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 six book agents in a staff of eleven.^[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

• John Burningham
• Steve Voake

Estates

• Francis Bacon
• Astrid Lindgren

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

1. ^ http://www.convilleandwalsh.com/agents
2. ^ http://www.agentsassoc.co.uk/index.php/Directory_of_Members
3. ^ http://www.convilleandwalsh.com/index.php/news-views/news/jake-smith-bosanquet-appointed-to-board/
4. ^ http://www.thebookseller.com/news/kania-swaps-hc-conville-walsh.html
5. ^ http://www.thebookseller.com/news/bookseller-industry-awards-shortlist-announced.html
6. ^ http://www.thebookseller.com/news/quercus-publisher-year-bookseller-industry-awards.html
7. ^ http://www.convilleandwalsh.com/index.php/news-views/comments/a-view-from-the-reader/

External links

• Official Site
• Twitter page

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