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OUR TEAM
Miranda
Miranda is the owner of Chener Books, and generally works in the shop during
the week. After studying Fine Art in the nineties, she worked in various
London bookshops, including a stint at Chener from 2002-2004. She then
spent a few years working in arts admin, before beginning an MA in Creative
Writing at Royal Holloway in 2016. At around this time, she popped into
Chener to say hello to John and came out with a part-time job – the rest
is history. Miranda is a poet and is obsessed with the shop’s ever-growing
poetry section.
Her current favourites are What I Loved by Siri Hustvedt; Hotel du Lac by Anita
Brookner; What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond
Carver; Drive Your Plough Over The Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarzuk;
and What the Living Do by Marie Howe.
Dorothy
Dorothy works Saturdays at the shop, and helps run the ever burgeoning monthly book club. Born and raised in South East London, she studied at Goldsmiths and has degrees in literature, history and art. When not reading or doing all things book related, she can be found playing her guitar, doing music or volunteering at her local community library.
Her current favourite reads are all things Dostoyevsky (Dorothy has read everything written by him that she can afford), Russian Literature, On the Calculation of Volume series, and Jente Posthuma's What I'd rather not think about.
Susan
Susan is the Sunday girl. She hails from NYC but has lived in East Dulwich for sixteen years. With a degree from Hampshire College, she's done every job an artist might do on the side including stints as a diamond expert and pastry chef. When she’s not in the bookshop, she does freelance comms for charities.
Her current picks are Milkman by Anna Burns; The Kukotsky Enigma by
Lyudmila Ulitskayap; A Social Theory of Knowledge by David Bloor; The
Second Coming by Franco Bifo Berardi; and The Great Man by Kate
Christensen.
Joe
Joe is our youngest bookseller and was born and raised in gorgeous Liverpool. He moved to London at eighteen to study, and has been here since. Joe is a Novelist, his debut In Out is set for publication in October 2026. He's a fan of all things Deborah Levy and hummus.
His current favourite reads include Mother Mary Comes to Me by Arundhati Roy, Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion, The Cost of Living by Deborah Levy and NW by Zadie Smith.