I'm Jane Sturrock and I work with publishers, authors, agents and talent managers on commercial non-fiction.

Most recently I was Publisher at HarperNonFiction, and spent over fifteen years at Quercus and Orion before that. Across those years I commissioned, edited and published numerous Sunday Times bestsellers from gift and humour, celebrity memoir and TV tie-ins to self-help, health and personal development.

If I’m asked which books I’m most proud of, I tend to talk about three projects. I acquired The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F**k by the inimitable anti-guru Sarah Knight which went on to inspire a genre of sweary self-help; I developed the Famous Five for Grown-Ups series, including 2016’s Christmas number one Five on Brexit Island; and I published Layla Saad’s Me and White Supremacy which as well as being a Sunday Times bestseller, has become as indispensable resource for white people wanting to challenge racism.

I'm straightforward to work with. I read quickly, I'm honest without being brutal, and having spent almost two decades in-house I understand what publishers are looking for.

I live in Hertfordshire with my family, and work with publishers and authors in the UK and further afield.