Experience

Book Aid International

• United Kingdom
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Interviewer for Book Aid International Books Change Lives Talks.

  • Mar 2020 - Present

  Interviewing Authors for Book Aid International's Books Change Lives Talks. Authors I have interviewed include: Emily Maitlis, Michael Palin, Isabel Allende, Mariella Frostrup and Elif Shafak. Forthcoming in September 2022: Bernadine Evaristo. See copies of interviews at: www.bookaidinternational.co.uk Interviewing Authors for Book Aid International's Books Change Lives Talks. Authors I have interviewed include: Emily Maitlis, Michael Palin, Isabel Allende, Mariella Frostrup and Elif Shafak. Forthcoming in September 2022: Bernadine Evaristo. See copies of interviews at: www.bookaidinternational.co.uk



Books at the Barn

• Hampshire, England, United Kingdom

• Book Talks Organiser

  • 2012 - Present

  I organise Author Talks in a Hampshire village barn. All authors are interviewed by me or my partner, Sarah O'Rorke. Recent speakers include: Frank Gardner, Clare Balding, Lucy Worsley, Charles Spencer, Jung Chang, Stella Rimington, Fi Glover & Jane Garvey and Sir Anthony Seldon. See more at: www.booksathebarn.co.uk I organise Author Talks in a Hampshire village barn. All authors are interviewed by me or my partner, Sarah O'Rorke. Recent speakers include: Frank Gardner, Clare Balding, Lucy Worsley, Charles Spencer, Jung Chang, Stella Rimington, Fi Glover & Jane Garvey and Sir Anthony Seldon. See more at: www.booksathebarn.co.uk



Penguin Random House UK

• United Kingdom
• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Publicity Director

  • 1993 - 2009

  As Publicity Director I organised media campaigns for Penguin authors including Pat Barker, Paul Theroux, John Mortimer and Alec Guinness. I also organised author talks at bookshops and Literary Festivals. Latterly I helped establish a Penguin/Orange Readers Group Prize, and organised several city and county wide reads of Penguin Classics. As Publicity Director I organised media campaigns for Penguin authors including Pat Barker, Paul Theroux, John Mortimer and Alec Guinness. I also organised author talks at bookshops and Literary Festivals. Latterly I helped establish a Penguin/Orange Readers Group Prize, and organised several city and county wide reads of Penguin Classics.