Imogen Morrell
I joined Greene & Heaton in 2018. Before joining the agency, I studied for a BA in English Literature at King's College London and a MSt in Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Oxford. I represent a list of literary fiction and non-fiction.
Imogen's Manuscript Wishlist
I'm looking for fiction that is intelligent and entertaining. My taste is broad but I'm drawn to a distinctive voice, a sense of strangeness, emotional stakes, and beauty! I like to read novels that inhabit genre or lean on plot -- be it an obsessive thriller, a weird crime novel, a ghost story -- to deal with wider moral or political complexity. I'd love to find a clever, taut suspense like A LONELY MAN by Chris Power; a campy horror like PLAIN BAD HEROINES by Emily M Danforth; a novel with a sense of humour like BIG SWISS by Jen Beagin; a comedy of manners like DETRANSITION BABY by Torrey Peters; an explosive, funny novel about desire like ALL FOURS by Miranda July.
I like books that are speculative or ghostly, like DREAMLAND by Rosa Rankin-Gee, OUR WIVES UNDER THE SEA by Julia Armfield, VAGABONDS! by Eloghosa Osunde, and BRIEFLY, A DELICIOUS LIFE by Nell Stevens; historical fiction of all stripes like FINGERSMITH by Sarah Waters, THE MANNINGTREE WITCHES by AK Blakemore, THE PASSION by Jeanette Winterson, and HARLEM SHUFFLE by Colson Whitehead; novels that feel bendy and unusual, like MILK FED by Melissa Broder and PAUL TAKES THE FORM OF A MORTAL GIRL by Andrea Lawlor.
I'm keen to work with academics and journalists, and I'm interested in history, politics, philosophy, identity, art, the environment, nature and food. I've sold books on a range of subjects by those I do represent e.g. heat, mythology, domestic objects, the future, wild mountain shelters, British Chinese history, the internet... I'm looking for writers that can spark curiosity no matter the subject, and marry vivid narrative with deep research. I enjoy working on proposals, too, and I'm happy to speak to non-fiction writers in the early stages of a project.
In non-fiction, I'm looking for political and cultural commentaries like DOPPELGANGER by Naomi Klein, THE RIGHT TO SEX by Amia Srinivasan, THE TRANSGENDER ISSUE by Shon Faye, THE AGE OF SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM by Shoshana Zuboff; mind-bending non-fiction like ENTANGLED LIFE by Merlin Sheldrake, SILK by Aarathi Prasad, ISLANDS OF ABANDONMENT by Cal Flyn, and SAVING TIME by Jenny Odell; narrative biographies, like FIRE ISLAND by Jack Parlett, SQUARE HAUNTING by Francesca Wade, and SUPER-INFINITE by Katherine Rundell; memoir about history or landscapes like A FLAT PLACE by Noreen Masud, FREE by Lea Ypi, and LATE LIGHT by Michael Malay; an insider story like SEA STATE by Tabitha Lasley and UNCANNY VALLEY by Anna Wiener; obsessive, literary true crime like THE RED PARTS by Maggie Nelson and THIS HOUSE OF GRIEF by Helen Garner.
