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TRADE AWARDS Publisher of the Year
Hachette’s Little, Brown Book Group has been a model of publishing consistency in recent times. It has been shortlisted in nine of the 12 years since it last won this award, and it is once again Publisher of the Year after a stellar 2025. Under CEO Charlie King it turned in a fourth record year in a row. The numbers speak
for themselves: TCM sales were up by 11% to £61.6m, with e-book and audio rising by double digits too, and 41 different titles reaching the Sunday Times bestseller lists. Fiction dominated, with Rebecca Yarros providing three of the year’s top 20 books and Freida McFadden’s The Housemaid ranking third overall. SFF list Orbit delivered 11 of the Sunday Times hits. There was also a hatful of literary awards, led by the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction winner
Rachel Clarke’s The Story of a Heart. Other high performers on the non-fiction side included Ozzy Osbourne’s Last Rites and Julia Bradbury’s Hack Yourself Healthy. Beyond the commercial results, judges admired the growing diversity of Little, Brown’s list, a
sound approach to AI, the support for charities and communities, and the care of both staff and authors. “Little, Brown is firing on all cylinders… it's hard to fault them,” said the judges. “They had an exceptional year on both the top and bottom lines. They’ve grown despite the odds, served major, market-defining authors, and delivered both commercial and prize success.”
This shortlist includes the winner of Independent Publisher of the Year. 59
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