you cookies . for more on our cookies and changing your settings click here . ok work with us authors and agents careers consumer insight and engagement digital products events and experiences partnerships rights licensing and permissions sales and distribution tv publishers audio cornerstone ebury michael joseph penguin general penguin press penguin random house children s transworld vintage media catalogues media contacts news about us company history management team offices locations creative responsibility student design award 2017 go home publishers vintage the bodley head vintage seriously good writing by the most engaging thinkers of our time follow the bodley head the bodley head twitter a brief history of the bodley head the bodley head publishes influential and engaging works of non fiction by some of the leading writers and thinkers of our time addressing a huge range of subjects smart thinking science reportage history maths biography music natural history current affairs and economics . our books explore the issues of today ; they are books about the ideas the people and the human obsessions that shape our world . we publish authors including lisa randall and misha glenny simon schama and karen armstrong wade davis roger penrose and timothy snyder . founded originally as an antiquarian bookseller in 1887 the bodley head aspired to publish works of stylish decadence . over time it would publish writers including george bernard shaw graham greene who was a director muriel spark william trevor and alexander solzhenitsyn . the bodley head also famously published charlie chaplin s memoirs signed after a seven year courtship of the comic actor . chaplin was paid half a million dollars and within three months of publication had sold the same number of copies of his book . in 1969 the bodley head joined forces with jonathan cape and chatto & windus which today remain sister imprints within the vintage division . and in 2008 after a period of dormancy it was relaunched as a new imprint under the distinguished the bodley head name . recently writers as diverse as stephen witt ian mortimer robert caro edith hall lewis dartnell and c dric villani have joined the list united by their originality by their expertise and by their gifts as communicators . books published by the bodley head include misha glenny nemesis nick clegg politics alison gopnik the gardener and the carpenter ed yong i contain multitudes mark thompson enough said lisa randall dark matters and the dinosaurs paul kalanithi when breath becomes air gideon rachman easternisation yanis varoufakis and the weak must suffer what they must more resources for the bodley head bodley head ft essay prize vintage website getting published careers media contacts academic inspection copies if you are an academic and wish to order an inspection copy please email vintageclassics randomhouse.co.uk . remember to include details of the book you are requesting the course you are considering adopting the book for the number of students taking that course and the address you would like the book to be delivered to . this service is only available to residents of the uk and ireland . explore other vintage imprints jonathan cape chatto & windus harvill secker hogarth square peg vintage classics vintage paperbacks yellow jersey press more information careers creative responsibility contact us faq terms & conditions privacy policy cookie policy our other sites penguin books dk andersen press penguin random house design award find us on twitter youtube penguin random house uk a penguin random house company penguinrandomhouse.com