Publisher of the Year
WINNER HARPERCOLLINS
HarperCollins marked its 200th anniversary in 2017, and celebrated with perhaps the most widespread and sustained success in its history. It wins this award for the first time since 2012 after a stellar year
across adult, children’s, educational, digital and audio publishing. TCM growth of 8% in a flat market was led by David Walliams, who provided two of the four biggest selling books of 2017, and six of HC's own top 10. In all, it got 68 books onto the Sunday Times bestseller lists, and notched up a trio of Costa Book Awards winners. The phenomenal success of Gail Honeyman, Joanna Cannon and Gill Sims showed it has a Midas touch with débuts. There was astute work with the wealth of brands at HC too, including
Michael Bond’s Paddington, Agatha Christie and Mills & Boon, which was reimagined and revived in 2017. Audio sales rocketed as HC adopted a policy of putting all narrative titles out in spoken word at the same time as print. Away from the trade, Collins Learning grew globally and honed its reference publishing. Behind the bestsellers was a supremely creative and collaborative
team, with particular strength in analytics, publicity and marketing— evidenced with Honeyman’s Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, which wins HC this year’s Marketing Strategy of the Year award (see p19). It has been making great strides on the critical industry issue of diversity too, increasing the BAME voices on its list and becoming the only publisher to be included in Business in the Community’s Best Employers for Race list. “HarperCollins is a 200-year-old brand, yet completely of the 21st cen-
tury,” said The British Book Awards judges. “It had an exceptional 2017 in so many ways—from big brands to new names, super-commercial to high literary, and bestsellers to prize winners. You have a clear sense of what it stands for and where it’s going . . . It’s at the very top of its game.”
SHORTLIST
BLOOMSBURY Generated a 14% hike in TCM sales, scooped the Man Booker Prize with George Saunders, and celebrated 20 years of Harry Potter publishing.
HEADLINE Revamped its brand and grew sales 15% thanks to fiction brands such as Martina Cole and Victoria Hislop, while launching new imprints Wildfire and Headline Home.
HODDER & STOUGHTON Moves into its 150th year on the back of 10 Sunday Times number ones in 2017.
LITTLE, BROWN BOOK GROUP Grew a host of established fiction brands
THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS WINNERS 2018
and looked to the future with new list Dia- logue and the integration of Bookouture.
PAN MACMILLAN Winner of this award twice in the past three years, it had another fine year, with exports and rights hitting record levels.
PENGUIN GENERAL Picked up a host of prizes including the Baileys and Rathbones Folio, with Hamish Hamilton a standout performer.
VINTAGE Strengthened crime, thriller and non-fiction and won the IMPAC and T S Eliot, while drawing on one of the richest backlists in publishing.
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KEY STRENGTHS
TCM growth of 8.1% against a wider market rise of 0.2%
Dozens of bestsellers and the year’s
biggest TCM author in David Walliams Creativity and innovation across
digital and audio as well as in print
Huge strength in depth, from big publishing brands to débuts
WITH THANKS TO: BERTRAM BOOKS
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.
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