Jane Palfreyman
Jane Palfreyman is an Australian editor and publisher with over
30 years' experience in the industry. She started at Macmillan in
1986, eventually becoming Picador Publisher. In 1994 she was
appointed Publishing Director at Random House, where she edited and
published writers including Tom Keneally, Charlotte Wood, Frank
Moorhouse, Gail Jones and J. M. Coetzee. She is proud to still be
publishing authors whose debut novels were launched during that
time, including Michelle de Kretser, Malcolm Knox and Christos
Tsiolkas.
In 2007, Jane moved to independent publisher Allen & Unwin,
where she publishes literary fiction and non-fiction, including
award-winning and international bestsellers Jasper Jones
by Craig Silvey, and The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas, which
has now sold over a million copies around the world. She also
published Miles Franklin Award winners Questions of Travel
by Michelle de Kretser (2013) and The Eye of the Sheep by
Sofie Laguna (2015). Recent international publications include
Charlotte Wood's The Natural Way of Things, which won the
2016 Stella Prize, and The Last Painting of Sara de Vos by
Dominic Smith, winner of the Fiction Prize in the 2017 Indie Book
Awards.
Jane's interest in Scottish writing was cemented when she bought
ANZ rights for Kevin Williamson's Children of the Albion
Rovers in 1997. She has recently acquired the rights to
Phillip Miller's All the Galaxies (Freight), which will be
published by Allen & Unwin in Australia and New Zealand in
September 2017.
www.allenandunwin.com