Parent company | Random House |
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Founded | 1950 |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Headquarters location | Ealing, London, England |
Distribution | The Book Service |
Publication types | Books |
Imprints | Bantam, Black Swan, Corgi, Doubleday |
Owner(s) | Bertelsmann |
Official website | www |
Transworld Publishers Inc. is a British publishing division of Random House and belongs to Bertelsmann, one of the world's largest media groups. It was established in 1950, and for many years it was the British division of Bantam Books. It publishes fiction and non fiction titles by various best-selling authors including Val Wood under several different imprints. Hardbacks are either published under the Doubleday or the Bantam Press imprint, whereas paperbacks are published under the Black Swan, Bantam or Corgi imprint.
Transworld sponsors the Terry Pratchett First Novel Award for unpublished science-fiction novels.