Rachel Mills to join Furniss Lawton

Rachel Mills, formerly head of Peters, Fraser + Dunlop's international rights department, will be joining Furniss Lawton in the newly created role of agent and international rights director in late August.

Mills revealed she was leaving PFD after five and a half years in May. In her new role she will continue to build her own list of authors and Furniss Lawton will now deal direct in territories Germany, France, Italy, Holland and North America. Mills will oversee the international publishing strategy for all Furniss Lawton authors, alongside rights manager Liane-Louise Smith, who will continue to handle day to day rights submissions.

Mills will be the sixth member of the Furniss Lawton team that, part of the James Grant Group, was founded in 2012 and is run by Eugenie Furniss and Rowan Lawton. Mills joins Smith, Rory Scarfe and team assistant Isha Karki.

Furniss Lawton's clients span brand fiction and debut writers, non-fiction and children’s, including SK Tremayne, Lindsey Kelk, Tracy Rees, Alexandra Shulman, Kevin Brooks, Julian Clary, the Hairy Bikers, Clare Balding, Fearne Cotton, Holly Willoughby & Davina McCall.

Mills said: "I am extremely excited to join the Furniss Lawton team at the end of the summer. There is huge international potential within their list, and I am very much looking forward to helping further develop that side of their thriving agency business, while finding new voices in fiction and non-fiction who will appeal to a global readership."

Furniss and Lawton said: “We are delighted Rachel is joining the Furniss Lawton team. Her energy and commitment to her authors and to international publishing is very impressive. We’re very much looking forward to seeing Rachel’s list flourish and to her spearheading growth in our international business."