent »News
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Libraries around the world nominate ROOM for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
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ROOM romps home at the Galaxy National Book Awards
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The Mystery of THE SEALED LETTER
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The longlist for the 2012 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award has just been announced. Based in Dublin, the award allows libraries from all over the world to nominate their books of the year.
Emma Donoghue’s ROOM has been nominated for the prize by libraries in Ireland, Canada, the US, the UK, New Zealand, Australia, France and the Maldives!
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Congratulations to ROOM, its author, Emma Donoghue, and its publisher, Picador, for a deserved win at the Galaxy National Book Awards 2011.
ROOM was victorious in the WH Smith Paperback of the Year section, in a strong field including novels by Philippa Gregory, Sarah Blake and Sarah Winman.
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October 13 sees the publication of Emma Donoghue’s latest historical novel, THE SEALED LETTER, in the UK and Ireland. Based on blow-by-blow newspaper reports of the 1864 Codrington Divorce, it is a novel full of sparkling characters and wicked dialogue, as well as a thought-provoking mystery and a gripping drama of friends, lovers and marriage.
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Books
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Three and a Half Deaths
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Good Old-Fashioned Pies & Stews
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Geoponika
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New Irish Short Stories
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Prince Charoon et al: South East Asia
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An accident, a suicide, an act of criminal negligence… and a near-death experience.
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These stories by Emma Donoghue – set in France, the USA and Canada – bring together calamities from two centuries. -
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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A stunning collection of new Irish short stories from a fascinating variety of writers, both new and established, featuring (among many others) William Trevor and Roddy Doyle, Rebecca Miller and Richard Ford, Emma Donoghue and Colm Tóibín.
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From Haus Publishing’s ‘Makers of the Modern World’ series. Andrew Dalby analyses the link between South-East Asia and the West in 1919–20, focusing on the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, to which Prince Charoon of Siam was a national delegate.
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