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Abacus paperbacks and Little, Brown hardbacks will be brought together under one name from October.
Previously, Abacus had been the paperback home of hardbacks published on the Little, Brown list. The changes will see Abacus publish both paperbacks and the hardbacks.
The move to bring all Abacus publishing under one imprint is intended as a celebration of its golden jubilee, and the team says the new chapter will see "a starry autumn 2022 publication schedule including Celeste Ng’s heart-wrenching new novel, Our Missing Hearts, Hugh Bonneville’s witty and touching memoir, Playing under the Piano, and Less is Lost, the follow-up to Andrew Sean Greer’s Pulitzer-prize-winning international bestseller Less, as well as new novels from Alexander McCall Smith and Anthony Quinn”.
A spokesperson said: "The list was Little, Brown hardbacks and Abacus paperbacks [but] as the division has grown so much over the past 10 years in particular, it feels like it is time to bring the list together under one name. The division stays as Little, Brown and there are no staff changes for the list or teams."
In 2023 the editorial team – Richard Beswick, Clare Smith and Anna Kelly – will celebrate 50 years of Abacus publishing by reissuing five books from five different decades. The landmark publications, both critically and commercially successful, will be rejacketed to introduce them to a new generation of readers, with new introductions from authors including Bernardine Evaristo, David Baddiel and Nina Stibbe.
The books being reissued are The Bottle Factory Outing by Beryl Bainbridge, If This is a Man by Primo Levi, Breath, Eyes, Memory by Haitian writer Edwidge Danticat, Old Filth by Jane Gardam and Tom Holland’s Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind.