Brian Conaghan
Represented by Nicola Barr
Brian is author of WHEN MR DOG BITES, first published in the UK in January 2014 to great critical acclaim and was shortlisted for the 2015 CILIP Carnegie Medal.
THE BOMBS THAT BROUGHT US TOGETHER was published to yet more acclaim in 2016 and went on to win the 2016 Costa Children’s Book Award.
His next book, the co-authored WE COME APART won the United Kingdom Literary Award in 2017.
His 2018 novel THE WEIGHT OF A THOUSAND FEATHERS won the Irish Teen and YA Book of the Year and the Children’s Books Ireland Honour Award for fiction.
THE M WORD was shortlisted for both the UK Literary Award and the Irish Book Awards.
Brian's first middle-grade book, CARDBOARD COWBOYS, published in 2021, has, to date, been longlisted for the UK Literary Award.
Brian has a Master of Letters in Creative Writing from the University of Glasgow. Over the years he has worked as a painter and decorator, a barman, a DJ, an actor, a teacher and now a writer. After almost 20 years of living in Italy and Ireland Brian currently lives in Scotland.