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Transworld Publishers

Transworld was founded 50 years ago by Bantam Books in New York as it wanted a distribution channel in the UK. The new company was tiny, with only five employees, but it soon set up its own imprint, Corgi Books, which enjoyed early successes with books like Lolita by Nabokov and Catch 22 by Joseph Heller. In the 60s Transworld attracted many more illustrious authors, including JP Donleavy, James Baldwin, Arthur Hailey, Harold Robbins, Philip Roth and Catherine Cookson, while many more writers like Frederick Forsyth, Jilly Cooper, John Irving, Leon Uris, Jacqueline Susann and William Peter Blatty, author of The Exorcist, joined the Corgi list in the 70s.

Known Transworld Imprints
Corgi
Black Swan

On-line

You can visit the official Transworld Publishers web site: www.booksattransworld.co.uk (opens in new window).