JAMIE Oliver is on the hunt to find the best undiscovered cookbook author in the UK in the new Channel 4 series The Great Cookbook Challenge.
Head judge Louise Moore is the MD of Penguin Michael Joseph, the firm who will publish the winner’s book.
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Who is Louise Moore?
Louise Moore is the Managing Director of Penguin Michael Joseph, one of the biggest commercial publishing lists at Penguin Random House.
She specialises in women’s fiction, crime, thrillers, cookery, memories and lifestyle books.
After reading History at Girton College Cambridge, she began her publishing career working in children’s books at Hamish Hamilton.
In 1988 Louise moved into adult publishing, and worked for Geoffrey Strachan at Methuen before she started commissioning women’s fiction at Heinemann in 1992.
In 1997, Louise then joined Michael Joseph as an Editorial Director and became Managing Director in 2006.
Is Louise Moore married and does she have children?
It is not publicly known if Louise is married or if she has children.
By the looks of it she likes to keep her life private as the publisher doesn’t even have any social media accounts.
It is thought to believe that she is behind the Instagram account @michaeljbooks
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What is Louise famous for?
Louise is famous for publishing some of the best selling books from Jamie Oliver, Marian Keyes, Jojo Moyes, Dawn French, Stephen Fry, Sue Townsend and Sue Perkins.
Commenting about appearing on the Great Cookbook Challenge as a judge, she said: “I have been crafting cookbooks for more than 20 years and I know the dedication, skill and intuition it takes to create recipes people want to buy and try at home. Breaking into publishing is incredibly difficult – an impossible dream for so many amazing cooks out there – so I am just so excited to get out there and discover incredible new talent, new perspectives and new approaches to cooking and food. We know the talent is out there and I’m thrilled to be able to help them fulfil their potential.”
It has been an amazing opportunity to work with Jamie – a long-time friend and Penguin Michael Joseph author — as well as Jimi and Georgie, on ‘The Great Cookbook Challenge’,” she said.
