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“An extraordinary agent”; “A living marvel”; “I’m thrilled she’s in my corner and proud to be in her stable.” The heartfelt author testimonials for Rachel Mills show why she richly deserves the title of Literary Agent of the Year. Her eponymous agency had its best-ever year in 2025, earning £5m for clients. She steered
big auctions and pre-empts for Kaitlyn Regehr’s Smartphone Nation, Soumya Mukherjee’s The Brain Blueprint and Learn Like a Lobster by Helen Tupper and Sarah Ellis – three examples of the “smart-thinking” non-fiction that has become Mills’ speciality. She is just as energetic in sustaining backlist royalties and spotting new opportunities for old books. Repositioning established authors – as with Cathy Rentzenbrink for The Agatha Christie Cure, and wine expert Olly Smith in crime fiction – is another skill. There is a great diversity to her list, by race, class, age and neurodiversity, and books like Ellie Middleton’s How to Be You and Imad Alarnab’s Syrian Kitchen have had societal as well as commercial impacts. Publishers are just as enamoured as the authors: “Working with Rachel is always a joy,” said
one; another called her “generous, wise and very fun”. Simon & Schuster has been so impressed by her talents, in fact, that it will soon publish a novel that Mills somehow found time to write, The Players Club. “Rachel is a powerhouse,” said the judges. “Her client list and achievements are so impressive, and she’s got exceptional market-shaping ability. The creative collaboration with her authors is skilful and strategic, and it delivered phenomenal results in 2025.”
43 TRADE AWARDS Literary Agent of the Year
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