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Book publishing companies based in London
- Pluto PressPluto Press printed theatre programmes that contained the entire playscript. It worked with the Royal Court Theatre.
- HarperCollinsHarperCollins joined a New York printer and a Glasgow printer that never met. Murdoch merged them in 1989.
- Weidenfeld & NicolsonWeidenfeld & Nicolson, known in the trade as W&N or simply Weidenfeld, is a British publisher of fiction and reference books. It was launched in 1949 at a reception held in Brown's Hotel in London. The firm has changed hands more than once…
- Faber & FaberFaber and Faber has only one Faber behind its name. Geoffrey Faber picked the doubled name when he went solo in 1929.
- Thames & HudsonThames & Hudson took its name from two rivers, one for Britain and one for North America.
- Methuen PublishingMethuen mounted no defense when its novel The Rainbow faced an obscenity prosecution. The author was D. H. Lawrence.
- Bloomsbury PublishingBloomsbury took on the first Harry Potter book after other publishers had rejected it.
- Penguin GroupPenguin Group is a British trade book publisher, and on the 1st of July 2013 its future changed with the finalising of a merger. From that day it became part of a new company called Penguin Random House. A publisher founded in 1935 had…
- Pearson EducationA talking pineapple appeared on a 2012 New York test that Pearson designed.
- Orion Publishing GroupOrion Publishing Group won 2021 British Book Awards Publisher of the Year after a 2020 sales jump.