Joel Rickett Email and Phone Number

I oversee both Ebury and Quadrille, the non-fiction publishing divisions of Penguin Random House.Ebury is the UK's largest dedicated non-fiction publisher, and winner of Publisher of the Year at the British Book Awards 2024. Across its five Hubs – Lifestyle, Food, Entertainment, Self and Smart – Ebury publishes books that bring readers and authors together around shared passions in life. Authors include Yotam Ottolenghi, Charlie Mackesy, Mary Berry, Rick Stein, Sir David Attenborough, Steven Bartlett, James O'Brien, Gabor Maté, Brené Brown, Adam Grant, Nathan Anthony (Bored of Lunch), Arnold Schwarzenegger, Zeinab Badawi, Monty Don, Dolly Parton, Peter Crouch, Wim Hof, Peter Attia, Julius Roberts and many more.Quadrille is the award-winning food and lifestyle publisher that joined PRH in 2023. Quadrille publishes design-led books for a global audience, by authors including Becky Excell, Tim Anderson, Philip Khoury and Tim Hayward. https://www.penguin.co.uk/company/publishers/ebury

Shortlisted for Publisher of the Year at the British Book Awards in 2020, 2021 & 2022

Senior publishing leadership role at the UK's largest non-fiction publisher Ebury, part of Penguin Random House. Leading the Virgin Books and WH Allen imprints, and with management responsibility for Vermilion.

At Viking I published a broad range of narrative non-fiction, including memoir, sport, big ideas, film, history, adventure, pop culture, politics and reportage. My authors include Clare Balding, Ben Macintyre, Doris Kearns Goodwin (Team of Rivals), Jennifer Saunders, Will Gompertz, Jay Rayner, Paul French (Midnight in Peking), Sir Dave Brailsford, Chris Anderson and David Sally (The Numbers Game), Alastair and Jonny Brownlee (Swim Bike Run), Paul Fischer (A Kim Jong-Il Production), David Linden (Touch), Tony Evans, Antonio Mendez (Argo), Simon Spence (The Stone Roses), Cathy Scott-Clarke & Adrian Levy (The Siege), Graham Bowley (No Way Down), John Heilemann and Mark Halperin (Game Change/Race of a Lifetime), Morten Storm, Stephen Grey (The New Spymasters), Ed Caesar (Two Hours) and Zlatan Ibrahimovic (I Am Zlatan).I launched Portfolio Penguin in 2010, working with Portfolio US; it has grown to become one of the leading business books imprints in the UK and around the world, focusing on leadership, start-ups, technology, narratives, memoirs, how-to, and self-improvement. My authors include Eric Ries (The Lean Startup), Simon Sinek (Start With Why), Seth Godin, Mrs Moneypenny, Jim O’Neill (The Growth Map), Michael Woodford (Exposure), James Caan, Luke Johnson (Start It Up), Nicholas Lovell (The Curve), Tamara Mellon (In My Shoes), Philip Delves Broughton (What They Teach You At Harvard Business School), Ken Segall (Insanely Simple), Josh Kaufman (The Personal MBA), Guy Kawasaki, the FT, Laura Vanderkam, the Challenger Sale team, Sophia Amoruso (#GIRLBOSS), Martin Amor & Alex Pellew (The Idea In You) and James Watt (Business for Punks) I am on the launch team for Penguin Life, the new lifestyle, psychology and wellbeing imprint. My authors include Brene Brown (Daring Greatly), Shaa Wasmund (Do Less, Get More), James Wallman (Stuffocation), Chris Barez-Brown (Shine and Free), Dave Alred (The Pressure Principle), Edward de Bono and Eric Berne.

H is for HUMMUS: A Modern Parents’ ABC - with illustrator Spencer Wilson(Penguin 2013, published in the US as Q is for QUINOA)P is for PLAYDATE & F is for FIRST WORDS(Frances Lincoln/Kinkajoo, 2015)The Modern MAMIL: A Cyclist’s A-Z(Frances Lincoln/Kinkajoo, February 2016)How to Avoid Huge Ships: And Other Implausibly Titled Books(Aurum, 2008)

Weekly Review column on books, arts, media and the publishing world

- Regular news stories for the Guardian and Telegraph. Features, interviews and reviews for the Times, Mirror, Independent on Sunday, The Author, New Statesman- Broadcast commentary for BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC News, BBC Breakfast, ITV News, Channel 4 News- Columnist, Screen International magazine- Judging panels for Nestle Children’s Book Prize, Observer Publishing Power List, Booktrust Teenage Prize, BBC1 Page Turners, Guardian 50 Best Film Adaptations & 50 Books That Defined the 20th Century- Chapters in the Writers & Artists Yearbook and Guardian Media Directory

Joined The Bookseller as Junior Reporter, and progressed to roles including News Editor and Acting Editor, with responsibility for news, analysis, financial, profiles, opinion, media, charts, diary and blog. Interviewed authors including David Mitchell, Philip Pullman, Michael Ondaatje, Sophie Dahl, Sir Paul Smith, Harlan Coben and Lemony Snicket. Launched the conference programme, the industry awards, the Bookseller Daily edition for trade fairs, and subscriber emails. Relaunched the magazine in 2005; won a VNU President’s Award for Leadership.