James Catchpole
The Catchpole Agency
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Updated: 6/8/2026
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James is a children's literary agent at The Catchpole Agency and a picturebook author.
He started reading for the agency shortly after it was founded by his mother in 1995, graduating to writing editorial notes after finishing school.
He studied music at Oxford, followed by an M-Phil in Musicology and Performance.
He comes to agenting from an editorial perspective, from a love of words and their rhythm, and of the structure and power of narrative.
His musical studies inform his editing, as he views singing as the business of unearthing the music latent in language.
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