Francesca Riccardi
Kate Nash Literary Agency
Likely Closed
Updated: 2/4/2026
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Agent Information
Agent Bio
Francesca has over fifteen years of experience in the publishing industry, beginning at RNIB transcribing books into accessible formats for blind and partially sighted readers.
She has worked in sales and marketing roles at Canelo, Atlantic Books, Constable & Robinson and HarperCollins, and reads widely across popular commercial genres with a particular fondness for crime and thrillers, especially stories featuring a dogged detective or an unusual sleuth.
She also enjoys books about unusual family dynamics, toxic friendships and people keeping secrets.
Francesca was born and raised in Peterborough and now lives in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, with her partner and their two rescue dogs.
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Submission Requirements
Fiction Requirements
Nonfiction Requirements
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Genres
Genres Represented
Fiction
- Commercial Fiction
- Crime
- Detective
- Thrillers
Nonfiction
Genres Not Represented
- Short Stories
- Novellas
- Children's Books
- Erotica
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About Kate Nash Literary Agency
Agency Profile
Founded in 2009, the Kate Nash Literary Agency Ltd. has gone on to become one of the UK’s foremost independent literary agencies, specialising in bestselling commercial fiction and non-fiction for adults, young adults and children.
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