Conville and Walsh
Conville & Walsh Ltd is a literary agency founded by Patrick Walsh and Clare Conville in 2000, and based in Soho, London. The agency numbers seven book agents in a staff of thirteen.[1]
Conville and Walsh is a full member of the Association of Authors' Agents.[2]
Agents
- Clare Conville, director
- Patrick Walsh, director
- Jake Smith-Bosanquet, foreign rights director[3]
- Jo Unwin
- Susan Armstrong
- Alex Christofi
- Carrie Kania[4]
Notable Clients
Fiction
- DBC Pierre, winner of the 2003 Booker prize.
- Sarah Hall, author of The Electric Michaelangelo, shortlisted for the Booker prize 2004.
- Nick Harkaway, author of The Gone-Away World.
- Steven Appleby, cartoonist and author of the Captain Star comics.
- Rebecca James, author of Beautiful Malice.
- Howard Marks, international criminal mastermind and author of Mr. Nice.
- Adam Creed, author of Suffer the Children
- S.J. Watson, author of Before I Go to Sleep.
- Stephen Kelman, shortlisted for the 2011 Booker prize.
Non-fiction
- Jim al-Khalili OBE, a physicist and science communicator.
- Charlie Brooker, a satirist and newspaper columnist.
- Belle de Jour, a formerly anonymous blogger writing about the sex industry in London.
- Misha Glenny, an expert on current affairs, particularly in the ex Soviet bloc.
- Tom Holland, an historian and president of the Society of Authors.
- Gavin Pretor-Pinney, the founding president of the Cloud Appreciation Society.
- Vic Reeves, a celebrated British comedian.
- Simon Singh, a popular scientist and author of the bestselling Fermat's Last Theorem.
- Clive Stafford Smith OBE, the Legal Director of Reprieve.
- Richard Wiseman, a popular psychologist.
Children's
Estates
Awards
- Jo Unwin was shortlisted for Literary Agent of the Year in the 2010 Bookseller Industry Awards.[5]
- Jake Smith-Bosanquet won Rights Professional of the Year in the 2011 Bookseller Industry Awards.[6]
Submissions policy
Conville and Walsh continues to accept unsolicited submissions, and to take on debut authors. They receive between 80 and 100 manuscripts per week.[7]
References
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