Allison is Head of Children’s Rights at David Higham and represents many high-profile and successful children’s authors. She joined David Higham in 2017, having previously worked at Bloomsbury Children’s where she was responsible for translation sales across the pre-school, picture book, non-fiction and fiction imprints. She has a range of experience as a trade rights professional working in different genres and markets around the world.

Allison handles translation rights sales for the children’s list in France, Germany and Italy. On the adult side, Allison represents rights for illustrated adult non-fiction and graphic novels selling into all territories world-wide.

She also handles rights for the Roald Dahl Estate in France, Italy and mainland China.