THE BOOKSELLER ADVERTISEMENT FEATURE | 07 MACMILLAN IS CELEBRATING 175 YEARS OF PUBLISHING IN 2018 Founded in London, by brothers Daniel and Alexander Macmillan, in 1843,
Macmillan is now a global company built upon their burning belief in social progress through books. Today we remain at the heart of the conversation around reading and learning, inspired by their vision, which drives our quest to be the best.
OUR HERITAGE 1800s 1843
“I thought it worthwhile to plant a seed” - Daniel Macmillan
1858
Tobacco Parliaments brought authors and thinkers of the day together
OUR PUBLICATIONS 1800s 1855 1862
Goblin Market and Other Poems
by Christina Rossetti 1892 e Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling 1900s 1902
Far from the Madding Crowd by omas Hardy
1936
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
1955
Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
1961
e Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
1989
e Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
1996
Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding
1999 1999 e Gruffalo
by Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler
2011
Only Time Will Tell by Jeffrey Archer
2015 Lean in 15 by Joe Wicks 175
YEARS ON
12%
MARKET LEADERS 12% of the Top 100 bestsellers 2017
PUBLISHER OF THE YEAR Twice in the past three years
10% GROWTH
year-on-year over the last three years
17
AWARD-WINNING 17 prize wins & 77 shortlistings in 2017
2013 Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse by Chris Riddell
2010
e Masque of Africa by V. S. Naipaul
e World's Wife by Carol Ann Duffy
1865 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley
OUR FUTURE
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