Max Edwards

Max Edwards is a literary agent and founder of Apple Tree Literary. He started his career as a bookseller at Blackwell’s in Oxford and worked for Sports Interactive, developers of the computer game Football Manager, before moving into publishing. After 7 years working at the likes of David Higham, United Agents and Rogers, Coleridge and White, he joined Aevitas Creative Management UK in 2019. In July 2024, he set up Apple Tree Literary. In 2021 Max was named a Bookseller Rising Star.

Max works across both fiction and non-fiction, specialising in the latter. He represents a number of brilliant memoirists, journalists, and academics writing for a trade audience, as well as select commercial, literary, and speculative fiction.