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Three on Branford Boase longlist
We are delighted to announce that three of our authors are on this year’s longlist for the Branford Boase Award: …
Before I Go to Sleep Hits #1 Spot
We’re writing with the exciting news that Before I Go to Sleep is this week’s Sunday Times #1 Bestseller. The debut novel by
A Shed of One’s Own
We are delighted to report that Marcus Berkmann’s A Shed of One’s Own will be BBC Radio 4’s Book of the…
The Reader Reports
It’s been the usual busy and successful year, with a number of new authors achieving publishing contracts through the agency, and various debut novels receiving…
2011 At a Glance
It’s been another great year here at Conville & Walsh. As well as continuing to build the careers of our existing writers, we’ve unearthed some…
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Costa Book Awards 2009
The shortlist for this year’s Costa Book Awards was announced last night on Radio 4’s Front Row, and Conville and Walsh are delighted to congratulate two of our clients.
Poet Ruth Padel has been nominated for her collection DARWIN, a biography of her great-great-grandfather, which she wrote to mark the bicentenary of his birth. She is joined by debut author Ali Shaw, who is shortlisted for the First Novel Award. Shaw’s THE GIRL WITH GLASS FEET has already been longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, and won the British Book Design and Production Award in the literature category this year.
The Costa Book Awards, which started life in 1971 as the Whitbread Literary Awards, is one of the most prestigious literary prizes in the country, with a prize fund totalling £50,000. Past winners include Ted Hughes and Philip Pullman.
25 Nov 2009