ABOUT US
Based in London, the SJH Group is a leader in developing bespoke publications and campaigns for a global audience. Comprising three imprints – St James’s House, Artifice Press and Black Dog Press – we apply a long-term vision to the brands and partners we work with; one that takes what makes them special and helps them cultivate their own individual narrative of creativity and excellence.
Founded over 20 years ago, we have been commissioned by royalty, government, luxury brands, award-winning architects and celebrated artists. We have earned a reputation for producing exquisite books, presenting the worlds of heritage and culture through a luxury lens. For us, books are works of art, but works that are an accessible luxury for all.
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Directors
Her Majesty’s 90th birthday commemorative album The Queen at 90. A wonderfully written and beautifully designed book that I had the honour of delivering to Her Majesty in person during the celebrations.
Richard Freed
Founder
I’ve read too many to have a “favourite” but let’s say The Cat in the Hat by Dr Seuss, because no other book of the mid-20th century avoided life’s big questions quite like it.
Stephen van der Merwe
CEO
Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts. Exciting, exotic, moving, thrilling and profound – it takes you on a journey through an underworld wrought with danger, discovery, pain and love.
Craig Vye
COO
That’s a hard question, but I’d have to say A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara. It’s utterly heartbreaking, but I loved the characters – they became part of my life and when it ended I felt the loss of them keenly.
Anna Danby
Publishing Director
It is so hard to commit to a favourite book, but I hugely enjoyed Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet. Full of such imagination and emotion – it left me in awe of her writing.
Emma Hopkin
Managing Director
Pimp: The Story of My Life – the tale of one man’s lonely path to the top in 1970s New York. It’s about how to communicate in extreme circumstances, when to use the carrot and when to use the stick, and the importance of perseverance. Oh, and I loved his clothes!
Richard Golbourne
Chief Business Director
That’s a very difficult question that I’ll never be able to answer! But if I had to pick one, I’d go with Atonement by Ian McEwan. It has a special place in my heart.
Ludovica Bellomaria
Operations Director
Stoner by John Williams and A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole. Both are about looser dudes. Not sure what that says about me.
Anton Jacques
Art Director
My younger self would never forgive me for not saying Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut for having opened my eyes to the fact that there’s more than one way to tell a story.
Stephen Mitchell
Editor-in-Chief
Bonjour Tristesse by Françoise Sagan is a book that always delights me. Funny, cruel, witty, unconventional and terribly French. The author was an independent thinker and did what she wanted. Her novel was an instant scandalous success.
Claire Godeaux
Head of Marketing