Toby Mundy
Toby Mundy represented the recent bestsellers Damaged Goods, Oliver Shah’s biography of Philip Green; The Road to Somewhere by David Goodhart; Red River Girl by Joanna Jolly, Who Can You Trust? by Rachel Botsman; and Maestra by Lisa Hilton. His clients include Tobias Buck, Stephen Bush, Ruth Brandon, James Crabtree, Michael Dine, Daniel Finkelstein, Charles Handy, Tiffany Jenkins, Andrew Keen, Ivan Krastev, Ian Leslie, Owen Matthews, Paul Morland, Arkady Ostrovsky, Nicolas Pelham, Leigh Phillips, Richard V Reeves, Jonathan Rowson, Donald Sassoon, Geoffrey Wheatcroft, Christian Wolmar and Emma Young. He also represents organisations such as The How to: Academy; Stylist magazine; New Scientist, the TLS and The Browser.com.
Before becoming a literary agent, Toby founded Atlantic Books Limited, where he served as chief executive and publisher from 2000 to 2014, publishing a significant number of number of bestsellers and prize-winning titles. He won ‘Editor of the Year’ and Atlantic Books also won ‘Imprint of the Year’ (2005, 2008) and ‘Independent Publisher of the Year’ (2008) at the British Book Awards. He is also executive director of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-fiction, the most prestigious non-fiction book prize in the UK; chair of trustees of Wimbledon BookFest, a registered charity; chair of the advisory board of The Sunday Times — Audible Short Story Award; and a patron of the UK’s National Festival of the Humanities, which is run by the University of London’s School of Advanced Study. He was a non-executive director of Prospect Publishing Limited for 10 years, where he was also a contributing editor and editorial board member. He has also been an active advisory board member of, the Legatum Institute and Demos think tanks, and has appeared regularly on the Evening Standard’s list of London’s 1,000 Most Influential People. In 2016, he appeared in Esquire magazine’s list of Britain’s 100 ‘Most Connected’ men.
He is looking for gripping narrative non-fiction, and well written, mind-expanding works in the areas of history, biography, memoir, current affairs, sport, popular culture and popular science. He also represents a small number of thriller writers and literary novelists.
Represents
Rethinking the Future
The Handy Guide to the Gurus of Management
Politics of Prosperity
A Piece of the Action: Employee Ownership, Equity Pay and the Rise of the Knowledge Economy
Living on Thin Air
New Measures for the New Economy
Up the Down Escalator: Why Global Pessimists Are Wrong
Cloud Culture
School Leadership for Public Value
On the Brink: A History of Europe Since 1989
Squatting: The Real Story
Points of View: Censorship
Points of View: Drugs
DRUGS: Drugs and Sports
The Great British Railway Disaster
Unlocking the Gridlock
Forgotten Children
All Change: British Railway Privatisation
Broken Rails
Blue Book on Transport
On the Wrong Line
Stagecoach
The Strategy of the Italian Communist Party
Contemporary Italy: Politics Economy & Society Since 1945
Social Democracy at the Heart of Europe
The New European Left
Living and Community
The Randlords
Absent Friends
The Controversy of Zion
Yo, Blair!
Churchill’s Shadow
Untitled on Biodiversity
Lion City
The Miner’s Strike, 1984-84: Loss Without Limit
Rebirth of a Nation: Anatomy of Russia
Fractured
The Gift of a Radio: My Childhood and Other Train Wrecks
Agent Twister
Man, Beast, and Zombie
White People Are Not the Problem (or the Solution)
Sufism: The Essentials
Traditionalism
The Courageous Mind
Consciousness Regained
In a Dark Time
A History of the Mind
Leaps of Faith / Soul Searching
Privatizing the World
The Purpose of Politics
Thinking with the Blood
Red Traitor
The Man Who Fell to Earth
Hard Choices
Player Manager: The Rise of Professionals Who Manage While they Work
Chasing Alpha
Agent Twister
Between the Zones
Glints of Darkness
Peterloo Preview 1
In Defence of Realism
Fathers and Sons
Psycho-Electronics / Why the Mind Is Not a Computer
Absence
Freedom
Spiritualists: Passion for the Occult in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Left, Right and Centre
Out of Body, Out of Mind
The Burning Question: The Anti-Nuclear Movement Since 1945
Mind Out
Being Divine: Biography of Sarah Bernhardt
The Gorgon’s Smile
Tickling the Dragon
The Uncertainty Principle
The New Women and the Old Men
Surreal Lives
The Life and Many Deaths of Harry Houdini
Automobile: How the Car Changed Life
Einstein in Time and Space
New York, NY 10010
