Xandra Bingley rode and trained ponies before she started work at seventeen for M15. She worked for the Atlantic Monthly Review in Boston and the Kennedy Institute of Politics at Harvard. Subsequently in London she became a publisher's reader and then a commissioning editor at Jonathan Cape before she started her own literary agency.
Her first book, Bertie, May and Mrs Fish, was published in 2005. She lives in London.
Agent: Margaret Halton