Hachette India is the Indian arm of Hachette UK, which is the second largest trade publishing company in the world, and is itself owned by Hachette Livre, France’s largest publisher and part of the Lagardere Group. The Hachette Group is the oldest trade publisher in the world having celebrated 250 years of in 2018.
The key publishing companies/ imprints belonging to the Hachette Group represented by us:
John Murray: https://www.johnmurraypress.co.uk/
Oldest English language trade publisher in the world (founded 1768) and now over 250 years old, the imprint that signed up Jane Austen and Lord Byron and published Darwin’s origin of the Species in addition to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Poet laureate John Betjeman (the first poetry bestseller), and travel writing legend Patrick Leigh Fermor. More literary. (strong ‘India’ list for the UK frontlined of course by Amitav Ghosh). Recent bestsellers include Stephen Hawking’s last book, The One Thing, Trevor Noah’s Born a Crime. Also the publishers of the Teach Yourself series.
The Hodder group:
http://www.hodder.co.uk/
Hodder & Stoughton: set up in 1868.. and celebrated it’s 150 years and best known for the yellowbacks that were the rage from the 30s to the 50s. including discoveries like Sapper, Leslie Charteris, Dorothy Sayers. Commercial with crossover literary strands (Top selling authors John Grisham, Stephen King, John le Carre, Jeffrey Deaver, Steve Berry, Jodi Picoult, Jasper Fforde, Erich Segal, James Clavell). Sceptre is the core literary imprint which boasts writers such as David Mitchell, Thomas Keneally . India's largest seller is now The Art of Thinking Clearly and Hodder is also the publisher of New Digital Age by Eric Schmidt (Google Chairman) Leading by Alex Ferguson; A Man called Ove, Factfulness and Sachin Tendulkar’s Playing It My way
Quercus: best known for Stieg Larsson and the Millennium books. Also the leading publisher of crime in translation with MacLehose press.
The Headline group: http://www.headline.co.uk/ Strong commercial publishing: Top sellers Neil Gaiman, Alex Rutherford's Moghul series, Hilary Clinton, Jack Welch, Martina Cole , Dean Koontz, Steve Martini, Penny Vincenzi, Jill Mansell, Victoria Hislop etc Key imprints are Headline, and Business Plus (the only UK general publisher to have a dedicated business imprint). Also a very strong sports list. For India top brands are Lavanya Sankaran and the Empire of the Moghul series
The Orion group: http://www.orionbooks.co.uk/ best known here for Malala, Robert Ludlum and Ian Rankin and Michael Connelly, but they also have a strong literary line. (They published the Vikram Seth novels, and also other Indian writers like Siddharth Shanghvi, Sarita Madanna in the UK). Orion, Phoenix, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, Cassell and Everyman classics are the key imprints. Other key authors are Michael Palin, Ian Rankin, Michael Connelly, Elmore Leonard, Kate Mosse etc. Gollancz, the world’s best known sci-fi imprint with the masterworks series (Philip K Dick etc) is also part of the Orion group. Recent bestsellers include the runaway blockbuster thrillers Gone Girl and The Silent Patient; Nicole LePera’s self help book How to do the Work, Arsene Wenger’s memoir, Victoria Aveyard’s Red Queen and the Witcher series.
The Little, Brown group: http://www.littlebrown.co.uk/ key Imprints, Abacus (non-fiction Eric Hobsbawm etc), Virago (women’s writing/issues), orbit (fantasy), Atom (YA fantasy) Little-Brown and Sphere. In 2007 Piatkus was acquired by Little-Brown. Top sellers include Nicholas Sparks, Asterix, Stephenie Meyer, Alexander McCall Smith, Mitch Albom, Mark Billingham Shantaram, Ed Luce, Tipping Point, Tuesdays with Morrie, Steve Jobs, Brian Weiss etc). Now the publishers ofJK Rowling and the recent record setting Harry Potter and the cursed child
Constable & Robinson: recently acquired by Little Brown... wide range best known for the mammoth anthology and their popular psychology series
Hachette Children’s group: http://www.hodderheadline.co.uk/children2.asp Best known in India as publishers of Enid Blyton and Asterix. But in the UK they’re as well known for Horrid Henry, Rainbow magic, Robert Muchamore (Cherub series),Tiara Club, Beast quest, Gladiator Boy and a range of illustrated colour books for children from imprints like Wayland, Watts, Orchard and Hodder Children’s books. Recent bestsellers include Leigh Bardugo, the Oi series of picture books, Nevermoor, JK Rowling’s Ickabog.
The Octopus group: http://www.octopus-publishing.co.uk/ illustrated/visual publishing with imprints like Hamlyn, Mitchell Beazley, Philips’ Atlases, Conran, Gaia, Bounty, Miller’s etc that have perennial Indian favourites like the Tell Me...series and the Godsfield Bible series (Yoga, chakra etc). A huge lifestyle section under Hamlyn boasts some of the best food & drink books in the segment. OPG also includes the recently acquired Kyle Cathy and Summerdale companies.
The Chambers Harrap Group: http://www.chambersharrap.co.uk/chambers/index.shtml Chambers reference and dictionaries need no introduction to anybody in India
Nicholas Brealey: with some of the best business and coaching books
Laurence King Publishing: visual and high end gift market (the Agatha Christie Bingo box was the top seller of 2023)
Paperblanks: stationery products manufacturer
Black Dog & Leventhal: High end visual book publisher
Hachette Book Group USA plus US agencies like Time-Life and HBG-US has also just bought the Perseus Group and workman and also the manga imprint Yen press which we will represent from 2025
Hachette companies from rest of the world: like Australia, Ireland who have publishing programmes
Hachette India (HI) : our own local publishing: where we have brands like Subroto Bagchi, literary award winners like Anuradha Roy (DSC Prize winner Crossword award winner, Chess world champion Viswanathan Anand and Booker Longlisted 2015), Sachin Tendulkar, Malala Ramachandra Guha, Nayomi Munaweera;. We have the top selling children's titles the Children’s Yearbook & Infopedia as well as The Gita for Children (with its follow-ups vedas and Upanaishads and Yogasutras for children). And Mastermind India winner Archana Garodia’s two volume History of India for children. We have also published editions of Sachin Tendulkar and Malala in Indian languages, the Limca Book of Records and have published first books from Indra Nooyi and will be publishing India’s first man in space Rakesh Sharma. And from 2024 HI has a Trade reference division that publishes popular reference for adults and children’s alike extending the legacy imprints Chambers and Hamlyn into India. In 2025 HI has signed on the popular YouTube quizzing sensations Nipun Jain and Mohit Mamoria, collectively known to their millions of followers as the Arey Pata Hai duo. + The Hachette learning (formerly Hodder Education )Group: the group company that deals with school texts. Not represented by us (we’re a purely trade business)
