Bullock leaves Icon for Duckworth Books

Clare Bullock will join independent publisher Duckworth Books as editorial director. 

She will begin on 19th February, reporting to m.d. Pete Duncan. 

Bullock has held previous editorial roles at Jonathan Cape, Ebury and most recently Icon Books which she joined in 2020 and where she is currently senior commissioning editor.   

At Icon she published Alice Loxton’s UPROAR!, which debuted on the non-fiction chart, Saving Freud by Andrew Nagorski and XI: A Study in Power by Kerry Brown.  

At Ebury she commissioned Boardman Tasker’s award-winning A Line Above the Sky by Helen Mort, and Renia’s Diary by Renia Spiegel; while at Jonathan Cape she worked with authors Jung Chang, Dave Goulson and Helen Macdonald, as well as publishing Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize-winning Flake by Matthew Dooley. 

Bullock said: “Duckworth is, to my mind, one of the finest independent publishers in the country, and I am delighted to have the chance to join such a talented team. I am greatly looking forward to working on fiction again, as well as continuing to look for new voices in intelligent non-fiction."  

She added: “I am very grateful to my authors and colleagues at Icon for a valuable few years, and am very excited to see what comes next.” 

Duncan said: “We are thrilled to have Clare join us at the helm of Duckworth’s publishing. She has fantastic taste, commercial sense and connections, and we can’t wait to work with her in the next step of Duckworth’s reinvention as one of the great independent publishing houses.”