Conville and Walsh
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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] The Managing Director is Jake Smith-Bosanquet.[2] On 28 February 2013 Curtis Brown bought a 50% stake in the company.[3]
Conville and Walsh is a full member of the Association of Authors' Agents.[4]
Contents
Agents
- Clare Conville, director
- Patrick Walsh, director
- Jake Smith-Bosanquet, foreign rights director[5]
- Susan Armstrong
- Alexander Cochran
- Alex Christofi[6]
- Sophie Lambert[7]
- Carrie Kania[8]
Notable Clients
Fiction
- DBC Pierre, winner of the 2003 Booker prize.
- Sarah Hall, author of The Electric Michaelangelo, shortlisted for the 2004 Booker prize.
- Nick Harkaway, author of The Gone-Away World.
- Steven Appleby, cartoonist and author of the Captain Star comics.
- Howard Marks, international criminal mastermind and author of Mr. Nice.
- S.J. Watson, author of Before I Go to Sleep.
- Stephen Kelman, shortlisted for the 2011 Booker prize.
- Esther Freud, novelist and daughter of Lucian Freud.
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
- John Burningham
- Steve Voake
Estates
Awards
- Jo Unwin was shortlisted for Literary Agent of the Year in the 2010 Bookseller Industry Awards.[9]
- Jake Smith-Bosanquet won Rights Professional of the Year in the 2011 Bookseller Industry Awards.[10]
- Clare Conville was shortlisted for Literary Agent of the Year in the 2012 Bookseller Industry Awards.[11]
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.[12]
References
- ↑ http://www.convilleandwalsh.com/agents
- ↑ http://www.thebookseller.com/news/smith-bosanquet-made-md-conville-walsh.html
- ↑ http://www.thebookseller.com/news/curtis-brown-and-conville-walsh-join-forces.html
- ↑ http://www.agentsassoc.co.uk/index.php/Directory_of_Members
- ↑ http://www.convilleandwalsh.com/index.php/news-views/news/jake-smith-bosanquet-appointed-to-board/
- ↑ http://www.convilleandwalsh.com/index.php/news-views/news/hello-goodbye
- ↑ http://www.convilleandwalsh.com/index.php/news-views/news/hello-goodbye
- ↑ http://www.thebookseller.com/news/kania-swaps-hc-conville-walsh.html
- ↑ http://www.thebookseller.com/news/bookseller-industry-awards-shortlist-announced.html
- ↑ http://www.thebookseller.com/news/quercus-publisher-year-bookseller-industry-awards.html
- ↑ http://www.thebookseller.com/news/hachette-leads-bookseller-industry-awards-pack.html
- ↑ http://www.convilleandwalsh.com/index.php/news-views/comments/a-view-from-the-reader/
