Margaret Halton joined PEW as an Agent in 2018, where she now handles the Agency's translation rights. She studied English at Oxford and has had a varied career working for publishing houses and literary agencies on both sides of the Atlantic, including ICM and Rogers, Coleridge & White. She has been responsible for selling international rights in non-fiction titles as wide-ranging as Margaret Thatcher’s memoirs and Naomi Klein’s THE SHOCK DOCTRINE, and in novels by Toni Morrison, Richard Ford, Zadie Smith and Nick Hornby amongst many others. She worked as an editor at Granta Books where she was responsible for acquiring Mohsin Hamid’s first novel MOTH SMOKE and titles by Kamila Shamsie, Herta Muller and Colson Whitehead. In recent years she has started to develop her own list of authors, focusing mainly on fiction. She loves novels that pack an emotional punch with characters you feel you get to know personally.
Margaret also represents UK rights on behalf of Ayesha Pande Literary in the States.
