Oneworld Publications is a British independent publishing firm founded in 1986 by Novin Doostdar and Juliet Mabey originally to publish accessible non-fiction by experts and academics for the general market.[3] Based in London, it later added a literary fiction list (in 2009) and both a children's list (Rock the Boat, 2015) and an upmarket crime list (Point Blank, 2016), and now publishes across a wide range of subjects, including history, politics, current affairs, popular science, religion, philosophy, and psychology, as well as literary fiction, crime fiction and suspense, and children's titles.
Oneworld Publications was founded in 1986 by Novin Doostdar and Juliet Mabey, who had met as students in the 1970s and subsequently married;[2][4] the company's name reflects their international approach to publishing with global values, initially producing non-fiction "with a focus on bold, intelligent non-fiction across the humanities".[5][6]
Originally set up in Oxford,[19] Oneworld bought its first permanent office in Bloomsbury, London, in 2012.
As of 2023, Oneworld publishes more than 100 titles a year,[3] which are distributed worldwide by Random House (GBS) in the UK, by Simon & Schuster in the United States, by Bloomsbury Publishing in Australia, by Faber in Europe and the Middle East, by HarperCollins in India, by Jonathan Ball in South Africa, and by a variety of regional distributors in Latin America and other territories.[1]
Imprints
In 2015, Oneworld launched "Rock the Boat", a list of fiction and non-fiction for children and young adults 0–19,[20][21] and in 2016 launched a literary crime list, "Point Blank".[22][23] In 2017, Oneworld set up Oneworld Academic. In 2021, Oneworld launched an upmarket bookclub fiction list, "Magpie".
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