FELICITY BRYAN ASSOCIATES
Literary Agency

CHILDREN'S AUTHORS REPRESENTED BY CATHERINE CLARKE

DAVID ALMOND's bestselling first novel, Skellig, won the Carnegie Medal and Whitbread Children's Award. The Fire-Eaters won the Whitbread, the Smarties Gold Award and was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. He won the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2010. My Name is Mina, a companion story to Skellig told from Mina’s point of view, was published in 2010, to rave reviews.  The True Tale of the Monster Billy Dean, published in adult and young adult editions, is his latest novel. www.davidalmond.com

FLEUR BEALE has published a number of novels to great acclaim in her native New Zealand, including I Am Not Esther, which received an Honour Award in the New Zealand Children's Book Awards. A Respectable Girl, her new novel, is set in 1839 and moves from northern New Zealand to England where 15-year-old Hannah Carstairs voyages in search of news of her dead mother. Simon and Schuster publish it in the UK and Random House in New Zealand.

NIC BENNETT has written a fast-paced crime thriller for 12+ boys, Dead Cat Bounce, a Liar's Poker for kids. Set in the high-stakes world of the trading floor, it has 16-year-old Jonah Lightbody uncovering some shady dealing and finding he is up against the flamboyant and ruthless trader the Red Baron, who has a great deal to hide and will do anything to protect it. A sequel, Black Swan Down, is also planned.

JENNY DOWNHAM's no. 1 bestselling novel Before I Die was published by David Fickling Books, and sold in 26 languages. Narrated by 16-year-old Tessa, who knows she is dying from advanced leukaemia, it focuses on her to-do list before it is too late. The pared-back, wry style is anything but sentimental, and it makes the lyricism of her observations of the world she is losing, and the flashes of humour, all the more powerful. And, to Tessa's deep surprise and joy, the boy next door turns out to be one of the most important things of all. "I don't care how old you are. This book will not leave you" - New York Times.  The film, starring Dakota Fanning, is released in 2012 as Now Is Good.  You Against Me, Jenny’s new novel, a subtle, and powerful modern love story, was published by David Fickling Books in December 2010, to rave reviews.

TOBIAS DRUITT is a pseudonym for Diane Purkiss and Michael Dowling, Oxford-based mother and young son. Their extraordinarily accomplished debut novel, Corydon and the Island of Monsters, is a retelling of the Greek myth of Medusa seen through the eyes of a young shepherd boy, Corydon and is the first of a trilogy. High adventure with a thorough grounding in classical myth, the stories take Corydon to Atlantis pre-cataclysm, then Troy as it falls. Simon and Schuster publish in the UK and Knopf in the USA.

NATASHA FARRANT is the author of two successful adult novels. The Things We Did For Love, based on a real incident in wartime France, is her first book for young adults (Faber, 2012). Her second is called After Iris: The Diaries Of Bluebell Gadsby, and is about a chaotic, loveable family in contemporary London. www.natashafarrant.com

CHELSEY FLOOD is completing her MA in Creative Writing at UEA and has been awarded the Curtis Brown Prize. Her YA novel Silverweed, is a brilliant debut - a tragic summer love story between Trick, the eldest son of a traveller family who come to camp on the edge of Silverweed Farm, and Iris, who lives there with her father and brother. UK rights bought by Simon and Schuster, at auction; and by Arena in Germany.

PAULINE FRANCIS is a new writer whose beautiful first novel Raven Queen evokes the 16th-century story of Lady Jane Grey, crowned Queen of England for nine days, but rewrites it as a love story. Raven Queen is published by Usborne, who also published her second novel A World Away.  Her new novel The Traitor's Kiss, about the young Queen Elizabeth, was published in summer 2011.

SALLY GARDNER won the 2005 Nestle Children’s Book Prize for her novel I Coriander. Her novel The Red Necklace was published in 2007 to rapturous reviews. The sequel, The Silver Blade, came out in 2009.  Orion publisher a glorious new standalone YA novel, The Double Shadow, set in the 1940s. Her new series for younger readers, Wings & Co, begins publication in August 2012. www.sallygardner.net

JULIE HEARN Julie's brilliant debut novel, Follow Me Down, was shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award. The Merrybegot was shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Book Prize in 2005. 'Powerful and intriguing, Julie Hearn's novel bewitches and beguiles from first to last.' - Celia Rees. Ivy, the story of a pre-Raphaelite painter's model nominated for the Carnegie Award 2007, is followed by Hazel whose feisty heroine is growing up in the London of Emily Pankhurst. The third and final part in this sequence, Rowan the Strange, has WWII as its backdrop and has echoes of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. It was longlisted for the Guardian Children's Book Prize 2009 and has been shortlisted for the 2010 Carnegie Medal. Julie's new novel, Wreckers, set in Cornwall in the future, has received excellent reviews and been nominated for the Carnegie Medal. www.juliehearn.co.uk

LIZ KESSLER's entrancing first novel, The Tail of Emily Windsnap, about a girl who discovers she is half-mermaid, published by Orion in 2003, has been a massive international success, with rights sold in 21 countries. It was followed by Emily Windsnap and the Monster from the Deep and Emily Windsnap and the Castle in the Mist. The latest Emily adventure is Emily Windsnap and the Siren's Secret. Her new series (also published by Orion) is based on a character called Philippa Fisher. The Emily Windsnap and Philippa Fisher books have now sold over 2 million copies worldwide. Liz's first standalone novel, A Year Without Autumn, came out in April 2011, to fantastic reception. Orion have signed two further standalone novels, world rights, and a fifth Emily Windsnap novel. www.lizkessler.co.uk

KATHERINE LANGRISH Katherine's first novel,Troll Fell, was a huge hit on publication in 2004 - 'a joy' told in vigorous, vivid prose, Troll Fell is 'a marvellous, magical adventure,' - The Times. The much-anticipated sequel, Troll Mill, was published in 2005 and the final part of the  trilogy Troll Blood in 2007. Her novels have sold in many other countries. The trilogy has been republished in an omnibus edition as West of the Moon, 2011. Katherine has also written the stand- alone novel Dark Angels, 2009 (US title The Shadow Hunt). www.katherinelangrish.com

GRAHAM MARKS is the author of many books for children. His novels for teenagers are published by Bloomsbury. Usborne published Kai-ro, his wonderful novel for younger readers, as a lead title in 2007. His new adventure series for Usborne begins with I-Spy, a story for 9-11 year-olds, set in Istanbul in the 1930s. He is also working on a new project for 10-12 readers. www.marksworks.co.uk

TOM MOORHOUSE is a zoologist in Oxford. He has written a lyrical, moving, funny novel, The River Singers, about a family of water voles on the banks of the Great River - reminiscent of The Wind in the Willows and Watership Down, for 9-11 year-old readers. He plans two sequels.

KATY MORAN is a former editor at Scholastic. Walker Books published her brilliant first novel, Bloodline, in April 2008. It was an Amazon New Voices title, and shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award 2009. Bloodline Rising and Spirit Hunter take the story along the Silk Route to Mongolia. Katy’s wonderful near-contemporary romance, Dangerous to Know, came out in June 2011.  www.katymoran.co.uk

NATASHA NARAYAN is writing a series of adventure mystery novels featuring the feisty heroine Kit Salter and her friends. The first, The Mummy Snatcher of Memphis, is published by Quercus and will be followed by The Maharajah's Monkey, The Book of Bones and The Shaman's Secret.

LINDA NEWBERY Only A Day, a novel for adults and older readers about what happens to a family when one daughter disappears without trace as a teenager, leaving her sister to find out what happened to her, and uncover more than one family secret, has been acquired by David Fickling Books, World English, for publication in autumn 2012. Her charming series for younger readers featuring Barney the Boat Dog is published by Usborne.  www.lindanewbery.co.uk

JOANNE OWEN read Social and Political Sciences with Archaeology and Anthropology at St John's College, Cambridge. Now living in North London, by day Joanne works in children's publishing, by night she writes and plays bass guitar and accordion. Set in turn-of-the-century Prague, Puppet Master, her first novel, was published by Orion in 2008 and long-listed for both the Carnegie Medal and the Branford Boase Award. Her second novel, The Alchemist and the Angel is set in the fantastical world of Rudolfine Prague.

ANNABEL PITCHER is a wonderful new writer for children and adults, and her outstanding first novel My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece was acquired by Orion at auction. It is a contemporary story about a family dealing with loss, told by 10-year-old Jamie, whose hopes and fears and small triumphs and disasters are told in a poignant, funny, and utterly believable voice. www.annabelpitcher.com

ANDREW PRENTICE AND JONATHAN WEIL Andrew Prentice and Jonathan Weil are both in their twenties. Black Arts, the first volume in their 10+ time travel and adventure series The Books of Pendemonium, featuring Jack the Cutpurse and Dr Dee's Elizabethan spy ring MI 12, will be published in 2012 by David Fickling Books.

MEG ROSOFF is the internationally bestselling and prizewinning author of How I Live Now, Just In Case, What I Was  and The Bride's Farewell.  She has won the Branford Boase, the Carnegie, the Guardian, the Printz, the Jugendliteraturpreis, and the Luchs/Die Zeit prize, among others. How I Live Now is to be made into a film directed by Kevin MacDonald. Her new novel, There Is No Dog, is touching and hilarious and was published in August 2011 and hailed in the Guardian as ‘another masterpiece’. www.megrosoff.co.uk

LAUREN ST JOHN grew up in Zimbabwe and has written a wonderful first novel for 8-11 year olds, The White Giraffe, a magical story about a girl who is sent to southern Africa to stay with her grandmother on her game reserve, and finds that she has an extraordinary gift with the wild animals, and forms a special friendship with Tendai, her grandmother's gamekeeper. It is the first of four novels to be published by Orion Children's Books. The second, Dolphin Song, was published in 2007 and the third, The Last Leopard, in 2008 and The Elephant's Tale in 2009. The first novel in her new series, the Laura Marlin Adventures, Dead Man's Cove, won the Blue Peter Prize.  The second, Kidnap in the Caribbean, has recently been published by Orion. Her most recent novel is The One-Dollar Horse, the first in a series of three books about a rescued racehorse and the girl who trains him for glory. www.laurenstjohn.com

ALOM SHAHA is a physics teacher at a London comprehensive school. His brilliant book The Young Atheist's Handbook, about how he grew up in a turbulent Muslim family on a south London housing estate and found that stories and science led him to atheism, will be published in 2012 by Scribe in Australia. "a book that destroys the cliche of the atheist as joyless rationalist and shows the humanity, love and concern that often lies behind godless thinking"—Robin Ince, comedian. www.alomshaha.com

MATTHEW SKELTON's first novel, Endymion Spring, set in medieval Mainz at the dawn of the Gutenberg era and ending in modern-day Oxford, reached No. 2 on the New York Times Bestseller list: ' a terrific premise for a novel and you can see a thrilling Da Vinci Code-type film. Skelton is a wonderful descriptive writer ' Geraldine Bedell, The Observer. It is published by Puffin and Random House in the US. The Story of Cirrus Flux is his brilliant new novel, set in a fantastically imagined 1770s London.

ANDREW STRONG is a headteacher in a tiny Welsh village primary school, and a wonderfully exciting new fiction writer for children. Scholastic publish Oswald and the End of the World, part fantasy, part historical and Molehill Hotel, about a boy striving to save his family's charming but decrepit hotel, with the help of some very unlikely characters. www.andrew-strong.com

ELEANOR UPDALE's first novel, Montmorency, won the Smarties Silver Award in the 9-11 category in 2003 and the Blue Peter Award for 'The Book I Couldn't Put Down' in 2005, and has won or been shortlisted for several other awards. The series continued with Montmorency on the Rocks, Montmorency and the Assassins and, the most recent, Montmorency's Revenge. The books are with Scholastic US and UK. Johnny Swanson, a book for 8-10 year olds, set in 1929, about a boy whose mother is falsely accused of murder, was published by David Fickling in 2010 and was shortlisted for the UKLA Children’s Book Awards 2011. www.eleanorupdale.com

JEANNE WILLIS is the author of many successful and prize-winning books for children, both picture books (illustrated mainly by Tony Ross) for younger readers, and fiction up to late teenage. The Bog Baby won several awards and is establishing itself as a modern classic. The King of Tiny Things, Bottoms Up! and Sing a Song of Bottoms are also published by Puffin. Walker publish The Goffins, a charming series about a boy who finds two extraordinary small people in the loft of his grandmother’s house. HarperCollins have a two-book deal for Penguin Pandemonium and Piccadilly Press have a two-book deal for Dinosaur Olympics. www.jeannewillis.com