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Top 25 Book publishing houses companies based in the United Kingdom
RevenueBase identified 394 book publishing houses companies headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 10,980 professional contacts across them, including 2,903 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.
This list covers book publishing houses companies 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.
The 25 largest book publishing houses companies based in the United Kingdom
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
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| 1 | 1,803 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 1,364 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 1,037 contacts → | ||||
Strong 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 768 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Usborne is the largest and most successful independent children's book publisher in the UK.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 593 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 344 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Quarto Group (LSE: QRT) is the leading global illustrated book publisher.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 265 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We publish for everyone.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 265 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Austin Macauley Publishers is an independent publisher based in London, New York and Sharjah.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 249 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 198 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 190 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 173 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Your Trusted Partner in Publishing Success.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 173 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Faber is one of the world’s great independent publishing houses.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 171 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 160 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 126 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are part of global publisher Simon & Schuster.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 97 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Octopus is a leading publisher of non-fiction books.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 71 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 70 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Olympia Publishers is an independent book publishing house based in London, publishing talented authors from across the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 64 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Pegasus Elliot MacKenzie Publishers are at the forefront of the ever-changing publishing industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 59 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Quercus is a young, vibrant, internationally successful and award-winning publisher of fiction, non-fiction and children’s books.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 56 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Head of Zeus is a young and vibrant publishing house dedicated to new authors, great storytelling and fabulous ideas.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 53 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Headline is part of Hachette UK, one of the UK’s biggest publishing groups.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 53 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “CPI Group (UK) Ltd is one of the country’s leading print groups, employing 900 people across six locations.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 48 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “For nearly a quarter of a millennium, John Murray has been unashamedly populist, publishing the absorbing, provocative, commercial and exciting.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: book publishing houses companies. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names book publishing houses companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of book publishing houses companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name book publishing houses companies. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Book publishing houses companies based in the United Kingdom at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
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 394 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 publishing houses companies, 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 publishing houses companies”. 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 publishing houses companies), 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 publishing houses companies, 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, 2,903 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 publishing houses companies by metro
- Book publishing houses companies in London139
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 publishing houses companies, 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 publishing houses companies are there based in the United Kingdom?
RevenueBase identified 394 book publishing houses companies 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 publishing houses companies?
London leads with 139 headquartered companies, followed by Edinburgh (7) and Bristol (5).
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 2,903 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 394 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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