Rowan Borchers appointed publishing director at Cornerstone 

Rowan Borchers has been promoted to publishing director, non-fiction, for Hutchinson Heinemann and Cornerstone Press. 

Borchers will continue to commission across both imprints focusing on politics, history, big ideas, economics, business and personal development. Since the launch of the two imprints he has published numerous bestselling and prize-winning titles on both including Volodymyr Zelensky’s A Message from Ukraine, the first book from the President of Ukraine; Rupal Patel and Jack Meaning’s Can’t We Just Print More Money?, a bestselling primer on economics published in partnership with the Bank of England; Amy Edmondson’s Right Kind of Wrong, which won the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award 2023; and Ali Abdaal’s Feel-Good Productivity, a Sunday Times bestselling self-help book which Penguin’s rights team have sold in 30 territories.

His upcoming authors include Green MP Caroline Lucas, BBC journalist Lyse Doucet, Oxford anthropologist Harvey Whitehouse, maths influencer Tom Crawford and investigative reporter Philip Delves Broughton. 

Borchers said: “This is the most exciting time to be a non-fiction editor at Cornerstone in the almost decade I’ve worked here. It’s an honour to be bringing a new generation of academics and journalists, politicians and businesspeople to Hutchinson Heinemann and Cornerstone Press – and to be doing so alongside such a creative, dynamic and generous team.” 

Publisher Helen Conford added: "Cornerstone Press and Hutchinson Heinemann non-fiction are both in periods of rapid growth, driven by innovative, culturally resonant, agenda-setting publishing. Much of this success is down to Rowan and I am delighted that more of the strategy for our non-fiction publishing will be driven by him.”