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INDEPENDENT PUBLISHER OF THE YEAR ONEWORLD


THE SHORTLIST Boldwood Books Canongate Faber


The Folio Society


Hardie Grant Publishing


Harriman House Joffe Books Nosy Crow


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rom an exceptionally strong shortlist, Oneworld wins the title of Independent Publisher of the Year for a second time. Its first trophy came in 2016, the year it won


the second of two consecutive Booker Prizes. That kind of recognition can unbalance a small publisher, but after several years of consolida- tion Oneworld moved up a gear in 2022, with zeitgeist-capturing literary publishing and best-ever sales and profits. It was reward for bold new commissioning


PICTURED  JULIET MABEY AND NOVIN DOOSTDAR


and loyalty to long-term authors, and a deci- sion to publish fewer books better. Non-fiction standouts included William MacAskill’s What We Owe the Future and Peter App’s Show Me the Bodies, urgent books that won the Blackwell’s Non-Fiction Book of the Year and Orwell Prize respectively. Tess Gunty’s The Rabbit Hutch added the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize, and with the launch of Magpie, a new imprint for


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titles with book-club appeal, Oneworld showed its ambition to make books like this commercial as well as critical hits. The most impressive growth came from


children’s and Young Adult list Rock the Boat, a contender for Imprint of the Year thanks to Kathleen Glasgow’s Girl in Pieces, which sold a quarter of a million copies in 2022. Marketing was outstanding on both the kids’ and adult sides, especially via TikTok and other social media. The British Book Awards judges hailed the


passion and diversity of the publishing and the willingness to take a risk on books that other publishers would swerve. “Oneworld’s eye for publishing underrepresented authors for under- represented readers makes for an impressive list, published with bravura. It is publishing with a proper independent spirit and breaking out commercially… it is having a real moment.”


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