Rebecca Carter has recently joined Janklow & Nesbit after fifteen years as an editor at Random House UK. As a publisher, her acquisitions were wide-ranging, from literary to more genre-led fiction, novels light and dark, for old and young, set everywhere from Afghanistan to Acton, and non-fiction in the areas of history, travel, food- and nature-writing, political and cultural polemic, often mixed together and with a strong emphasis on story. As an agent she is building a list that reflects and broadens these preoccupations.