Toby Mundy

Toby Mundy represented the recent bestsellers Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller, Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet by Hannah Ritchie, and Hitler, Stalin, Mum & Dad: A Family Memoir of Miraculous Survival by Daniel Finkelstein. His other clients include Hannah Barnes, Melissa Blake, Tobias Buck, Stephen Bush, James Crabtree, Charles Handy, Tiffany Jenkins, Ivan Krastev, Ian Leslie, Kenan Malik, Clive Myrie, David Omand, Arkady Ostrovsky, Leigh Phillips, Richard V Reeves, Donald Sassoon, Geoffrey Wheatcroft, Christian Wolmar, Emma Young and Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Before becoming a literary agent, Toby founded Atlantic Books, where he served as chief executive and publisher from 2000 to 2014, publishing a significant number of bestsellers and prize-winning titles. During his tenure, Atlantic Books won ‘Independent Publisher of the Year’ and ‘Imprint of the Year’ (2005, 2009) at the British Book Awards, and he was named ‘Editor of the Year’ in 2005.

Since 2014, Toby has served as director of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, Britain’s pre-eminent literary prize for non-fiction writing. Previously, 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 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 was also, for a decade, the chair of trustees of Wimbledon Arts, the educational charity that oversees London’s leading literary festival, Wimbledon Bookfest. He is a Patron of the National Festival of the Humanities, and a former Chair of the Advisory Board of the Sunday Times Short Story Prize. 

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.