‘After a six month hiatus following the end of Escalator, I started from the beginning again and completed my first finished draft in August 2014. I then submitted it to a couple of agents and was signed immediately to one of them’ – K.J. Packer, Escalator 2011
‘Afrika Reich did really well in hardback, selling more than 10,000 copies which makes me the 11th best selling debut of 2011. It also reached number three in Spain’s charts […] All in all, not bad for a book which the majority of publishers in this country said had no commercial appeal!’ – Guy Saville, Escalator 2007
Paul Couch, John Down, Sarah Gillett, Monique Guz, Steven Rayner, Jenny Twomey
Coco d’Hont, Jane Lomas, Nic Mira, Sam Reid and Peter Rose.
Shirley Day, Sylvie Wheatley.
Mike Allen, Anni Domingo, Sam Hacking, Daniel Hickey, Rob Perry, Jon Ransom, Hannah Redding, Kellee Rich, Emily Slade and Tony Warner.
Terri Armstrong, Dane Buckley, Sarah Courtauld, Sally Craythorne, Alex Ivey, Ingrid Jendrzejewski, Ellie Khojinian, Owen Nicholls, Rebecca Sollom and Sunitha Webster.
Lynsey Calderwood, Hazel Compton, Salli Hepworth-Smith, Linden Hibbert, Richard Lambert, Thomas Lincoln, Sally-Anne Lomas, Kate Mackay, Margaret Meyer, Emma Vandore, Ely Percy
Jonnie Bayfield, Ed Cottrell, Michael Donkor, Lindsey Fairweather, Maria Hummer, Alex Scarlett Mullen, Pooja Puri, Stephanie Scott , Natasha Sutton-Williams, Lauren Van Schaik Smith
Ones to Watch: Natasha Sutton-Williams (Hiive)
Megan Bradbury, Jonathan Curran, Sue Healy, Kyra Karmiloff, Ian Madden, Mary Nathan, Meghan Purvis, Linda Spurr, Lynsey White, L.E. Yates
Jan Casey, Tim Clare, Alex Crisp
Rebecca Atkinson, Elaine Bishop, Armando Celayo, Guinevere Glasfurd-Brown, BTI Larsson, K.J. Packer, Teresa Rogers, Erin Soros, Shereen Tadros, Kate Worsley
Geraldine Clarkson, Maitreyabandhu, Frank Newsum, Eileen Pun, Sarah Roby, Tom Warner
Helen Mort, Edward Mackay, Rachel Rooney
Deborah Arnander, Gillian Daly, Belona Greenwood, Robert Mason, Sarah-Jane Page, Dave Pescod, Linda Randall, Sarah Ridgard, Kate Swindlehurst, Martin Ungless
Sally Alexander, Emma Rhind-Tutt, Ashely Stokes
Tim Clare, Helen Mort, Molly Naylor, Dean Parkin, Hannah Walker
Elizabeth Ferretti, Caroline Gilfillan, Fraser Grace, Jacqueline Jacques, Clare Jarrett, Katherine Morton, Ed Parnell, Guy Saville, Sal Sellers, Kathryn Skoyles
Stephanie Cross, Laura Dietz, Ruth Dugdall, Megan Dunn, James Ferron Anderson, Judy Foreshaw, Niyati Keni, Jane Menczer, Gary O’Connor, Verity Holloway, Aliya Whiteley
Andrea Porter, Hayley Webster, Jim Pollard, Keith Tutt, Lesley Mace, Michael Hulme, Miranda Landgraf, Paddy Tarrant, Sue Welfare, Nicola Upson
Lawrence Bradby, Frank Dullaghan, Helen Ivory, Clare Jarrett, Andre Mangeot, Lorraine Mariner, Dean Parkin, Evelynn Sharp, Emma Sweeney, Louise Tondeur
