Meet the Publishers

Apollo is the home of all things non-fiction from the award-winning Head of Zeus. From medieval histories to the latest current events, from the cutting edge of science to the history of art, we seek to inform, entertain, and enlighten.

Appletree Press is one of Ireland's largest publishers of gift and guidebooks for an international market. It publishes in eight languages in its own right. These include French, Russian, Japanese, Greek and Spanish. It also co-publishes in some of these languages

Founded in 1993, Arcturus is proudly independent. Based in South London’s bustling publishing district near London Bridge, Arcturus’ books are sold in almost every country, and we work with talented authors, illustrators and printers all around the world.

Atlantic Books is an independent British publishing house, with its headquarters in Ormond House in Bloomsbury, in the London Borough of Camden.

Bloomsbury Publishing is a leading independent publishing house, established in 1986, with authors who have won the Nobel, Pulitzer and Booker Prizes, and is the originating publisher and custodian of the Harry Potter series. Bloomsbury has offices in London, New York, New Delhi, Oxford and Sydney. Within Bloomsbury’s Academic division, it publishes under Bloomsbury, as well as under a number of prestigious and historic imprint names. Read our story for how it all began.

Founded in 2018, Boru Press specialises in content for Further Education, College, University & Professional Training courses in Ireland.

Clarus Press is an Irish based and Irish owned legal publishing company with an objective to meet the information needs and demands of a rapidly developing and competitive legal profession. Our aim is to provide high quality products in a wide range of subjects and specialisations. We have had some notable success in the commissioning of what we believe to be both innovative and useful products attracting the finest talent in Irish legal publishing, for example, our established legal journals and best selling law books include: Dublin University Law Journal (in association with Trinity College Dublin) ; Constitutional Law: Text, Cases and Materials by Dr Oran Doyle & Dr Tom Hickey; Garda Powers Law and Practice by Rebecca Coen (with consultant editor Paul Anthony McDermott); Employment Law in Ireland by Prof Neville Cox, Dr Val Corbett and Mark Connaughton SC ; and An Introduction to Irish Company Law, 5th ed by Gráinne Callanan. Innovation and an understanding of the needs for each sector of the legal profession drives our commissioning activities. We insist on quality in relation to the content, editorial and production of each product. In addition to this we are committed to giving our customers value for money. We are very keen for all legal professionals to get involved with Clarus Press, therefore, if you have any comments, proposals or product ideas that you would like to discuss with us, we would be delighted to hear from you. As an independent company, Clarus Press has offices in the Griffith Campus on Dublin’s South Circular Road.

Cork University Press aims to stimulate Irish learning by reflecting distinctive and distinguished scholarship in its lists. The Press began publishing in 1925 and is the oldest university press in Ireland. Its philosophy has been to encourage a broad spectrum of debate in the field of Irish Studies by publishing research which engages with contemporary cultural debate. Owing to the spread of Irish Studies in third level (university) institutions during recent decades, throughout North America, Europe and Australia, research in the field has increased in depth and range. Our list reflects this growth in its engagement with a variety of discourses. While the Press specializes in the broad field of Irish Studies, its subject range extends across the fields of music, art history, geography, film studies, literary and poetry criticism. The focus of our list is however in the areas of Irish cultural history, archaeology and landscape studies. A number of our titles are viewed by critics as ground-breaking in their contribution to the field, namely the Atlas of the Irish Revolution, Atlas of the Great Irish Famine, Atlas of the Irish Rural Landscape, The Companion to Irish Traditional Music, the Critical Conditions series, and most notably Volumes IV and V of the Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing: Irish Women’s Writing and Traditions. The Press publishes approximately 15 books a year. All of our titles are rigorously peer-reviewed and edited. (The peer-review process is described in more detail on the Information for Authors page of this site.) We have three employees. Contact names and e-mails can be found on the contacts page Cork University Press is a member of Publishing Ireland and the Association for University Presses

Dorling Kindersley Limited is a British multinational publishing company specialising in illustrated reference books for adults and children in 63 languages. It is part of Penguin Random House, a subsidiary of German media conglomerate Bertelsmann.

Eastwood Books is an imprint of the Wordwell Group, publishers of History Ireland, Archaeology Ireland and Books Ireland magazines and Wordwell Books. For over 40 years, the Wordwell Group has been at the heart of Irish cultural, historical and publishing life. Recent awards include winning the Nilsson Heritage Award 2019 and 2022, and shortlisting for Irish Small Press of the Year in the Bookseller Awards in 2019 and 2020.

Publishing books that are brilliant, beautiful and brave Unbound by genre, all Eriu books have a connection to Ireland. We are passionate about exploring all aspects of Irish life, and working closely with talented authors to bring Irish voices to international audiences. Spanning adult and children’s fiction and non-fiction, we love discovering new ways to tell stories from different perspectives. Based in Dublin, Eriu possesses the strength of an international publisher, complete with access to markets throughout the world, while deploying the creativity, responsiveness and agility of a smaller imprint by using our deep local knowledge and expertise to deliver books that Irish readers love.

A major independent publishing house based in London, renowned for its distinguished list of poetry and literary fiction. It has historically been the primary publisher for many iconic Irish authors.

Four Courts Press was founded in 1970 by Michael Adams (see below) as a small press. From 1992, Four Courts Press expanded rapidly from its theology base, first into Celtic and Medieval Studies and Ecclesiastical History, and then into Modern History, Art, Literature and Law. The Press publishes some 40 titles a year. At present there are over 800 titles in print. Our books are available worldwide, either directly via our website or through an extensive chain of bookstores, libraries and book wholesalers.

One of Ireland's leading publishers of books for the general public, covering a wide range of topics from cookery and history to biography and current affairs.

Granta magazine and Granta Books share a remit to discover and publish the best in new literary fiction, memoir, reportage and poetry from around the world. The magazine was founded in 1889 by students at Cambridge University as The Granta, a periodical of student politics, badinage and literary enterprise, named after the river that runs through the town. In this original incarnation it published the work of writers like A.A. Milne, Michael Frayn, Stevie Smith, Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath. In 1979, Bill Buford and Pete de Bolla transformed Granta from a student publication to the literary quarterly it remains today. Each themed issue of Granta turns the attention of the world’s best writers on to one aspect of the way we live now.

Grub Street is an award-winning small, niche independent publisher, publishing only books on cookery and military aviation history.

Welcome to HQ We have one thing on our minds at HQ… to bring you brilliant books. We have something for everyone – from commercial fiction to crime, thrillers to memoirs, cookbooks to poetry, from paperback to audiobooks, from debut authors to household names, we’ve got them all.

An esteemed Irish publisher.

HarperCollins Publishers has been entertaining, educating, and inspiring generations of readers for more than 200 years. From its humble beginnings as a family-run print shop, HarperCollins is today the second-largest consumer book publisher in the world. Headquartered in New York, it has more than 4,000 employees working across publishing operations in 15 countries and 120 branded imprints. The company publishes approximately 10,000 new books every year in 16 languages and has a print and digital catalog of more than 250,000 titles. We seek to deliver content that presents a diversity of voices and speaks to the global community.

Hemlock Press is a boutique book imprint from HarperFiction

The History Press is a British publishing company specialising in the publication of titles devoted to local and specialist history. It identifies itself as the United Kingdom's largest independent publisher in this field, publishing approximately 300 books per year and with a backlist of over 12,000 titles.

Irish Academic Press was established in Dublin in 1974 by Frank Cass following the demise of the Irish University Press, and gradually developed into one of the leading Irish publishers of academic and scholarly writing on a wide range of subjects within the broad field of Irish Studies. Following Mr Cass’s death in 2007, his son Stewart continued and expanded the business while remaining true to the core values of his father’s company – academic quality, integrity, scholarly research and accessible, insightful, writing. Key titles over the years, such as Reflections on the Irish State by Garrett Fitzerald and The Surnames of Ireland by Edward MacLysaght, exemplify how IAP brought to the fore many important and revealing aspects of Irish history, literature, society and current affairs. The evolution of the Press continued in 2012 when the company was acquired by local book industry figure Conor Graham, formerly of New Island and Brookside Publishing Services, and the company moved to its current location in Co. Kildare. So began another era in its long and proud history. 2012 also saw the establishment of a general books imprint, Merrion Press, created to develop our publishing to include more popular and accessible titles distinct from the typical academic projection of the IAP format, and ultimately to provide a vehicle for the growing number of general titles published each year which appeal to a broader audience. As the new owner of Irish Academic Press, Conor is committed to continuing the work of his predecessors and building on its strong brand, with plans to publish 30-35 new titles each year, spanning the companies traditional subject areas of modern Irish history, military history, political history, historical biographies, as well as titles in the new areas of current affairs and memoir.

In 1768 John McMurray was looking for a business opportunity. Confident that ‘total blockheads in the trade’ were making fortunes, he invested £700 of his wife’s money in publishing. A convivial hustler, Murray’s Fleet Street shop soon became a hub of literary life. Following the success of Byron’s Childe Harold, John Murray moved to Albemarle Street where, a few years later, early cantos of Byron’s Don Juan were sold from the window to an eager crowd. Anticipating the needs and desires of the reading public, John Murray were the first publisher to produce a mass-market cookery book as well the first self-help title, the first travel guides and, in Kenneth Clark’s Civilisation, the first television tie-in. Though much has changed since John Murray published Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, Jane Austen’s Emma, Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, John Betjeman’s Collected Poems, and launched ‘the greatest travel book of the twentieth century’, Patrick Leigh Fermor’s A Time of Gifts, we remain entrepreneurial, curious and excited about discovering and nurturing new voices that can shape and shake our world. John Murray is the home of prize-winning debuts including Beasts of No Nation by Uzodinma Iweala, The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley and The Glorious Heresies by Lisa McInerney. Elmet by Fiona Mozley, Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh and Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones have all been shortlisted for the Booker and Mick Herron’s bestselling Slough House series have been heralded as some of the best thrillers of all time. Our non-fiction includes Andrea Wulf’s Costa-winning, The Invention of Nature, prize-shortlisted Harold McGee’s Nosedive, Jill Lepore’s If Then, and bestsellers Trevor Noah’s Born a Crime, Randall Munroe’s What If?, Kassia St Clair’s The Secret Lives of Colour, and Stephen Hawking’s final book, Brief Answers to the Big Questions. In 2015 we created the John Murray Originals list, a home for risk-taking, genre-defying fiction and non-fiction that has launched the careers of Jessie Greengrass and Fiona Mozley. In 2021 we begin the John Murray Journeys, a beautifully designed series of classic and forgotten travel writing with new introductions. And in 2022, we will launch Baskerville, our distinctive crime and thriller list. Literary fiction, narrative non-fiction, science, history, biography, memoir, travel and nature writing that is entertaining, absorbing, surprising and prize-winning.

Macmillan Publishers is a leading publishing company and home to some of the world’s most cherished authors and creators. Our imprints publish a wide range of genres and formats for every kind of reader — from adult fiction and nonfiction to many inspired children’s books. Our list features bestselling, award-winning literary talent, including the Nobel Prize, the Man Booker Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Newbery Medal, and the Caldecott Medal. As a part of Holtzbrinck, a large family-owned media company headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany, we are firmly committed to our employees, authors, and core values — that are not just learned, they are lived. We strive to build a culture that is inclusive of diverse voices and perspectives throughout all levels of the company, where everyone feels supported and empowered.

Established in 1944, Mercier Press is Ireland's oldest independent publishing house. Based in Cork, it publishes a broad list spanning Irish history, current affairs, folklore, children's books, cookery and sport, and remains a central voice in Irish publishing more than 80 years after its founding.

Merrion Press is an independent Irish trade publishing imprint established in 2012. It operates as a general-interest division of the Irish Academic Press, headquartered in Newbridge, County Kildare. It publishes accessible non-fiction, memoirs, current affairs, and contemporary titles.

A leading independent publisher of literary fiction, poetry, and non-fiction, New Island is dedicated to discovering and promoting the best of Irish writing.

Nine Bean Rows is a boutique Irish publishing house for tastemakers and storytellers. At Nine Bean Rows, we believe that there are two things that connect everyone, everywhere: food and stories. Specialising in food and drink, our aim is to provide a more inclusive snapshot of Ireland’s modern, diverse and exceptional food culture, and in so doing to create a new culinary canon.

No Alibis is an Independent Bookstore based in Belfast. We have been selling books on Botanic Avenue, within the Queen’s Quarter, for over 25 years. We are a community bookshop. We are a general bookshop with a particular interest in children’s books, Irish literature, history and politics, the humanities and, of course, mystery fiction. We are also a hub for the creative arts. We regularly host concerts, book launches, poetry readings, and lectures.

An independent Irish publisher dedicated to producing high-quality non-fiction books on a wide range of subjects, including history, current affairs, biography, and lifestyle.

Penguin Books is a British publishing house founded in 1935. It is one of the largest English-language publishers in the world, known for making quality literature accessible to a wide audience through affordable paperbacks.

Sandycove is the Irish-focussed imprint of Penguin Random House. We are literary and commercial; we are local and global. We are here to help great writers tell their stories to the world. Publishing no more than 20 new titles a year, across the full spectrum of genres and markets, Sandycove selects, edits and promotes each book with love and care. Our list of bestsellers, prize-winners and new discoveries is unmatched, backed up by the immense resources of Penguin Random House.