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Cope moves to Duckworth as publisher
Rowan Cope has been appointed publisher at Duckworth Books.
She will join the company on 9th August, reporting to managing director Pete Duncan.
Cope began her career at David Godwin Associates, followed by commissioning roles at Little, Brown, where she published bestsellers such as Tracey Thorn’s Bedsit Disco Queen and Netflix hit Orange is the New Black, and then Simon & Schuster, where she founded the Scribner UK list and rose to associate publisher. Scribner UK racked up Sunday Times bestsellers and Booker Prize nominations, including for Ian McGuire’s The North Water.
Most recently, she has been editorial director at Faber & Faber, Penguin Press and Granta Books, working with authors such as Francesca Wade, Sara Pascoe, David Mitchell, Jared Diamond, Sir David Spiegelhalter, Suzanne Simard, Mariana Enríquez, Mark O’Connell and Sandra Newman.
Cope said: “Duckworth has a long and august pedigree, having published some of the finest writers in English in its history, and I’m thrilled to join at a pivotal moment for the company, to help shape its 21st-century revitalisation. Duckworth today is smart, agile and blessed with a dedicated and energetic team who can offer a personalised approach. We have many brilliant and highly acclaimed authors on the list, and I can’t wait to work with them and to bring more of the best and brightest writers of non-fiction and historical fiction to join us.”
Commenting on Cope's appointment, Duncan said: “The whole team couldn’t be more excited to have Rowan join us and take the lead of Duckworth’s publishing at this moment of transformation. I have been a huge admirer of Rowan’s publishing since her Little, Brown days, and her experience, creativity and commercial acumen are second to none. For Duckworth this is a fresh marker on its journey of reinvention as one of the great independent publishing houses.”
Duckworth Books, founded in 1898, is one of the UK’s oldest publishing houses still under independent ownership, and publishes non-fiction and historical fiction.
