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Top 17 Romance publishers based in the United Kingdom

RevenueBase identified 63 romance publishers headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 815 professional contacts across them, including 280 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.

This list covers romance 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 21, 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 21, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review
63Companies
815Contacts tracked
280Verified emails
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The 17 largest romance publishers based in the United Kingdom

Ranked by team size
Top 17 of 63 romance publishers based in the United Kingdom, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 21, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to romance 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.
#CompanyRevenueBase Smart SearchHeadquartersEmployeesContacts
1Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 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 21, 2026
2Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 202651-200126 contacts →

Partial evidence

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

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
3Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 202651-20059 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 21, 2026
4Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 202651-20053 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Headline is part of Hachette UK, one of the UK’s biggest publishing groups.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
5Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 202651-20040 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Our mission is to deliver talent-driven publishing with leading authors and brands worldwide.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
6Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 202651-20033 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“We started Relay Publishing over 10 years ago as a group of driven self publishing authors, editors, designers and marketers.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
7Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 202611-5028 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Canelo is an ebook and paperback publisher, founded in 2015, and now one of the fastest-growing publishing companies in Europe.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
8Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 20261-1026 contacts →

Partial evidence

“At Severn House we are dedicated to publishing unputdownable genre fiction: from gritty procedurals to cosy mysteries and tense thrillers, as well as sci-fi, horror, romance…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
9Partial evidenceLincoln, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 202611-5022 contacts →

Partial evidence

“The Totally Entwined Group is comprised of three publishing houses – Totally Bound Publishing (Romantica), Finch Books (Young Adult), Pride Publishing (GLBTQI Fiction).”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
10Indirect evidenceCambridge, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 20261-1020 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“We're proud to be at the forefront of the digital publishing revolution.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
11Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 202611-5019 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Pushkin Press was founded in 1997, and publishes novels, essays, memoirs, children’s books-everything from timeless classics to the urgent and contemporary.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
12Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 20261-108 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Legend Times is a group of publishing companies offering new platforms for quality writing.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
13Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 20261-107 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Orenda Books is a small independent publisher specialising in literary fiction, with a heavy emphasis on crime/thrillers and half of the list in translation.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
14Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 20261-107 contacts →

Partial evidence

“A female-fronted, independent digital-first publisher that will publish the very best in commercial fiction.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
15Partial evidenceWallingford, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 20261-103 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Welcome to Hobart Books, the new independent publisher of popular fiction, founded in December 2020.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
16Indirect evidenceStrand, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 20261-101 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“A brand new publishing imprint within Octopus Publishing Group, Hachette UK.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
17Strong evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 20261-101 contacts →

Strong evidence

“London based Indie Publisher specialising in contemporary romance and thrillers.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026

Showing 17 of 63 romance publishers based in the United Kingdom

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Romance publishers based in the United Kingdom at a glance

As of Sep 21, 2026
34.4%Verified-email coverage
12.9Average contacts per company
1-10Median size (employees)
42.9%Largest-city concentration · London
Sep 21, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
46
11-50
8
51-200
6
501-1,000
1

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 63 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 romance 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 “romance 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 romance 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 romance 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, 280 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 21, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
Corrections
Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.

Romance publishers by metro

  • Romance publishers in London27

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 romance 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 romance publishers are there based in the United Kingdom?

RevenueBase identified 63 romance 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?

Hodder & Stoughton, headquartered in London, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most romance publishers?

London leads with 27 headquartered companies, followed by Edinburgh (2) and Lincoln (2).

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 280 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 63 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 21, 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.