years ago 1996 founder andrew franklin country of origin uk headquarters location london distribution the book service publication types books fiction genres nonfiction fiction imprints serpent s tail the clerkenwell press tindal street press official website www.profilebooks.com profile books is a british independent book publishing firm founded in 1996 . it publishes non fiction subjects including history biography memoir politics current affairs travel and popular science . profile books is distributed in the uk by random house and sold by faber & faber and is part of the independent alliance . 1 contents 1 history 2 notable publications 3 prizes 4 references 5 external links history edit in 2003 the company published eats shoots & leaves by lynne truss which was the bestselling non fiction title for 30 weeks and the book of the year at the british book awards 2004 at which the company also won the small publisher of the year award . in january 2007 profile books acquired serpent s tail bringing together two small publishers in london . in 2008 profile set up an ethical imprint greenprofile under the direction of mark ellingham the founder of rough guides . notable publications edit authors include mary beard alan bennett susan hill ian stewart mathematician jonathan dimbleby sandi toksvig simon garfield robert greene richard mabey simon jenkins margaret macmillan david harvey and francesca simon . the company publishes all of the economist books citation needed and does anything eat wasps and why don t penguins feet freeze in association with new scientist magazine . lynne truss eats shoots & leaves 2003 . timothy brook vermeer s hat the seventeenth century and the dawn of the global world 2009 richard wrangham catching fire how cooking made us human 2009 simon garfield just my type 2010 susan hill the small hand 2010 howards end is on the landing 2010 the woman in black 2011 the man in the picture 2012 dolly 2012 tracy kidder mountains beyond mountains 2011 jay bahadur deadly waters 2011 patricia and robert malcolmson nella last nella last in the 1950s 2010 james a robinson daron acemo lu why nations fail 2013 alan bennett the lady in the van 1999 four stories 2006 the uncommon reader 2007 a life like other people s 2009 smut 2011 mary beard the parthenon 2009 pompeii 2009 it s don s life 2009 the colosseum 2011 all in a don s day 2012 confronting the classics 2013 spqr a history of ancient rome 2015 simon jenkins a short history of england 2011 england s 100 best views 2013 jonathan dimbleby destiny in the desert 2012 david harvey the enigma of capital and the crises of capitalism 2011 seventeen contradictions and the end of capitalism 2014 james ward adventures in stationery 2014 prizes edit eats shoots & leaves was book of the year at specsavers national book awards 2004 vermeer s hat won the mark lynton history prize in 2009 catching fire was shortlisted for the samuel johnson prize in 2010 just my type won best british book at the british book design and production awards 2011 2 the small hand won a best jacket cover design award at the british book design and production awards 2011 3 mountains beyond mountains won a bma medical book award nella last in the 1950s was shortlisted for the portico prize in 2012 4 why nations fail won the financial times and goldman sachs business book of the year award in 2012 references edit independent alliance . the bookseller . retrieved 2014 01 15 . just my type at the british book design and production awards . just my type . retrieved 18 december 2013 . the small hand at the british book design and production awards . the small hand . retrieved 18 december 2013 . nella last in the 1950s shortlisted for portico prize 2012 . nella last in the 1950s . external links edit official website profile books on twitter profile books on facebook serpent s tail website . this article about a publishing company is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title profile books & oldid 729352413 categories book publishing companies of the united kingdompublishing companies established in 1996publishing company stubshidden categories all articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from march 2016all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 11 july 2016 at 16 38 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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