PUBLISHER OF THE YEAR SPONSORED BY: BERTRAM BOOKS THE SHORTLIST
HARPERCOLLINS Again led by David Walliams, it had many big fiction brands. It was a fine year for its Borough Press list too.
LITTLE, BROWN BOOK GROUP In J K Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Cursed Child it had 2016’s biggest book of all, and much more besides.
MICHAEL JOSEPH The force behind Penguin Random House’s year, thanks to its Ladybird Books for Grown-Ups series.
PENGUIN GENERAL TCM sales jumped by double digits, and Penguin Life started with a bang with Ruby Wax.
QUERCUS Bruno Vincent’s Famous Five parodies were the icing on the cake in a year that brought several big fiction hits and new imprint riverrun.
WINNER: PAN MACMILLAN
Pan Macmillan is Publisher of the Year for the second time in three years—and, as in 2015, it is honoured for remarkable strength across the board rather than for a handful of blockbuster books. Its TCM sales jumped around 30% last year, to the
point where it might now be considered alongside Penguin Random House, Hachette and HarperCollins as part of a Big Four in UK trade publishing. A large chunk of this increase is down to the Joe Wicks phenomenon, which has given the publisher its biggest sellers in years. Having Julia Donaldson on the list helped too. But Pan Mac had so much more besides in 2016. Fiction hits spanned the commercial, such as Jeffrey Archer, to the literary, such as Jessie Burton. From
KEY STRENGTHS
◆ TCM GROWTH THAT OUTSTRIPPED THE MARKET AVERAGE FOUR-FOLD ◆ TWO OF THE THREE HIGHEST-GROSSING AUTHORS OF 2016 IN JOE WICKS AND JULIA DONALDSON ◆ STRENGTH IN DEPTH ACROSS FICTION, NON-FICTION, CHILDREN’S, BACKLIST AND RIGHTS ◆ OUTSTANDING SUPPORT OF RETAILERS AND DIVERSITY IN PUBLISHING
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celebrities including Scarlett Moffatt to serious titles such as Cathy Rentzenbrink’s The Last Act of Love, it covered all bases in non-fiction. And in children’s it had the Costa Book of the Year in Frances Hardinge’s The Lie Tree, plus a new Two Hoots imprint. International and digital sales, and engagement with staff, authors and retailers, were all impressive. Through a £50,000 donation to the Creative Access programme it has done plenty for greater diversity in publishing too. “Pan Macmillan was incredibly strong in nearly every
area it published into in 2016,” judges said. “There’s a palpable sense of enthusiasm and energy about it . . . this is a company that just keeps building and building and building.”
Bertram Books is a specialist in trade wholesale supply, working with booksellers of all kinds throughout the world to ensure their customers receive their books as required.
THE QUARTO GROUP Pulled together no fewer than 45 imprints into a cohesive whole, with rights and children’s both strong in its 40th anniversary year.
TRANSWORLD
Paula Hawkins and Lee Child were among the big fiction stars, but it broke new talent like The Unmumsy Mum too.
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