Michael Alcock began his publishing career at Oxford University Press, and was publishing director at Macmillan, Aurum Press and Boxtree before founding his own literary agency in 1997. Michael Alcock Management merged with the John Johnson Agency in 2003 to form Johnson & Alcock.

Michael's client list covers non-fiction mainly in the fields of history and biography, current affairs, memoir, food, lifestyle and culture, as well as general fiction.