Trish has been a bookseller all her working life - over the last 30 years working with a Northern independent, for Dillons, Waterstones, Hammicks, Ottakar's and most recently, at Waterstones again.

She has enjoyed organising many major literary events ( Maya Angelou, Sir Roy Strong, Melvyn Bragg, Terry Pratchett, Jacqueline Wilson, Michael Morpurgo...) and runs a large successful reading group in Teddington.

Trish reads widely and has always had a particular interest in children's books.