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Independent publisher of inventive books, fearless writing and powerful voices. Our authors include Mary Beard, Shoshana Zuboff and Francis Fukuyama.
England's World Cup dreams may be over, but you can continue the #WorldCupFever with @simonkuper.bsky.social's definitive story of football's greatest drama ⚽🏆 Discover more: profilebooks.com/work/world-cup-fever/
'An impassioned cry against indifference' – New York Times Discover a timeless and profound portrayal of life in a city under siege, published in the UK for the first time. #BeirutFragments by Jean Said Makdisi is out now: tinyurl.com/BeirutFragments
Cash from anonymous donors. Cronyism in government contracts. Politicians who sell their influence to the highest bidder. Author Robert Barrington shows us how to combat the corruption in British politics in his new book #CorruptedKingdom, out today: tinyurl.com/5bu3xtfu
'A wise and purpose-driven book to steer us out of AI doom' Sandi Toksvig An expert's guide to taking control of Artificial Intelligence, and building a future that works for all. #WhatIfWeGotAIRight by Eleanor Drage is out today! Order your copy here: tinyurl.com/3v5xczdm
We're incredibly pleased that #Ancient by Luke Barley and #Grasslands by John Wright have been recognised on the @wainwrightprize.bsky.social 2026 Nature Writing Longlist! Congratulations to Luke and John, and to all the other brilliant, longlisted authors 🍃 #WainwrightPrize #StoriesThatConnect
#RoguesWidowsAndOrphans, #TheIllegals and #MoveableFeasts are all included in Amazon's Summer Sale ☀️ Available at a discounted price until the end of July – don't miss out!
Take lunch with acclaimed translator – and author of #CrossingTheWineDarkSea – @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social in the @financialtimes.com here 👇️ 🌊 tinyurl.com/bp526b2p
A new biography of Lawrence Durrell by the world's foremost expert, covering his time in London, Paris, Corfu and Alexandria. #Larry by Michael Haag is out in paperback now!
Discover a radical new account of the Sahara – from pre-history to the present day 🐪 #ShiftingSands by Judith Scheele is out in paperback today: tinyurl.com/355ty68b
'Maths needs more demystifiers, and Junaid Mubeen is here to lift back the veil' – Eugenia Cheng Let maths enrich your everyday life with Junaid Mubeen's #ThinkLikeAMathematician, out in paperback today ➗️ ➖️ 🟰 Find out more: tinyurl.com/mr239ajx
A Dream Engineer's guide to the science of dreaming and nightmares, and the astonishing impact the dreaming brain has on your waking life. #IntoTheDreamLab is out in paperback tomorrow! Order your copy here: tinyurl.com/2mfpryv4
One family. Three generations. A divided country. How did we end up here? This is the question at the heart of Nicola Wilding's powerful memoir, #TheseWildEnglish, which examines our country's divides through the lens of one family – out today. 'Gripping' Observer profilebooks.com/work/these-w...
A powerful analysis of the future of global politics from one of The Economist's most experienced foreign correspondents. #TheWorldInTurmoil by John Andrews is out now! profilebooks.com/work/the-wor...
🔎 Do you dare to Murdle? 🔍️ Three #Murdle books are included in Amazon’s Summer sale, where they're price promoted all July! Get your hands on the no. 1 bestselling puzzle sensation, for adults or junior detectives, and have yourself some puzzling fun this summer ✏️ www.amazon.co.uk/stores/page/...
Congratulations to @kitchapman.bsky.social whose brilliant book #TheAgeOfAlchemy has been shortlisted for the @royalsociety.org Trivedi Science Book Prize 2026! It is an honour for Kit’s eye-opening history of chemistry to be included on this prestigious list! ⚗️ The winner is announced 29th Sept.
Could you be our new Marketing Assistant? Join our award-winning and friendly team to work across all our exciting fiction and non-fiction lists. Closing date 10th July. Find out more here: tinyurl.com/4pfnje2x
'Profoundly moving' Andrew Marr From one of the best known names in Silicon Valley: a haunting family memoir from the darkest era in Europe's history. #Ausländer by Michael Moritz is out now in paperback. Order your copy here: profilebooks.com/work/auslnder/
Happy birthday Murdle! 🎈 It’s been three years since the publication of #Murdle by G.T. Karber. Now a puzzle sensation – with 10 books across adult & junior titles and over a million copies sold – celebrate by sharpening your pencil and stepping into the Murdleverse ✏️ profilebooks.com/work/murdle/
Congratulations to Grace Spence Green whose incredible memoir #ToExistAsIAm has been chosen as a 2026 Somerset Maugham Award winner! #SoAwards
Looking for the perfect Father’s Day gift? We’ve put together a selection of exciting reads for you to choose from! #ToTheSeaByTrain #WorldCupFever #TalkingClassics #CrossingTheWineDarkSea #Grasslands #EscapingBabylon
🚴♀️ Obsession: The Beryl Burton Story premieres this Thursday at the Sheffield DocFest. Tickets here: tinyurl.com/4czpuxfw 📖 Find out more about remarkable life of one of the greatest cyclists of all time in Jeremy Wilson's book #Beryl, a Sunday Times Book of the Year: tinyurl.com/beryljeremywilson
Congratulations to Joe Studwell, whose book #HowAfricaWorks has been nominated for the 2026 BCA African Business Book of the Year Award! 🌍 This radical reassessment of Africa's economic development is out now: profilebooks.com/work/how-afr...
'There isn't a better history of the Second World War than this' David Edgerton From the battlefield to the ration book, mixing social history with dramatic storytelling, this the war that reshaped the world. #AdvanceBritannia by Alan Allport is out in paperback! profilebooks.com/work/advance...
The legacy of slavery hides in plain sight. Told through 39 everyday objects, Human Resources unpicks history to reveal the truth of how Britain's present is bound to a darker past. #HumanResources by Renay Richardson and Arisa Loomba is out now in paperback! profilebooks.com/work/human-r...
Tensions reach boiling point in this collection of classic summertime crime tales – featuring stories from Ruth Rendell, Edmund Crispin and Val McDermid 🏖️ Come on in, the water's fine: tinyurl.com/mrb7mb3b
'Essential reading for anyone seeking to understand Europe of today and tomorrow' PETER FRANKOPAN From the Balkans and Cyprus to Abkhazia on the fringes of Georgia, acclaimed correspondent Hannah Lucinda Smith takes us on a journey around Europe's #Hinterlands. Out now: tinyurl.com/yc6mxbs3
'Enthralling and profoundly relevant' Salman Rushdie 'Joyful, illuminating and engaging' Madeline Miller Acclaimed translator @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social explores the power of language to evolve our understanding of the past in #CrossingTheWineDarkSea, out now 🌊 Learn more: tinyurl.com/yb77jj5t
'Playful and deeply serious ... shows how exploring equality in maths may help the real world' – @newscientist.com #Unequal, the latest book from award-winning mathematician @dreugeniacheng.bsky.social, is out in paperback now. Find out more: tinyurl.com/bdh3w44f
Celebrate the publication of #Hinterlands: Journeys through Europe's Unfinished Frontiers in this Daunt event with author @hannahluci.bsky.social in conversation with @lewisbaston.bsky.social next week. Details below ⬇️ 📅 Thurs 11th June 🕖 7–8pm 📍 Daunts Marylebone 🎟️ Via link: tinyurl.com/mr2b2yr2
Today we publish #TehranDiaries by Raha Nik-Andish, the pen name for a writer living in Tehran. Through vivid dispatches of life in the city over the past year, this is a vital story of a regime in collapse and an act of witness against darkness. profilebooks.com/work/tehran-...