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Staff at Conville & Walsh

Clare Conville

Clare Conville previously worked as an editor at several large UK publishing houses, before co-founding Conville & Walsh in 2000. She represents literary and commercial writers of fiction and non-fiction, specializing in literary and children's fiction.

Patrick Walsh

Patrick Walsh left the Christopher Little Agency to co-found Conville & Walsh in 2000. He represents literary and commercial writers of fiction and non-fiction.

Jake Smith-Bosanquet

Jake Smith-Bosanquet joined Conville & Walsh in 2005 after working briefly at Random House. As well as agenting a select list, he is director of foreign rights.

Alan Oliver

Alan is Conville & Walsh's finance director. Please direct all queries regarding invoices, royalty statements and accounts to Alan in the first instance.

Jo Unwin

Jo Unwin joined Conville and Walsh as an agent in 2008, leaving behind a successful career as a writer for children’s television. She is building a list for children's, YA and adult fiction.

Susan Armstrong

Susan Armstrong joined Conville & Walsh in 2005 after working at Macmillan. As an agent, she is particularly interested in debut literary fiction, accessible fantasy and science fiction, and high quality commercial memoirs of unusual experiences or unique childhoods.

Carrie Kania

Carrie is building her list as an agent after 15 years in US publishing. She likes the store Liberty, taxidermy, Beckett and skulls.

Alexandra McNicoll

Alexandra McNicoll is foreign rights manager, working closely with Jake and Henna, and handling direct translation rights in Brazil, Greece, France, the Netherlands and Poland.

Alex Christofi

Alex joined Conville & Walsh at the start of 2009 as Patrick's assistant. He now also runs the company's website and our speakers' agency, Hire Intelligence.

Alexander Cochran

Alexander joined in 2011 as Clare's assistant, having previously worked in the Middle East for an educational publisher.

David Llewelyn

David has worked as a reader and talent scout at Conville and Walsh since 2006. When he's not reading submissions, he might pick up a book by William Golding, Philip Roth, John Irving or John Updike.

Carrie Plitt

Carrie joined us in 2011 as Jo's assistant, having previously worked in the Rights Department at Penguin.

Dorcas Rogers

Dorcas works with Alan Oliver as finance assistant, processing royalty statements and general administration.

Henna Silvennoinen

Henna works as foreign rights assistant with Jake and Alexandra. For general enquiries regarding foreign rights, please .

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