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imprint
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.
History
Early history
The firm has its origins in the 1840s, with
Matthew Hodder's employment, aged 14, with
Messrs Jackson and Walford
Jackson and Walford, later Jackson, Walford, and Hodder from 1861 was a London publishing firm and predecessor firm of Hodder & Stoughton. at 18 St Paul's Churchyard and 27 Paternoster Row in 1871 (which was the former address of the later Ward & ...
, the official publisher for the
Congregational Union
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. In 1861 the firm became Jackson, Walford and Hodder; but in 1868 Jackson and Walford retired, and
Thomas Wilberforce Stoughton joined the firm, creating Hodder & Stoughton.
Hodder & Stoughton published both religious and
secular
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works, and its religious list contained some progressive titles. These included
George Adam Smith's ''Isaiah'' for its ''Expositor’s Bible'' series, which was one of the earliest texts to identify multiple authorship in the
Book of Isaiah
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. There was also a sympathetic ''Life of
St Francis'' by
Paul Sabatier Paul Sabatier may refer to:
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, a French Protestant pastor. Matthew Hodder made frequent visits to North America, meeting with the
Moody Press
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and making links with
Scribners
Charles Scribner's Sons, or simply Scribner's or Scribner, is an American publisher based in New York City, known for publishing American authors including Henry James, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Kurt Vonnegut, Marjorie Kinnan Rawli ...
and
Fleming H. Revell.
The secular list only gradually accepted fiction, and it was still subject to "moral censorship" in the early part of the 20th century. Matthew Hodder was doubtful about the ''
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
''Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám'' is the title that Edward FitzGerald gave to his 1859 translation from Persian to English of a selection of quatrains (') attributed to Omar Khayyam (1048–1131), dubbed "the Astronomer-Poet of Persia".
Altho ...
'', and the company refused
Michael Arlen
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's ''The Green Hat'', a novel published by
Collins
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* Collins Cheboi (born 1987), Kenyan middle- ...
in 1924. In 1922, Hodder and Stoughton published an edition of
Lewis Carroll
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (; 27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, poet and mathematician. His most notable works are ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' (1865) and its sequel ...
's ''
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
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'', which was likely very controversial at the time given the fantastical nature of the work.
The 1920s brought an explosion of commercial fiction at keen prices - Hodder's "Yellow jackets" series were the precursors of the first paperbacks, and included bestsellers from
John Buchan
John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (; 26 August 1875 – 11 February 1940) was a Scottish novelist, historian, and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the 15th since Canadian Confederation.
After a brief legal career ...
,
Edgar Wallace
Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1 April 1875 – 10 February 1932) was a British writer.
Born into poverty as an illegitimate London child, Wallace left school at the age of 12. He joined the army at age 21 and was a war correspondent during th ...
,
Dornford Yates
Cecil William Mercer (7 August 1885 – 5 March 1960), known by his pen name Dornford Yates, was an English writer and novelist whose novels and short stories, some humorous (the ''Berry'' books), some Thriller (genre), thrillers (the ''Chandos ...
and
Sapper
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's
Bulldog Drummond
Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond is a fictional character, created by H. C. McNeile and published under his pen name "Sapper". Following McNeile's death in 1937, the novels were continued by Gerard Fairlie. Drummond is a First World War veteran who, ...
. In 1928, the company became the exclusive British hardback publisher of
Leslie Charteris
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The Saint may refer to:
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, publishing all 50 UK first editions of the series until 1983. In this decade they also took over ownership of the medical journal, ''
The Lancet
''The Lancet'' is a weekly peer-reviewed general medical journal and one of the oldest of its kind. It is also the world's highest-impact academic journal. It was founded in England in 1823.
The journal publishes original research articles, ...
''.
Hodder & Stoughton were also the originators of the
Teach Yourself
Teach Yourself is currently an imprint of Hodder Education and formerly a series published by the English Universities Press (a subsidiary company of Hodder & Stoughton) that specializes in self-instruction books. The series, which began in 1938, ...
line of self-instruction books, which are still published through Hodder Headline's educational division. As the company expanded at home and overseas, Hodder & Stoughton's list swelled to include the real-life adventures in Peary's ''North Pole'' and several works by
Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (30 November 187424 January 1965) was a British statesman, soldier, and writer who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom twice, from 1940 to 1945 Winston Churchill in the Second World War, dur ...
.
During the war, Ralph Hodder Williams set up the
Brockhampton Book Co. to sell off overstocks of theological works. The manager, Ernest Roker, had an interest in children's books and managed to persuade author
Enid Blyton
Enid Mary Blyton (11 August 1897 – 28 November 1968) was an English children's writer, whose books have been worldwide bestsellers since the 1930s, selling more than 600 million copies. Her books are still enormously popular and have be ...
to write a series of books for them about four children and a dog. In 1942, the
Famous Five series was born with ''
Five on a Treasure Island
''Five on a Treasure Island'' (published in 1942) is a popular children's book by Enid Blyton. It is the first book in ''The Famous Five'' series. The first edition of the book was illustrated by Eileen Soper.
Background
It has been suggeste ...
''. In 1962, Brockhampton took over the children's writer
Elinor Lyon
Elinor Bruce Lyon (17 August 1921 – 28 May 2008) was an English children's author from a Scottish family background. Several of her novels are set on the Highland coast, others in Wales. They have been seen to feature "strong girls and sensitiv ...
, whose novels the parent company had introduced in 1948.
Hodder & Stoughton also published the
Biggles
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books by Captain
W. E. Johns
William Earl Johns (5 February 189321 June 1968) was an English First World War pilot, and writer of adventure stories, usually written under the pen name Capt. W. E. Johns: best known for creating the fictional air-adventurer ''Biggles''.
Ea ...
, after he moved publishers from the Oxford University Press during the Second World War. Hodder & Stoughton published their first original Biggles book in 1942 with ''Biggles Sweeps the Desert'' around September/October of that year (they had previously published a reprint of ''Biggles Flies East'' in May 1942) and the Brockhampton Press published Johns' Gimlet books from 1947. From 1953, Brockhampton Press would also publish Biggles books, alternating with Hodder & Stoughton and Captain W. E. Johns remained with them until his death in 1968, with the last Hodder & Stoughton Biggles book appearing in August 1965 and the last Brockhampton Press Biggles book appearing in July 1970. Hodder & Stoughton also published some of Johns' Worrals books. Hodder & Stoughton eventually published 35 Biggles first editions and Brockhampton Press published a further 29 Biggles first editions.
Post-war years
In 1953 they published
Sir John Hunt's successful ''The Ascent of Everest'', and began their long association with thriller writer
John Creasey
John Creasey (17 September 1908 – 9 June 1973) was an English crime writer, also writing science fiction, romance and western novels, who wrote more than six hundred novels using twenty-eight different pseudonyms.
He created several charac ...
. In the 1970s, they brought the Knight and
Coronet
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imprints into common use. The latter is particularly memorable for
David Niven
James David Graham Niven (; 1 March 1910 – 29 July 1983) was a British actor, soldier, memoirist, and novelist. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance as Major Pollock in ''Separate Tables'' (1958). Niven's other roles ...
's much-celebrated autobiography ''The Moon's a Balloon''.
In the 1960s the Hodder and Stoughton fiction list broadened to include many quality commercial authors, including
Mary Stewart whose works included ''Madam, Will You Talk?'' and sold millions of copies worldwide. The non-fiction publishing included
Anthony Sampson
Anthony Terrell Seward Sampson (3 August 1926 – 18 December 2004) was a British writer and journalist. His most notable and successful book was '' Anatomy of Britain'', which was published in 1962 and was followed by five more "Anatomies", upd ...
's era-defining ''The Anatomy of Britain'' in 1962. Another notable title in the children's sphere was the 1969 Brockhampton Press publication of ''Asterix the Gaul'' by
Goscinny and
Uderzo
Alberto Aleandro Uderzo (; ; 25 April 1927 – 24 March 2020), better known as Albert Uderzo, was a French comic book artist and scriptwriter. He is best known as the co-creator and illustrator of the ''Astérix'' series in collaboration with Re ...
.
In 1974,
John le Carré
David John Moore Cornwell (19 October 193112 December 2020), better known by his pen name John le Carré ( ), was a British and Irish author, best known for his espionage novels, many of which were successfully adapted for film or television. ...
’s ''Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy'' was published to much critical acclaim, earning him a
Literary Guild
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Choice.
The following year, previous employee John Attenborough published ''A Living Memory of Hodder''. In 1981, the company acquired the
New English Library
The New English Library was a United Kingdom book publishing company, which became an imprint of Hodder Headline.
History
New English Library (NEL) was created in 1961 by the Times Mirror Company of Los Angeles, with the takeover of two small ...
, an imprint created by the American
Times Mirror Company
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History
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that published works from several genres including fantasy, science fiction and suspense and included books by
James Herbert
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and
Stephen King
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.
In 1986, Hodder & Stoughton introduced
Sceptre
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Antiquity
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The ''Was'' and other ...
as a literary imprint to sit alongside mass-market imprints Coronet and NEL. Originally publishing in paperback only, early books on the Sceptre list included
Thomas Keneally
Thomas Michael Keneally, AO (born 7 October 1935) is an Australian novelist, playwright, essayist, and actor. He is best known for his non-fiction novel ''Schindler's Ark'', the story of Oskar Schindler's rescue of Jews during the Holocaust, wh ...
’s ''
Schindler's Ark
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'' which had won the
Booker Prize
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in 1982. Hodder & Stoughton also won the Booker Prize in 1985 with the publication of
Keri Hulme
Keri Ann Ruhi Hulme (9 March 194727 December 2021) was a New Zealand novelist, poet and short-story writer. She also wrote under the pen name Kai Tainui. Her novel ''The Bone People'' won the Booker Prize in 1985; she was the first New Zealande ...
’s ''
The Bone People
''The Bone People'', styled by the writer and in some editions as ''the bone people'', is a 1984 novel by New Zealand writer Keri Hulme. Set on the coast of the South Island of New Zealand, the novel focuses on three characters, all of whom ar ...
'', originally acquired from its
New Zealand
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office.
Other notable books on the Hodder & Stoughton list in this decade include
Rosamunde Pilcher
Rosamunde Pilcher, OBE (''née'' Scott; 22 September 1924 – 6 February 2019) was a British writer of romance novels, mainstream fiction, and short stories, from 1949 until her retirement in 2000. Her novels sold over 60 million copies worldw ...
’s ''The Shell Seekers'',
Elizabeth George
Susan Elizabeth George (born February 26, 1949) is an American writer of mystery novels set in Great Britain.
She is best known for a series of novels featuring Inspector Thomas Lynley. The 21st book in the series appeared in January 2022. T ...
’s ''
A Great Deliverance
''A Great Deliverance'' () is a book written by Elizabeth George and published by Bantam Books (now owned by Random House) on 1 May 1988 which later went on to win the Anthony Award
The Anthony Awards are literary awards for mystery writers pr ...
'' and the first novel in
Jean M. Auel
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’s prehistoric fiction series ''Earth’s Children® The Clan of the Cave Bear'', which was an international success and the series, completed with the publication of ''
The Land of Painted Caves
''The Land of Painted Caves'' is a historical fiction novel by Jean M. Auel published in March 2011. It is the sequel to '' The Shelters of Stone'' – published 9 years earlier – and is the sixth and final book in the Earth's Children ...
'' in 2011, has sold more than 45 million copies worldwide.
''The Lancet'' was sold to
Elsevier
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in 1991. In 1993,
Headline
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The large type ''front page headline'' did not come into use until the late 19th centur ...
bought Hodder & Stoughton and the company became a division of Hodder Headline Ltd. In 1997 Sceptre published Charles Frazier’s Cold Mountain and the following year Hodder & Stoughton released
Sir Alex Ferguson
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’s much-lauded autobiography ''Managing My Life''.
In 1999, Hodder Headline was acquired by
W H Smith
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. Also in 1999, Hodder acquired the children's publisher Wayland Publishers from
Wolters Kluwer
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.
21st century
In 2002 Hodder Headline Ltd acquired
John Murray and two years later Hodder Headline was bought by
Hachette Livre
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, which already owned British publishers
Orion and Octopus. When Hachette also acquired Time Warner Book Group (now Little, Brown) it became the UK’s lead publisher. The Hodder & Stoughton fiction list is now home to
John Connolly,
Jeffery Deaver
Jeffery Deaver (born May 6, 1950) is an American mystery and crime writer. He has a bachelor of journalism degree from the University of Missouri and a J.D. degree from Fordham University and originally started working as a journalist. He later ...
,
John Grisham
John Ray Grisham Jr. (; born February 8, 1955 in Jonesboro, Arkansas) is an American novelist, lawyer and former member of the 7th district of the Mississippi House of Representatives, known for his popular legal thrillers. According to the Am ...
,
Sophie Hannah
Sophie Hannah (born 1971) is a British poet and novelist. From 1997 to 1999 she was Fellow Commoner in Creative Arts at Trinity College, Cambridge, and between 1999 and 2001 a junior research fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford. She lives with h ...
,
Stephen King
Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, crime, science-fiction, and fantasy novels. Described as the "King of Horror", a play on his surname and a reference to his high s ...
,
Jodi Picoult
Jodi Lynn Picoult () is an American writer. Picoult has published 28 novels, accompanying short stories, and has also written several issues of Wonder Woman. Approximately 40 million copies of her books are in print worldwide, translated into 34 ...
, Peter Robinson and
Robyn Young
Robyn Young (born in Oxford in September 1975) is an English people, English author of historical fiction. She is most widely known for her ''Brethren'' trilogy, set in the Middle Ages. Her books have been published in more than 15 languages.
...
. The 2009 publication of
David Nicholls’ ''
One Day'' heralded another international success. David wrote the screenplay for the 2011 film adaptation, directed by
Lone Scherfig
Lone Scherfig (; born 2 May 1959) is a Denmark, Danish film director and screenwriter who has been involved with the Dogme 95 film movement and who has been widely critically acclaimed for several of her movies, including the Oscar-nominated film ...
and the book has sold more than two million copies worldwide.
On 7 July 2010 they released Stephen King's ''
Under the Dome'' with four cover versions.
In 2011, Jeffery Deaver continued the
James Bond
The ''James Bond'' series focuses on a fictional British Secret Service agent created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short-story collections. Since Fleming's death in 1964, eight other authors have ...
literary franchise with his 007 novel ''
Carte Blanche
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''.
In 2014, Hodder acquired the independent publisher
Quercus
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.
Non-fiction and imprints
The non-fiction list covers many areas including biography, memoir, sport, humour, health, cookery and lifestyle. Notable publications of recent years include
James Bowen's ''A Street Cat named Bob" & its Second Book "the World According to Bob" and its Third Book in the works'',
Michael Parkinson
Sir Michael Parkinson (born 28 March 1935) is an English broadcaster, journalist and author. He presented his television talk show '' Parkinson'' from 1971 to 1982 and from 1998 to 2007, as well as other talk shows and programmes both in the U ...
’s ''Parky'',
Michael Caine
Sir Michael Caine (born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite; 14 March 1933) is an English actor. Known for his distinctive Cockney accent, he has appeared in more than 160 films in a career spanning seven decades, and is considered a British film ico ...
’s ''The Elephant to Hollywood'', Peter Kay's ''The Book That’s More Than Just a Book-Book'' and
Lady Gaga
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’s first official book ''Gaga'' in 2011.
Sceptre continues to add to its literary heritage, publishing authors such as
Melvyn Bragg
Melvyn Bragg, Baron Bragg, (born 6 October 1939), is an English broadcaster, author and parliamentarian. He is best known for his work with ITV as editor and presenter of ''The South Bank Show'' (1978–2010), and for the BBC Radio 4 documenta ...
, Chris Cleave, author of ''The Other Hand'', Jill Dawson,
Siri Hustvedt
Siri Hustvedt (born February 19, 1955) is an American novelist and essayist. Hustvedt is the author of a book of poetry, seven novels, two books of essays, and several works of non-fiction. Her books include ''The Blindfold'' (1992), ''The Ench ...
,
Thomas Keneally
Thomas Michael Keneally, AO (born 7 October 1935) is an Australian novelist, playwright, essayist, and actor. He is best known for his non-fiction novel ''Schindler's Ark'', the story of Oskar Schindler's rescue of Jews during the Holocaust, wh ...
, Andrew Miller and David Mitchell. In 2010 Hodder & Stoughton launched the lifestyle imprint Saltyard and brought
Coronet
A coronet is a small crown consisting of ornaments fixed on a metal ring. A coronet differs from other kinds of crowns in that a coronet never has arches, and from a tiara in that a coronet completely encircles the head, while a tiara does ...
back into use.
In 2011, Hodder and Stoughton launched the imprints
Two Roads Books and Mulholland Books.
Hodder Faith is the UK's leading Christian publisher, home to authors
Philip Yancey
Philip Yancey (born November 4, 1949) is an American author who writes primarily about spiritual issues. His books have sold more than 15 million copies in English and have been translated into 40 languages, making him one of the best-selling con ...
,
Joyce Meyer
Pauline Joyce Meyer (née Hutchison; June 4, 1943) is an American Charismatic Christian author, speaker and president of Joyce Meyer Ministries. Joyce and her husband Dave have four grown children, and live outside St. Louis, Missouri. Her min ...
and
R. T. Kendall
Robert Tillman Kendall (born July 13, 1935) is a Christian writer, speaker, and teacher who pastored Westminster Chapel for 25 years. He is author of more than 50 books, including ''Total Forgiveness''. Kendall was part of the Word, Spirit, Power t ...
, among others. They continue to publish the NIV Bible in its various formats and to break new ground with books like
Wm. Paul Young’s ''The Shack'' (2008).
Flipback
In 2011, Hodder launched a wholly new print format for books, the
flipback. Printed on Bible paper, and designed to replicate the traditional print reading experience in an edition not much bigger than an iPhone.
Imprints
*
Coronet Books
Coronet Books was established in 1966 as the paperback imprint of Hodder & Stoughton. The imprint was closed in 2004 but then relaunched in 2010, publishing fiction and non-fiction in hardback and paperback, including works by Chris Ryan, Lorna ...
*
Hodder Faith
* Hodder Moa Beckett (New Zealand)
* Hodder & Stoughton
*
John Murray
*
Mulholland
*
Quercus
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*
Sceptre
A sceptre is a staff or wand held in the hand by a ruling monarch as an item of royal or imperial insignia. Figuratively, it means royal or imperial authority or sovereignty.
Antiquity
Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia
The ''Was'' and other ...
*
Saltyard
*
Two Roads
Two Roads Books is an imprint of John Murray Press now a division of Hachette (publisher), Hachette.
History
Announced by its Publisher, Lisa Highton, in September 2010, Two Roads started publishing in 2011. Publishing 12-15 books a year, with ...
*
Yellow Kite
Yellow Kite is an imprint of Hodder & Stoughton, a British publishing house, now a division of Hachette Book Group, Hachette.
History
An imprint of Hodder and Stoughton, Yellow Kite was founded in 2013 by Liz Gough, and become one of the first ...
Notable publications
See also
*
List of largest UK book publishers
This is a list of largest UK trade book publishers, with some of their principal imprints, ranked by sales value.
List
According to Nielsen BookScan as of 2010 the largest book publishers of the United Kingdom were:
# Penguin Random House ' ...
References
Further reading
*Attenborough, John (1975) ''A Living Memory: Hodder and Stoughton 1868-1975'', London: Hodder and Stoughton
* Bennett, Bryan & Hamilton, Anthony (1990) ''Edward Arnold: 100 Years of Publishing''. Illustrated with black and white plates, including a frontispiece of
Edward Arnold London: Edward Arnold (A Division of Hodder & Stoughton)
External links
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Finding aid to the Hodder and Stoughton records at Columbia University. Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
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