Conville and Walsh
Encyclopedia
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.
Conville and Walsh is a full member of the Association of Authors' Agents.
Literary agent
A literary agent is an agent who represents writers and their written works to publishers, theatrical producers and film producers and assists in the sale and deal negotiation of the same. Literary agents most often represent novelists, screenwriters and major non-fiction writers...
founded by Patrick Walsh and Clare Conville in 2000, and based in Soho
Soho
Soho is an area of the City of Westminster and part of the West End of London. Long established as an entertainment district, for much of the 20th century Soho had a reputation for sex shops as well as night life and film industry. Since the early 1980s, the area has undergone considerable...
, London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
. The agency numbers six book agents in a staff of eleven.
Conville and Walsh is a full member of the Association of Authors' Agents.
Agents
- Clare Conville, director
- Patrick Walsh, director
- Jake Smith-Bosanquet, foreign rights director
- Jo Unwin
- Susan Armstrong
- Alex Christofi
- Carrie Kania
Fiction
- DBC Pierre, winner of the 2003 Booker prize.
- Sarah HallSarah Hall (writer)Sarah Hall is an English novelist, and poet. Her critically acclaimed second novel, The Electric Michelangelo, was nominated for the 2004 Man Booker Prize and achieved considerable international commercial success...
, author of The Electric Michaelangelo, shortlisted for the Booker prize 2004. - Nick HarkawayNick HarkawayNick Harkaway is a novelist. He is the author of The Gone-Away World, a novel published in June 2008. He is the son of author John le Carré....
, author of The Gone-Away WorldThe Gone-Away WorldThe Gone-Away World is a science fiction novel set in a post-apocalyptic world crippled by the 'Go-Away War'. First published in June 2008 by Heinemann, it is the first novel to be written by Nick Harkaway....
. - Steven ApplebySteven ApplebySteven Appleby is a cartoonist and illustrator living in Britain. He is a dual citizen of the UK and Canada. His humour is usually observational or absurd....
, cartoonist and author of the Captain StarCaptain StarCaptain Star was an animated television series starring Richard E. Grant as Captain Jim Star, based on a comic by Steven Appleby: Rockets Passing Overhead. Only thirteen episodes of thirty-minutes each were produced and aired. The series ran on the British ITV and Canadian TELETOON networks from...
comics. - Rebecca James, author of Beautiful Malice.
- Howard MarksHoward MarksDennis Howard Marks is a Welsh author and former drug smuggler who achieved notoriety as an international cannabis smuggler through high-profile court cases, supposed connections with groups such as the CIA, the IRA, MI6, and the Mafia, and his eventual conviction at the hands of the American Drug...
, 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 KelmanStephen KelmanStephen Kelman is an English novelist, whose debut novel Pigeon English was a shortlisted nominee for the 2011 Man Booker Prize.Kelman was born and raised in Luton, Bedfordshire, growing up on the Marsh Farm estate...
, shortlisted for the 2011 Booker prize.
Non-fiction
- Jim al-KhaliliJim Al-KhaliliJim Al-Khalili OBE is an Iraqi-born British theoretical physicist, author and science communicator. He is Professor of Theoretical Physics and Chair in the Public Engagement in Science at the University of Surrey...
OBE, a physicistPhysicistA physicist is a scientist who studies or practices physics. Physicists study a wide range of physical phenomena in many branches of physics spanning all length scales: from sub-atomic particles of which all ordinary matter is made to the behavior of the material Universe as a whole...
and science communicator. - Charlie BrookerCharlie BrookerCharlton "Charlie" Brooker is a British journalist, comic writer and broadcaster. His style of humour is savage and profane, with surreal elements and a consistent satirical pessimism...
, a satirist and newspaper columnist. - Belle de JourBelle de Jour (writer)Brooke Magnanti is a research scientist, blogger, and writer, who, until her identity was revealed in November 2009, was known by the pen name Belle de Jour. While completing her doctoral studies, between 2003 and 2004, Magnanti supplemented her income by working as a London call girl...
, a formerly anonymous blogger writing about the sex industry in LondonLondonLondon is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
. - Misha GlennyMisha GlennyMisha Glenny is a British journalist who specializes in southeastern Europe and global organized crime.-Biography:Glenny is the son of the late Russian studies academic Michael Glenny...
, an expert on current affairs, particularly in the ex Soviet bloc. - Tom HollandTom Holland (author)-Biography:Holland was born near Oxford and brought up in the village of Broadchalke near Salisbury, England. His younger brother is the historian and novelist James Holland...
, an historian and president of the Society of AuthorsSociety of AuthorsThe Society of Authors is a trade union for professional writers that was founded in 1884 to protect the rights of writers and fight to retain those rights .It has counted amongst its members and presidents numerous notable writers and poets including Tennyson The Society of Authors (UK) is a...
. - Gavin Pretor-PinneyGavin Pretor-PinneyGavin Edmund Pretor-Pinney is a British designer and author of the best-selling The Cloudspotter's Guide .Pretor-Pinney attended Westminster School, the University of Oxford, and Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design...
, the founding president of the Cloud Appreciation SocietyCloud Appreciation SocietyThe Cloud Appreciation Society is a society founded by Gavin Pretor-Pinney from the United Kingdom in January 2005. The society aims to foster understanding and appreciation of clouds, and has over 22,000 members worldwide from 83 different countries, as of July 2010.Yahoo named the society's...
. - Vic ReevesVic ReevesJames Roderick Moir , better known by the stage name Vic Reeves, is an English comedian, best known for his double act with Bob Mortimer . He is known for his surreal and non sequitur sense of humour....
, a celebrated BritishUnited KingdomThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
comedian. - Simon SinghSimon SinghSimon Lehna Singh, MBE is a British author who has specialised in writing about mathematical and scientific topics in an accessible manner....
, a popular scientist and author of the bestselling Fermat's Last Theorem. - Clive Stafford SmithClive Stafford SmithClive Adrian Stafford Smith OBE is a British [see talk] lawyer who specialises in the areas of civil rights and the death penalty in the United States of America....
OBE, the Legal Director of Reprieve. - Richard WisemanRichard WisemanRichard Wiseman is Professor of the Public Understanding of Psychology at the University of Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom.Wiseman started his professional life as a magician, before graduating in Psychology from University College London and obtaining a Ph.D...
, a popular psychologistPsychologistPsychologist is a professional or academic title used by individuals who are either:* Clinical professionals who work with patients in a variety of therapeutic contexts .* Scientists conducting psychological research or teaching psychology in a college...
.
Awards
- Jo Unwin was shortlisted for Literary Agent of the Year in the 2010 Bookseller Industry Awards.
- Jake Smith-Bosanquet won Rights Professional of the Year in the 2011 Bookseller Industry Awards.