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Our team have a variety of interests and experiences, but they share a love of books and are all passionate advocates of reading for pleasure.
Give any of us a call today and see how we can help support your school or library.
Week in, week out, our team catalogue and review all mainstream UK children's publications. They provide unbiased reviews and ratings based on their career experience working in libraries, school libraries, and classrooms. The team are unafraid to identify the duds, but much prefer to discover unexpected gems and exciting new authors.
Great titles are identified as Recommended Reads and the very best are nominated as Books of the Week.
Head of Library Services
Alison recently joined Peters to manage our Librarian and Bibliographic team, having worked in and around school and public libraries for more than 10 years. In her most recent role as CEO of the School Library Association, she worked closely with organisations such as CILIP, BookTrust and The Reading Agency.
Alison loves reading both children's and adult literature, and appreciates a great information book too!
Children's Book Specialist
Dawn has spent 30 years teaching children from Nursery to Year 6 (and still has most of her hair!!)
She joined Peters in 2017 after retiring from teaching. She enjoys reading and reviewing children’s books (she can usually find something positive in every book) and passing on her love of reading to her growing family of grandchildren.
Children's Librarian
Debbie has been at Peters for 26 years and has seen many trends come and go in children’s publishing over the last three decades. She has almost forgotten how to read a book written for adults and is especially fond of a good KS2 non-fiction title. A complete Grecophile, she has been teaching herself to speak Greek for the last few years in the hope of doing a Shirley Valentine and escaping to warmer climes on an Aegean island.
Children's Librarian
Emma joined Peters in 2016 as an Account Manager for public libraries, and spent many happy years visiting customers around the UK, before joining Peters' librarians team in 2021. Before this she worked in Swindon Libraries as an Outreach and Children's Librarian and then as Lead Librarian for the Children and Young People's team. She enjoys exploring the outdoors, and her favourite pastime is sitting in the sunshine with a decent cup of coffee, reading a good book.
Librarian - Adult Stock Developer
Helen has experience selecting adult stock as part of her work in public libraries, as well as working in academic libraries at the University of Birmingham. Prior to this she also worked in non-fiction publishing.
She strongly believes in the benefits of reading for pleasure for wellbeing, and enjoys thrillers, literary fiction and whatever happens to be the blockbuster hit of the moment.
Children's Librarian
Katie has several years’ experience in public libraries, running toddler rhyme time and teenage reading groups, and has also worked as a secondary school librarian.
An avid reader of anything and everything, she particularly enjoys historical teen fiction, junior fiction about ponies, and picture books about dogs!
Senior Librarian (Children's)
Laura has worked for Peters as part of the librarians’ team for the last twenty years.
She still loves reading and reviewing new books even after all this time, enjoying all kinds of adult and children’s fiction, and a good warts-and-all rock’n’roll autobiography.
In addition to buying stock for a wide range of public library customers she co-ordinates both our Book of the Week and the curated book lists. So she is always trying to think of exciting new themes for lists– though her all-time favourite – ‘plucky orphans save the world’ – never seems to run out of steam!
Children's Librarian
Lucy worked as a children’s librarian in Warwickshire public libraries before joining Peters over ten years ago. She is the company’s comics and manga specialist, and was an assistant organiser for the Birmingham Comic Con for several years. Now she often gives talks to librarians and teachers on how to use this format most effectively.
As well as being on the judging panels for the Information Book Award and Excelsior Award, she has spoken at YLG conferences and SLA events.
Senior Children's Book Specialist
Lucy has spent her life surrounded by books. An avid reader from a young age, she had Saturday jobs in the local library then completed a degree in English Literature before working for Nielsen providing bibliographic data to Amazon and Waterstones. Now she helps to select books for schools, including overseeing and advising on class sets.
Children's Librarian
Michaela previously worked at Camden and Hackney libraries and has over 20 years’ experience including several years at Camden SLS. In between, she taught Fine Art at the London College of Fashion for 8 years.
Michaela loves illustration, printmaking, and nature. She also really loves how books can develop and educate young minds.
Children's Book Specialist
Natalie joined Peters after working with Upper KS2 and KS3 children as a school librarian. Prior to this, she completed an MSc in Information and Library Management and worked at the University of Birmingham’s library for over 10 years.
In her downtime, Natalie enjoys reading mysteries and light popular fiction.
Children's Book Specialist
Stephanie joined the Peters team in 2020 after working as a secondary school librarian and science teaching assistant. Her areas of expertise are KS3 and Accelerated Reader books, and she is a firm advocate for the importance of access to books for everyone.
In her spare time, she enjoys reading horror, crime, mystery and thriller titles.
Children's Book Specialist
Zeena was a junior school teacher for 34 years before joining Peters. She has also tried a variety of other jobs including nannying, ICT, financial consultancy, and even managing a diet clinic on Harley Street, but teaching was the only thing to give her real job satisfaction.
She joined the Peters team in early 2019 and is having lots of fun reading picture books!
Service Delivery Manager
Chris joined Peters in 2004 and has worked across multiple areas of the business. He is now responsible for overseeing and developing the services we provide to our public library customers, and enjoys thinking of ways to improve processes to benefit our customers. A keen reader, he enjoys true crime books – although his favourite book remains George’s Marvellous Medicine! When he’s not at work, he’ll most likely be found chasing after his cocker spaniel, Luna, in the local park.
Co-CEO
Starting her career in the charity sector before joining Peters in 2014, Claire is passionate about the impact reading for pleasure can have on the lives of children and young people.
She now works closely with schools and partners such as National Literacy Trust, The Reading Agency, EmpathyLab and others who share the same mission: to help give all children the opportunity to develop a love of reading. She also heads up Peters’ giving back project, which supports charities and community initiatives.
Customer Relationship Manager
George recently joined Peters after five years’ experience teaching Upper Key Stage 2 pupils at a West Midlands primary school.
Through teaching George has developed a real love of children’s literature, recognising its importance in supporting children’s learning and enriching their lives. He will be using his experience to help other schools find the right books for their pupils.
George also enjoys playing football, golf and badminton – and is an avid supporter of West Bromwich Albion.
Educational Relationship Executive
Helen has many years' experience in sales across a range of sectors, with a strong track record in building customer relationships. At Peters, she works closely with schools to understand their unique requirements and help them get the right books into the hands of pupils.
Outside of work, Helen enjoys reading mystery, romance and thriller titles, spending quality time with her family, and she can often be found in the park walking her dog, Monty!
Senior Interior Designer
A graduate of Birmingham City University’s BA Hons in Interior Design, Helena’s final university project was selected as finalist in the Society of British and International Designs (SBID) student competition.
Helena has a passion for photography and graphics, and an interest in colour psychology and style trends – something that she often draws on to inform her designs for schools. She loves that her job gives the opportunity to help inspire young readers.
Furniture Manager
From checking designs to liaising with our furniture suppliers and managing our library installations, Isha oversees our projects from start to finish to ensure exemplary customer service.
Growing up in an Indian household where English wasn't her first language has made Isha determined to help children to succeed at school. She enjoys reading to her daughter every evening, especially books about unicorns and fairies.
Customer Services Manager
Jacqui leads our customer service team. She has over 20 years’ experience in library and school supply.
She has, to her surprise and increasing dismay, an unparalleled knowledge of the complexities of servicing and EDI...
Interior Design Manager
Since graduating with a first-class BA Hons in Fashion with professional enhancement, Jess has worked in a number of creative design roles with experience in accessories, graphics, Interior Design and arts and crafts.
Jess is passionate about design, understands the importance of attention to detail, enjoys a challenge, and seeks to create comfortable, efficient learning environments where children can feel relaxed, excited and ambitious about reading.
Head of Buying
Jude worked in high street retail for 20 years before joining Peters. Jude leads our Buying team, working closely with publishers and distributors to ensure we always have the best books in stock for our schools and libraries.
She loves to read funny children’s fiction or a good chick lit novel, and when she's not busy reading, she also enjoys baking and arts and crafts.
Production Co-ordinator
Kulbinder (Kulb) has been with the company for over 30 years. She is responsible for making sure that customers receive their orders on time, and particularly enjoys providing support to her team and working with international schools.
After spending all week surrounded by books, she likes to go on walks and spend time with her family.
Assistant Operations Manager (Bookshop)
Operations Manager
Mel trained as a librarian before joining Dillons as a buyer. She has been with Peters for longer than anyone remembers, with only a brief break to raise two daughters and get first-hand experience of the importance of getting great books into schools.
Mel is an avid reader of literary fiction and gruesome crime novels – and is also the team's most passionate advocate of poetry.
School Sales Coordinator
Nikki has over 10 years' experience working in childcare and early years education. She especially loved the messy play and creating an engaging environment for young learners to thrive.
At Peters, she plays a key role in supporting schools with their unique book requirements, ensuring they receive excellent service, whilst building strong relationships.
Outside of her role, she enjoys crafting, playing board games and reading fantasy books.
Head of Customer Relationships
Oonagh has over twenty years’ experience of working with schools in the UK, and before joining Peters in 2015 she worked for a national public sector procurement organisation.
A lifelong lover of books and reading, Oonagh’s interests outside of work range from travel to cooking. Her role is to provide advice and support for schools and help them get the right books into the hands of readers.
Co-CEO
Richard has worked in various roles during his 25 years at Peters, working in Operations for many years before becoming Commercial Director of the business, and now Co-CEO.
In his current role, he oversees the Operations and Public libraries functions within the business along with continuing to spearhead Peters’ ongoing programme of IT and systems development. Outside of work, he enjoys sci-fi and fantasy fiction, long walks in the countryside and craft ale.
Interior Designer
Sophia has been passionate about interior design from a young age, throwing herself into a range of projects at home! Her love for design led to Sophia gaining a BA (Hons) degree in Interior Architecture and pursuing a career in design after graduating.
Nature is a big part of Sophia’s life, and this is reflected in her interior designs. She enjoys creating calm, welcoming spaces and feels privileged to be designing libraries for schools to help get children excited about reading for
pleasure.
EDI Specialist
William, or 'Scott' as he is better known, has over 40 continuous years of library supply experience, having started with Woolstons and Blunts in Nottingham in 1975, and then working in the IT team at Bertrams Library Services.
What he doesn't know about EDI the rest of us can't teach him.
