CDLA - Caroline Davidson Literary Agency

Welcome

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.

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.

News

• Orange Prize long-listing for THE SEALED LETTER

• THE HUNT in the running for Sunday Times Short Story Award 2012

• Andrew and Maureen Dalby: THE SHAKESPEARE COOKBOOK

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  8 March 2012

  Emma Donoghue’s historical novel, THE SEALED LETTER, has been long-listed for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2012.

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  19 February 2012

  Emma Donoghue’s magni­ficent story set during the American War of Independence has been longlisted for the Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award 2012.

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  17 February 2012

  This fascinating book by Andrew and Maureen Dalby explores the plays alongside contem­porary recipes to offer modern‐day cooks a unique insight into daily life and gastronomy in Shakespeare’s London.

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Books

• Three and a Half Deaths

• Good Old-Fashioned Pies & Stews

• Geoponika

• New Irish Short Stories

• The Sealed Letter

• An accident, a suicide, an act of criminal negligence… and a near-death experience.
  These stories by Emma Donoghue – set in France, the USA and Canada – bring together calamities from two centuries.

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• 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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• Drawn from the details of the Codrington Affair, a scandalous divorce case that gripped Britain in 1864, THE SEALED LETTER is both a gripping courtroom thriller and a domestic exposé of friendship, betrayal, love, and infidelity.

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