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As an agent she worked for 7 years with Paul Marsh helping to set up the English side of the Agency, where her authors included the novelist Liam Browne, literary programmer of the Enniskllen Beckett Festival, the travel writer Alistair Carr, teacher Phil Beadle and the Irish journalist Billy Keane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"class_list":["post-927834","agent","type-agent","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nGeraldine Cooke, Literary Agent \u2013 All You Need To Know | Jericho Writers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/our-services\/agentmatch\/literary-agent\/geraldine-cooke\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Geraldine Cooke – Jericho Writers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Geraldine Cooke was Executive Editor at Penguin publishing across a wide section of the Penguin list both Fiction and Non-Fiction titles. 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