Literary agency David Higham Associates has poached Andrew Gordon, non-fiction editorial director at Simon & Schuster, reports the Bookseller. Gordon, who has been at S&S for six years, takes up his role as literary agent in November. He will represent mass market fiction as well as his current specialties of serious and commercial non-fiction. "It's slightly scary but very exciting at the same time," he said. "I'm looking forward to the idea of getting back to first principles, and spending more time with writers and less time in meetings. It's one of those things that I'd be far more likely to regret not doing than doing."

S&S is looking to recruit Gordon's replacement from outside the company. Publishing director Suzanne Baboneau said: "He's been a terrific colleague who has really built up the non-fiction list."