About Trevor
Trevor Dolby is an agent at Aevitas Creative Management. He has spent 35 years in UK non-fiction publishing and has published scores of bestselling books. He was UK publisher of Dave Pelzer's A Child Called It trilogy. As Publisher and Managing Director of HarperCollins Entertainment, he managed worldwide publishing rights to J.R.R. Tolkien and UK and Commonwealth rights to The Simpsons, Agatha Christie and C.S. Lewis. In 2007 he launched the Preface imprint at Random House, and he was among the first publishers to establish the celebrity memoir.
What Trevor is looking for
Trevor Dolby is looking for popular science with a clear link to everyday life, narrative history, military history, humour, biography, popular culture and natural history. He is also interested in great memoirs by people whose lives have been well lived. The agency does not represent original screenplays or screenwriters.
Submissions
At the time of checking (November 2026), Trevor Dolby is listed in the agency's contact-page drop-down, so he is open to new submissions. Queries are sent through the submission form on the contact page: choose the agent from the drop-down and follow the instructions in the pop-up form. Do not submit to more than one agent at a time, as such submissions are disregarded. Unsolicited hardcopy is not accepted, and mailed materials receive no reply. Agents never ask for payment to review work.
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