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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Ronnie O’Sullivan wins the World Snooker Championship
Find out about Ronnie O'Sullivan's remarkable life story and listen to him reading an extract from Ronnie, his autobiography.
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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. The trailer will be showing in cinemas from April 18th – but see it first here!
Watch the Hold Tight cinema trailer Read the first chapter of Hold Tight Listen to an extract from Hold Tight, read by Tim Machin
Watch Dan Cruickshank have Adventures in Architecture!
In his new series Adventures in Architecture, Dan Cruickshank takes us to 40 buildings which he believes have changed the world: from the igloo to the Catherine Palace in St Petersburg. The TV series of 8 programmes will be shown on BBC2 at 9pm on Wednesday nights from the 2nd April – don’t miss it!
Interview with Dan Cruickshank Learn how to build an igloo with Dan Cruickshank
Meet Becca Orchard...Bridehunter!
Playing cupid is a tricky business. Visit our special Bridehunter site to find out more about this fabulous debut novel.
Visit www.bridehunter.co.uk
Download Mrs Zhivago of Queens Park’s recipes
The warm and witty Mrs Zhivago of Queen's Park by Olivia Lichtenstein is published in Orion Paperback in March. Download three of the fabulous recipes featured in the book – or send an e-card.
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Sir Arthur C. Clarke
Gollancz is deeply saddened by the passing away of Sir Arthur C. Clarke, one of the all-time masters of Science Fiction, and a prophet within the genre.
To mark his 90th birthday, he recently recorded this message from his home in Columbo, Sri Lanka.
View Arthur C. Clarke's birthday message Arthur C. Clarke – profile, books and reviews Firstborn A Time Odyssey book
Orion audio is boxing clever
Orion’s extremely cool and collectable new audiobook boxsets offer something for everyone: action packed thrills with The Bourne Trilogy by Robert Ludlum, a box bursting full of cheeky mischief in An Earful of Horrid Henry (and you really do get an earful when you open the lid) by Francesca Simon and superb crime drama with The Ian Rankin Box set containing the first ten Inspector Rebus novels. What ever you are looking for, Orion Audio has it all boxed up.