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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. Jake is our Managing Director.

Susan Armstrong

Susan Armstrong joined Conville & Walsh in 2005 after working at Macmillan. As an agent, she is particularly interested in debut literary fiction, upmarket commercial fiction and accessible fantasy and science fiction.

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.

Sophie Lambert

Sophie Lambert joined as an agent at Conville & Walsh in 2013, having previously been a director at Tibor Jones.

Alex Christofi

Alex joined Conville & Walsh at the start of 2009. He is building his list as an agent, and also runs our speakers' agency, Hire Intelligence.

Alexandra McNicoll

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

Henna Silvennoinen

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

Alexander Cochran

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

Carrie Plitt

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

Dorcas Rogers

Dorcas works as finance manager, processing royalty statements and administering the company finances.

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.

Kinga Burger

Kinga joined us in 2013 as our administrative assistant. She is the first port of call for foreign rights queries, and assists Dorcas in the finance department.

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