Ray McLennan - Owner and Managing Director

Karen Runnacles - Office General Manager

Karen joined the company in 2019, adding much needed experience in business management.

She deals with all order for Amazon Worldwide and the major UK wholesalers, overseeing the packing and despatch.

As the office General Manager Karen works closely with Ray and Barbara to get stock in and orders out as quickly as possible, in a customer friendly way.

Vishva Maurier – New Title Promotion, Metadata Development & BookSonix quality control

Vishva lists every title from the 700 Indian publishers we represent, with the world's book trade. These records are available to the worlds’ bookshops, Academic libraries, public and government libraries, websites, and accessed by all search engines. The key data is needed for any book to have sale success. Other information would be helpful to make it sell better, but at least 20 details are vital for sales success.

“We use publishers catalogues, advance information sheets, websites, and excel spreadsheet lists to collate all the information needed for each title,” explains Vishva. The better the quality of the listing, the more professional is the impression of the title and the publisher. This information, particularly the description, is vital to each book being found by persons using the search engines to find each book. My job is to make each book easy to find, and easy to order.

Vishva lived in India for 25 years and speaks Hindi as well as French and English.

Conact Vishva: 01727 761677 or [email protected]

Barbara is the first point of contact for all orders, quotation requests, availability requests, and communicating all that with our Office in Delhi. Barbara picks up orders all day, from e-mail, post, telephone, EDI, and the sophisticated tele-ordering link we have with most of the bookshops and libraries in the UK.

Each day we pick from our stock whatever we hold, and then place an order with our Delhi office for everything else. We find that around 20-30% of orders can be supplied from the 9000 titles we keep in stock.

We track each order until it arrives and is despatched, or we have to report the 1% as out of print permanently or temporarily. With at least 100,000 books sold each year, there is a lot of co-ordination needed, and particularly with our biggest growth areas, such as E-Commerce and international academic book supplies. Many times each day, we send orders to Delhi and we send our latest stock records to trade buyers who order daily from it.

Barbara was born and raised in North London and is Ray’s partner of over 20 years.

Contact Barbara: 01727 761 677 or [email protected]

Natasha Disyak

Natasha works 3 days a week, the financial recording of the company’s activities are Natasha’s responsibility, and overseeing the settlement of all our accounts on time. Ray and Natasha follow the company’s accounts closely on a regular basis each month, including all international payments and receipts.

For any financial matters please initially contact Natasha.

Natasha is fluent in English, Ukrainian, and Russian and of course the all important Sage!

Contact Natasha: 01727 761677 or [email protected]

Joanne Kite

Joanne started with Motilal books in 2019 taking on the task of delivering into stock every arriving shipment, usually twice a week from somewhere in South Asia.

"80% of all shipments in are already sold, and the balances are stock for online retailing from our website and the many others we sell to internationally"

A big part of Joanne’s day involves picking the titles ordered from the stock, and passing them onto Karen for despatching to customers around the UK, Europe and Worldwide.