Conville & Walsh
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.
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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 the foreign rights department.
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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. She is particularly interested in debut literary fiction, accessible fantasy and science fiction, and high quality commercial memoirs of unusual experiences or unique childhoods.
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Alex Christofi
Alex joined Conville & Walsh at the start of 2009 as Patrick's assistant. As well as working closely with Patrick and his clients, he now also runs the company's website and Twitter page.
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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.
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Henna Silvennoinen
Henna works in the rights department with Jake and Alexandra. For general enquiries regarding foreign rights, please .
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We are represented by subagents in some specialist territories - see our Foreign Rights page for more details. We also look after the dramatic rights in our authors' work, liaising closely with a select number of film and television agents.