The Lennon-Ritchie Agency is an internationally-focussed literary and rights agency based in Cape Town South Africa.

We offer individualised care and personal attention.  We are dedicated to our writers in all aspects of their careers, and are committed to fostering and supporting both established and emerging writers.

The Lennon-Ritchie agency also sells International, subsidiary, and Film/Television rights for Penguin Random House South Africa, Pan Macmillan South Africa, Jonathan Ball Publishing, Crystal Lake Publishing, Mirari Press, and Duck Creek Press, New Zealand. And in a twist on this, we help producer clients sell book and graphic novel rights to their projects in development. Clients include Baboon Animation and Snipple Animation.

We represent a select group of international writers of literary and commercial fiction, non-fiction, and children’s literature.

Our award-winning books include 2023 Sunday Times non-Fiction prize winning MY LAND OBSESSION by Bulelwa Mabasa, the 2022 Sunday Times Fiction Prize winning JUNX by Tshidiso Moletsane; the 2021 Sunday Times Fiction Prize winning A SIN OF OMISSION by Marguerite Poland (Penguin Random House SA; Envelope Books UK);  the 2019 Sunday Times Fiction Prize winning THE THEORY OF FLIGHT by Gloria Siphiwe Ndlovu (Penguin Random House SA; Catalyst Press US; Trinta Zero Nove PALOP;Aser al-Kotob WAR; Brioschi Editori ITA); the 2021 Giller shortlisted and the 2019 winner of the Sharjah best international book award THE SON OF THE HOUSE by Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia (Dundurn Press, North America; PRH SA; Parresia Nigeria; Antares, Armenia; Europa Editions UK; Edizioni E/O Ita; Kalimat, Arabic); the 2019 Sunday Times Fiction Prize-winning THE THEORY OF FLIGHT by Gloria Siphiwe Ndlovu (Penguin Random House SA; Catalyst Press US; Trinta Zero Nove, Moz; Aser al-Kotob, Arabic); and the winner of the 2020 SALA awards and the 2020 Humanities and Social Sciences best novel award, LACUNA by Fiona Snyckers (Picador Africa; Europa Editions US, UK). Our acclaimed YA authors include Maya Fowler (ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM, Kwela) and Helen Brain (The YA ELEVATION/FIERY SPIRAL Trilogy, NB Publishers SA; Catalyst Press US). Ground-breaking genre writers include Fred Strydom (THE RAFT and THE INSIDE OUT MAN, Umuzi SA; Skyhorse Press US; Davids Canton Productions).