I am actively building a list of literary and upmarket fiction, SFF and non-fiction. Authors whose work I admire include Ali Smith, Elif Batuman, Miriam Toews, Hanya Yanigahara, Sarah Moss, Sarah Hall, Kate Atkinson, Michael Ondaatje, Helen Garner, Katie Kitamura and Sunjeev Sahota. I am very focused on the editorial process and  enjoy working closely with my authors on their books.

Generally, I am looking for wonderful, clear writing with beauty at its heart. I would love to find a really wild idea that is immaculate on the page, or something that feels fresh and exciting, such as Rita Bullwinkel’s Headshot or Sheena Patel’s I’m a Fan. I am very much on the lookout for big, messy family stories and novels or story collections about older women and their experiences. Books about aging, menopause, ’empty nest’ syndrome, motherhood and adulthood in all its guises would be very welcome.

I am currently particularly interested in science fiction and fiction that is engaged in science and the awe of the universe, for example Martin MacInnes’s In Ascension, Orbital by Samantha Harvey or Bewilderment by Richard Powers. I also love speculative and genre bending fiction – How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu, Piranesi by Susanna Clarke and Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov are good examples. I am always interested in books that play with form and structure, for example, Scary Monsters by Michelle de Kretser or All the Birds Singing by Evie Wyld as well as dark comedies and books on the edges of horror.

In historical fiction, I am drawn to novels which find new ways of telling old stories, examples include Light Perpetual by Francis Spufford, Matrix by Lauren Groff and The Colony by Audrey Magee. I would like to find a great love story set against the backdrop of historical events such as Trespasses by Louise Kennedy or In Memoriam by Alice Winn – as well as a swoony contemporary love story!

I enjoy literary crime and would like to find a detective novel or thriller such as Sebastian Barry’s Old God’s Time, Eleanor Catton’s Birnam Wood or Kate Atkinson’s Jackson Brodie series. I’m also keen to find a spy novel – something in the vein of the TV series The Americans would be perfect!

In non-fiction, I am always looking to learn new things and am interested in 21st century concerns in a post-Covid world. I’d really like to find a book about teenagers and tech, as well as work that is concerned with subjects such as aging, loneliness, divorce and anxiety, however that is presented.

I would love to find a graphic novel on any subject and/ or a work of non-fiction concerned with art and/ or artists. Recent examples I have enjoyed greatly include Claire Dederer’s Monsters, Hisham Matar’s A Month in Siena and Laura Cummings’ Thunderclap.