Oneworld Publications
| Founded | 1986 |
|---|---|
| Founder | Novin Doostdar and Juliet Mabey |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Headquarters location | London |
| Publication types | Books |
| Number of employees | 16 |
| Official website |
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Oneworld Publications is a British independent publishing firm founded in 1986 by Novin Doostdar and Juliet Mabey originally to publish non-fiction for general and academic markets.[1] Based in London, it later added both a fiction list and a children's list, and now publishes across a wide range of subjects, including history, politics, current affairs, popular science, religion, philosophy, and psychology, as well as literary fiction, upmarket crime fiction and children's titles. Among the writers on its list are Marlon James (novelist), Richard Adams, Sean M. Carroll, David McRaney, Jared Diamond, Ivor Crewe, Anthony King, Ilan Pappe, Mary Roach, Adam Frank, Peter Cave, Jean Sasson, William Poundstone, John Hick, Hans Küng, Helen Fisher, Vali Nasr, Richard Foltz, Kevin Bales, Bill McKibben, Keith Ward, Farid Esack, Amina Wadud, John Gribbin, Lise Eliot, Daniel Siegel, Susan Blackmore, Barbara Fredrickson, Chris Geiger, Atticus Lish, Peter Matthiessen, Amit Chaudhuri, Kamel Daoud, Caryl Phillips, Ros Barber, Jane Urquhart, Sun-mi Hwang, Margaret Mazzantini, Amit Majmudar, Yvvette Edwards, Joseph Boyden, and Deborah Kay Davies.[2][3]
In 2009 the company launched a fiction list to focus on publishing inspiring, intelligent and thought-provoking novels from around the world. It has received a string of prizes and award nominations, among them winning the prestigious Man Booker Prize for "A Brief History of Seven Killings" by Marlon James in 2015 as well as a longlisting for A Cupboard Full of Coats by Yvvette Edwards, a debut British novelist, in 2011, and in 2014 a long-listing for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction for Reasons She Goes to the Woods by Deborah Kay Davies, which was also shortlisted for the Encore Award in 2015. Also in 2015, Diane Cook's "Man V. Nature" was longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, "Ishmael’s Oranges" by Claire Hajaj was shortlisted for the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award, and "The Meursault Investigation" - a multi-award winner in France - was longlisted for the FT Emerging Voices Award.
On the non-fiction side, Oneworld titles have received numerous prestigious prizes and nominations. "The Particle at the End of the Universe" by Sean Carroll won the prestigious Royal Society Winton Prize in 2013, for which Mary Roach's "Gulp" was also shortlisted the following year; Greg Grandin's "The Empire of Necessity" was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, while Serhii Plokhy's "The Last Empire" won the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize for 2015, and the same year saw a double shortlisting for the McKinsey Business Book of the Year for "The Rise of the Robots" by Martin Ford and "Unfinished Business" by Anne-Marie Slaughter.
In 2015 Oneworld launched Rock the Boat, a children's fiction and non-fiction list for children and young adults 0-19, and 2016 will see the launch of Oneworld's literary crime list, Point Blank.
Now publishing around 100 titles a year, Oneworld books are distributed worldwide by Random House (GBS) in the UK, by Publishers Group West in the United States, by Bloomsbury Publishing in Australia, by Pan Macmillan in Europe, India and the Middle East, by Penguin Group in the Far East, by Jonathan Ball in South Africa, and by a variety of regional distributors in Latin America and other territories. In 2012, Oneworld bought its first permanent office in London, at 10 Bloomsbury Street, Bloomsbury.
Notes
- ↑ Oneworld Publications "About Us"
- ↑ Oneworld Publications catalogues
- ↑ Book review by Janina Safran. International Journal of Middle East Studies, vol. 39, # 2, May 2007. Pgs. 304-305. Cambridge University Press.
External links
- Company Website
- Oneworld Publisher of the Week at Book Depository
- Oneworld, One Household: Publishing Perspectives Feature on Oneworld
- Booker Longlist Focus on Oneworld