Faith Evans set up her own small literary agency in 1987 after spending twenty years as a publisher (Weidenfeld, Deutsch, Cape) and five as a freelancer – reviewing, editing and translating fiction from French. She reviewed regularly for The Observer, edited Rebecca West’s autobiography after West’s death, and translated the letters of the daughters of Karl Marx. She now has a client list of about twenty-five, in which the balance is 50/50 fiction and non-fiction. She is a founder member of Women in Publishing; she is on the committee of Shakespeare’s Globe productions and the committee for the restoration of the Alexandra Palace Theatre.