Trevor Moore obituary

My friend and colleague Trevor Moore, who has died aged 79, was a passionate advocate for a number of publishers’ lists, spending most of his working life in the book trade. Trevor’s early career spanned Hutchinson, Hamish Hamilton, Collins, Andre Deutsch, Methuen, Hodder, Weidenfeld and Bantam Press. In 1986 he joined Random House (then Century Hutchinson) and represented that company in north London and East Anglia until his retirement, winning the Waterstones Rep of the Year award in 2012.Trevor was a tireless champion for both fiction and non-fiction, a friend to numerous authors and a great supporter of independent bookshops and booksellers. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'

[ The Guardian | 2016-09-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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