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Introducing: Ben Greig
Where are you based and which territories do you cover?
I am based in Cambridge and I cover Denmark and Iceland
How did you get into repping?
When I worked in a bookshop I met a lot of academic reps and one thing led to another!
And how long have you been looking after the Boydell list?
20+ years
Who are your main clients?
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Bloomsbury Academic, Combined Academic Publishers
Before the Coronavirus, how often and how widely did you travel? Is there such a thing as an average day for you?
I’d travel to Denmark three or four times a year and to Iceland once every few years. My day is quite mixed – lots of emails, a few phone calls, zoom meetings of course, web research, contacting bookshops, librarians and lecturers.
Do you have a favourite city to work in?
Copenhagen
What’s the most unusual thing you’ve encountered in your work?
A Bollywood film being made in the old cobbled streets of Lund! I think it doubled for ‘old England’.
Boydell volumes aside, which is your favourite book or author?
The Natural History of a Garden by Michael Chinery
Print or ebook?
Print
Favourite historical figure?
George Orwell
Who would play you in the film of your life?
Denzel Washington
What’s top of your 2021 to-do list?
Get my mum a new knee
Thank you for taking part!
The Great Vogue for the Guitar in Western Europe, 1800-1840