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Parent company
  
Hodder & Stoughton

Fiction genres
  
Literary fiction

Parent organization
  
Hodder & Stoughton

Founded
  
1986

Fiction genre
  
Literary fiction

Nonfiction topics
  
Various

Official website
  
Sceptre Books

Headquarters location
  
Country of origin
  
United Kingdom

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Sceptre is an imprint of Hodder & Stoughton, a British publishing house which is a division of Hachette UK.

Founded in 1986 as the literary imprint of Hodder & Stoughton, Sceptre’s remit is to publish original fiction and non-fiction that aims not just to entertain and absorb but also to stretch the mind: to be thought-provoking, stimulating, surprising and enlightening.

Notable publications

  • David Mitchell
  • - Cloud Atlas (2004) - winner of the British Book Awards Literary Fiction Award, Richard & Judy Book of the Year Award, shortlisted for the 2004 Booker Prize, Nebula Award, and Arthur C. Clarke Award. Adapted into a film (2012) of the same name, starring Tom Hanks and Halle Berry.- The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (2010) - winner of the 2011 Commonwealth Writers' Prize regional prize, long-listed for the Booker Prize, shortlisted for the 2011 Walter Scott Prize.
  • Thomas Keneally
  • - Schindler's Ark (1982) - winner of the Man Booker Prize, adapted into the film Schindler's List, directed by Steven Spielberg- The Widow and Her Hero (2007) - shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award and for the Prime Minister's Literary Award- The Daughters of Mars (2012)
  • Andrew Miller
  • - Ingenious Pain (1997)- Oxygen (2001) - shortlisted for the Booker Prize and for the Whitbread Novel Award- Pure (2011) - winner of the Costa Prize
  • Chris Cleave
  • - The Other Hand (2008) - shortlisted for the 2008 Costa Book Award- Gold (2012)
  • Jenn Ashworth
  • Siri Hustvedt
  • Ned Beauman
  • - Boxer, Beetle (2010) - shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award 2010

    References

    Sceptre (imprint) Wikipedia


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