Mulholland Books (UK)

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Mulholland Books
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Parent company Hodder & Stoughton
StatusActive
Founded2011
Country of origin United Kingdom
Headquarters location London, England
Fiction genres Suspense fiction
Official website http://www.mulhollandbooks.co.uk

Mulholland Books (UK) is an imprint of Hodder & Stoughton, a British publishing house, now a division of Hachette UK. It specialises in the suspense fiction genre including crime novels, thrillers, police procedurals, spy stories and supernatural suspense [1]

Hodder & Stoughton British publisher

Hodder & Stoughton is a British publishing house, now an imprint of Hachette.

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History

Mulholland Books at Hodder & Stoughton is the sister of the Mulholland Books (US) imprint at Little, Brown US. Both imprints launched spring 2011.

Mulholland Books

Mulholland Books (US) is an imprint of Little, Brown and Company, a division of the Hachette Book Group. It specializes in publishing mysteries, thrillers, and suspense novels.

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The imprint is named after Mulholland Drive - a winding stretch of road that follows the ridgeline of the Hollywood Hills. The mysteries of Mulholland have inspired countless novels, films and works of art, from the classic mysteries of Raymond Chandler and James M. Cain to the voices of James Ellroy, Michael Connelly, Michael Mann, David Lynch and David Hockney.

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Building on that history, Mulholland Books aims to publish the best suspense fiction. Authors currently include Sabine Durrant, David Mark, Vaseem Khan, Warren Ellis, Sarah Alderson, Cristina Alger and Joe R. Lansdale. Mulholland have also published 35 of Leslie Charteris’s solo Saint novels. [2]

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Vaseem Khan British writer

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References

  1. Gallagher, Victoria. "Hodder launches Mulholland Books". The Bookseller. Retrieved 7 September 2012.
  2. "The Saint Returns". Mulholland Books Website. Retrieved 7 September 2012.