Felicity Bryan Author

Felicity Bryan, MBE (1945-2020) was a journalist on The FT and The Economist before joining Curtis Brown where she became a director. In 1988 she founded her own literary agency - Felicity Bryan Associates - in Oxford. Over the next three decades it would grow exponentially to become the largest and most successful outside London. In her many years as an agent, Felicity represented everything from scholarly historians, scientists and world-class journalists to bestselling novelists, cooks and ballet dancers. She always felt that her background in journalism made her good at helping authors shape ideas for books, and that was borne out by many bestsellers and prize-winners. She loved spotting a gap in the market or hearing ideas from editors and finding just the right author to write the book. Among her global successes have been Karen Armstrong's A History of God, Rosamunde Pilcher's The Shell Seekers, Edmund de Waal's The Hare with Amber Eyes, Iain Pears' An Instance of the Fingerpost, Diarmaid MacCulloch's A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years, and Mary Berry's many wonderful books. More recently, despite the impact of Covid on the publishing industry, Catherine Belton's Putin's People and Sue Stuart-Smith's The Well-Gardened Mind, became Sunday Times bestsellers.