Transworld Publishers Ltd. is a British
publishing house
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in
Ealing
Ealing () is a district in West London, England, west of Charing Cross in the London Borough of Ealing. Ealing is the administrative centre of the borough and is identified as a major metropolitan centre in the London Plan.
Ealing was hi ...
, London that is a division of
Penguin Random House
Penguin Random House LLC is an Anglo-American multinational conglomerate publishing company formed on July 1, 2013, from the merger of Penguin Group and Random House.
On April 2, 2020, Bertelsmann announced the completion of its purchase o ...
, one of the world's largest mass media groups. It was established in 1950 as the British division of American company
Bantam Books
Bantam Books is an American publishing house owned entirely by parent company Random House, a subsidiary of Penguin Random House; it is an imprint of the Random House Publishing Group. It was formed in 1945 by Walter B. Pitkin, Jr., Sidney B. ...
. 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
Bantam Press is an imprint of Transworld Publishers which is a British publishing division of Penguin Random House.
It is based on Uxbridge Road in Ealing
Ealing () is a district in West London, England, west of Charing Cross in th ...
imprint, whereas paperbacks are published under the Black Swan, Bantam or Corgi imprint.
Terry Pratchett First Novel Award
Transworld sponsors the
Terry Pratchett First Novel Award for unpublished science-fiction novels.
See also
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List of largest UK book publishers
References
External links
Official website
- a book series published by Transworld from the 1950s
1950 establishments in England
Book publishing companies of the United Kingdom
Companies based in the London Borough of Ealing
British companies established in 1950
Bertelsmann subsidiaries
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