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Robyn Drury has been promoted from her role as commissioning editor to editorial director of Ebury Press.
Drury joined Ebury in 2017 from a background as an agent at Diane Banks Associates, where she was responsible for much of the agency’s non-fiction business, including memoir, autobiography, popular science, history, lifestyle and current affairs. She started as a commissioning editor of Ebury Press’ non-fiction department.
She said: “In the five years I’ve been at Ebury, I’ve had the privilege of working with so many brilliant authors, and with a very talented and supportive team of colleagues who make it a pleasure to come to work every day. I’m delighted to be stepping up to editorial director and helping to develop our fantastic publishing even further.”
Deputy divisional publisher Drummond Moir commented: “Robyn embodies and exemplifies Ebury’s core values of curiosity, openness, ambition, great editorial taste, creativity and craftsmanship.
“She published Michael Rosen’s Many Different Kinds of Love with both sensitivity and vision, helping him land his first every Sunday Times bestseller, as well as signing up two more books from him; Clare Balding is another bestselling national treasure she has tempted to Ebury.
“She continues to grow Mark Galeotti’s publishing, discovers and nurtures a new generation of historians, and was an instrumental member of the team behind Caitlin Moran’s top-10 hardback and number one paperback, More than a Woman. She commissions with inspiring clarity, vision, commercial nous and immaculate editorial attention to detail, and in her new role will help propel Ebury to even greater heights.”