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Bloomsbury Publishing is a leading independent publishing house with authors who have won the Nobel, Pulitzer and Booker Prizes, and is the originating publisher and custodian of the Harry Potter series. Founded in London in 1986, we now have offices in London, New York, Santa Barbara, New Delhi, Oxford and Sydney. Bloomsbury is the only publishing company to combine general fiction and non-fiction publishing with academic, professional and educational publishing. We bring together the best talent by combining our passionate colleagues and bestselling authors. Through our commitment to quality, growth, digital publishing and international strategy, we’ve become one of the world’s leading independent publishers. Our purpose is to inform, educate, entertain and inspire readers of all ages, championing a life-long love of reading and learning. We aim to help build a reading culture that benefits wider society. Bloomsbury’s success is due to the belief, commitment and hard work of our talented colleagues. We have a positive and vibrant culture where everyone has a sense of belonging and understands their value. Colleagues are supported to reach their highest potential, with wellbeing at the forefront of everything we do. Initiatives including cost of living support, family policies and healthcare enable colleagues to perform at their best at work. We have a particular focus on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, as well as community outreach and sustainability. Find out more about us at www.bloomsbury.com

Palgrave Macmillan is a global academic and business publisher for the Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS). Part of the newly formed Springer Nature, our goal is to support the community we serve through innovation; from our authors, to customers and business partners. We work at all lengths and across all business models. From journals, mid-length research and monographs to world-class reference and general non-fiction, Palgrave Macmillan offers readers and authors a single source for the very best in professional learning and scholarship, reaching the maximum readership with works of the highest quality. Palgrave Macmillan employs over 300 people, with over 200 of these employed in the UK. We operate in 19 countries across the world. Our sister company, Palgrave Macmillan Higher Education, provides the best in education, learning and career resources for under and post-graduate students, researchers and lecturers.

Faber is one of the world’s great independent publishing houses. Since we were founded in 1929, poetry has been at the heart of our publishing, with T. S. Eliot as our first Poetry Editor. In every generation, Faber has sought to find the very best writers and we are proud to publish the foremost voices in fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, film and children’s books. Thirteen Nobel Laureates and six Booker Prize-winners have been published by Faber, with awards most recently for Kazuo Ishiguro and Anna Burns.