Russ Radcliffe specialises in serious non-fiction for the general trade market including: international and domestic politics, history, biography, travel narrative, philosophy, and popular science.

Recent experience:

• Launched independent publishing house, High Horse 
  
• Editor of annual political year-in-review, Best Australian Political Cartoons (since 2003)
• Research consultant to National Museum of Australia (Behind the Lines, 2007 & 2008)
• Non-fiction commissioning and acquisitions editor at Scribe Publications & series commissioning editor for Scribe Short Books (2003–2007). Some of the titles that I have recently edited are displayed.
• Editorial mentor & publishing consultant, Melbourne University Writing Centre for Scholars — advising academics on how to transform their work into books for general readers.
• Programming committee, Melbourne Writers festival (1999–2004)
• Board member, Australian Book Review (2001–2004)
• Judge, The Age Book of the Year 2002
• Judge, The Age Short Story Competition 2002
• Occasional book reviewer, The Age

Publishing and editorial services:

• Custom book publishing for individuals and organisations
  
• project management — from manuscript to finished book
• manuscript assessment
• structural and copy-editing

 For more information contact Russ Radcliffe