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Top 25 Book publishers based in the United Kingdom

RevenueBase identified 646 book publishers headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 13,565 professional contacts across them, including 3,518 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.

This list covers book publishers headquartered in the United Kingdom, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 19, 2026.

Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.

How to read this list HQ checked on every row RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row Refreshed Sep 19, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review
646Companies
13,565Contacts tracked
3,518Verified emails
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The 25 largest book publishers based in the United Kingdom

Ranked by team size
Top 25 of 646 book publishers based in the United Kingdom, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 19, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to book publishers: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
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1Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 20261,001-5,0001,803 contacts →

Partial evidence

“We are Penguin Random House UK: part of the world's leading trade publisher, Penguin Random House.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
2Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 20261,001-5,0001,364 contacts →

Partial evidence

“DK is a global publisher of internationally bestselling authors and illustrators across fiction, non-fiction, adult and children’s publishing.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
3Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 2026501-1,0001,037 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Bloomsbury Publishing is a leading independent publishing house with authors who have won the Nobel, Pulitzer and Booker Prizes, and is the originating publisher and custodian of…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
4Strong evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 2026201-500768 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Usborne is the largest and most successful independent children's book publisher in the UK.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
5Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 20261,001-5,000593 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Founded in 1846, we’re the second-biggest publishing group in the UK - part of Hachette Livre - with 12 divisions and over 50 imprints.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
6Strong evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 2026201-500344 contacts →

Strong evidence

“The Quarto Group (LSE: QRT) is the leading global illustrated book publisher.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
7Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 2026201-500265 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“We publish for everyone.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
8Partial evidenceCanary Wharf, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-200265 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Austin Macauley Publishers is an independent publisher based in London, New York and Sharjah.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
9Strong evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 20261,001-5,000249 contacts →

Strong evidence

“A history stretching back over 200 years, HarperCollins is the second largest consumer book publisher in the world.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
10Partial evidenceBasingstoke, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 2026201-500218 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Palgrave Macmillan is a global academic and business publisher for the Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS).”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
11Indirect evidenceBungay, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 2026501-1,000198 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Clays have become a major force in this fluid and evolving world through extensive investment and a determination to react quickly to our customers’ fast moving needs.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
12Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 2026501-1,000190 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Hodder & Stoughton is a major publisher within Hachette UK, one of the UK’s biggest publishing groups.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
13Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-200173 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Faber is one of the world’s great independent publishing houses.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
14Strong evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-200171 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Home to books for all ages, Walker Books publishes many award-winning authors, illustrators, and literary franchises including Anthony Horowitz, Angie Thomas, Cassandra Clare…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
15Strong evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-200160 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Twice winner of the KPMG publisher of the year award, and with a string of top sellers in each season, Little, Brown Book Group has a proven history of success.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
16Partial evidenceCroydon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 2026501-1,000154 contacts →

Partial evidence

“CPI Books is the Trade book printing division of CPI Group UK and is part of the CPI Group, Europe's leading book printer.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
17Strong evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-200137 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Hachette Children’s Group is one of the largest children’s publishers in the UK, with an excellent track record in creating bestselling and award-winning books for children.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
18Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-200126 contacts →

Partial evidence

“We are part of global publisher Simon & Schuster.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
19Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-200121 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Celebrating 100 years of creativity Phaidon is the premier global publisher of the creative arts with over 1,500 titles in print.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
20Partial evidenceBroughton-in-furness, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 2026201-500111 contacts →

Partial evidence

“CGP is the UK’s No.1 educational publisher.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
21Partial evidenceCheltenham, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-200104 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Edward Elgar Publishing is a leading international academic and professional publisher with a strong focus on the social sciences and legal fields.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
22Strong evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-20097 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Octopus is a leading publisher of non-fiction books.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
23Partial evidenceHorncastle, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-20096 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Queen Victoria was on the throne when enterprising Lincolnshire publisher W K Morton brought mechanical typesetting to the market town of Horncastle.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
24Strong evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-5093 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Kogan Page is a leading independent publisher of award-winning business books from global experts, academics and specialist professionals, helping organizations and individuals…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
25Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-20071 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Profile Books was founded in 1996 to publish stimulating non-fiction in a wide range of fields, including history and current affairs, business and economics, science and…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026

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Book publishers based in the United Kingdom at a glance

As of Sep 19, 2026
25.9%Verified-email coverage
21.0Average contacts per company
1-10Median size (employees)
35.0%Largest-city concentration · London
Sep 19, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
441
11-50
131
51-200
40
201-500
11
501-1,000
6
1,001-5,000
5

Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United Kingdom, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United Kingdom, over 646 companies.

How this list was built

Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among book publishers, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.

Source
The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
What qualifies
Companies headquartered in the United Kingdom whose own description of what they do matches “book publishers”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names book publishers), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
What we exclude
Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among book publishers, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United Kingdom are excluded even when they keep an office there.
Match quality
In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
Ranking
Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
Verification
Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 3,518 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
Refresh
This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 19, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
Corrections
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Book publishers by metro

  • Book publishers in London226

Frequently asked

What is RevenueBase Smart Search?

RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names book publishers, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.

How many book publishers are there based in the United Kingdom?

RevenueBase identified 646 book publishers headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.

What is the largest company on this list?

Penguin Random House UK, headquartered in London, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most book publishers?

London leads with 226 headquartered companies, followed by Edinburgh (15) and Manchester (10).

How do I get contact information for these companies?

A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 3,518 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 646 companies.

How current is this list?

The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 19, 2026.

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About this data

RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.