Jolly Roger

"To be honest," Roger Horton says, "it used to irritate me greatly." The Taylor & Francis (T&F) chief executive is talking about how academic publishing is often ignored in the press in favour of the "sexier"...

Dyer debriefs design

With a career in book design spanning two decades and a bulging portfolio to his name—ranging from the launch of Vintage paperbacks to the rebrand of Rough Guides—you might expect Peter Dyer to have an ego.

Yet, on meeting him...

Octopus' eternal optimist

Andrew Welham is, by his own admission, a man who just can’t say no. Over the 23 years he spent at Penguin he gradually took on extra responsibilities until he was running marketing, audiobooks, new media, sales, production and inventory...

Capital gains

Meeting Rachel Holmes is like being sucked into a whirlwind of en­thusiasm. She has been appointed as the driving force for literature and spoken word at the restored Southbank ­Centre, including the annual London Literature Festival,...