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With a heritage stretching back nearly 200 years, HarperCollins is one of the world’s foremost English-language publishers, offering the best-quality content right across the spectrum, from cutting-edge contemporary fiction to digital hymnbooks and pretty much everything in between. In the UK, the Glasgow-based Williams Collins & Sons was founded in 1819 and published a range of bibles, atlases, dictionaries, later including classic authors H G Wells, Agatha Christie, JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis.The original Harper Brothers company was established in New York City in 1817 and over the years published Mark Twain, the Bronte Sisters, Thackeray, Dickens, John F Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. In 1987, Harper & Row, as it had then become, was acquired by News Corporation. The worldwide group was formed following News Corporation’s 1990 acquisition of William Collins & Sons.

The company publishes a wide and varied list of award-winning international and best-selling authors and reference material.Authors include Nobel Prize Laureate Doris Lessing, J.G. Ballard, Jonathan Franzen, Isabel Allende, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Annie Proulx, Paulo Coelho, Patrick Gale, Cecelia Ahern, Bernard Cornwell, Michael Crichton, Conn Iggulden, Dean Koontz, and Josephine Cox.

Harper Collins children's authors include evergreen popular properties Paddington Bear, Noddy and Dr. Seuss, Michael Morpurgo, Darren Shan and Louise Rennison.

With offices in the US, Canada, the UK, India, China, and Australia, HarperCollins has global revenues of over $1 billion every year. HarperCollins UK publishes more than 1200 books a year and employs around 1000 people in London, Glasgow and Cheltenham.

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