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

Generally, I am looking for wonderful, clear writing with beauty at its heart. I’d love to find something that feels really fresh and exciting, such as Rita Bullwinkel’s Headshot or Sheena Patel’s I’m a Fan. I am currently particularly interested in science fiction and fiction that is engaged in science and the future and would love to find a book in this vein 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 The Mermaid of the Black Conch by Monique Roffey are good examples – and I am always interested in books that play with form and structure, for example, Scary Monsters by Michelle de Kretser, as well as books on the edges of horror.

In historical fiction, I am drawn to novels which find new ways of telling old stories, recent examples include Light Perpetual by Francis Spufford, Matrix by Lauren Groff and The Colony by Audrey Magee. I would love 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.

In non-fiction, I am looking for a book where the personal is at the centre of the piece, for example Mark O’Connell’s A Thread of Violence or Jo Ann Beard’s Collected Works. I would also like to find a work of non-fiction concerned with art and/ or artists. Recent examples I have loved include Hisham Matar’s A Month in Siena and Laura Cummings’ Thunderclap.