1. History

2. Notable publications

3. Prizes

4. References

5. External links

Profile Books is a British independent book publishing firm founded in 1996. It publishes non-fiction subjects including history, biography, memoir, politics, current affairs, travel and popular science.

Profile Books is distributed in the UK by Random House and sold by Faber & Faber, and is part of the Independent Alliance.^[1]

History

In 2002 the company acquired the HarperCollins UK business list. The list now includes works by Robert Greene, Ryan Holiday and Shoshana Zuboff.

In 2003 the company published Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss which was the bestselling non-fiction title for 30 weeks and the Book of the Year at the British Book Awards 2004, at which the company also won the Small Publisher of the Year award.

In January 2007 Profile Books acquired Serpent's Tail, bringing together two small publishers in London. In 2008 Profile set up an ethical imprint GreenProfile under the direction of Mark Ellingham, the founder of Rough Guides.

In 2012, Profile launched a new list with Wellcome Collection, designed to showcase writing about medicine, the body and the human condition. Authors on the list include Val McDermid, Atul Gawande and Gavin Francis.

Since 2014, Profile has published boutique list Tuskar Rock, editorially selected by Colm Tóibín and Peter Straus which includes works by László Krasznahorkai and Chris Kraus (American writer).

In 2017 the first books were published in the new Pursuit Books imprint, a list showcasing writing on cycling.

Notable publications

Authors include Mary Beard, Alan Bennett, Susan Hill, Ian Stewart (mathematician), Jonathan Dimbleby, Sandi Toksvig, Simon Garfield, Robert Greene, Richard Mabey, Simon Jenkins, Margaret MacMillan, David Harvey, Federico Varese and Francesca Simon.

The company publishes all of The Economist books{{Citation needed|date=March 2016}}.

• The 48 Laws Of Power (2000)
• Mastery (book) (2012)
• The Laws of Human Nature (2018)

• The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World (2009)

• How Cooking Made Us Human (2009)
• The Goodness Paradox (2019)

• Just My Type (2010)

• The Small Hand (2010)
• Howards End is on the Landing (2010)
• The Woman in Black (2011)
• The Man in the Picture (2012)
• Dolly (2012)
• Printer's Devil Court (2014)
• The Travelling Bag (2016)

• Mountains Beyond Mountains (2011)

• Deadly Waters (2011)

• Nella Last in the 1950s (2010)

• Why Nations Fail (2013)

• The Lady in the Van (1999)
• Four Stories (2006)
• The Uncommon Reader (2007)
• A Life Like Other People's (2009)
• Smut (2011)
• Keeping On Keeping On 2017

• The Parthenon (2009)
• Pompeii (2009)
• It's Don's Life (2009)
• The Colosseum (2011)
• All in a Don's Day (2012)
• Confronting the Classics (2013)
• A History of Ancient Rome (2015)
• Women and Power 2017

• A Short History of England (2011)
• England's 100 Best Views (2013)

• Destiny in the Desert]] (2012)

• The Enigma of Capital and the Crises of Capitalism (2011)
• Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism (2014)

• Adventures in Stationery (2014)

• Being Mortal

• The Diary of a Bookseller

• How to Bake Pi
• Beyond Infinity

Prizes

• Eats, Shoots & Leaves was Book of the Year at Specsavers National Book Awards 2004
• Vermeer's Hat won the Mark Lynton History Prize in 2009
• Catching Fire was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize in 2010
• Just My Type won Best British Book at the British Book Design and Production Awards 2011^[2]
• The Small Hand won a Best Jacket / Cover Design award at the British Book Design and Production Awards 2011^[3]
• Mountains Beyond Mountains won a BMA Medical Book Award
• Nella Last in the 1950s was shortlisted for the Portico Prize in 2012^[4]
• Why Nations Fail won the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award in 2012
• Being Mortal by Atul Gawande was longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2014^[5]
• Railways was Sunday Times History Book of the Year 2015
• Frugal Innovation by Navi Radjou and Jaideep Prabhu won the CMI Management Book of the Year Award 2016^[6]
• Anquetil, Alone by Paul Fournel was shortlisted in two categories in the Sports Book Awards 2018^[7]
• Moneyland by Oliver Bullough was The Sunday Times Business Book of the Year 2018^[8]
• Women & Power by Mary Beard was shortlisted for the Specsavers National Book Awards 2018^[9]

Profile Books has won Independent Publisher of the Year awards three times. In 2017 The Essex Serpent (published in the Serpent's Tail imprint) was named the Fiction Book of the Year, the Book of the Year and won Publicity Campaign of the Year Award at the British Book Awards.

References

External links

• {{Official website|https://profilebooks.com/}}
• [https://twitter.com/ProfileBooks Profile Books on Twitter]
• [https://www.facebook.com/profilebooks Profile Books on Facebook]
• [https://serpentstail.com/ Serpent's Tail website]

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