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Hodder Press unveils new logo and launch titles
Hodder Press, the new non-fiction imprint at Hodder & Stoughton, has unveiled a new logo (pictured below) designed by art director Alasdair Oliver, as well as its launch titles, including the first adult non-fiction book from Michael Morpurgo in nearly 40 years.
Led by executive publisher Kirty Topiwala and editorial director Anna Baty, Hodder Press will be the home of "authoritative narrative non-fiction" at Hodder & Stoughton.
It aims to publish books "with an international outlook from experts in science and psychology, cultural and natural history, current affairs and social sciences as well as the very best of nature writing and memoir".
Hodder Press will kick off with the publication of Nobel laureate and ex-president of the Royal Society Venki Ramakrishnan’s Why We Die: The New Science of Ageing and the Quest for Immortality in March 2024.
Topiwala pre-empted UK and commonwealth rights from Max Brockman of Brockman, Inc. and will be collaborating with William Morrow in the US on a global publication plan. Rights have been sold in Germany, Sweden, Japan, Korea, China and Russia.
Other acquisitions for the list include The Age of Diagnosis from Wellcome Prize-winning neurologist Suzanne O’Sullivan. Topiwala acquired world all language rights from Kirsty MacLachlan in an exclusive deal. Cast Catch Release, a memoir from angler Marina Gibson, is also in the line-up after Topiwala pre-empted UK and commonwealth rights from Adam Gauntlett at PFD. Scribner will publish alongside in the US.
Also on the list is Between Two Rivers, a definitive new history of Mesopotamia by Oxford Assyriologist Moudhy Al-Rashid. Anna Baty pre-empted world all language rights from Doug Young at PEW and will publish alongside W W Norton in the US.
Spring by Morpurgo, is hailed as "a joyful celebration of the season". Topiwala acquired world all language rights from Veronique Baxter at DHA in an exclusive deal. The imprint will also publish new books from longstanding Hodder & Stoughton author Tristan Gooley and curate his backlist. Gooley’s recent title How to Read a Tree was a Sunday Times bestseller.
Topiwala and Baty said in a joint statement: “Hodder Press will be a dedicated space at Hodder & Stoughton for high quality non-fiction books that will ask big questions, challenge perspectives and bring an expert view to essential topics.
"We are particularly interested in books where the combination of author and subject creates a remarkable alchemy; books that, by virtue of the author and subject fusion, open up new vistas and unlock a complex subject, narrated by a distinct and interesting voice.”
Katie Espiner, c.e.o of Hodder, said: “Hodder & Stoughton has a long and rich heritage of publishing ground-breaking non-fiction. Kirty, Anna and the team have already acquired an excellent launch list of titles, and I look forward to welcoming outstanding new voices to this carefully-curated imprint.”
