FELICITY BRYAN ASSOCIATES
Literary Agency

AUTHORS REPRESENTED BY CAROLINE WOOD

FRANCESCA BRILL is a screenwriter whose first novel The Harbour has been acquired by Bloomsbury. It's a passionate love story set in Hong Kong between 1940 & 1945 at the time of the Japanese invasion. Bloomsbury will publish in spring 2012.

RHIDIAN BROOK is an award-winning novelist and screenwriter. His first novel The Testimony of Taliesen Jones was published by Flamingo and won the Somerset Maugham, a Betty Trask and the Author’s Club first novel award. Rhidian has a number of screen credits to his name, including AFRICA UNITED, a feature film released by Pathe in 2010. Rhidian’s third novel THE HOUSE AT KREIS PINNEBERG sold to Viking for a six figure sum in an eight publisher auction. Publication is due in spring 2013. The book has subsequently sold in 18 countries.  Film & TV rights have been optioned to Scott Free Productions (Ridley Scott’s company) and BBC Films. 

LUCY CAVENDISH is a well-known journalist and writes regularly for The Guardian, The Sunday Telegraph and The Independent. Her first novel Samantha Smythe's Modern Family Journal was published by Michael Joseph in spring 2008 to excellent reviews. Her second novel in the same series, Lost and Found, was published in March 2009 and Michael Joseph have commissioned a third, to be published in 2010. Lucy is currently working on her fourth novel, a stand-alone romantic comedy entitled The Broken-Hearted Wives Club. With five other women writers she has put together The Leap Year, a collection of their short stories, published under Queenbee Press.

WILL COHU is a journalist and nature writer. His powerful family memoir The Wolf Pit will be published by Chatto in April 2012. He was longlisted for the SundayTimes Short Story Award for his story, Two Bad Thumbs written entirely in text messages and he has been shortlisted for the prize twice before. Clara Farmer at Chatto recently acquired world rights in Will's fiction debut Nothing But Grass on the basis of a partial.

NATASHA FARRANT is the author of two successful novels for adults, Diving Into Light and Some Other Eden, both published by Transworld. Faber are publishing her first YA novel, a love story set in WW2, called The Things We Did For Love . Natasha is also a scout for children's books for a number of European and American publishers. Caroline represents Natasha for her adult fiction.

JAMES FEARNLEY is the accordion player and a founding member of The Pogues, the cult band that injected the fury of punk into Irish folk music. James's memoir Here Comes Everybody has been bought by Faber & Faber and is the story of how a seemingly odd assembly of vagabonds, artists and poets living in squats around King's Cross in the early 1980s were transformed through a love of music from strangers into friends. Faber have bought World rights and will publish in early 2012.

CATHERINE HALL's first novel, Days of Grace, tells the story of Nora Lynch, a young girl evacuated from London to a vicarage in Kent during World War II, and is narrated from the perspective of Nora in the present who is dying and trying to make amends for the sins she committed in the past. Portobello Books published it in 2009 to glittering reviews. It was selected by Waterstones for their New Voices promotion in Spring 2009, by W.H.Smith for their Fresh Talent promotion 2010 and Catherine was also selected by Amazon as one of their Rising Stars. Viking bought the US rights for a substantial sum. Catherine's second novel The Proof of Love, was published in April 2011 by Portobello Books. It has been short-listed for the Green Carnation award and has also received a London Book Award nomination.

ANN HARRIES has written two novels both published by Bloomsbury, Manly Pursuits and No Place for a Lady. Manly Pursuits won the Author's Club first novel award. She is close to completing her third novel entitled The Two Hearts of Louis Washkansky, a fictional account of the drama leading up to the first heart transplant in South Africa in 1967, by celebrity surgeon Christiaan Barnard.

SADIE JONES is a novelist and screenwriter whose stunning debut novel The Outcast won the 2008 Costa Book Awards First Novel category and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize. It has sold nearly 500,000 copies in the UK and was the bestselling debut fiction paperback in 2008. Set in 1950s England, it is a dark, mysterious coming of age story with the page-turning quality of a thriller. Published to terrific reviews and broadcast as a Radio Four Book at Bedtime, it has has sold in over twenty territories. Film & TV rights have been optioned to Blueprint Pictures and BBC Films. Sadie's second novel Small Wars was bought by Chatto for a substantial six-figure advance and received rave reviews on publication. It was long-listed for the Orange Prize 2010 and short-listed for the Prince Marice prize for literary love stories. Rights have sold in 15 territories so far. Sadie’s third novel The Uninvited Guests was bought by Chatto for a six-figure advance and will be published in spring 2012.

LIZA KLAUSSMANN has worked as a journalist for The New York Times since 2001. She received a BA in Creative Writing from Barnard College, Columbia University where she was awarded the Howard M. Teichman Prize for Prose. She recently completed an MA in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway, receiving a distinction. Her first novel, Tigers in Red Weather, sold for a major sum in a two book deal to Picador in the UK in an eight publisher auction, and was pre-empted by Little, Brown in the US for a seven figure sum. Foreign rights have sold in 18 territories so far. Liza is currently working on her second novel, Villa America.

SIMON LELIC's brilliant debut novel, Rupture, attracted a huge amount of attention from competing publishers, with Maria Rejt beating off five other houses to publish as a Picador lead title in early 2010. As the aftermath of a terrible crime unfolds each witness to the events of that particular day tells their story to the only person committed to uncovering the truth. 'It is a tour de force of storytelling,' Rejt says, 'and marks the debut of a great new voice in literary fiction.' The book has sold in twelve territories so far and was long-listed for the Desmond Elliot prize for fiction and shortlisted for the Crime Writer's Association John Creasey Dagger 2010. Simon was also nominated in the 'best new writer of 2010' caterogry at the Galaxy Book Awards and was chosen as one of Amazon’s rising stars for 2010. Film & TV rights for Rupture have been optioned to Heyday Films. Simon's second novel The Facility was published by Mantle (Macmillan) in January 2011 and received rave reviews. Simon’s third novel The Child Who, also a contemporary thriller, will be published by Mantle in January 2012. www.simonlelic.com

COLM O'GORMAN is Director of Amnesty International in Ireland. He is also the founder of One In Four, an Irish charity that supports women and men who have experienced sexual abuse. He has made two documentaries for the BBC: 'Suing the Pope' and 'Sex Crimes and the Vatican' for Panorama. He is a well-known figure in the Irish media and has received numerous awards for his campaigning and charity work. Hodder paid a substantial sum for World English language rights to his memoir Beyond Belief, which recounts his experience of sexual abuse by a priest, Father Sean Fortune, and his battle to force the Church to admit its knowledge and cover-up of this abuse. The book was published in May 2009 and went straight to No. 1 in Ireland.

ADAM RUCK is a journalist and writes regularly for the travel section of the Sunday Telegraph. He has also written two guide books about France. His third book, France On Two Wheels: Six Long Bike Rides for the Bon Vivant Cyclist is a charming account of a series of bike rides through France. Each ride takes 5 to 10 days, at a rate of about 100 km a day, and is interrupted by digressions to focus on subjects of interest - a battle, a cheese, a crime, a monument - and, more importantly, each days ends with a gastronomic feast. Short Books will publish in February 2012.

PENNY RUDGE graduated from Cambridge University in 1992 where she won the P D James & John Treherne prizes for creative writing. She has just completed an MA in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway, for which she received a distinction. Her first novel, Foolish Lessons in Life and Love, was published by Jenny Parrot at Little, Brown (March 2010), who describes it as ' wonderful and blackly comic first novel from a young British writer of tremendous promise'. The Film & TV rights have been optioned to producer Diana Napper (The Jane Austen Book Club). Penny is currently working on her second novel, Ellie, about a girl with Usher’s Syndrome, a genetic disorder from which she herself suffers.

EDWARD RUSSELL-WALLING is a freelance writer and editor who specialises in business and finance and contributes regularly to publications such as the Financial Times, New Statesman and The Banker. Quercus published his first book 50 Management Ideas You Really Need to Know, which aims to demystify many of the business theories and buzz-words that the 'man in the street' may have heard of but find puzzling. The book came out in October 2007 in the US and in April 2008 in the UK and has sold in 17 foreign territories. Edward's second book, The House of Money, traces the history of banking through the stories of the great banking families, starting with the Medici. Atlantic Books have acquired world rights.

PHYLLIDA THOMPSON (LAW) is a well-loved actress whose first book Notes to My Mother-in-Law sold at auction to Fourth Estate. It's a collection of the notes she wrote to her mother-in-law when the latter was living with her and becoming increasingly deaf. It is a witty, charming gift book that has also been beautifully illustrated by Phyllida. The book was published in October 2009 and went straight into the top 100 on Amazon. Phyllida is currently working on her second book, an amusing account of her relationship with her mother who had Alzheimers.

MARTIN WALKER is Senior Director of the Global Business Policy Council, a private think-tank for CEOs of major corporations, based in Washington. He worked as a journalist for The Guardian newspaper for 25 years, where he served as bureau chief in Moscow and the US, and as European Editor. His books include The Cold War: A History, short-listed for Britain's book of the year prize and for Canada's Governor-General's prize, and named by the New York Times as 'notable book of the year'. He also wrote The President They Deserve; the rise, falls and comebacks of Bill Clinton, and The Waking Giant: Gorbachev and Perestroika, which was translated into 11 languages, and Martin Walker's Russia, which became a BBC series. His most recent books include Makers of the American Century and The Iraq War. His historical novel The Caves of Perigord reached number eight on the Washington Post best-seller list. He is currently writing a series of crime novels in the vein of Alexander McCall Smith set in deepest rural France entitled Bruno, Chief of Police. The first six books in the series have been bought by Quercus in the UK and Diogenes in Germany and the first two have sold in 14 territories. The Bruno books have become best-sellers in Germany, selling over 500,000 copies to date. The Film & TV rights in Bruno, Chief of Police have optioned to Memento Film GmbH. www.brunochiefofpolice.com