Jennifer Barclay – Editor

I love inspiring and enlightening memoirs, and novels that bring a place or period alive.

Projects over the last few years include Doug Gold's The Note Through the Wire, Tharik Hussain's Minarets in the Mountains, Ishbel Holmes' Me, My Bike and a Street Dog Called Lucy and Auguste Corteau's The Book of Katerina.

I'm British and studied English at Oxford but moved to Canada in my early twenties and started working with books, joining a literary agency in Toronto.

I took a career break to travel in Asia, sold and co-edited a collection of travel writing published by Vintage, then spent two years in France as a freelance editor while starting to write my first book. When I moved back to England I became editorial and rights director for a British publisher.

Having published my first book and started on my second, ten years ago I moved to a Greek island and now work from home with authors, helping to shape stories - advising on book ideas, coaching, editing from start to finish, and sometimes finding publishers.

It's always fun to receive a new pitch.