David Headley
David Headley studied theology in London and Durham before co-founding Goldsboro Books, an independent bookseller based in central London. He has spent the last 14 years developing the company and building good relationships with the UK’s major publishing houses. He created the UK’s largest collectors’ book club and is influential in selling large quantities of hardback fiction in the UK. In 2008 David created D. H. H. Literary Agency...
Helen Hart
Helen Hart has been a published author since 1999. Represented by London literary agency Pollinger Ltd, she has written a number of novels under pseudonyms for Scholastic, Oxford University Press, HarperCollins, Virgin Books and a range of overseas publishers. Her work has been translated into many languages including Swedish, Danish, Japanese and Greek. One of her Young Adult novels, written as Maya Snow, was shortlisted for the...
Carole Blake
Carole Blake has worked in publishing for 51 years. She started in a secretarial position and rose to become the first-ever Rights Manager for Michael Joseph. She was headhunted to start W H Allen’s first rights department, then approached to become Marketing Director of Sphere. After 14 years in publishing, she started her own literary agency which merged to become Blake Friedmann in 1983; Carole heads the book division. It was...
Katie Bond
Katie Bond is the publisher for the National Trust. Previously she was marketing and publicity director at...
Matt Bates
Matt Bates is the Fiction Buyer for WH Smith Travel. He has worked for the company since he was 16 as a Saturday boy on the News Department (but always to be found in the Book Department!). In 1998 he became Non Fiction Buyer for the WHS Travel business before moving to manage Fiction in 2004. He has been named as one of the 1000 most influential Londoners in the Evening Standard, and in 2006 was delighted to be a judge for the...
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