Chapter One

Hodder & Stoughton

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Hodder & Stoughton is a major publisher within Hachette UK, one of the UK’s biggest publishing groups. We publish a wide range of fiction and non-fiction titles and are renowned for passion, quality and delivering bestselling books in many different formats. Our story began in 1868 when Hodder & Stoughton was founded by Matthew Henry Hodder and Thomas Wilberforce Stoughton on Paternoster Row, London. Publishing in the early years included books from Winston Churchill, JM Barrie and GK Chesterton, and The Bible. The 1920s ‘Yellow Jacket’ series were the precursors to the first paperbacks and included bestsellers from John Buchan, Sapper and Edgar Wallace. In 1921 Hodder & Stoughton also took over ownership of the soon-to-be world-famous medical journal, The Lancet. After the First World War, Hodder & Stoughton published landmark non-fiction bestsellers including Anthony Sampson’s Anatomy of Britain and an expanded range of quality commercial voices including Mary Stewart and Elizabeth Goudge. The second half of the twentieth century held in store one of the most successful publishing events in the company’s history with the phenomenal reception of Sir John Hunt’s The Ascent of Everest in 1953. Other notable publications include David Niven’s much-celebrated autobiography The Moon’s a Balloon in 1973 and John le Carré’s Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy in 1974. 21B_ShindlersArc In 1986, Hodder & Stoughton set up Sceptre as a literary imprint to sit alongside mass-market imprints Coronet and NEL (New English Library). Originally publishing in paperback only, early books on the Sceptre list included Thomas Keneally’s Schindler’s Ark, Melvyn Bragg’s The Maid of Buttermere and Fay Weldon’s Life and Loves of a She-Devil. Other notable books on the Hodder & Stoughton list in this decade include Keri Hulme’s Booker Prize-winning The Bone People, Rosamunde Pilcher’s The Shell Seekers, and the first novel in Jean M. Auel’s internationally bestselling prehistoric fiction series Earth’s Children®, The Clan of the Cave Bear. Website - https://www.hodder.co.uk/D