John Saddler ran his own literary agency for three years before joining Curtis Brown as an agent in 2003. A publisher for 14 years, he was until June 2000 Publishing Director of Anchor, an imprint of Transworld Publishers and before that the Editorial Director of Flamingo, the literary imprint of HarperCollins UK. He has also worked as an Editorial Director at Fourth Estate and a Senior Editor at Corgi and Black Swan. John handles literary and quality commercial fiction and general non-fiction including history, biography, memoir, current affairs, travel, and sports writing. His client list includes prize-winning novelists Joan Brady and Barry Unsworth as well as Allan Massie, Jamie O'Neill and William McIlvanney. His non-fiction clients include football referee David Elleray, foreign correspondent Brent Sadler and historians writing on topics as diverse as Samuel Plimsoll, the gardens of Versailles, the wreck of the Medusa, London bodysnatchers in 1831 and the Crusades.