Publisher & Development Editor. I run Oneworld Children's, previously set up Quercus Children's. Worked at Faber, Macmillan, Hachette.
• Developed a commercial and multiple-prize-winning children’s list with an excellent reputation (5+ – YA)
• Built an editorial team to develop exciting and profitable print and digital books with international rights
• Quercus Children’s Books won the Guardian Children’s Prize 2014 and inaugural Bookseller YA prize 2015
Books edited included: Mouse Noses on Toast (Nestlé Gold winner 2006); Tim The Tiny Horse by Harry Hill, Flanimals by Ricky Gervais, High in the Clouds by Paul McCartney
Books edited included: Mouse Noses on Toast (Nestlé Gold winner 2006); Tim The Tiny Horse by Harry Hill, Flanimals by Ricky Gervais, High in the Clouds by Paul McCartney
Olivia Levez
Frances is alone on a small island in the middle of the Indian ocean. She has to find water and food. She has to survive. And when she is there she also thinks about the past. The things that she did before. The things that made her a monster. Nothing is easy. Survival is hard and so is being honest about the past. Frances is a survivor however and with the help of the only other crash survivo... read more
Ilsa J. Bick
1st trade edition paperback new In stock shipped from our UK warehouse
Gregory Hughes
A funny, joyful, touching road-trip adventure, with the most magical, entertaining girl character to ever dance through the pages of a children's book.
Cat Clarke
Jay Kristoff, Amie Kaufman
Brad Pitt's Plan B Entertainment and Warner Bros are set to bring YA sci-fi novel Illuminae to the big screen. The year is 2575 and two mega-corporations are at war over a planet that's little more than an ice covered speck. Too bad nobody thought to warn the people living on it. With enemy fire raining down on them Ezra and Kady have to make their escape on the evacuating fleet. But their tro... read more
Cat Clarke
Cat Clarke evokes just how it feels to be seventeen, in this gripping novel of dangerous secrets, intense friendships and electrifying attraction. The same questions whirl round and round in my head: What does he want from me? How could I have let this happen? AM I GOING TO DIE? Seventeen-year-old Grace wakes up in a white room, with table, pens and paper ??? and no clue how she got there. As ... read more
Rob Lucas, June 2022
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Joanna Evans, May 2022
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Camille Klump, May 2022
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