Nelle Andrew joined RML in 2020. She previously worked as an agent at Peters Fraser and Dunlop for eleven years, and prior to that at Macmillan publishers. Nelle represents an array of internationally bestselling and award-winning authors across both fiction and non-fiction. Among those on her list are Sara Collins (winner of the Costa Debut fiction award), Jing-Jing Lee (a longlistee for the Women’s Fiction Prize and Walter Scott prize), Beth Underdown (HWA Goldsboro Award winner) and six Richard and Judy book club picks such as the bestselling Heidi Perks, Bryony Gordon and Elizabeth Day.

Nelle was named Literary Agent of the Year in 2021 at The Bookseller Awards after also being shortlisted for Agent of the Year in 2018. Before that she was a Bookseller Rising Star in 2016.

Currently she sits on the board of Trustees for the Royal Literary Fund, and runs the Morley Prize for Unpublished Writers of Colour. Before that she helped to build the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize for Unpublished Authors into one of the most eminent prizes for undiscovered female voices, and sat on the original board for The Sunday Times/PFD Young Writer’s Award.