Welcome to the Orion Publishing Group’s website, your gateway to information on more than 4,000 books and audiobooks published under the Orion, Gollancz, Weidenfeld & Nicolson and Phoenix imprints. You can also get a sneak preview of forthcoming titles to be published in the next six months.
Here you can read exclusive interviews with authors, see extracts from books before they are published, search for author events in your region, sign up for free themed email updates and our author update service. Each month you can enter a new competition, view our seasonal promotions and download new reading guides.
On our fiction list, worldwide bestsellers, such as Maeve Binchy, Ian Rankin, Harlan Coben, Michael Connelly and Kate Mosse, stand alongside our literary high-flyers Colum McCann, Michael Collins, Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Elmore Leonard, Boris Akunin and Bernhard Schlink.
The non-fiction list is equally varied, with bestselling authors Michael Palin, Terry Wogan, Trinny & Susannah, Leslie Phillips and Carol Drinkwater being published simultaneously with the cream of history and science writers such as Simon Sebag Montefiore, A.C. Grayling, Richard Dawkins, Martin Gilbert, Antony Beevor and Andrew Roberts. Orion is also the official publisher for Manchester United.
As well as the classic Masterworks series, Gollancz publishes cutting-edge writers such as Terry Pratchett, Robert Rankin, Stephen Baxter and Alastair Reynolds, along with a full range of Manga titles.
There’s something for children of all ages on the Orion Children’s Books list – from the-boy-you-love-to-hate Horrid Henry and ‘the worst knight in the world’ Sir Gadabout, to the Roman Mysteries, Kevin Crossley-Holland’s acclaimed Arthur trilogy, Alan Gibbons’ popular books for older children and Michelle Paver’s bestselling series The Chronicles of Ancient Darkness. Orion is the sole publisher of all Asterix books in the English language throughout the world.
Try audiobooks before you buy. Listen to more than 100 audio extracts.
And of course there is our backlist – hundreds of books that have become classics – from Shakespeare via Charles Dickens to Alan Clark, Vikram Seth and Antonia Fraser. Enjoy!
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Michael Palin's New Europe Online Gallery
Visit the New Europe Online Gallery to see exclusive photographs taken by Basil Pao as he accompanied Michael Palin on his recent trip through all the countries that formerly lay behind the Iron Curtain. The photographs displayed here have not appeared in print anywhere – not even in the stunning hardback book that accompanied the TV series. The paperback edition is now available.
Sepulchre in paperback
Kate Mosse, author of the bestselling Labyrinth, reads from Sepulchre.
Interview with Kate Mosse Download an extract Listen to an extract read by Lorelei King Reading group disussion points Win a visit from Kate Mosse to your reading group
Cinema trailer for new Harlan Coben novel
Hold Tight is the stunning new thriller from Harlan Coben, author of bestselling Tell No One and The Woods.
Watch the Hold Tight cinema trailer Read the first chapter of Hold Tight Listen to an extract from Hold Tight, read by Tim Machin