Scribe to release Biden memoir for first UK publication

Scribe is publishing a new B-format paperback edition of US president-elect Joe Biden’s 2007 memoir, Promises to Keep.

The publication will coincide with the presidential inauguration later this month, and it will be the first time the memoir has been published in the UK. The memoir tells the story of Biden’s life and career prior to his emergence as Barack Obama’s vice-president. The book was first published by Penguin Random House US in July 2007. 

Publisher Henry Rosenbloom acquired UK and Commonwealth rights to the book. He said: "We’re thrilled to be publishing this book. It’s Biden’s equivalent to Obama’s Dreams of My Father, very well-written and compelling, in which he comes across as remarkably decent, smart and emotionally intelligent. It is an essential book for anyone wanting to understand the new president’s values and character."

The paperback edition will be released on 14th January. 

Biden is also the author of memoir Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose (Pan, 2017).