Heywood Hill appoints 'bookseller-at-large' in Hong Kong

London bookshop Heywood Hill has appointed Charlotte Merritt to the new role of the shop’s Hong Kong-based bookseller-at-large. Heywood Hill, which offers bespoke bookselling, private library building and monthly book subscriptions, with customers in over 60 countries worldwide, said that Merritt’s appointment will allow it to provide “a new standard of personal service to both long-standing and new customers in Hong Kong”. Merritt has previously worked as marketing manager at Bloomsbury and head of marketing at Hodder & Stoughton. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2015-08-18 00:00:00 UTC ]

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Alex Hollywood pens Cooking Tonight for Hodder

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Hodder acquires reimagining of the legend of Scheherazade

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