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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.




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.
In October 2012 Profile acquired Birmingham-based independent Tindal Street Press.
Since 2014 Profile has published a boutique list of 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 Anjana Ahuja, 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.
Robert Greene

The 48 Laws of Power (2000)
Mastery (2012)
The Laws of Human Nature (2018)
Timothy Brook

Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World (2009)
Richard Wrangham

Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human (2009)
The Goodness Paradox (2019)
Simon Garfield

Just My Type (2010)
Susan Hill

The Man in the Picture (2007)
The Small Hand (2010)
Howards End is on the Landing (2010)
Dolly: A Ghost Story (2012)
Printer's Devil Court (2014)
The Travelling Bag (2016)
Tracy Kidder

Mountains Beyond Mountains (2011)
Jay Bahadur

Deadly Waters (2011)
Patricia and Robert Malcolmson, Nella Last

Nella Last in the 1950s (2010)
James A Robinson, Daron Acemoğlu

Why Nations Fail (2013)
Alan Bennett

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
Simon Jenkins

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

Destiny in the Desert (2012)
David Harvey

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

Adventures in Stationery (2014)
Atul Gawande

Being Mortal
Shaun Bythell (of Wigtown bookshop)

The Diary of a Bookseller
Eugenia Cheng

How to Bake Pi
Beyond Infinity




Prizes


Anquetil, Alone by Paul Fournel was shortlisted in two categories in the Sports Book Awards 2018
Being Mortal by Atul Gawande was longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2014
Catching Fire was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize in 2010
Eats, Shoots & Leaves was Book of the Year at Specsavers National Book Awards 2004
Frugal Innovation by Navi Radjou and Jaideep Prabhu won the CMI Management Book of the Year Award 2016
Just My Type won Best British Book at the British Book Design and Production Awards 2011
Moneyland by Oliver Bullough was The Sunday Times Business Book of the Year 2018
Mountains Beyond Mountains won a BMA Medical Book Award
Nella Last in the 1950s was shortlisted for the Portico Prize in 2012
Railways was Sunday Times History Book of the Year 2015
The Small Hand won a Best Jacket / Cover Design award at the British Book Design and Production Awards 2011
Vermeer's Hat won the Mark Lynton History Prize in 2009
Why Nations Fail won the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award in 2012
Profile Books has won the "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
Profile Books on Facebook
Profile Books on Twitter
Serpent's Tail website

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Titan Publishing Group
• Beyond Infinity (buku matematika)
• Lynne Truss
• Objektivitas (ilmu)
• Wadah pemikir
• Rentang kendali
• Siklus hidup produk
• Tanda seru
• Kejatuhan Ruad
• Bob Hasan
• Profile Books
• Profile
• Commonplace book
• Korean conflict
• Offender profiling
• Mary Beard (classicist)
• Bastille Day
• Susan Hill
• Clarks (shoe retailer)
• Julia Cameron