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Founded in 2001 by former journalists Rebecca Nicolson and Aurea Carpenter, Short Books has established itself as a publisher of first-class, entertaining non-fiction. Notable successes have included bestselling Amo, amas, amat… And all that by Harry Mount, How to be a bad Birdwatcher by Simon Barnes, The Good Granny Guide by Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall and The Social Animal, by David Brooks.
We are a small company, and pride ourselves on being light on our feet – and thereby making a success of potentially high-risk or less obvious titles that the larger houses would turn down without a second look. Take, for example, the ground-breaking eco-/social regeneration book, Change the World for a Fiver, which has now sold hundreds of thousands of copies round the world.
In 2008, Short Books launched its fiction list, which is growing year on year. Spring 2012 will see more exciting debut novels from new talent – viz Sofka Zinovieff, highly acclaimed for her biography of her grandmother, The Red Princess, whose sweeping epic about postwar Greece, The House on Paradise Street, has already been selected for reading on BBC Radio 4. Look out, too, for The White Lie, a wonderfully eerie, moving debut novel set on a crumbling Highland estate, by Andrea Gillies (whose brilliant non-fiction book on Alzheimers, Keeper, won both the Wellcome Trust Book Award and the Orwell prize).
Contact:
Short Books
3A Exmouth House,
Pine St,
London,
EC1R OJH
Tel: +44 (0)207 8339429
All general enquiries please contact:
info@shortbooks.co.uk
@shortbooksuk
Submissions Policy:
Please do not send hard copy submissions. We recommend that you send submissions via a literary agent.
Careers:
There are no job vacancies at the moment.
If you are a freelance designer/illustrator/editor and would like to send a sample of your work, please email info@shortbooks.co.uk
