I am a Spectator-reading former non-fiction director of Faber & Faber. Non-fiction areas include: current affairs, popular science, history, health, biography and bridge. Although half-German, I am a Brexit-supporting Francophile!
I’ve run a short-lived start-up (my own), helped authors self-publish and handled freelance publicity campaigns (eg for the late Michael Winner).
Published authors include the late Sir Roger Scruton, Jonathan Sumption (Lord Sumption), Robert Harris, Zia Mahmood, Maggie Gee, Raj Persaud, and Michael Mosley.
I’ve a BA in English Literature (Oxford University) and an MBA (London Business School).
In 2008 I moved to Shropshire to support my late husband’s work at Henley (under Power of Attorney). Charles and I held charitable events such as The Henley Event to raise money for the Ludlow Assembly Rooms. We started the restoration of Henley Hall’s Gardens and, in 2012, opened them to the public under the National Gardens Scheme after a gap of more than 70 years. For a brief time I found myself running Henley’s Shoot.
During this period I helped authors self-publish and held a series of seminars for The Society of Authors called ‘How to Sell More Copies of Your Book’. In 2017 I was commissioned to write a book about Twitter. This gave me insight into what it was like to be on the other side of the fence.
I live in South Shropshire with my young daughter and aged spaniel & labrador. I combine working at Henley Hall Press with a non-executive marketing role at my late husband’s tank & silo hire business.
My late husband, Charles, used the phrase ‘NIH’ (not invented here) to describe those whose minds are clamped. I hope the books I commission at Henley Hall Press will help counter NIH.
Map of Bitterley, near Ludlow – the genesis of Henley Hall Press