Sarah Lutyens
Literary Agent & Partner
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.
Sarah Lutyens is the agent for the following authors
- Sascha Arango
- Tom Baragwanath
- Sybille Bedford
- Mark Billingham
- Behrouz Boochani
- Anne Buist
- Deborah Callaghan
- Katherine Collette
- Caroline Day
- Michelle de Kretser
- Agnes Desarthe
- Garry Disher
- Ellen Feldman
- Tim Flannery
- Elena Forbes
- Karen Foxlee
- Helen Garner
- Kate Grenville
- Mark Hardie
- David Hare
- John Harvey
- Lian Hearn
- Robert Hillman
- Florian Huber
- Rebecca Hunt
- Amy Jenkins
- Lloyd Jones
- Nina Kenwood
- Sarah Krasnostein
- Dirk Kurbjuweit
- John Ajvide Lindqvist
- Sam Neill
- Craig Nelson
- Bella Pollen
- Melanie Raabe
- Mahesh Rao
- Hannah Richell
- Willy Russell
- Patricia Scanlan
- Graeme Simsion
- Rebecca Smith
- Madeleine St John
- Ilka Tampke
- Cory Taylor
- Peter Temple
- Carrie Tiffany
- Vikki Wakefield
- Shane Watson
- Arabella Weir