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Country of origin
  
UK

Distribution
  
The Book Service

Fiction genres
  
Nonfiction, Fiction

Founded
  
1996

Headquarters location
  
London

Publication types
  
Books

Founder
  
Andrew Franklin

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Imprints
  
Serpent’s Tail, The Clerkenwell Press, Tindal Street Press

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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.

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

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History

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.

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 and Francesca Simon.

The company publishes all of The Economist books, and Does Anything Eat Wasps? and Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze? in association with New Scientist magazine.

Lynne Truss

  • Eats, Shoots & Leaves (2003).

    • 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)

    • Simon Garfield

  • Just My Type (2010)

    • Susan Hill

  • The Small Hand (2010)
  • Howards End is on the Landing (2010)
  • The Woman in Black (2011)
  • The Man in the Picture (2012)
  • Dolly (2012)

    • 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)

    • Mary Beard

  • 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)
  • SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (2015)

    • 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)

    • 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
  • The Small Hand won a Best Jacket / Cover Design award at the British Book Design and Production Awards 2011
  • Mountains Beyond Mountains won a BMA Medical Book Award
  • Nella Last in the 1950s was shortlisted for the Portico Prize in 2012
  • Why Nations Fail won the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award in 2012

    • References

    Profile Books Wikipedia
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