THIS WEEK
Katie Espiner Orion
Managing director
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Four years on from her disrup- tive arrival at Orion, Espiner is one of the highest-profile female leaders in the business.
This year brought several new joiners— communications director Maura Wilding, publishing directors Vicky Eribo and Jamie Coleman, editorial director Charlotte Mursell, and commissioning editor Tom Witcomb. There were also promotions for Ru Merritt, Marleigh Price and Olivia Barber. Its 2019 bestsellers came from crime kingpins Ian Rankin and Michael Connelly.
Mandy Hill CUP M.d., academic publishing
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Hill’s academic divsion has focused on its open research agenda, “flipping” some jour- nals to Open Access and
launching the Cambridge Core Share platform for faster dissemination of arti- cles. The smart non-fiction trend has led to trade crossover hits, with Mike Berners-Lee’s climate crisis manifesto There is No Planet B and Steve Stewart- Williams’ The Ape That Understood the Universe among the hits. That crossover has led to a pilot programme for audio- books for its more trade-facing titles.
Albert Hitchcock Pearson Chief technology & operations officer
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Pearson boss John Fallon has promised that digital will move the world’s biggest education publisher to the next level,
and Hitchcock is the man who he has tasked with directing that transforma- tion. It is Hitchcock’s strategy and his team’s technical nous that are moving Pearson to be “the Netflix of education”. with the end game of having a single, more or less unified, highly scalable platform for its customers that can deliver learning “at any time, at any place around the world”.
Colin Hughes Collins Learing Managing director
The importance of Hughes’ division to HarperCollins was underscored earlier this year when the education power- house won the relaunched British Book Award for Export. Collins has made remarkable inroads into the usual grow- ing markets—China, the Far East, India— but part of its win was not neglecting the smaller territories; it grew sales by 33% in the Caribbean last year, for example. Collins’ eyes are still fixed on home turf—a major initiative was giving away free books to 20,000 UK schools in partnership with the Sun.
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Larry Finlay Transworld Managing director
A decent year for Transworld, with sales through the TCM just a tad ahead of 2018, at £31.7m. Lee Child was its star
again: the paperback of Past Tense is by far its bestseller this year, racking up 295,000 units, while the hardback of Blue Moon earned £1.1m and scored an overall number one. Bill Bryson’s The Body has sold £1.6m and will fare even better in the run-up to Christmas, while ex-special forces soldier Jason Fox’s memoir Battle Scars has been the non- fiction breakout, selling 127,000 copies.
Jamie Hodder-Williams Hodder & Stoughton Chief executive officer
A shake-up that saw all trade division m.d.s appointed to the Hachette UK board meant a shift in Hodder-Williams’ role. He is now charged with growing Hodder—no small task, as the division reported £131.3m in sales in its last results—and creating a new business to cater to non-print formats. Hodder- Williams’ deputy, Lucy Hale, leaves at the end of the year as a result of the restructure. At the tills, Hodder has scored with Stephen King’s The Institute and Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s annotated “Fleabag” scripts.
Emma Hopkin Bloomsbury M.d., consumer publishing
Revenues dropped slightly at Hopkin’s Bloomsbury consumer divison, owing to a sales dip for the Harry Potter titles. Adult highlights were The Anarchy by William Dalrymple, the Dishoom cook- book and Lisa Taddeo’s much-discussed Three Women, though its top earner was a late 2018 release, Tom Kerridge’s Fresh Start, which the chef has just followed up with another health-conscious title. Picador’s Paul Baggaley is coming on board as the division’s editor-in-chief, with Alexandra Pringle becoming execu- tive publisher, in the New Year.
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