Hedderichstr. 114
S60596 Frankfurt am Main

Germany

Telefon (+49) (0) 69/6062-0
Fax (+49) (0) 69/6062-214

www.fischergeneration.de
www.fischerschatzinsel.de
www.fischerverlage.de

Fischer Schatzinsel, meaning Treasure Island, was launched in 1994, with paperback editions of popular and successful books for young readers by well-known authors and compelling new voices. Today the diverse list includes fiction and non-fiction ranging from picture books to books for young adults. Young German authors and illustrators along with numerous first German editions from other languages characterize the sophisticated and entertaining list.

The imprint publishes children's books by established writers such as Reiner Kunze, Luise Rinser and Dieter Kuhn as well as giving a home to outstanding children's and young adult author's such as Conrenial Funke, Gary Paulsen, Sharon Creech, Sabine Ludwig, Marliese Arold and Dick King-Smith. The first hardcovers were published as early as 1996, starting with Sylvia Plath's Max Nic with illustrations by Rotraut Susanne Berner, still in print today.

550 Xujiahui Road, 13th Floor
Luwan District
Shanghai 200025
+86 108 5883 8301

Established in 2004 by veteran publisher Huang Yuhai, Shanghai 99 is one of the fastest-growing publishing houses in China, with over 500 titles, an expanding list of authors, and a unique approach to marketing and distribution. Their online bookstore 99read.com is ranked third in China and features more than 300,000 titles. They run the nation's largest book club, 99 Read, boasting more than 1.5 million members, as well as a literary magazine.

Shanghai 99 is known for their high-quality titles in translation, which account for 60% of their list. In addition to literary and commercial fiction, they publish a growing roster of young adult fiction, biographies, memoirs, narrative non-fiction and lifestyle titles. Their diverse list of acclaimed and bestselling authors includes Dan Brown, Philip Roth, Stephen King, Stieg Larsson, John Updike, Paul Auster, Carlos Ruiz Zafon, Zadie Smith, Audrey Niffenegger, Arundhati Roy, Nicole Krauss, Michael Chabon, Ian McEwan, Marisha Pessl, Jeanette Walls and Philip Pullman. They also publish a number of well-known Chinese authors.

Rua Bandeira Paulista, 702 cj. 32
Sao Paulo SP 04532-002
BRAZIL

Tel.: (+55) 11 3707 3500
Fax: (+55) 11 3707 3501

www.companhiadasletras.com.br

The children's arm of Companhia das Letras, Companhia das Letrinhas is committed to offering beautiful volumes, attuned to childhood sensibility, that incite curiosity, stimulate cognitive ability, desire for self-expression, and children's need to understand and organise the world. Companhia das Letrinhas publish both Brazilian and foreign authors including Astrid Lindgren, Babette Cole, Dr. Seuss, Jose Saramago, Will Eisner, Jon Sciezka, Lane Smith and many others.

In order to span the varying tastes and maturity of the YA crossover market, Companhia das Letras created an imprint, Cia. das Letras for readers of all ages and types. Cia. das Letras publishes Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World and Amos Oz's Suddenly in the Depth of the Forest, Cornelia Funk, Lemony Snicket, H.M. Enzensberger, Italo Calvino, as well as graphic novels and comics such as Persepolis and The Adventures of Tintin “ stories for all ages.

12, avenue d'Italie
75013 Paris
Tel. : 01 44 16 05 00

www.pocket.fr

Since its creation in 2004, Pocket Jeunesse had published both French and foreign authors.

Successful Series for 7-12 Year Olds

Pocket Jeunesse offers several series, including Deltora Quest, Ga'Hoole, Warriors, the Spiderwick Chronicles, Junie B Jones and the Magic Kitten. Many of the Pocket Jeunesse series are creations of well-known authors, such as Kate Brian and Sara Manning. Pocket Jeunesse also publishes novelizations from popular television series and films like Hannah Montana.

Literary texts for 10-14 Years Old and Young Adults

Pocket Jeunesse publishes novels by popular children's writers including Scott Westerfield, Michael Morpurgo, Marc Haddon, Sarah Dessen, Matthew Skelton, Daniel Pennac, Jean-Claude Mourlevat, in mass-market paperback, trade paperback or in larger format, depending on the subject, the suitability for classroom study and the age of the readers.

They also publish international bestsellers such as George's Secret Key to the Universe by Stephen Hawking, The Alchemyst by Michael Scott, Gone by Michael Grant, The House of Night by Kristin Cast, Cronache del Mondo Emerso by Lisia Troisi, City of Bones by Cassandra Claire and Hunger Games by Susanne Collins.

Illustrated Books for Younger Readers

Pocket Jeunesse publishes illustrated books for pre-school readers including several well-known characters. Heading the list is Les P'tites Poules by Christian Jolibois and Christian Heinrich which has sold in 8 foreign territories, including China where the books have become bestsellers. The series is currently being adapted for television in 3D and will be launched in 2010.

5F Gangnam Publishing Culture Center
Sinsa-dong 506, Gangnam-Gu
135-887 Seoul

KOREA

Tel.: (+82) 2 515-2000
Fax: (+82) 2 3444-5185

www.minumsa.com

In 1994, Minumsa launched BIR, which since then has been publishing storybooks and picture books for young adults and children and has become a leader in the field.

The foreign writers BIR has introduced to Korean children include John Burningham, Ezra Jack Keats, Raymond Briggs, Anthony Browne, Michael Ende, Otfried Preussler, Arnold Lobel, Maurice Sendak, Enzensberger, David Almond, Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen and Mary Pope Osborne.

Cameleon is an imprint under BIR in Minumsa Publishing Group and publishes a wide spectrum of fiction for both YA and adults. The main audience of Cameleon are readers from late teens to twenties, so it aims for fresh writing in terms of content and an appealing, light, handy book in terms of appearance. The authors of Cameleon include Steven Gould, Robert Cormier, Gabrielle Zevin, Rachel Cohn, Eric Garicia, Adams Foulds, Matthew Dicks as well as famous Japanese authors like Riku Onda, Eto Mori, and Atsuko Asano among others.

Companhia das Letras
Rua Bandeira Paulista, 702 cj. 32 São Paulo SP 04532-002 BRAZIL Tel.: (+55) 11 3707 3500 Fax: (+55) 11 3707 3501 www.companhiadasletras.com.br		Brazil’s most prestigious and acclaimed publishing house, Companhia das Letras was founded by Luiz Schwarcz in 1986, and has since gained great respect for its success with high quality works of fiction, science and nonfiction. Companhia leads in literary prizes won by Brazilian authors, and their successes have won a wide range from the adventure narratives of Amyr Klink, to the humorous mysteries of Jo Soares, the photographic work of Sebastian Salgado, and countless literary novels. Their back-list includes countless Nobel prize winners. Companhia das Letras's list of translated fiction authors include: Martin Amis, Paul Auster, Patrick Chamoiseau, Bruce Chatwin, Patricia Cornwell, Michael Cunningham, Don DeLillo, Jostein Gaarder, Nadine Gordimer, P.D. James, Ismail Kadare, Milan Kundera, Lorrie Moore, Toni Morrison, Thomas Pynchon, Philip Roth, Arundhati Roy, Salman Rushdie, Donna Tartt, John Updike. Non-fiction authors include: Caroline Alexander, Scott Berg, Marshall Berman, Harold Bloom, Roberto Calasso, Umberto Eco, Bill Gates, Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, Stephen Jay Gould, Rzszard Kapuscinski, Jon Krakauer, Alberto Manguel, Jack Miles, Stephen Pinker, Oliver Sacks, Carl Sagan, Edward Said, Simon Schama, Susan Sontag, E.O. Wilson. Headed by Lili Schwarcz, Companhia das Letrinhas is a leading children’s book publisher in Brazil as well. Letrinhas publishes such luminaries as Maurice Sendak, Dr. Seuss, Jules Feiffer and the Pippi Longstocking series.

Zvezdniy blvr 21 build 1
129085 Moscow
Moscow

www.ast.ru

Founded in 1990, the AST Publishing Group is a major book publishing company in Russia and the CIS countries.

The AST Publishing Group issues titles in Russian by domestic and foreign authors in a whole range of genres and subjects: fiction and non-fiction, books for children and young readers, comics, audio and electronic books, maps, textbooks and educational materials, and stationary.

Internationally renowned Russian authors include Boris Akunin, Polina Dashkova, Sergei Lukianenko, Edward Radzinsky.

Some of AST's translated fiction authors include: Dan Brown, Candace Bushnell, Michael Connelly, Patricia Cornwell, Harlan Coben, Paulo Coelho, Neil Gaiman, John Grisham, PhD James, Stephen King, Stephenie Meyer, James Patterson, Nicholas Sparks, Lauren Weisberger, Carlos Ruiz Zafon; and for nonfiction translated authors include: Erich Fromm, Francis Fukuyama, Bertrand Russell, Alvin Toffler, Arnold Joseph Toynbee.

The company owns one of the largest book trading networks in Russia: including the BUKVA bookstore covering the whole of the country's territory with more than 400 points of sale.

Corpus Books, an imprint of AST Publishing Group, was established in December 2008 by a professional editorial team headed by Varya Gornostaeva and Serguei Parkhomenko whom the Russian publishing market knows well for their long-term and fruitful work as founding editors of Inostranka and CoLibri Publishers.

Corpus Books has an independent publishing program focused on translated contemporary literary fiction - from up-market novels to detective stories, from thrillers to women's prose fiction -and classics of the world literature; as well as Russian and translated nonfiction, including biography, history, documentaries, science and technology, politics, social anthropology, life style, cookery, popular psychology, medicine, current affairs.

Uudenmaankatu 8-12
00120 Helsinki, FINLAND
Tel.: (+358) 9 19961
Fax: (+358) 9 1996 540

www.otava.fi

The family owned Otava Publishing Company Ltd. was founded in 1890 and is one of the largest general publishers in Finland. It is a part of Otava Books and Magazines Group, which publishes over 100 magazines and periodicals and employs approximately 1000 people, 400 of who work for Otava Publishing. Otava's subsidiary, The Great Finnish Book Club Ltd. has approximately 300 000 members - it is the market leader and the oldest book club in Finland.

Otava Publishing Group annually publishes over 350 new titles in Finnish by domestic and foreign authors: Fiction and non-fiction, books for children and young readers, graphic novels, comics, audio books, textbooks and educational materials. Otava is known and respected for its innovative publishing of both commercial and literary successes and for its excellent list of Finnish and international authors.

Some of Otava's translated fiction authors include: Margaret Atwood, J.M. Coetzee, Patricia Cornwell, J.M.G. Le Clezio, Tess Gerritsen, Joanne Harris, Robert Harris, Siri Hustvedt, Khaled Hosseini, Conn Iggulden, Donna Leon, Doris Lessing, Henning Mankell, Liza Marklund, Alexander McCall Smith, Ian McEwan, V.S. Naipaul, Joyce Carol Oates, Annie Proulx, Anne Tyler and Carlos Ruiz Zafon. Translated non-fiction authors include: Jung Chang, Deepak Chopra, Stefan Einhorn, Thomas L. Friedman, Daniel Goleman, Elizabeth Gilbert, Mireille Guilliano, Torey Hayden, Ian Kershaw, Frank McCourt and Tim Weiner.

Otava's internationally best known Finnish authors are Mauri Kunnas, Aino Havukainen, Matti Joensuu, Pirjo Hassinen, Anna-Leena Harkonen, Katja Kallio, Petri Tamminen and Antti Tuuri.

Like Publishing Ltd.

Like has been part of the Otava Group since 2006, boasting such authors as Anna Politkovskaya, Noam Chomsky, Junot DÃaz, Nam Le, Marguerite Duras, Jean Genet, James Ellroy, Nick Cave, Vladimir Sorokin, Anthony Burgess, Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Luigi Pirandello, Mark Kurlansky, and Jonathan Glover. Like is known for its bold publishing profile, which includes both Finnish and translated fiction, as well as books on contemporary and popular music, cinema, theater, and socially aware, political works. With 120 titles a year, it is one of the largest general interest publishers in Finland.

12 Avenue d'Italie
75627 Paris Cedex 13
France
Tel.: (+33) 1 44 16 05 00
Fax: (+33) 1 44 16 05 03

http://www.universpoche.fr/

Univers Poche is a leading French paperback house, part of the Editis group and comprised of 5 imprints: Pocket, Fleuve Noir, 10/18, Kurokawa and Pocket Jeunesse. With a range that includes general fiction and non-fiction, television tie-ins, thriller, science fiction, manga and more, Univers Poche publishes both original titles and paperback reprints and has developed a strong reputation as an innovator in the French market with an expertise in marketing in particular.

POCKET

Of the four imprints, Pocket is the largest and most wide-ranging. Its many authors (French and in translation) include: Dan Brown, Michael Crichton, Marc Levy, Douglas Kennedy, Danielle Steel, Harlan Coben, John Grisham, Elizabeth George, Martha Grimes, Minette Walters, Nicci French, Katherine Neville, Kathy Reichs, J.R.R. Tolkien, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Isaac Asimov, Anne McCaffrey, the Dalai Lama and Pema Chodron.

FLEUVE NOIR

Fleuve Noir, founded in 1949, is a major publisher of popular literature with books ranging from women’s and contemporary literature, to mysteries and thrillers, TV tie-ins and science fiction and fantasy. Fleuve Noir achieved great success in recent years with the publication of Lauren Weisberger’s THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA (selling 75,000 copies of the Fleuve Noir hardcover edition and 350,000 copies of the Pocket paperback) and followed that up with the successful publications of Lauren Weisberger’s EVERYONE WORTH KNOWING and CHASING HARRY WINSTON and Plum Sykes’ BERGDORF BLONDES. In mysteries and thrillers, Fleuve Noir publishes the extremely popular French detective San Antonio as well as Harlan Coben, Nicci French, Andrea Camilleri and Jasper Fforde, to name a few, and the imprint also publishes books adapted from video games, such as Starcraft and Warcraft, and adaptations from such TV shows as LOST, DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES, BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER, CHARMED and ALIAS.

10/18

10/18, founded in 1962, possesses a hugely impressive catalogue of classic and contemporary foreign literature in paperback and is particularly known for its mystery series. The imprint is also widely respected as the publisher of original titles. 10/18's authors in translation include: Jim Harrison, Kazuo Ishiguro, Colum McCann, Bret Easton Ellis, Salman Rushdie, Nick Hornby, Armistead Maupin, Richard Price, Khaled Hosseini, Jonathan Tropper and Colin Harrison, as well as several Nobel Prize laureates including V.S. Naipaul and Toni Morrison. 10/18's Grands Détectives mystery line publishes Ellis Peters, Anne Perry, Iain Pears and Alexander McCall Smith among others. The non-fiction series, Fait et causes, includes collections of essays and social science books from authors such as Noam Chomsky and Michael Moore.

KUROKAWA

Kurokawa was started in September 2005 and in just a short period of time has established itself as a major publisher of manga. The imprint targets readers from age 15-30 and has an innovative, dynamic list that includes shonen (adventures, action and friendship), shojo (love stories and humor) and seinen (humorous manga).

Please visit their website at:

http://www2.warnerbros.com/corpcomm/

Locus Publishing Company
11F, 25, Sec. 4
Nan-King East Road
Taipei
TAIWAN

www.locuspublishing.com

Tel: +886 2 8712 3898 Ext 35
Fax: + 886 2 2545 3927

Locus Publishing Company

Locus, a Taiwanese publisher, was established in October of 1996 by Rex How. With the concepts “Future, Adventure, Culture” as its guideposts, Locus Publishing Company focuses on business titles and those about trends; general non-fiction, including memoirs, biographies, and travelogues; history, philosophy and social topics; self-help, especially about personal growth; illustrated books and Gen X creative works; literary and genre fiction; and titles on the arts, animation, cartoon, and games.

During the past thirteen years, Locus has published a variety of highly acclaimed international fiction and non-fiction authors, including Andy S. Grove, Michael Dell, Jack Welch, Steven D. Levitt, Alan Greenspan, Mitch Albom, Jean-Dominique Bauby, Carl Honore, Zadie Smith, Leonard Cohen, Jamaica Kincaid, V. S. Naipaul, Kazuo Ishiguro, Mark Haddon and Elizabeth Kostova.

Locus is also proud to have introduced many new Chinese writers and artists, including the renowned graphic artist Jimmy Liao. Liao has not only been a phenomenon in Chinese publishing but he has also been translated into more than ten languages. This year, American publisher Little Brown published his book SOUND OF COLORS and it was quite successful.

Travessera de GrÃ cia 47-49
08021 Barcelona
Spain

Tel.: (+34) 93 366 03 00
Fax: (+34) 93 366 04 49

www.randomhousemondadori.com

Beascoa

Founded over 30 years ago, Beascoa has been a part of Random House Mondadori since 2001. Its catalogue of over 1200 titles is focused exclusively on children's books from 0 to 6 years of age. Beascoa aims to keep abreast of the development of new publishing concepts and formats and publish books whose contents and images bubble up on each pages, catching the eye and surprising readers with their unconventionality and high level of quality.

These projects, aimed for young readers, hope to bring together learning and fun. In order to reach the greatest number of young readers Beascoa has published stories involving the most popular children's characters including Barbapapa, all of Disney's main characters, the Lunnis, or more educational titles linked with Fisher Price, alongside Spanish classics and more traditional stories. Almost all titles published each year are also published in Catalan as well as being translated into foreign languages.

Montena

Aiming at the YA audience, Montena aims to connect with readers through 'politically incorrect' books which show reality as it really is, with all the problems and conflicts experienced by today's youth. It has sought to do this with language that is fresh, rich with dialogue and very cinematic. This is how the Chicas (Girls) collection began, the first of its kind which has published nearly 70 titles over the 10 years it has existed.

Montena also publish fantasy novels with both foreign authors (Eoin Colfer, Jonathan Stroud, Isabel Allende) and the most promising writers in the Spanish market including Grimpow by Rafael Abalos, which has without at doubt been Montena's greatest hit, with over 60,000 copies sold.

Lumen Children's

Lumen has been selecting and creating books for children for over forty years, from classic stories told by the best-known illustrators, such as Spirin or Innocenti, to contemporary novels. As well as entertaining children, Lumen always tries to get them to go further than reading. This notion can been seen in titles such as A Favor De Las NiÃ±as (In Favour of Girls) which emphasizes sexual equality and is today a classic in Lumen's children's catalogue.

From their first editions, Lumen continues with its 'Great Authors' for instance El Quijote by Gimenez FrontÃn, Cuentos Judios de la Aldea de Chelm (Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories) by Isaac Bashevis Singer, or Paulina y el Saltamontes Verde (Paulina and the Green Grasshopper) by Ana MarÃa Matute who has been published by Lumen since her debut.

Lumen also publishes illustrated books, paying great attention to the quality and prestige that characterizes their other editions. As well as the great illustrators and classic titles, they also have a more contemporary line with new illustrators and cutting edge, unconventional and innovative titles.

In recent years adaptations of classics like El Quijote, Platero or El Libro de la Selva (The Jungle Book) have been launched, along with biographies of great people: Mozart, Anne Frank, Christopher Columbus and Dali.

Brettenham House
Lancaster Place
London WC2E 7EN
United Kingdom
Tel.: (+44) 207 911 8000
Fax: (+44) 207 911 8100
www.littlebrown.co.uk

Little, Brown UK is one of Britain's most highly respected publishing houses. LBUK and its imprints publish a wide range of bestselling and acclaimed writers from the UK, the US and abroad. Their authors from the American market include: Patricia Cornwell, Caleb Carr, Anita Shreve, Dorothy Allison, Elizabeth Kostova, Joseph Connelly, Linda Fairstein, Joseph Kanon, Norman Mailer, Gore Vidal, Candace Bushnell, David Sedaris, and Nelson DeMille and Mitch Albom. LBUK is composed of several imprints, including Little, Brown, Abacus, Orbit / Atom, Sphere, Virago and Piatkus.

LITTLE, BROWN

Little, Brown is the literary hardback imprint that feeds into Abacus paperback. They publish across a wide range of areas, including fiction, history, memoir, science and travel, but all the books have in common a strong narrative and a distinctive voice. Major authors include the Scottish writers Iain Banks (with his science fiction published in Orbit), Christopher Brookmyre, and Alexander McCall Smith (whose books have sold more than fifteen million copies worldwide). Little, Brown's distinguished list of American writers includes great names such as Norman Mailer, Gore Vidal and E. L. Doctorow, as well as younger talents like David Sedaris, Candace Bushnell and Anita Shreve. Their nonfiction includes young historians Tom Holland, Dominic Sandbrook and Juliet Barker, whose books stand alongside Eric Hobsbawm, Thomas Pakenham, Roy Hattersley and Lawrence James's backlists. Other talented nonfiction writers on the list include Tim Harford (author of the bestselling The Undercover Economist), Professor Steve Jones, and Steven Poole.

ABACUS

Abacus, founded in 1973, was originally a non-fiction list with something of an ecological flavor, producing classics such as Schumacher's Small Is Beautiful and McLuhan's Touch The Earth. Primo Levi's series of masterworks, including If This Is A Man, The Period Table, and Moments Of Reprieve was soon added and a tradition of bestselling high-quality memoir was established: Nelson Mandela's Long Walk To Freedom; Gore Vidal's Palimpsest and Point To Point Navigation; historian William Woodruff's double No.1 bestsellers The Road To Nab End and Beyond Nab End; and, in 2006, Vikram Seth's Two Lives. They broke into fiction with Jane Gardam, whose novel Old Filth was a finalist for the 2005 Orange Prize. Abacus also publishes some original paperback fiction and non-fiction and has had great success in this format with the likes of Jose Carlos Somoza (whose Athenian Murders won the CWA Gold Dagger), Guillermo Martinez, Charlie Connelly and Geoff Dyer.

ORBIT

Orbit is the UK's leading SF and fantasy imprint, with a market share twice that of any other publisher. Launched in 1974, Orbit has published many of the most popular and important science fiction and fantasy authors in the modern history of both genres. In addition to great SF writers such as Iain M. Banks and Arthur C. Clarke, we have published many of fantasy's international bestsellers, including Terry Brooks, Robert Jordan and Tad Williams. We are also committed to finding and developing new talent, and we are proud that the current bestseller lists include such recent Orbit stars as Kelley Armstrong, Jim Butcher, Trudi Canavan, Karen Miller, Charles Stross and Brent Weeks.

VIRAGO

Over thirty years on from its humble beginnings around Carmen Callil's kitchen table in 1973, Virago has become one of the most vigorous, stylish and successful British publishing imprints, the outstanding international publisher of books by women. Their contemporary fiction list has been blessed with award-winners and bestsellers from Margaret Atwood to Sarah Dunant, from the Man Booker to the Orange Prize for Fiction. Sarah Waters won Author of the Year three times in 2003 and took the No.1 hardback fiction bestseller spot in 2006. The famous Virago Modern Classics began with Antonia White, Elizabeth Taylor, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather among others. It now includes Angela Carter, Muriel Spark and Daphne du Maurier. Virago launched its non-fiction list with memoirs and biography - Vera Brittain's Testament of Youth and Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - and continues with the bestselling I Choose to Live by Sabine Dardenne, Nina Bawden's Dear Austen (shortlisted for the PEN/Ackerley Prize) and Lyndall Gordon's Vindication: the Life of Mary Wollstonecraft. Seeking up-to-date, thought-provoking analysis, we have published Linda Grant, Joanna Bourke, Naomi Wolf and the all-time bestseller Ã…sne Seierstad's Bookseller of Kabul.

SPHERE

Sphere pride themselves on publishing high-quality commercial fiction and non-fiction. From crime novels to celebrity autobiographies, from romantic comedies to humour, Sphere is looking for the finest examples in each field and aim to provide the best possible launch for every title. In recent years they have honed the list to give their full attention to each book. Passion, imagination and attention to detail are the cornerstones of their publishing. In 2005 they were rewarded for their efforts when the imprint was nominated for a British Book Award.

Working closely with their authors, Sphere has achieved some fantastic successes in recent years. Their fiction writers include household names such as Patricia Cornwell, Mark Billingham and Jenny Colgan; Richard & Judy authors Dorothy Koomson, Elizabeth Kostova, Anthony Capella and William Brodrick; rising stars such as Polly Williams, Jeff Abbott and Michael Robotham; and international bestsellers Mitch Albom, Nicholas Sparks and Nicholas Evans. Their non-fiction titles regularly hit the bestseller lists. Recent Sunday Times bestsellers include Sharon Osbourne's Extreme, Long Way Round by Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman, Ricky by Ricky Tomlinson, and A Brother's Journey by Richard B. PelzerThe Mind Gym, Scar Tissue by (all No.1 bestsellers), Anthony Kiedis and Is it Just Me or is Everything Shit? by Steve Lowe and Alan McArthur.

PIATKUS

Piatkus Books was launched twenty-eight years ago from the spare bedroom of Judy Piatkus' home in Loughton, Essex. Judy wanted to publish fiction that people would enjoy reading and non-fiction that would be entertaining, stimulating and informative. Over the years Piatkus has become one of the UK's leading independent publishers of fiction and lifestyle titles. They have joined forces with Little, Brown in order to bring their wonderful range of books to an even wider readership.

Piatkus will continue to be an independent imprint within Little, Brown, specializing in non-fiction and fiction. Their lifestyle list covers the areas of health, mind, body and spirit, self-help, business, personal development and all the topics that interest people in their daily lives. It includes international authorities such as Patrick Holford, the UK's leading nutritionist, and bestselling MBS authors Brian Weiss and Sylvia Browne. Piatkus is also known for their wide variety of fiction, which includes crime, romance and women's fiction, as well as general and literary fiction. The fiction list also has a strong US flavour and includes some of the biggest names in popular fiction including Nora Roberts and her alter-ego, J. D. Robb.

Albert Bonniers Forlag
Box 3159 SE 103 63 Stockholm Sweden Tel.: (+46) 8 696 86 20 Fax: (+46) 8 696 83 61 www.albertbonniersforlag.se		Albert Bonniers Forlag is a subsidiary of Bonnier AB - the leading media company in the Nordic region. A broad and diverse company that has operations in 27 countries, the Bonnier Media Group encompasses publishing houses, book clubs, newspapers, weekly and monthly magazines, television, film production and motion picture theater operations, film and music clubs, music production, as well as digital activities. Bonnier Books includes book publishers in several countries. The Swedish Bonnier publishing companies include Albert Bonniers Förlag, Wahlström & Widstrand, Bonnier Carlsen, Forum and Bonnier Fakta. The Group’s subsidiary in Finland is Tammi, and the subsidiary in Norway is a part ownership in Cappelen Damm. Bonnier is the leading publisher of children’s books in Germany, but it also publishes a great deal of fiction, primarily through Ullstein Verlag and Piper Verlag. Bonnier publishing houses are also established in the US (Weldon Owen), the UK, in France and Australia. Albert Bonniers Forlag is one of the oldest and most prestigious book publishers in Sweden, dating back to its founding by Albert Bonnier in 1837. The house publishes approximately 120 new titles per year, consisting largely of Swedish and foreign fiction (ranging from the highly literary to the bestselling commercial), poetry, and narrative non-fiction. Many of Bonniers' authors have won the Nobel Prize for Literature. The house works closely with the very active Swedish book club market and associated magazine programs. Some of Bonniers' translated fiction authors include: Alessandro Baricco, John le Carra, Dennis Lehane, Paul Auster, Zadie Smith, Fannie Flagg, Ken Follett, Frederick Forsyth, Gunter Grass, John Grisham, Kristin Hannah, Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Milan Kundera, Frank McCourt, Per Petterson, Michael Ondaatje, Joyce Carol Oates, Thomas Pynchon, Nora Roberts, Philip Roth, Salman Rushdie, Minette Walters, Dan Brown, Conn Iggulden, Anna Gavalda, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Ann Cleeves.

Hedderichstrasse 114
60596 Frankfurt/Main
GERMANY
Tel.: (+49) 69 6062-0
Fax: (+49) 69 6062-214
www.fischerverlage.de

Krüger Verlag, Scherz Verlag, Fischer Taschenbuch and Fischer Schatzinsel are all part of S. Fischer Verlage which was founded in 1886 and which is now owned by Holtzbrinck Publishers.

S. FISCHER VERLAGE

Great names of modern literature and award-winning writers from the contemporary literary scene are prominent in the portfolio of S. Fischer Verlag, founded in 1886. With its impressive range of world literature and nonfiction works, S. Fischer is the German market leader for high-quality trade publications.

Since its early days, S. Fischer has been the home of Thomas Mann (1929 Nobel Prize), Heinrich Mann, Franz Kafka, Arthur Schnitzler, and Sigmund Freud. Amongst its most renown international authors are Nobel Prize winners Kenzaburo Oe (1994 Nobel Prize), Xingjian Gao (2000 Nobel Prize) and J.M. Coetzee (2003 Nobel Prize).

At present, S. Fischer's great roster of American authors - including Joyce Carol Oates, Richard Powers, Yann Martel, Marisha Pessl, Alice Munro, Alberto Manguel, Audrey Niffenegger, Reif Larsen, and many more is being combined with international authors like Vikram Seth, Yu Hua, Carlos Ruiz Zafon, Alain de Botton, Hanif Kureishi, Joseph O'Connor, Adam Thirlwell, to name just a few. On the German list there are high ranking authors who have reached international acclaim like Monika Maron, Judith Hermann, Julia Franck, Christoph Ransmayr, Gerhard Roth, Dieter Forte, Peter Stamm, and Roger Willemsen. With high-quality nonfiction covering contemporary history, psychology, philosophy, art and culture, the group is a major contributor to the discussion of key contemporary issues.

Krüger Verlag/Scherz Verlag

Krüger and Scherz are the two hardcover labels for commercial fiction and nonfiction. Together they cover every type of entertaining book, both from German and international authors, including women's fiction, historical novels, big sweeping narratives, thrillers and crime, modern fantasy and humorous novels. Bestselling authors in fiction are Tommy Jaud, Cecelia Ahern, Ildefonso Falcones, Gillian Flynn, Tana French, Carolina De Robertis, and Susanne Frohlich. The non-fiction list includes current affairs, memoirs, biographies, autobiographies and general, popular non-fiction. Bestselling authors in non-fiction are Steffen MÃ¶ller, Rupert Isaacson, Prince Asserate, Lale AkgÃ¼n, and Susanne Fröhlich.

Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag

(Fischer Paperbacks)

The company's experience with modern literature in moderately priced editions led to the foundation of 'Fischer BÃ¼cherei' in 1952 - the Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag of today. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag is the all-encompassing label for paperback editions of every title previously published by S. Fischer, Kruger, or Scherz. Paperback licenses acquired from other publishers, as well as numerous original editions of both German and international titles also contribute to the wide-ranging list. It covers literature, commercial fiction and popular non-fiction, reference and science. Agatha Christie's mysteries, which have been published by Scherz since 1943, are also now a part of the Fischer paperback list. Bestselling authors include Anna Gavalda, Scott Smith, Mark T. Sullivan, Steffi von Wolff, and Ralf Schmitz

Psichogios Publications
Tatoiou Str. 121 144 52 Metamorfossi GREECE Tel.: (+30) 210 28 04 800 Fax: (+30) 210 28 19 550 www.psichogios.gr		The family-owned Psichogios Publications is one of Greece's most important publishing houses. Founded by Thanos Psichogios in 1979, the company has since gained great respect for its success with high quality adult and children's literature. Psichogios is known for its excellent list of Greek and international authors, with a catalogue of over 1500 titles of literature and reference books for readers of all ages. The house publishes about 180 titles per year, and roughly 60% of those are in translation. Psichogios specializes in historical, literary, and upmarket commercial fiction, and their nonfiction list includes both academic works of philosophy, psychoanalysis and theology, as well as practical nonfiction with a focus on self-help, parenting and historical titles Psichogios' many authors in translation include: Chimamanda Adichie, Philip Ardagh, Antonia Arslan, Tash Aw, Louis de Bernieres, Andrea Canobbio, Bernard Cornwell, Noah Gordon, David Guterson, Mark Haddon, Joanne Harris, Aleksandar Hemon, Peter Hoeg, Khaled Hosseini, Brian Jacques, Douglas Kennedy, Valerio Manfredi, Henning Mankell, Yann Martell, Alexander McCall Smith, Audrey Niffenegger, Patrick O'Brian, Helen Oyeyemi, Tony Parsons, Arundhati Roy, Salman Rushdie, Zadie Smith, and Patrick Suskind.

Tatoiou Str. 121
144 52 Metamorfossi
GREECE

Tel.: (+30) 210 28 04 800
Fax: (+30) 210 28 19 550

www.psichogios.gr

The family-owned Psichogios Publications is one of Greece’s most important publishing houses. Founded by Thanos Psichogios in 1979, the company has since gained great respect for its success with high quality adult and children's literature.

The first area that Psichogios published into was the children's market, and it remains a vital part of the house today. Psichogios' children's division publishes la crème de la crème in books for young readers. Their high-quality list contains work from both classic and contemporary authors, in formats ranging from picture books to young adult, with a special interest in translated fiction for readers aged 8-15.

Psichogios Children’s authors in translation include: Eoin Colfer, Roald Dahl, Cornelia Funke, Lauren Kate, Cayla Kluver, Philip Kerr, Astrid Lindgren, Madonna, Alyson Noel, Terry Pratchett, Philip Pullman, J.K. Rowling, and Jacqueline Wilson.

Danko utca 4-8

Budapest

Hungary - 1022

http://jcbs.lira.hu/

Lira es Lant Group holds four publishing divisions and 70 retail book stores in the country, making it one of Hungary's leading players on the market. They publish 400 new titles a year from children's to fiction and nonfiction. The publishing houses that belong to the Lira es Lant Group are the following:

Magveto Kiado represents the great works of contemporary Hungarian literature, including two of Hungary's most famous contemporary authors -- Imre Kertesz and Peter Esterhazy, as well as such international figures as Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Michel Houellebecq and Ludmilla Ulitskaya and contemporary US authors Nicole Krauss and Thomas Pynchon.

Athenaeum Kiado is a tremendously vibrant and successful imprint priding itself on a strong international list of bestsellers, including Paolo Coelho, Jodi Picoult, Cecilia Ahern, and Mary Roach. It has just revived a 150-year-old tradition, which was suspended fifty years ago, by launching a series of popular science publications.

In operation for 50 years now, Corvina Kiado exudes quality through its excellent art albums, foreign language and travel publications.

Rozsavolgyi and Co. have been well respected in music and audio publishing and trade in Hungary and the rest of Europe since 1852.

Travessera de Gràcia 47-49
08021 Barcelona
Spain
Tel.: (+34) 93 366 03 00
Fax: (+34) 93 366 04 49
www.rhm.es

RANDOM HOUSE MONDADORI

Random House Mondadori, a leader in Spanish-language publishing and distribution, is the result of a joint venture between Random House, the publishing division of Bertelsmann AG (the largest international company in the field of communication, electronic commerce and interactive content), and Mondadori, Italy's leading publisher of books and magazines.

Since 2001, the following imprints form part of Random House Mondadori: Aret, Beascoa, Debate, DeBolsillo, Collins, Electa, Grijalbo, Lumen, Mondadori, Montena, Plaza & JanÃs, Reservoir Books, Rosa dels Vents and Sudamericana.

The group unites prestigious companies with a long history behind them such as Sudamericana, which was founded in 1939, as well as literary imprints such as Lumen, Debate and Mondadori. It also includes companies which seek to reach a wider audience and obtain a greater market presence such as Plaza & JanÃs and Grijalbo, as well as imprints specialized in particular subject areas or audiences such as the renowned publisher of young adult material Montena, and Beascoa, which specializes in younger children's books. The pocket book imprint DeBolsillo reaches a wide spectrum of readers through an attractive format and price point, and through more than 1,500 titles of many different genres. In 2004, Random House Mondadori launched Caballo de Troya, an imprint dedicated to offering a space in the market to new literary voices and literature from Spain.

Random House Mondadori is organized into three geographical divisions: Spain; Argentina, Chile and Uruguay; and Mexico, Colombia and Venezuela. In addition, the Group distributes and exports its titles to more than 45 countries throughout Latin America, Asia, Europe and the United States.

In the United States, Random House Mondadori co-publishes with Vintage Espanol, an imprint of Random House Inc., a selection of its most important writers. This catalogue offers prestigious Latin American writers such as Gabriel GarcÃa MÃ¡rquez and Isabel Allende, bestselling Spanish writers such as Ildefonso Falcones and Julia Navarro, as well as international names such as Ken Follett, Wayne Dyer or Danielle Steel to Spanish speaking readers in the USA.

PLAZA

Plaza & JanÃs, one of the most renowned names in publishing in the Spanish-speaking book world, is the result of two pioneering initiatives embodied in the names of GermÃ¡n Plaza and JosÃ JanÃs. In 1959, a single publishing company was created to form Plaza & JanÃs Publishers. By the late 60s, the company held a privileged position in Spain and had established a strong presence in Latin America. In 1984, the Bertelsmann Group acquired Plaza & JanÃs on account of its enormous prestige, and in 2001, the publisher became part of the Random House Mondadori joint venture. Today, Plaza & JanÃs publishes and distributes its titles in all the Random House Mondadori territories.

Plaza & JanÃs's list of authors includes well-known international names, from Isabel Allende for Spanish-language fiction to the biggest of 'brand names' such as Stephen King, John le Carra and John Grisham. Its line of women's fiction includes best-selling authors Danielle Steel, Nora Roberts and Marian Keyes.

Apart from publishing the works of established writers, Plaza & JanÃs gives great importance to discovering and promoting new talents who are destined to become the big names of the future. Such is the case of Spaniards Julia Navarro and Javier Sierra, whose books have been praised by both the reading public and critics alike.

Plaza & JanÃs's nonfiction line is best known for books on current affairs, popular history and practical guides.

The imprint also sponsors the Miguel Gil award for journalism and the annual Ciudad de Torrevieja awards for fiction and poetry in conjunction with the local Town Hall of this Alicante resort.

GRIJALBO

Juan Grijalbo, a Spanish exile who later became a Mexican citizen, started publishing books in Mexico in 1939. He was involved in publishing and distribution throughout Latin America and founded Editorial Grijalbo in Barcelona in 1962. By 1980, the house had emerged as the market leader in Mexico with affiliate offices in Argentina, Chile and Colombia. In 1989, Grijalbo became part of Italy's Mondadori group, and the Grijalbo Mondadori publishing group was born, incorporating all of the Grijalbo businesses in Spain and the Americas.

In 2001, it became part of the Random House Mondadori joint venture. Grijalbo publishes and distributes its titles in all the Random House Mondadori territories.

Grijalbo's fiction list includes a very strong catalogue of historical novels by authors such as Valerio Massimo Manfredi and new talents like Ildefonso Falcones with his best seller, "La Catedral del Mar" (The Cathedral of the Sea) and second work, "La Mano de FÃ¡tima" (The Hand of FÃ¡tima). Grijalbo's long-standing tradition in nonfiction includes self-help and inspirational titles by renowned authors such as the Dalai Lama, Robin Sharma and Osho.

This imprint sponsors the annual historical novel prize of Caja Granada.

DEBATE

Debate was born in Madrid in 1977 as a progressive publishing house dedicated solely to works of nonfiction. In 1994, it was incorporated into the Bertelsmann Group and in 2001 into the Random House Mondadori joint venture. Its titles are published and distributed in all the Random House Mondadori territories.

Debate's catalogue contains nonfiction titles that are both informative and accessible on current topics in politics, science, economics, and new technology, as well as in the fields of cultural studies, sociology, and literature. Biographies and historical accounts with strong narrative voices can also be found within the list. Some of Debate's most renowned authors are Roger Penrose, Edward Said, VS Naipaul, Niall Ferguson, Wojciech Jagielski, Paul Kennedy, Daniel Kahneman and Paul Preston. As the house of Roberto Saviano, Anna Politkovskaya and Lydia Cacho, Debate is deeply engaged in freedom of expression. Since 2008, Debate has organized with the Casa de America in Madrid the Premio de Ensayo Iberoamericano, won by the Argentinean intellectual Juan JosÃ Sebreli in 2008 with "Comediantes y MÃ¡rtires. Evita, Gardel, el Che y Maradona" and by the Mexican author Jorge Volpi in 2009 with "El insomnio de Bolivar"

DEBOLSILLO

In a certain way, DeBolsillo's origins began in 1957 when innovative publisher GermÃ¡n Plaza (Plaza & JanÃs) began to publish pocket books under the name of Libros Plaza. Since then, the popularity of these small- formatted books continues to grow and DeBolsillo, with close to 1,500 titles in its catalogue, has become the indisputable leader of the format throughout the Spanish-speaking world. The imprint publishes and distributes its titles in all the Random House Mondadori territories.

DeBolsillo not only incorporates the titles from all of Random House Mondadori's imprints into its line, but since 2003, it releases works from other publishing houses, as well as never before published books. This last aspect of DeBolsillo's publishing plan clearly distinguishes the imprint from its competitors and makes it a prominent leader in Spain's pocket book market.

Among its fiction collections are: 'Best Seller', which compiles the works of writers such as Ildefonso Falcones, Ken Follett, Julia Navarro, and Stephen King; 'ContemporÃ¡nea' ('Contemporary Fiction'), with some of the most important creators of the 20th century"”Marcel Proust, Franz Kafka, F. Scott Fitzgerald"”, and of today"” Philip Roth, Antonio Lobo Antunes and Javier MarÃas, including twenty Nobel Prize Winters like J.M. Coetzee or Gabriel GarcÃa MÃ¡rquez. Also new voices find a place here, like David Foster Wallace, Chuck Palahniuk, Rodrigo FresÃ¡n or Junot Diaz. 'ClÃ¡sica' ('Classics'), which unites the oeuvres of the greatest authors who have marked the history of literature, from Gustave Flaubert, Henry James and Fyodor Dostoevsky to Miguel de Cervantes and Francisco de Quevedo; and 'Cisne' ('Swan'), which offers the best of romance, with novels by Monica McCarty, Loretta Chase and Sherrilyn Kenyon, among others.

Reflection and debate have their place in 'Ensayo' ('Essay'), a nonfiction collection meant to rigorously tackle the topics of today and of all times. Jared Diamond, Fernando Savater, Eugenio TrÃas and Edward Said are only a few of the names that can be found in this catalogue. 'Autoayuda' is a self-help collection of practical and spiritual books with celebrated authors like Wayne W. Dyer, John Gray, Eckhart Tolle and Spencer Jonhson.

LITERATURA MONDADORI

Mondadori began publishing in Spain in 1987 with an editorial vision dedicated to reflect the latest trends in international fiction, placing special emphasis on translations of non-Spanish global literature. Mondadori's titles are edited and distributed in all the Random House Mondadori territories.

Mondadori's authors range from Nobel Prize winners Gabriel GarcÃa MÃ¡rquez, Orhan Pamuk and J. M. Coetzee, and critically established authors AntÃ³nio Lobo Antunes, Cormac McCarthy and Philip Roth, to emerging names who will become a point of reference in the future such as U.S. writers Chuck Palahniuk and David Foster Wallace.

In the area of Hispanic literature, "Literatura Mondadori" brings together essential authors like Manuel VÃ¡zquez MontalbÃ¡n, captivating names in contemporary Latin American literature such as CÃsar Aira and Rodrigo FresÃ¡n, and representatives of new trends in Spanish narrative like Francisco Casavella and Javier Calvo.

RESEVOIR BOOKS

The "Reservoir Books" collection within Literature Mondadori aspires to give a space to the creators and professionals within the fields of music, film, graphic novels and other forms of popular expression.

LUMEN

Founded in 1960 in Barcelona, Lumen has always distinguished itself from other publishers through its pursuit of two key goals: to seek authors and works with the potential to become contemporary classics and to ensure that the best literature of the past remains available to the reading public. In 2001, Lumen became part of the Random House Mondadori joint venture. Its titles are edited and distributed in all the Random House Mondadori territories.

Lumen's fiction catalogue is represented by authors who have entered the canon like Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, Giorgio Bassani and Dorothy L. Sayers, as well as writers who can be considered today's classics such as Umberto Eco, Cristina Peri Rossi, Gustavo MartÃn Garzo, Juan MarsÃ, David Grossman, Antonia Byatt and Joyce Carol Oates. Right beside these grand names are those who Lumen's team considers the classics of tomorrow: Teresa Moure, Javier ArgÃ¼ello, Tracy Chevalier and Diane Setterfield, among others.

Lumen also publishes poetry "”both classics and contemporary works"” by renowned poets such as Pablo Neruda and Federico GarcÃa Lorca. Rigorously edited bilingual editions of collections by Philip Larkin, Rainer Maria Rilke, Robert Graves, Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson also stand out in the catalogue. Lumen's nonfiction list is distinguished by its literary character: From Cyril Connolly's "˜Selected Works" to Quentin Bell's biography of Virginia Woolf, to Umberto Eco's "The History of Beauty" and Alberto Manguel's "The History of Reading."

Special mention should be made of Lumen's introduction of the Mafalda comics in Spain, along with the rest of Quino's work, and Argentina's caustic Maitena with her collection of "Mujeres Alteradas" (Women on the Edge). Their claim is "Reading again!"

De Fontein Childrens Books
P.O. Box 1 3740 AA Baarn THE NETHERLANDS www.defonteinkinderboeken.nl		De Fontein Children's publishes books for children between two and sixteen years: picture-books, non-fiction, both literary and popular fiction, adventurous and humorous. In short, the whole spectrum of children's books. Significant authors are Ann Brashares, Roald Dahl, Jeff Kinney, Darren Shan and Jacqueline Wilson.

Uitgeverij Atlas

Herengracht 481

1017 BT Amsterdam

The Netherlands

Tel.: +31 20 524-9800

Fex: +31 20 627-6851

http://www.uitgeverijatlas.nl

Business Contact

Herengracht 481

1017 BT Amsterdam

The Netherlands

Tel.: +31 20 524-9800

Fax: +31 20 627-6851

www.businesscontact.nl

Uitgeverij Contact

Keizersgracht 205

1016 DS Amsterdam

The Netherlands

Tel.: +31 20 535-2535

Fax: +31 20 535-2549

www.uitgeverijcontact.nl

Uitgeverij De Fontein / De Kern
Prinses Marielaan 8
3743 JA Baarn
Tel.: +31 35 548 6316
Fax: +31 35 542 3855
www.uitgeverijdefontein.nl

Uitgeverij Mouria
Leidsegracht 105 A
1017 ND Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Tel.: +31 20 530-7340
Fax: +31 20 420-7453
www.mouria.nl

Kosmos Uitgevers
Herculesplein 20
3584 AA Utrecht
Tel.: +31 30 25 28 500
Fax: +31 30 25 28 598
www.kosmosuitgevers.nl

L.J. Veen

Herengracht 481

1017 BT Amsterdam

The Netherlands

Tel.: +31 20 5249800

Fax: +31 20 6726851

www.ljveen.nl

Luitingh
Leidsegracht 105 A
1017 ND Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Tel.: +31 20 530-7340
Fax: +31 20 626265
www.luitingh-sijthoff.nl

Sijthoff
Leidsegracht 105 A
1017 ND Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Tel.: +31 20 530-7340
Fax: +31 20 626-2651
www.luitingh-sijthoff.nl

Ten Have
IJsseldijk 31
8266 AD Kampen
The Netherlands
Tel.: +31 38 339 2529
Fax: +31 38 332 8912
www.uitgeverijtenhave.nl

NDC | VBK

NDC|VBK is one of the powerhouses of Dutch Publishing, and is the result of a merger in 2005 between the Noordelijke Dagblad Combinatie and Veen Bosch and Keuning Uitgevers. Both companies have a long tradition of publishing newspapers and books. Atlas, Business Contact, Uitgeverij Contact, Uitgeverij De Fontein & De Kern, Kosmos, L.J.Veen, Luitingh, Mouria, Sijthoff and Ten Have are all part of NDC | VBK.

Uitgeverij Atlas

Atlas is an imprint of Amstel Uitgevers, which in turn is part of NDC|VBK. Atlas publishes literary fiction and non-fiction, including biographies, philosophy, history, travel literature, poetry, and graphic narratives. Among their authors are: V.S. Naipaul, John Banville, Haruki Murakami, Alain de Botton, Bill Bryson, Paul Theroux, Yiyun Li, Adam Haslett, Colin Thubron, Geert Mak and Frank Westerman.

Business Contact

Business Contact is an imprint of Amstel Uitgevers, which in turn is part of NDC|VBK. Business Contact has a long line in books on business, management, economics and career advancement. The company publishes both translated and original Dutch titles. Some of the authors in translation include Ken Blanchard, Jim Collins, Stephen R. Covey, Tim Harford, Spencer Johnson and Daniel Pink. Business Contact is expanding its list to include more mainstream titles in areas such as work-related self-help and psychology, general economics and current affairs. Recent translations in these areas include Thaler & Sunstein's NUDGE, Jonathan Lehrer's HOW WE DECIDE and Jeffrey Sachs's COMMON WEALTH.

Uitgeverij Contact

Uitgeverij Contact is part of NDC|VBK, but gained an independent status within that group in 2005. Its history goes back to 1933, when Contact was founded to point out the dangers of the upcoming nazism. After World War II the socialist origins became less obvious, but Contact has always continued to publish books that encourage readers to be involved in everything that happens in the world around them. The company faded away in the 1970s, only to return anew in 1985, with a stronger focus on original Dutch literature. The connection to current affairs is still reflected in their list today, be it in their literary fiction, poetry, journalism or in non-fiction books. Their translated authors include: Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Nora Ephron, Jeffrey Eugenides, Niall Ferguson, Francis Fukuyama, Malcolm Gladwell, Mark Haddon, Tony Judt, Nigella Lawson, Nelson Mandela, Mark Mazower, Steven Pinker, Susan Pinker, Samantha Power, Richard Powers, Salman Rushdie, Simon Schama, Lionel Shriver, George Soros, Ron Suskind, Jeanette Winterson, Fareed Zakaria, Martin Amis, Matt Ruff, Rick Moody, Colson Whitehead, Suketa Mehta, Dexter Filkins, Richard Holmes, and Rebecca Goldstein.

De Fontein/Tirion

De Fontein|Tirion is part of NDC|VBK, and the result of a merger between De Fontein and Tirion in January 2010. It has three imprints: De Fontein, De Kern and Tirion.

De Fontein

De Fontein publishes both Dutch and international authors of commercial thrillers and true crime. Among their authors are Jilliane Hoffman, Craig Russell, Steve Berry, Alex Berenson, David Hewson, Andrew Gross, Karen Rose. They are expanding their list with dark psychological suspense and epic historical novels. Their most prominent Dutch writer is Appie Baantjer, and they also publish a famous Dutch crime reporter, Peter R. de Vries.

De Kern

De Kern mainly publishes books for a women's audience: general and women's fiction, memoirs, narrative non-fiction, and some self-help. Their focus is on books that offer escape for the modern woman, or true stories by women with a different cultural background. Among their authors are Joanne Harris, Erica James, Anna Maxted, Sue Miller, Lucie Whitehouse, Jojo Moyes, Iwasaki and Virginia Andrews. Some of their diet book authors are: Gillian McKeith, Dr. Atkins, and Marilyn Diamond.

Tirion

Tirion publishes strictly non-fiction in the areas of sport, crafts and nature.

Kosmos

Kosmos Publishers was founded in 1992 as the result of a merger between two well known publishing companies: Kosmos (founded in 1919) and Zomer & Keuning (founded in 1885). Kosmos Publishers has since then developed into a prominent publisher in the non-fiction field, publishing titles on subjects like Travel & Language, Gardening, Family & Health, Spirituality & Personal Growth (under their Servire imprint) as well as other general non-fiction topics. Their publications always offer interesting, easy to access, useful and reliable information, presented in an attractive manner.
Their authors in translation include: Jamie Oliver, Ruth Rogers & Rose Gray (River Cafe), Neale Donald Walsh, Gary Zukav, Deepak Chopra, Thomas Moore, Oliver Heath, Tony Wheeler, Elizabeth Bryan, Desmond Morris.

L.J. Veen

L.J. Veen was founded in 1887 and has always been known for publishing classics like Austen, Flaubert, Forster, Dostoevski, Charles Dickens, to name but a few. In recent decades numerous publishing houses were acquired by L.J. Veen and the house grew into what is now one of the powerhouses of Dutch publishing, Veen Bosch and Keuning. Veen itself though has always remained a small publishing house within that group.

Veen until recently published (besides classics) mostly contemporary Dutch authors, both in fiction and non-fiction. Recently they have started to branch out and have acquired more translated books. Their foreign authors include: Chloe Aridjis, David Levien, Carolyn Parkhurst, Andrew Kaufman and Peter Orner.

Luitingh

(pronounced as “Lau-ting”)

Luitingh (established in 1947) is an imprint of Luitingh-Sijthoff, part of the NDC|VBK publishing group.

Luitingh specializes in genre books and books that are thrilling, imaginative, scary, amazing and addictive. The publisher has a strong and solid list of bestselling authors including Dan Brown, Stephen King, Lee Child, Dean Koontz, Robert Ludlum and Michael Crichton. Additionally, Luitingh also publishes acclaimed non-fiction authors like Mark Bowden (Black Hawk Down and Guests of the Ayatolla) and W. Marsden & J. Sher (Angels of Death).

Commercial fiction and non-fiction aside, the "Luitingh Fantasy" imprint publishes well-known fantasy authors like Robert Jordan, Terry Goodkind, George R. R. Martin, Tad Williams, Clive Barker, Robin Hobb, Dan Simmons, Fiona McIntosh, Katherine Kerr, Raymond E Feist and Stan Nicholls, as well as German bestselling authors Markus Heitz and Bernhard Hennen.

Luitingh, another Luitingh imprint, focuses on graphic novels and comic books by national (Martin Lodewijk, Hein de Kort) and international authors such as Buddha (Osamu Tezuka) and Ythaq (Arleston and Floch). L also publishes Stephen King's The Dark Tower graphic novels.

Luitingh has published a number of audiobook projects in 2007 and 2008, most notably Dan Brown's Deception Point and several Stephen King short stories. In 2009, the focus turned to new media and online marketing with the launch of a brand new company website and participation in the development of a large online reading community www.watleesjij.nu. Also, in acquisition, the focus has been on innovative cross-media projects like Anthony Zuiker's Level 26.

Mouria

Mouria was founded in 2002 by Marijke Bartels and Martijn David. On the terrace of a Greek restaurant, while sitting under a mulberry tree (Mouria in Greek) the idea to start a new publishing house came up. Mouria is an imprint of Luitingh~Sijthoff, which in turn is part of NDC|VBK

Mouria publishes around 30 titles a year, which gives them the opportunity to give full attention to every title. Their focus is on books with a strong narrative, both in fiction and non-ficiton. A number of their authors are: Elizabeth Kostova, Diane Setterfield, William Boyd, Tash Aw, Ali Smith, Wally Lamb, Garth Stein, Katherine Howe, Jeff Jarvis and Junot DÃaz.

Sijthoff

Sijthoff is an imprint within Luitingh-Sijthoff (NDC/VBK). Sijthoff has a broad list that ranges from commercial fiction to upmarket/literary fiction, and narrative nonfiction with a strong storyline, where human feelings and relationships are an important theme. They have many well known authors like Alan Bradley, Jonathan Kellerman, Julia Alvarez, John le Carra, Patricia Cornwell, Ildefonso Falcones, Alexander McCall Smith, Jill Mansell, Jed Rubenfeld, and Danielle Steel.

Ten Have

Ten Have was founded in 1831 in Amsterdam and became part of NDC|VBK a number of years ago. Ten Have publish about 80 titles per year, roughly 50% of which are in translation, and they focus on books for the general market on spirituality, personal growth and self-development, religion and philosophy. Ten Have is leading the market in books that have in one way or another a spiritual aspect. Ten Have's list is split into three distinct categories: the head, the heart and the hands. Books of "the head" appeal to the intellectual capacities of the readers. Those of "the heart" feed their spiritual needs, books of "the hand" give the readers practical help to live a meaningful and healthy life, both personally and professionally. Their authors include: Pim van Lommel, Norman Fisher, Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse, Michael Gill, Thich Nhat Hanh, Anselm GrÃn, Hape Kerkeling, Alain Badiou, Michael Ruse.

5F Gangnam Publishing Culture Center
Sinsa-dong 506, Gangnam-Gu
135-887 Seoul

KOREA

Tel.: (+82) 2 515-2000
Fax: (+82) 2 3444-5185

www.minumsa.com

Minumsa is the largest general trade publisher in Korea. Founded in 1966 they are committed to publishing the best literary works, originals and reprints, by writers both in Korea and abroad. Minumsa has established two of the most prestigious Korean awards, 'Writer of the Year Award' and the 'KimSuyoung Award', and has become the most influential publishing company in Korean literature. Not only fostering Korean literature, Minumsa has also continued to publish the finest foreign literature with writers such as J. D. Salinger, Jack Kerouac, Guenter Grass, Hermann Hesse, Jorge Luis Borges, Samuel Beckett, Milan Kundera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Doris Lessing, Yi Mun-yol, William Faulkner, Kazuo Ishiguro, Orhan Pamuk, Jon McGregor, Nicole Krauss, Jonathan Safran Foer, Carlos Ruiz Zafon, Cormac McCarthy, John Cheever, Martin Amis, Saul Bellow, Gregory Maguire, Daniel Kehlmann, Carlos Fuentes, Gary Shteyngart and Banana Yoshimoto. The strength of Minumsa extends to the nonfiction and includes the works of Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, Jean Baudrillard, Eric Hobsbawm and Jeremy Rifkin. Honoring these achievements, Donga Daily Newspaper named Minumsa 'The most distinguished publishing company' in 2003, selected by a group of chief editors of Korean publishing houses.

Minumsa's publishing group includes BIR, Goldenbough, GoldenCompass, ScienceBooks, and the graphic imprint SemiColon.

Goldenbough was founded in 1996, and has successfully reflected the new trends of the younger generations in Korea. They have opened up new markets for mystery, crime, fantasy, detective fiction and commercial nonfiction. Million-copy sellers of Goldenbough include Dragon Raja (the father of Korean Fantasy), Rich Dad Poor Dad, and the Sherlock Holmes series. In addition to its commercial success, Goldenbough has also brought in works from the best contemporary writers such as Stephen King, Dennis Lehane, Matthew Pearl, James Patterson, Ursula K. Le Guin, Margaret Atwood, Philip K. Dick, William Gibson, Richard Matheson, and Kirino Natsuo.

ScienceBooks was established in 1997 as the demand for science general trade nonfiction increased in Korea. ScienceBooks has had great success in delivering interesting viewpoints on science to a Korean audience. The key writers include are James D. Watson, Carl Sagan, Konrad Lorenz, Stephen Jay Gould, Jane Goodall, Edward O. Wilson, Richard Feynman, Simon Winchester, Matt Ridley, Steven Pinker, Lisa Randall and C. P. Snow.

GoldenCompass, another imprint of Minumsa, was founded in 2005, and has successfully introduced business books and more commercial fiction and non-fiction titles to Korea, again reflecting new trends for the younger generation. They published important titles by Tim Flannery, Shirin Ebadi, Martha Stewart, J. Krishnamurti, Osho and Brian Tracy.

Semicolon was founded in 2005 to introduce various kinds of visual culture in book form. It covers art, design, architecture to film and graphic novels. The important writers of Semicolon are Wally Olins, Michael Kimmelman, Danny Gregory, Jed Perl, Ross King and Warren Berger on nonfiction titles, and Art Spiegelman , Chris Ware, Daniel Clowes, Joann Sfar, Lewis Trondheim, Posy Simmonds, Adrian Tomine, Osamu Tetsuka and Frank Miller on graphic novels.

5F Gangnam Publishing Culture Center
Sinsa-dong 506, Gangnam-Gu
135-887 Seoul

KOREA

Tel.: (+82) 2 515-2000
Fax: (+82) 2 3444-5185

www.minumsa.com

Minumsa is the largest general trade publisher in Korea. Founded in 1966, Minumsa has committed to publishing the best literary works, originals and reprints, by writers both in Korea and abroad. In 1994, Minumsa launched BIR. Since then, BIR has been publishing storybooks and picture books for young adults and children and has become a leader in the field.

The foreign writers BIR has introduced to the Korean children include John Burningham, Ezra Jack Keats, Raymond Briggs, Anthony Browne, Michael Ende, Otfried Preussler, Anold Lobel, Maurice Sendak, Enzensberger, David Almond, Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen and Mary Pope Osborne.

Cameleon is an imprint under BIR in Minumsa Publishing Group and publishes wide spectrum of fiction for YA and adults. The main audience of Cameleon is kaleidoscopic readers from late teens to twenties, so it aimss new sense of literature in terms of contents and sensuous and light handy book in terms of appearance. The authors of Cameleon includes Steven Gould, Robert Cormier, Gabrielle Zevin, Rachel Cohn, Eric Garicia, Adams foulds, Matthew Dicks and famous Japanese authors such as Riku Onda, Eto Mori, Atsuko Asano among others.

Uudenmaankatu 8-12
00120 Helsinki, FINLAND

Tel.: (+358) 9 19961
Fax: (+358) 9 1996 540

www.otava.fi

The family-owned Otava Publishing Company Ltd., founded in 1890, is Finland's second largest general publisher. Otava publishes over 350 new titles in Finnish every year, by both domestic and foreign authors: fiction and non-fiction, books for children and young readers, graphic novels, comic books, audiobooks, textbooks and pedagogical materials.

Otava is Finland's leading publisher of children's books and books for young readers. In this area, the publishing program brings together tradition and new trends, children's classics and international best-sellers. The program is varied and wide: picture books, middle grade fiction, novels for young readers, crossover fiction, fantasy, non-fiction, poetry, anthologies and comic books.

In bringing the books to their various audiences, Otava cooperates in many ways with different sales channels, one of the most important being Finland's largest book club, the Great Finnish Book Club which belongs to the Otava Group. The club has eight "sub-clubs", three of which are dedicated to children's books.

Otava is a strong publisher of picture books with domestic star names such as Mauri Kunnas and Aino Havukainen & Sami Toivonen. Mauri Kunnas is Finland's most loved author of children's' books. He has written and illustrated over 40 titles, with over six million copies sold in twenty-nine languages and thirty-one countries. The Tatu and Patu picture books, created by the team of Aino Havukainen and Sami Toivonen, have been winning new readers and conquering new markets: the rights for nine titles have been sold in several European countries and Japan. Otava is also a successful publisher of novels for young readers, with a cast of authors including Tuija Lehtinen, Tuula Kallioniemi, Hanna-Marjut Marttila among others.

The foreign rights of Otava's Finnish titles are represented by Otava Group Agency (oga@Otava.fi).

Otava publishes a wide range of foreign children's' & young adult book authors in translation including Kate Di Camillo, Cassandra Clare, Roald Dahl, Cornelia Funke, Neil Gaiman, S.E. Hinton, Lene Kaaberbol, C.S. Lewis, Walter Moers, Beatrix Potter, Rob Reger, Rick Riordan, Louis Sachar, Jacqueline Wilson and Markus Zusak.

Characters like Spot, the Barbapapas, Tintin, Lucky Luke, Garfield, Peanuts and the Smurfs among others are brought by Otava to Finland.

Kodansha General Books Division
12-21 Otowa 2-chome
Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112

JAPAN
Tel.: (+81) 3 5395 3523
Fax: (+81) 3 3942 7203

Kodansha has a website written in Japanese: http://www.kodansha.co.jp

Their English language site is: http://www.kodanclub.com

Kodansha is a media conglomerate with 20+ publishing divisions and 30+ magazines, including the leading magazines Friday and Weekly Gendai which has a 1 million+ circulation. Kodansha is one of the largest media companies in Japan. Founded by current President Mrs. Noma's grandfather in 1909, Kodansha has grown from strength to strength. Today, it also owns sister publishing company Kobunsha. Kodansha Ltd. has a number of book divisions including the General Books Division, the Literary Division, the Bunko (Paperback) Division and the Lifestyle Division.

Some of Kodansha's translated authors include: Jean Dominique Bauby, Bebe Moore Campbell, Jung Chang, Richard Paul Evans, Daniel Goleman, Winston Groom, David Guterson, Lynn Hightower, Jonathan Kellerman, Whitney Otto, Jonathan Rabe, Christopher Reichs, George Soros, Malcolm Gladwell, John Mearsheimer, Stephen Walt and Robert Wright.

Bunko Paperbacks constitutes a crucial element of the company, publishing approximately 300 titles in an average year, including paperback originals, translations, and specially commissioned books. In translation, Bunko handles genre authors such as Patricia Cornwell, Michael Connelly, and Greg Iles, as well as more general literature by authors including David Guterson, Louis Sacher, and Lucy Maud Montgomery, as well as, of course, the works of Kenzaburo Oe and Haruki Murakami.

Via Mondadori 1

20090 Segrate (Milano)

Italy

Tel.: (+39) 02 75421

Fax: (+39) 02 7542 2302

www.mondadori.it

Over the past few years Mondadori has also published an impressive number of bestsellers. The Dan Brown phenomenon saw in 2006 the addition of a new title, Crypto, which brought combined sales to almost seven million copies. In the meantime, Carlos Ruiz Zafon's The Shadow of the Wind achieved huge and extended success. But the company's portfolio of authors is rich in all the different publishing sectors, especially major Italian authors who have enjoyed marked success: Andrea Camilleri with La pensione Eva, Carlo Fruttero with Donne informate sui fatti (Women acquainted with the Facts), Niccolo Ammaniti with his prize-winning novel Come Dio comanda (As god commands), Corrado Augias, and the prolonged success of Valerio Massimo Manfredi with his bestselling historical fiction. Among new authors, the most exciting debuts were certainly that of Roberto Saviano with Gomorrah, and Paolo Giordano's La Solitudine Dei Numeri Primi, jewels in the crown of recent efforts by the company to develop promising young talent.

In recent years the company has also strengthened its ability to achieve success in all its editorial lines, expanding and consolidating the bestseller phenomenon in more complex sectors. In the Children's area, with Mondadori Ragazzi, after the outstanding results of the The Chronicles of Narnia, a new, young author of fantasy, Licia Troisi, has reached great success with the publication of two trilogies, Le cronache del mondo emerso and Le guerre del mondo emerso. In the reference sector, a new series of language dictionaries, produced in cooperation with Langenscheidt, proved very successful from the start.Mondadori's many authors in translation include: Salman Rushdie, Tom Wolfe, Philip Roth, Jeffrey Eugenides, Roman Frister, Ernest Hemingway, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Linn Ullmann, V.S. Naipaul, Richard Zimler, Patricia Cornwell, John Grisham, Thomas Harris, Michael Crichton, Scott Turow, Dominique Lapierre, Ken Follett, Cathleen Schine, Cristina Schwarz, Sophie Kinsella, Martin Cruz Smith, E.L. Doctorow, Robert Harris, Chuck Palahniuk, Christopher Reich, Daniel Silva, David Baldacci, Christian Jacq, Alberto Manguel, Scott Berg, Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, Tony Judt, Stephane Courtois, Stephen Pinker, Richard Scarry, Ed McBain, Bill Gates, and Paul Wilson.

Redazione libri per Ragazzi
Via Durazzo, 4
20134 Milano

KOREA

www.ragazzi.mondadori.it

Mondadori's children's catalogue is one of the oldest and the widest in Italy. The publishing house has a number of imprints that range from novelty books to classics. The very first book published by Arnoldo Mondadori in 1912 was Aia Madama, a collection of fairytales.

Junior Mondadori, launched in 1988, is a prestigious and successful collection of original paperbacks for children. I Grandi, the hardcover imprint, publishes the top international authors such as Herbie Brennan, Eoin Colfer, Cornelia Funke, Neil Gaiman, Anthony Horowitz, C.S. Lewis, Michelle Paver, and Jerry Spinelli, along many well known Italian authors such as Bianca Pitzorno, one of the best-known Italian authors for children, and Licia Troisi, who is already achieving impressive international success with her Emerged Lands saga (Cronache del Mondo Emerso, Le guerre del Mondo Emerso, Leggende del Mondo Emerso).

The Contemporanea imprint publishes illustrated editions of authors already perceived as classics, which include: Jorge Amado, Jean de Brunhoff, David Grossman, Gabriel GarcÃa Marquez, Dino Buzzati, and Italo Calvino. Also published by this imprint are extremely successful series such as Goosebumps and The Spiderwick Chronicles; illustrated books for younger readers by authors such as Richard Scarry, Eric Carle, Lucy Cousins, David McKee, and Keith Haring; and comics collections such as Asterix and Tex.

Shout, a recently launched imprint is dedicated to crossover titles. Shout hosts international authors such as Sarah Dessen, David Levithan and Rachel Cohn, Jay Asher, Gayle Forman, and Scott Westerfeld as well as very successful Italian authors Francesco Gungui and Dorotea De Spirito.

AST Publishing Group
Zvezdniy blvr 21 build 1
135-887 Seoul

Moscow, Russia

www.ast.ru

AST-Astrel produces a wide range of children's books, covering almost every aspect of the YA and children's market: from textbooks to YA fiction, picture and activity books to encyclopedias. Furthermore they are the exclusive rights holders of a number of famous Russian children's writers including Samuil Marshak, Eduard Uspenski, Igor Suteev, Grigori Oster amongst others. They also publish a number of renowned international writers including A.A. Milne and Astrid Lindgren.

There are several departments within AST-Astrel dealing with YA and children's books. Malysh (The Kid) covers a wide range of both classical and modern texts, from Russian fairy tales to contemporary children's poetry as well as well known titles by international authors. The Editorial Office for Children's Literature produces popular fiction series, historical novels as well as classic works for children by both native and international authors i.e. Maurice Maeterlinck. Rodnichok (The Well Spring) is based in Tula, just south of Moscow and specializes in activity books and books for younger readers.

There are some other departments within AST-Astrel, focusing primarily on adult titles who also produce quite a few children's books.

The newly established Caramel works on movie tie-in projects, graphic novels as well as up-market science fiction and fantasy series with a goal of discovering new and promising international authors and presenting them in the Russian market.

Atom (an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group)
	Atom is the YA imprint of Little, Brown Book Group. Founded in 2002 as a sister imprint to Orbit, the science fiction and fantasy imprint, Atom has since become an independent imprint focused on publishing the best in mainstream and supernatural YA fiction. As an imprint, Atom is still the new kid on the block, but with writers as talented and diverse as Melissa de la Cruz, Scott Westerfeld and Catherine Webb, and the crossover bestseller successes of P.C. & Kristin Cast, plus worldwide phenomenon Stephanie Meyer, it is rapidly establishing itself in the children's publishing world.