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Rachael Beale

Website Managing Editor

Rachael is the web editor for the Bookshop site. Armed with Grammar and Good Sense, she’s equally good at wrangling words and wrangling code. She’s got a keen nose for new writing, and can smell a proof copy a mile away: no matter what it is, she will have read it first.

Ask Rachael about: contemporary fiction, short stories, crime.
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Our booksellers

Find out more here about our expert team - who they are, what they're reading, what they like and what they don't.

Gayle Lazda

Senior Bookseller and Website Editor

Ask Gayle about: fiction, cookbooks, children’s books, photography, and graphic novels

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John Clegg

Senior Bookseller and Poetry section curator

Ask John about: poetry, natural history, crime, his personal rankings of Mr Kipling cakes

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David Lea

Deputy Manager

Ask David about: everything, but particularly natural history, politics and economics, history, philosophy, crime, poetry

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Charlie Gould

Senior Bookseller and Returns co-ordinator

Ask Charlie about: music, biography, history, cultural studies, theatre, dance

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Claire Williams

Senior Bookseller and Events Manager

Ask Claire about: art, fiction, graphic novels, what’s coming up in the events calendar, hiring the shop

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Natalia de la Ossa

Bookshop Retail Manager

Ask Natalia about: fiction, children’s, photography and feminist studies

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Gayle Lazda
John Clegg
David Lea
Charlie Gould
Claire Williams
Natalia de la Ossa
Jimmy Petersen