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Eleanor Birne

Eleanor Birne acquires and publishes twelve to fifteen non-fiction and literary fiction titles a year.

Before joining John Murray she worked at Macmillan Publishers and at Duckworth Publishers.

Before becoming an editor she worked as a bookseller at Waterstone's.

Outside her work, she writes the occasional book review, mainly for the London Review of Books.

She loves voice-driven narrative non-fiction and fiction.

She likes to learn about people's lives, families and pasts -- often through memoir but also through fiction.

She also likes to publish entertaining or unusual titles in the areas of popular reference and gift.