Books & Football, mostly. Literary Agent @appletreelit. Bookseller Rising Star ⭐️ 2021. Email me - max.edwards@appletreeliterary.com
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5 Apr 2023
Embarrassingly I've made a Substack for the semi-occasional times I fancy bleating on about publishing, and my job.
The first post is on People and Publishing, and my thinking about how we weigh up the business side of the industry with its authors...
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19 Dec 2025
Coming out of Twitter retirement to repost without comment…
1 Jul 2023
With every Crispin Odey article I read, I think more and more about publishing’s open secret: the bestselling celebrity author whose despicable actions come up whenever 2 or more book people find themselves in the vicinity of a pub (🧵)
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3 Dec 2024
Right off the back of her inclusion in this year’s Global @Dazed 100 – *the* list of the buzziest names in culture right now – we are THRILLED that @ellen_atlanta's Pixel Flesh has been shortlisted for the 2024 Nero Award for Non-Fiction!
@nerobookawards
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20 Nov 2024
Have joined the great migration. Am over on on the great blue with the very same username
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11 Nov 2024
'A trial is rather like a play. We wear our costumes. We perform to the audience. And on a good day no-one gets murdered'
After a beheading live on stage, the drama in the smash-hit play Daughters of the Revolution, is left to play out in the courtroom...
netgalley.co.uk/catalog/book…
ALT The book 'A Trial in Three Acts on a beige background with theatre curtains and the text 'now on netgalley'
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7 Nov 2024
Yesterday, I threw a party to launch @AppleTreeLit.
I’m *so* unbelievably proud of my incredible authors. So many of them turned out, each as glorious and talented as the next.
Working for them, empowering them as people not products, is everything I’ve wanted to build here.
7 Nov 2024
Hugest congrats to my brilliant, brilliant agent, @OneChapterMore , launching his own agency @AppleTreeLit. Did his gesticulations with a dangerously full glass of fizz, it was chic and wonderful and jaunty!
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7 Nov 2024
Still somewhat buzzing off it, tbh. What a fine bunch of eclectic superstars they are.
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31 Oct 2024
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31 Oct 2024
My Beautiful Sisters
✍️ @khalida_popal
Khalida Popal is the founder and first captain of Afghanistan's women's football team. As a child, she fled Taliban rule with her family and grew up in a refugee camp in Pakistan. On her return to Afghanistan, football gave her and her teammates power, comradeship and freedom. But advocating for women's rights in sport put Popal's life increasingly at risk. This gripping memoir sheds light on the courage to fight in dark times.
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25 Oct 2024
In just over a week I’ll be in Amsterdam talking at G10 Festival. All the talks will be live-streamed, should the Netherlands be a bit of a stretch. It’s going to be a fascinating weekend. I’m honoured to be among these speakers. Hope you can join us!
g10vandeeconomie.nl/
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25 Oct 2024
Come and join our brilliant @headlinenf team!
Apply now: rebrand.ly/y6mxp96
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16 Oct 2024
So thrilled for Hannah Durkin, and her brilliant book SURVIVORS. Deservedly shortlisted for The HWA Non-Fiction Crown!
16 Oct 2024
Survivors: Hannah Durkin
Impeccably researched, this book allows readers to hear the voices of the survivors of the slave ship, reminding all how recently this abhorrent trade was still operating. Deeply moving
#HWACrowns24
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15 Oct 2024
🎉Cover Reveal!🎉
A young woman is seduced by the glamour of the circus and drawn into a dangerous world...
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Helen Marshall's dark fantasy THE LADY, THE TIGER AND THE GIRL WHO LOVED DEATH, publishes June 2025.
Follow the link in our bio to read an excerpt!
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10 Oct 2024
Do support this if you can. Influx Press is responsible for some of the best Indie publishing in recent years - they helped discover Eliza Clark, brought Percival Everett’s books back to the UK, and their taste is exceptional. They’re a necessary salve in the publishing landscape
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1 Oct 2024
For the past several months I’ve been trying to- and sadly not succeeding - to sell a challenging, but utterly superb, graphic novel memoir of the non-binary experience. It’s FUN HOME for the nb generation.
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30 Sep 2024
Up next we have a panel asking how we can keep the momentum going on the popularity of graphic novels, joining us are @KarrieFransman, @RuthMKnowles @RamzeeRawkz and James Spackman 🎨
See the thread below for insights from this session at #KidsConf 👇
ALT Images of James, Karrie, Ramzee and Ruth on a yellow background with a blue squiggle behind them. The KidsConf logo is in the top left corner and in white text reads: panel spreading the graphic revolution, James Spackman agent & coach The bks Agency & The Book Pitch Doctor, Karrie Fransman comic creator, Ramzee writer & illustrator, Ruth Knowles publishing director Puffin
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1 Oct 2024
It’s all well and good to keep up the popularity of graphic novels in the kids space, but if it doesn’t bleed into adult space, how does it help? Why is no one taking advantage of a generation being brought up on @AliceOseman’s Heartstopper, and publishing for them in their 20s?
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26 Sep 2024
Delighted that Sir Graham Brady’s KINGMAKER publishes today! It is, as The Telegraph rightly says, truly “explosive.” Whether you agree with his politics or not, no-one has had a more up-close-and-personal view of our recent politics than Graham. It’s a must read
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21 Sep 2024
Echoing @jeffvandermeer recommendation to buy @ride_trips excellent new book exploring the reality of modern life as ride-hailing platforms have taken advantage of the social contract to dominate the lives of millions of gig workers, which I reviewed for @BooksinFive below!
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