I joined David Higham Associates in August 2022 and worked as an assistant in the film/TV department for almost two years before joining the books department to assist Nicola Chang. I previously worked in publishing in various roles including as an assistant in a literary scouting agency and an editorial assistant in a publishing house.

I’m largely a reader of  literary fiction and narrative non-fiction. In fiction, I love relationship (of all kinds) dramas, both grounded and melodramatic. I especially love if they’re a vehicle to explore broader social and political themes like the work of Ayòbámi Adébáyò, Rachel Cusk, Tayari Jones, and Sally Rooney. I relish an imaginative approach to form and structure, particularly an interesting use of narrative perspective/voice, vignettes, and fragments like Zadie Smith’s NW. I also have an affinity for literary fiction with speculative, science-fiction or fantasy/magical realist elements – Ayanna Lloyd Banwo’s When We Were Birds is a recent example and the work of Ben Okri, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Ted Chiang. My literary lodestars are Toni Morrison and James Baldwin, and Song of Solomon is my favourite book ever.

In non-fiction, I love writing which is both precise and stylish across memoirs, histories, biographies, and arts criticism. I particularly enjoy the work of critics, journalists, and academics who write artfully and sensitively about their subjects like Doreen St. Felix, Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, Harmony Holiday, Wesley Morris,  Christina Sharpe, Saidiya Hartman, and the late great Greg Tate. I’ve recently enjoyed books like Nadia Owusu’s memoir, Aftershocks, Elizabeth Hinton’s history/polemic, America on Fire, Hanif Abdurraquib’s essay collection, A Little Devil in America, and Les Payne’s biography of Malcolm X, The Dead Are Arising.