Marshall Cavendish Author Profile

Name: Sally Bibb

Birthplace: Lincolnshire

First job: Crewing cableships for BT Marine

Current job: Running my own consultancy business

Home: Lovely flat in a Victorian building in the woods
in deepest Hampshire – my retreat!

Car: Mercedes SLK

Favourite book: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
– Love in the time of cholera

Favourite film: Lives of Others

Favourite music: All sorts of world music
and Leonard Cohen

Favourite gadget: My MacBook

Favourite website: It changes so frequently!

Best holiday: Best one this year – Provence in the Spring-time

Career highlight: Tough one – a toss up between working in New York
for The Economist during the dotcom boom and taking the plunge to set up
my own business in 2007

Career lowlight: Years ago I hired a bad un who did a runner with thousands of £s

Normal working day: There is no normal working day

Downtime: Argentine tango dancing, chilling in cafes with friends and total relaxation
in the Greek islands

Best piece of advice: Not really advice but … ‘People or things that do not bring you
alive are too small for you’ (from a poem by David Whyte)

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