Anne Dolamore started her career in publishing in the mid ’70s in the sales and marketing department at Faber, after reading English at Lancaster University. At the end of the ’70s she moved to Andre Deutsch as one of the first women reps in London and in the early ’80s set up her own Special Sales Consultancy, advising publishers such as Pan Macmillan, Harper Collins, Chatto, Bodley Head and Cape. Then in 1988 she joined John Davies to run Grub Street.