FINLAY CHARLESWORTH

Email: finlay@blakefriedmann.co.uk

Finlay Charlesworth is the assistant to Juliet Pickering and Isobel Dixon. He joined Blake Friedmann in 2022, initially as the agency assistant across all areas of the company.

Finlay recently completed an MA in Publishing from University College London. His dissertation, entitled “From Commerce to the Canon: The Long-Term Impact of the Authorial Illustrator on the Publishing Industry”, explored illustrators’ ownership and responsibility over books, and their wider impact on publishing, using Quentin Blake and Art Spiegelman as case studies. He previously also attained a BA in English Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Leeds.