Vicky Dawson
Vicky Dawson has worked in bookshops from the south coast of England to Moray in the North-East of Scotland. She was a store manager for both the Waterstones and Ottakar’s book chains and was a partner in two independent bookshops until 2018 when she relocated to Derbyshire. Combined with her role as Book Festival Director at Buxton International Festival, Vicky can be found working as a bookseller at Scarthin Books in Cromford. She lives in one of Richard Arkwright’s earliest weaver’s cottages in Cromford village.