Transworld is a British
publishing house
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in
Ealing
Ealing () is a district in west London (sub-region), west London, England, west of Charing Cross in the London Borough of Ealing. It is the administrative centre of the borough and is identified as a major metropolitan centre in the London Pl ...
, London that is a division of
Penguin Random House
Penguin Random House Limited is a British-American multinational corporation, multinational conglomerate (company), conglomerate publishing company formed on July 1, 2013, with the merger of Penguin Books and Random House. Penguin Books was or ...
, 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. K ...
. It publishes fiction and nonfiction titles by various best-selling authors including
Val Wood under several different
imprints.
Hardbacks are published under the
Doubleday imprint, whereas
paperbacks are published under the Black Swan or Corgi imprint. The Bantam Press imprint publishes both Hardbacks and
Prestige softcovers.
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Terry Pratchett First Novel Award for unpublished science-fiction novels.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
This is a list of largest UK trade book publishers, with some of their principal imprint (trade name), imprints, ranked by sales value.
List
According to Nielsen BookScan as of 2010 the largest book publishers of the United Kingdom were:
# P ...
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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