Four subjects
one standard.
We publish books about the forces reshaping the world. Every title gets the editorial, production and commercial attention it requires.
Intelligent nonfiction · Selected fiction · Traditional terms
Science & Technology
Popular science, computing, artificial intelligence, engineering, medicine and the technologies changing the world.
We look for writers who can take a technical subject and make it matter to a general reader: researchers, engineers, clinicians and journalists with real expertise and a story worth telling. If your book explains how something works and why it changes things, we want to read it.
Business, Finance & Economics
Founders, leadership, organisations, markets, investing, economics and the future of work.
From founder memoirs to serious economics for a trade readership: we publish books grounded in real experience and real data. Practitioners with a decade inside an industry often make better authors than commentators outside it. Tell us what you know that others don't.
Ideas & Society
Psychology, cognition, decision-making, innovation and the forces changing how we live.
The books people press on their friends: psychology, behaviour, culture and the ideas reshaping everyday life. We want arguments with spine: clearly made, honestly evidenced and written to be read, not skimmed.
Selected Fiction
Speculative fiction, near-future novels and intelligent thrillers with a substantial idea at their centre.
Our fiction list is narrow: novels driven by a substantial idea. Speculative futures, intelligent thrillers, stories that sit close to the subjects we publish in nonfiction. If your novel asks a serious question about where the world is going, it belongs here.
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We are reading for our founding list now: manuscripts and proposals, directly from writers, on traditional terms.
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