Transworld is a British
publishing house in
Ealing
Ealing () is a district in West London, England, west of Charing Cross in the London Borough of Ealing. Ealing is the administrative centre of the borough and is identified as a major metropolitan centre in the London Plan.
Ealing was histor ...
, London that is a division of
Penguin Random House, one of the world's largest mass media groups. It was established in 1950 as the British division of American company
Bantam Books
Bantam Books is an American publishing house owned entirely by parent company Random House, a subsidiary of Penguin Random House; it is an imprint of the Random House Publishing Group. It was formed in 1945 by Walter B. Pitkin, Jr., Sidney B. ...
. It publishes fiction and nonfiction titles by various best-selling authors including
Val Wood under several different
imprint
Imprint or imprinting may refer to:
Entertainment
* ''Imprint'' (TV series), Canadian television series
* "Imprint" (''Masters of Horror''), episode of TV show ''Masters of Horror''
* ''Imprint'' (film), a 2007 independent drama/thriller film
...
s. Hardbacks are published under either the
Doubleday or the
Bantam Press imprint, whereas paperbacks are published under the Black Swan, Bantam or Corgi imprint.
Terry Pratchett First Novel Award
Transworld sponsors the
Terry Pratchett First Novel Award for unpublished science-fiction novels.
See also
*
List of largest UK book publishers
References
External links
Official website
- a book series published by Transworld from the 1950s
1950 establishments in England
Book publishing companies of the United Kingdom
Companies based in the London Borough of Ealing
British companies established in 1950
Bertelsmann subsidiaries
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