Hugh Barker – Writer

I’m an editor and writer, with many years of experience as a commissioning editor and publishing director at companies including Constable & Robinson, Michael O’Mara and (as author) Faber, W.W. Norton, Bloomsbury, Ebury and Atlantic. I studied philosophy at Cambridge, and I have written an eclectic range of books including Hedge Britannia (on natural history), Faking It (on music) and Million Dollar Maths. Most of my publishing experience was in non-fiction, ranging across art, history, science, memoir, crime and humour, but I am a voracious reader of fiction ranging across various genres, with favourite writers including Anne Tyler, Tove Jansson, Flann O’Brien, Koji Suzuki and Jussi Adler-Olson.