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No Exit Press is an award-winning crime imprint with a 30-year history and an impressive roster of quality authors.
From classic detective novels and page-turning spy thrillers to singular writing that just grabs the attention, our books are carefully crafted by some of the world’s finest writers and brought to you by a small but passionate team.
In over 30 years, No Exit Press has published award-winning fiction and non-fiction. Our catalogue includes a Pulitzer Prize winner, the British Crime Book of the Year, multiple CWA Dagger Award recipients, a British million-copy bestselling author, and winners of the Canadian Governor General’s Award for Fiction and the Scotiabank Giller Prize, to name but a few.
CEO
Jamie started his career working in a Scottish bookshop, then joined Hodder & Stoughton where he worked with many bestselling and award-winning authors including David Nicholls, David Mitchell, Andrew Miller, Graham Norton, Maggie O’Farrell, Abi Daré, Jodi Picoult, John Grisham, Stephen King, Mick Herron, John Connolly, Sophie Hannah, Mike Gayle, Sir Alex Ferguson, Ella Mills, Rolf Dobelli and Matthew Syed.
His favourite books are Slow Horses, The Bone People, Cloud Atlas and One Day.
Commercial Director
Over the last 20 years Laura has worked at Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins and Hachette UK. Throughout her career she has been fortunate to work with some incredible authors and their estates including Stuart MacBride, Bernard Cornwell, Agatha Christie, JRR Tolkien, George RR Martin, Sir Billy Connolly, Ian Rankin, Michael Connelly and Miriam Margolyes.
Some of her favourite books include The Time Traveler’s Wife, Gone Girl and The Road.
Publisher
Carolyn worked as a scout for Maria Campbell Associates in New York, and over a career of 30 years was Publishing Director and then Managing Director of Hodder & Stoughton. She edited and published numerous number one bestselling authors including Jodi Picoult, Jasper Fforde, Sophie Hannah and Peter Robinson.
Editor-at-Large
Maxim Jakubowski is a well-known novelist, critic and reviewer whose columns have appeared in Time Out, the Guardian and Crime Time, and the owner of leading London bookshop Murder One for 20 years. He has also edited many award-winning anthologies, and has spent several decades in publishing roles in France and UK, where he published many bestsellers. He has been awarded the Anthony award, the CWA’s Red Herrings and the David L. Goodis award and chaired the CWA until 2023.
Photo credit is: Fenris Oswin
Senior Marketing Executive
Anastasia started her career as a digital marketing executive at a creative boutique, before pursuing her publishing career by undertaking a publishing apprenticeship at Bloomsbury, where she became the marketing and publicity assistant in the Special Interest team and gained invaluable experience. She is passionate about the impact of written words on people’s understanding of different lives and experiences and the space books give to amplify lesser-heard voices and stories.
Her favourite authors are Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Jodi Picoult.
Production Editor
Polly studied English at Sussex University and has worked for Short Books and Pearson. She is co-ordinating all the editorial work and printings for Bedford Square and No Exit Press. Her favourite authors are Arundhati Roy, Vladimir Nabokov and Yvonne Vera.
Editor
Press Officer
Claudia studied History at Oxford University. Before joining Bedford Square Publishers, she worked as a freelance reader for a literary scout. After starting as an intern, she now works in publicity. Her favourite authors are David Sedaris, Edna O’Brien and Zadie Smith.