Our mission is to ignite a universal passion for reading by creating books for everyone. We believe that books, and the stories and ideas they hold, have the unique capacity to connect us, change us, and carry us toward a better future for generations to come.
Penguin Random House, the world’s largest trade book publisher, employs more than 11,000 people globally. With more than 300 imprints and brands on six continents, Penguin Random House comprises adult and children’s fiction and nonfiction print and digital English- German- and Spanish-language trade book publishing businesses in more than 20 countries worldwide.
With over 16,000 new titles, and more than 700 million print, audio and eBooks sold annually, Penguin Random House’s publishing lists include more than 80 Nobel Prize laureates and hundreds of the world’s most widely read authors.
Penguin Random House was formed on July 1, 2013, upon the completion of an agreement between Bertelsmann and Pearson to merge their respective trade publishing companies. As of April 1, 2020, Bertelsmann is full owner of the company.
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HarperCollins Publishers is the second-largest consumer book publisher in the world.
Headquartered in New York, HarperCollins has publishing operations in 15 countries. With two hundred years of history and more than 120 branded imprints around the world, HarperCollins publishes approximately 10,000 new books every year in 16 languages, and has a print and digital catalog of more than 250,000 titles. Writing across dozens of genres, HarperCollins authors include winners of the Nobel Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Newbery and Caldecott Medals, and the Man Booker Prize. HarperCollins is a subsidiary of News Corp.
The house of Mark Twain, the Brontë sisters, Thackeray, Dickens, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Maurice Sendak, Shel Silverstein, and Margaret Wise Brown, HarperCollins has a long and rich history that reaches back to the early nineteenth century and offers our publishing team a depth of experience that few others can rival—from the modest print shop that James and John Harper opened in 1817 to the global house we are today.
At Pan Macmillan we publish a broad and vibrant range of books for audiences of all ages from dazzling bestsellers to influential prize-winners; books to inspire lifelong readers and listeners to enduring classics for generations to come. The fourth largest UK publisher, we pride ourselves on publishing successfully and sustainably and are committed to working together to positively impact culture and society at large.
Our brilliant authors and illustrators include: Dapo Adeola, Tomi Adeyemi, Kate and Kay Allinson, Pam Ayres, David Baldacci, Floella Benjamin, Nancy Birtwhistle, Olivie Blake, Rod Campbell, Cassandra Clare, Ann Cleeves, Hernan Diaz, Emma Donoghue, Carol Ann Duffy, Julia Donaldson, Allie Esiri, Andy Griffiths, Kristin Hannah, France Hardinge, Robert Hardman, Natalie Haynes, Lenny Henry, Alan Hollinghurst, Morgan Housel, Peter James, Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Vex King, Casey McQuiston, Lydia Monks, Kate Morton, Kate Mosse, David Olusoga, John Patrick Green, Alexandra Potter, Patrick Radden Keefe, TJ Klune, Marcus Rashford, Camilla Reid, Chris Riddell, Lucinda Riley, CJ Sansom, Axel Scheffler, Danielle Steel, Douglas Stuart, Karen Swan, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Colm Tóibín, Louis Theroux, Leah Williamson and Hanya Yanighara.
Macmillan was founded in 1843 by Daniel and Alexander Macmillan, two brothers from a crofting family on the Scottish Isle of Arran: Daniel was the business brain, while Alexander laid the literary foundations, publishing great authors and poets including Lewis Carroll, Christina Rosetti and Thomas Hardy. Pan was founded 100 years later by Alan Bott and became one of the first popular paperback publishers in the UK. Pan published many famous authors for the first time in paperback, including Ian Fleming and Agatha Christie. In 1987, Pan became wholly owned by Macmillan and the company became known as Pan Macmillan.