We're delighted to announce that Rosie de Courcy has joined the HoZ team as Senior Editor. Rosie will have a specific role to acquire and commission new series fiction. Rosie has held senior roles at several major publishing houses, most recently as Publishing Director at Preface Publishing, part of Random House. She has worked with numerous authors, including household names such as Maeve Binchy and Ben Kane.

In a far galaxy, long ago, 1966 to be precise, my first boss sent me off on a 12 city tour of Britain’s bookshops. He said you couldn’t pretend to be a publisher unless you got off your backside and went to meet your customers. I remember criss-crossing the country by train under a leaden November sky. Glasgow and Edinburgh, Leeds and Manchester, Bath and Exeter, Oxford and Cambridge, overnight stays and full English breakfasts in cavernous Victorian station hotels.