Alice Murphy-Pyle

Alice Murphy-Pyle is a BMS-award winning marketer and publicist. She worked at Simon & Schuster UK and Penguin Random House before moving back to Manchester to join HarperNorth, where she has delivered campaigns for authors including Sunday Times top ten bestsellers Stuart Maconie, James Timpson and Sophie McCartney. She has mentored for Children’s Books North and the Northern Fiction Alliance, and is part of HarperCollins’ social mobility network. In 2024 she co-founded Love Stories Etc romance festival in Manchester, which returns this summer at Manchester Central Library and was highly commended by the Publishers Publicity Circle.