About us

Be better with business books

Founded in 2009, Major Street Publishing is a leading independent business book publisher, based in Melbourne, Australia.

We specialise in publishing high-quality books in leadership, business, entrepreneurship, career development, personal finance, personal development, share market and property investing, self-care, personal growth and motivation genres. Our authors are world-leading experts from all areas of business, personal development and finance.
 
Major Street books are available in bookstores and online and are distributed in Australia and New Zealand by Alliance Distribution Services (Hachette Australia), in the UK by Harbour Publishing, and in the US by Trafalgar Square Publishing.

Publish with Major Street

To learn more about publishing with Major Street, download this PDF and find out how we support our authors across editorial, production, sales, distribution and marketing.

Our Team

Lesley Williams

Lesley Williams, Director and Publisher

Major Street's founder and director, Lesley has spent over 25 years in leadership roles at global corporations and privately owned companies, predominantly in business book publishing. She’s a hands-on publisher who guides authors and their books from manuscript to bookshop shelves. You’re warmly invited to join Lesley’s professional network on LinkedIn.

Eleanor Reader, Marketing and Publicity Manager

After beginning her career in journalism, perhaps it was inevitable with her surname that Eleanor would find her true calling in the world of book publishing. Eleanor brings over seven years' experience in marketing and publicity to the Major Street team, and has invaluable experience positioning, launching and promoting award-winning and bestselling titles.

 

 

Will AllenWill Allen, Editor 

Will Allen is Major Street's in-house editor, who joins us after working at Lonely Planet on their travel guides. Will is now ensconced in business books and is enjoying learning from our expert authors about careers, business, mindset, leadership and the share and property markets. 

 

 

Kerry MilinKerry Milin, Book Designer

Kerry is Major Street’s talented book designer. She creates and lays out all our internal book internals, designs our promotional and advertising material and provides invaluable input that helps to make our books world-class. She’s been on the Major Street team since day one and we love her work.