Matthew Marland

Literary Agent
Matthew joined RCW in 2016 after two years working at Conville & Walsh. He is actively building a list of literary fiction and non-fiction writers. Matthew represents novelists, journalists and academics as well as a handful of poets. His authors have either won or been nominated for prizes including the Booker, Goldsmiths, Rathbones Folio, Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, Women's Prize for Fiction and Women's Prize for Nonfiction and Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year. He also represents several of The Cheney Agency’s authors in the UK, including James McAuley, Alex Blasdel, Shane McCrae, Tahir Hamut Izgil and Shaun Walker.
Some of his favourite authors include Janet Malcolm, Denis Johnson, James Baldwin, Deborah Levy, Patrick Radden Keefe and Gwendoline Riley. He's currently reading Flesh by David Szalay and Working by Robert Caro.
Clients Include:
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Paul Bailey
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Nicola Barker
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Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough
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Sebastian Barry
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Aidan Cottrell Boyce
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Harry Davies
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Ella Duffy
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Miles Ellingham
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Gabriel Flynn
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Mark Ford
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Christienna Fryar
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Ryan Gilbey
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Diarmuid Hester
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Seán Hewitt
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Stuart Kelly
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Ashani Lewis
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Ali Millar
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Patricia Nilsson
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Elizabeth O’Connor
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Daniel O'Connor
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Jason Okundaye
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Dr Meleisa Ono-George
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Nayana Prakash
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Martin Rowson
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William Henry Searle
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Stephanie Sy-Quia
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Sarah Thomas
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Sarah Trounce
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Nathan Waddell
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Richard Whatmore
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Frank Wynne
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Yuan Yang