Jonathan Ruppin is the Web Editor of Foyles bookshop and has twelve years’ experience in book retailing, including nine years on the shopfloor. He has run a variety of departments, for both Foyles and previously Dillons, but specialises in fiction. He has also worked for two literary agents and one publisher. He has been a judge for the Costa Novel Award, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and the British Book Design and Production awards. For three years, he wrote The Bookseller’s annual Paperback Preview, selecting the paperback titles most likely to be of interest to booksellers across the market for the forthcoming year. He is also a member of the Editorial Committee of the journal, New Books in German, and a member of the Advisory Board of Arts Council-funded publisher, And Other Stories. He reviews and blogs regularly for a number of print and online publications.
