Highton joins Jenny Brown Associates

Former Two Roads publisher Lisa Highton has joined Jenny Brown Associates (JBA) as an associate agent. 

At John Murray Press imprint Two Roads, which Highton set up, she published many bestselling writers including Kirsty Wark, Ruth Hogan, Monty Don and Sally Magnusson. She was also previously deputy m.d. for Hodder & Stoughton. She departed the imprint in December 2021. 

In her new role, Highton will represent both fiction and narrative non-fiction, continuing to be based in London but with frequent visits to Scotland. 

She said: “I’ve admired and worked closely with Jenny Brown for many years from the other side of the desk, most recently at Two Roads, where we published a number of authors together with great success.

“I’m delighted to ‘cross over’ and work with Jenny developing the business and with the exciting prospect of finding new authors and great stories ahead of me.” 

Brown added: “‘Lisa brings a wealth of experience to JBA.  She is known throughout the trade for finding remarkable and inspirational books across fiction and non-fiction — and for championing writing for Scotland. We are delighted that she will now bring her talents to represent, rather than publish, writers.  

“As we celebrate 20 years of the agency, it’s an exciting development that we will expand the number of authors we represent, and further extend our reach.”