Profile Books
| Founded | 1996 |
|---|---|
| Founder | Andrew Franklin |
| Country of origin | UK |
| Headquarters location | London |
| Distribution | The Book Service |
| Publication types | Books |
| Fiction genres | Nonfiction, Fiction |
| Imprints | Serpent’s Tail, The Clerkenwell Press, Tindal Street Press |
| Official website | www |
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.
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.
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.
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