Profile Books

Profile Books
Founded 1996
Founder Andrew Franklin
Country of origin UK
Headquarters location London
Distribution The Book Service
Publication types Books
Fiction genres Nonfiction, Fiction
Imprints Serpent’s Tail, The Clerkenwell Press, Tindal Street Press
Official website www.profilebooks.com

Profile Books is a British independent book publishing firm founded in 1996. It publishes non-fiction subjects including history, biography, memoir, politics, current affairs, travel and popular science.

Profile Books is distributed in the UK by Random House and sold by Faber & Faber, and is part of the Independent Alliance.[1]

History

In 2003 the company published Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss which was the bestselling non-fiction title for 30 weeks and the Book of the Year at the British Book Awards 2004, at which the company also won the Small Publisher of the Year award.

In January 2007 Profile Books acquired Serpent's Tail, bringing together two small publishers in London. In 2008 Profile set up an ethical imprint GreenProfile under the direction of Mark Ellingham, the founder of Rough Guides.

Notable publications

Authors include Mary Beard, Alan Bennett, Susan Hill, Ian Stewart (mathematician), Jonathan Dimbleby, Sandi Toksvig, Simon Garfield, Robert Greene, Richard Mabey, Simon Jenkins, Margaret MacMillan, David Harvey and Francesca Simon.

The company publishes all of The Economist books, and Does Anything Eat Wasps? and Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze? in association with New Scientist magazine.

Lynne Truss

Timothy Brook

Richard Wrangham

Simon Garfield

Susan Hill

Tracy Kidder

Jay Bahadur

Patricia and Robert Malcolmson, Nella Last

James A Robinson, Daron Acemoğlu

Alan Bennett

Mary Beard

Simon Jenkins

Jonathan Dimbleby

David Harvey

James Ward

Prizes

References

  1. "Independent Alliance". The Bookseller. Retrieved 2014-01-15.
  2. "Just My Type at the British Book Design and Production Awards". Just My Type. Retrieved 18 December 2013.
  3. "The Small Hand at the British Book Design and Production Awards". The Small Hand. Retrieved 18 December 2013.
  4. "Nella Last in the 1950s shortlisted for Portico Prize 2012". Nella Last in the 1950s.

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