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29: 385: 863: 231:, bringing together two small publishers in London. In 2008 Profile set up an ethical imprint GreenProfile under the direction of Mark Ellingham, the founder of Rough Guides. 234:
In 2012, Profile launched a new list with Wellcome Collection, designed to showcase writing about medicine, the body, and the human condition. Authors on the list include
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imprint) was named the Fiction Book of the Year, the Book of the Year, and won Publicity Campaign of the Year Award at the British Book Awards.
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In 2017 the first books were published in the new Pursuit Books imprint, a list showcasing writing on cycling.
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In 2002 the company acquired the HarperCollins UK business list. The list now includes works by
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won a Best Jacket / Cover Design award at the British Book Design and Production Awards 2011
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Profile Books has won the "Independent Publisher of the Year" awards three times. In 2017
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Since 2014 Profile has published a boutique list of Tuskar Rock, editorially selected by
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by Navi Radjou and Jaideep Prabhu won the CMI Management Book of the Year Award 2016
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won Best British Book at the British Book Design and Production Awards 2011
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2004, at which the company also won the Small Publisher of the Year award.
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Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World
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Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award
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was shortlisted in two categories in the Sports Book Awards 2018
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In October 2012 Profile acquired Birmingham-based independent
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Index


UK
London
The Book Service
Consortium Book Sales & Distribution
Books
Fiction genres
Imprints
Serpent's Tail
Tindal Street Press
profilebooks.com
publishing firm
non-fiction
memoir
current affairs
popular science
Random House
Faber & Faber
Robert Greene
Ryan Holiday
Shoshana Zuboff
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
Lynne Truss
non-fiction
British Book Awards
Serpent's Tail
Val McDermid
Atul Gawande
Gavin Francis
Tindal Street Press

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