Charlie Viney

Promotional poster for first - and final - gig of ill-fated export supergroup, ‘Surgical Truss’ at the joint Penguin / Little, Brown / Faber / Bloomsbury International Sales Conference, Autumn 2001. Left to right: Chris Maclaren, lead guitar + keyboards (Faber); Haruo Ono, tin whistle (Penguin Japan); Mike Bryan, vocals (Penguin); Peter Couzens, bass (Faber); Charlie Viney, drums (Little, Brown)

Following a year in printing and two years bookselling at Hatchards in London and Brentanos in Paris, I joined William Collins in 1976.

Following a stint in Fontana home sales repping North London (I drove a bright yellow Cortina Estate in flaired trousers and we were given a weekly cigarette allowance) I was lucky enough to get a job in 1977 with the Collins export team representing Pan and Fontana in the open markets with a great team of colleagues: David Love, Ray Kennedy, Simon Fowler, Trevor Atherton and Geoff Mulligan among many others.

It was a wonderful time and many happy years in export followed, pretty much travelling to every country around the world for Collins, Granada, Andre Deutsch, Macdonald and Little, Brown.

I left Little, Brown in 2002 and started a literary agency: The Viney Agency.

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email: charlie@thevineyagency.com