After graduating from UCA Farnham with a degree in Graphic Communication, Loulou began working as a freelance branding designer. Soon craving something more creative and expressive, she developed her illustrative skills and landed a junior designer role at Orion Publishing. Over her thirteen years there progressing to Art Director, Loulou gained a wealth of experience designing covers across a wide range of genres in both fiction (commercial, literary, crime) and non-fiction (wellbeing, cookery, biography), as well as full book design for many illustrated titles. Loulou joined PRH as Ebury’s Art Director in spring 2020 and is thrilled to be working with an inspiring list of authors such as Yotam Ottolenghi, Charlie Mackesy and Caitlin Moran.

Suzanne graduated from Kingston University, where she studied Graphic Design. Her first job was at The Greenhouse, designing food packaging and brochures. A year later she was asked if she might be interested in publishing. She joined Penguin Books as a Senior Designer, working for Hamish Hamilton. Three years later she joined Macmillan, to work on the Picador list. Five years later she joined Random House as Art Director for Vintage Books, whose many imprints include Jonathan Cape, Chatto & Windus and Harvill Secker. Here she established the design for the Vintage Classics list. She has worked on a wide range of cover designs for authors such as Mark Haddon, Haruki Murakami, Ian McEwan, Julian Barnes, Yuval Noah Harari, Richard Flanagan and Rachel Kushner.

Richard graduated from the University of Central Lancashire with a Graphic Design degree. He was drawn into publishing through book cover design agency The Senate and has never looked back. He became Art Director at Transworld Publishing, within Penguin Random House, in 2015. He was previously Art Director at Cornerstone, also in the Penguin Random House Group, for thirteen years. He has also worked at Pan Macmillan as Associate Art Director, and Headline Books as a Senior Designer

Over the years he has worked on a range of cover designs for books, in all genres, including novels by John Grisham, Kate Atkinson, James Herbert, Paula Hawkins, James Patterson, Shari Lapena, Wilbur Smith, P.G. Wodehouse, Lisa Jewell, Sophie Kinsella and Douglas Coupland, plus autobiographies by Peter Kay, Tony Blair, David Jason, Rod Stewart, Steve Coogan and John Cleese.

After graduating from the University of Derby with a BA Honours in Graphic Design, Jason moved to London to further his education at Central Saint Martins. He began his career working for a company that specialized in packaging for CDs and DVDs, combining his passion for music and film with design.

The move into publishing was a natural progression and he secured a job at Random House as designer, quickly followed by a more senior role. As Art Director of Cornerstone, Jason works on a list of successful authors including James Patterson, Helen Dunmore, Tony Parsons, Tim Peake and Katie Price to name a few.

Nathan Burton has over 20 years’ experience designing book covers. He started his career at Bloomsbury publishing before moving onto Penguin where he worked on the Hamish Hamilton list. Freelance since 2008, he works for a variety of UK and international clients. Nathan designed the published cover for Diary of a Young Naturalist.

Harry Woodgate (pronouns: they/them) is an award-winning author and illustrator working mainly in children's publishing and editorial. In 2017, Harry won 3rd place in the Penguin Cover Design Awards for their interpretation of Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird, and the following year won the Non-Fiction category with their cover for Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time.

Since then, they have worked with clients including National Book Tokens, Google, Andersen Press, The Sunday Times Magazine, Harper Collins, Walker Books, Bloomsbury, The Washington Post and Penguin Random House. Their books include Grandad's Camper, Timid, Little Glow, Shine Like The Stars, My First Baking Book and The Very Merry Murder Club. 

Grandad's Camper, their debut author-illustrator title, recently won the Waterstones Children's Book Prize Best Illustrated Book 2022, as well as receiving a nomination for the CILIP Yoto Kate Greenaway Award and a Stonewall Book Award Honor from the American Library Association. It has been well-reviewed by Kirkus Reviews, School Library Journal, The Bookseller, Guardian, Times Literary Supplement and many others. Harry is passionate about writing and illustrating diverse, inclusive stories that inspire children to be inquisitive, creative, kind and proud of what makes them unique.