2015 The Bookseller Industry Award judges


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Alistair Burtenshaw is director of The Charleston Trust, which runs Charleston, the internationally


The judging panel for this year’s Bookseller Industry Awards convened over two days to deliberate and determine the prizes’ winners. The panel, which comprised experts from all corners of the publishing industry, was divided in two, with one group judging the Publisher and the other the Retailer sections of the awards. The publisher panel consisted


of: Joe Haddow, Matt Haig, Alex Hardy, Philip Jones, Henry Mance, Jim Parks, Nigel Roby, Liz Sich and Sue Wilkinson The retailer panel consisted of: Alistair Burtenshaw, Lisa Campbell, Alex Hardy, Jim Parks, Non Pratt, Cathy Rentzenbrink, Nigel Roby and Tom Tivnan.


acclaimed Bloomsbury group home and two literary festivals. He is also chair of creative writing charity Arvon.


Lisa Campbell


began working as a regional news journalist at the


Keighley News in West Yorkshire; she joined The Bookseller in


February 2011 and is the magazine’s deputy news editor.


Joe Haddow


is the producer of the Radio 2 Book Club, and is responsible for overseeing book content on the


popular radio station— including picking the biweekly Radio 2 Book Club titles.


Matt Haig


is the author of five adult novels including the bestselling The Humans, a World Book Night title in 2014, and The Radleys, which won Channel 4’s TV Book Club series in 2011.


Alex Hardy is an associate of


Harbottle & Lewis LLP. She formerly worked in publishing as an editor and in-house lawyer, and now works with trade organisations on cutting-edge legal and commercial issues.


Philip Jones is editor of The


Bookseller, a position he took up in August 2012, having first joined the magazine in 1996. He is a regular


commentator on book trade matters in the wider media.


Henry Mance


is the Financial Times’ media correspondent. He writes about the publishing, newspaper and TV industries, and occasionally even gets an on-the-record quote from Amazon.


Jim Parks


is the creative director of Guildford Book


Festival. Jim has 20 years’ experience of creating events and campaigns for world-renowned


companies across the entertainment sector.


Non Pratt


was formerly an editor at children’s publisher Usborne, and drew on that experience to write her début novel Trouble, which was shortlisted for The YA Book Prize in 2014. She writes full-time.


Cathy Rentzenbrink is the acting books editor at The


Bookseller and a director of literacy charity Quick Reads. Her memoir, The Last Act of Love, will be published by Picador in July.


Nigel Roby has owned The Bookseller Group


since 2010, and is its publisher and chief executive. He has been a B2B and specialist


consumer media expert throughout his career.


Liz Sich is currently a PR


consultant for arts and culture organisations, having previously held the role of managing director at leading arts and campaigning PR agency Four Colman Getty.


Tom Tivnan has worked as a bookseller in the


US and in the UK. A long-time freelance


writer, he switched to full-time journalism in 2007. He is The


Bookseller’s features and insight editor.


Sue Wilkinson


is the chief executive of The Reading Agency. She was formerly director of government and academic liaison at Elsevier and director of policy at the Museums, Libraries & Archives Council.


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