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Signature Books represent a diverse list of publishers and many genres; including fiction (new and classic), film, politics, history, biography, health, humour, art and architecture, and green and ethical books.

Wooden Books
13 High Street, Butleigh
Glastonbury, Somerset BA6 8SU
Exquisite illustrations, superfine printing, and the finest quality recycled papers...Wooden Books are not only award-winning and quirky-but-thorough introductions to the Liberal Arts but also wonderful examples of the physical pleasure that can be bundled into book form.
Distribution: Central Books link

Wigwam Press
204 Latimer Road, London, W10 6QY
Publishers of the new Polly and Jago series, lauded by the press and filled with hundreds of ideas to keep children busy for almost every day of the year. An activity book that is a both visual and educative treat.
Distribution: Central Books link

Whitechapel Publishing
Whitechapel, 80-82 Whitechapel High Street, London E1 7QX
Founded in 1901 to bring great art to the people of East London, the Whitechapel Art Gallery is internationally acclaimed for its exhibitions of modern and contemporary art and its pioneering education and public events programmes.
Distribution: Central Books link

Wallflower Press
6 Market Place, London W1W 8AF
In a matter of years, Wallflower Press has become one of the world's most adventurous and comprehensive film-book publishers, bringing forth an enormous amount of high quality, new critical writing on cinema of all kinds.
Distribution: Central Books link

Tate Publishing
Millbank, London SW1P 4RG
For Midlands, North & Scotland 
Tate Publishing is one of the world's leading publishers on the visual arts. Their aim is to bring the best new writing on art and the highest quality reproductions to the widest possible range of readers.
Distribution: Tate Publishing link

Timewell Press
10 Porchester Terrace, London W2 3TL 
Publisher of literary biography and fiction.
Distribution: NBN International link

Scala Publishers
c/o Antique Collectors Club
Sandy Lane, Old Martlesham
Woodbridge, Suffolk IP12
For Midlands, North & Scotland (through ACC)
Worldwide specialists dedicated to publishing high-quality books on museums, art galleries, cathedrals, historic monuments and religious and heritage sites.
Distribution: NBN International link

Publishing Services
9 Curwen Road, London W12 9AF
Set up by former Faber non-fiction director Susanne McDadd, Publishing Services works with both publishers and authors, offering outsourced marketing for independent publishers and partnership publishing for media-friendly authors.
Distribution: Central Books link

Redstone Press
7a St Lawrence Terrace, London W10 5SU
Redstone Press has over the past years created a distinctive house style. Redstone's titles are not just books about art, but artefacts: distinctively designed collections of words and images to delight the eye and tease the mind.
Distribution: Central Books link

Reaktion Books
33 Great Sutton Street, London EC1V ODX
Reaktion Books is respected world-wide as a publisher of high-quality books in many fields including art, architecture, cultural studies, history, film, photography, design, travel writing and Asian studies, producing stimulating and innovative titles for both the general and the academic reader.
Distribution: Grantham Book Services link
 
Quartet and Women's Press
27 Goodge Street, London WIP 2LD
Publishers of fiction and general non-fiction
Distribution: NBN International link

Pocket Issue
68 Carthew Road, London W6 0DX
Pocket Issue publish short and pithy primers, covering the big issues of the day in under 100 pages to get you up-to-speed with the facts behind the news headlines.
Distribution: Combined Book Services link

Palazzo Editions
15 Gay Street, Bath BA1 2PH
An independent publishing company based in Bath, creating beautifully designed and illustrated books for the international market in the areas of art, design and architecture, popular culture, history and biography, fantasy and children's books.
Distribution: Orca Book Services link

Peter Lang Publishers
Evenlode Court, Main Road,
Long Hamborough, Witney, Oxon OX29 8SZ
A major international academic publisher with its head office in Bern, Switzerland, and other offices in Berlin, Brussels, Frankfurt, New York, Oxford and Vienna - now creating a trade list for the UK market.
Distribution: Marston Book Services link

Old Street Publishing Ltd
28-32 Bowling Green Lane
London EC1R OBJ
In a very short time, Old Street Publishing have shown themselves to be innovative and exciting new publishers of  fiction and general non-fiction, with a publishing output of - almost from a standstill start - over forty titles a year.
Distribution: Littlehampton Book Services link

New York Review Books
c/o Harbour Books, 20 Castlegate
York YO1 9RP
Bridging commonplace divisions between fact and fiction, past and present, high and low, adult and children, the distinguished NYRB series offers a list that is as unrepentantly eclectic as it is outstanding in quality.
Distribution: Grantham Book Services link

Methuen/Politicos
8 Artillery Row, London SW1P 1RZ
Algernon Methuen Stedman, a schoolmaster, founded the Methuen list in June 1889 and it is still going strong today - the oldest independent publishing house in the UK.
Distribution: Total Book Services link

Marshall Cavendish
5th Floor, 32-38 Saffron Hill, London EC1N 8FH
Marshall Cavendish is an international publisher of education, general & reference, business and home & library reference.
Distribution: Littlehampton Book Services link

The Little Bookroom
c/o Harbour Books, 20 Castlegate, York YO1 9RP
Publishers who whose travel books are objects of delight, taking readers off the beaten path and providing an imaginative entrée into the world's best-loved cities, including Paris, New York, Rome, Florence, and London.
Distribution: Grantham Book Services link

Images Publishing Group
c/o Antique Collectors Club
Sandy Lane, Old Martlesham
Woodbridge, Suffolk IP12
For Midlands, North & Scotland (through ACC)
Producing more than 40 casebound books a year, the group is one of the best-known international publishers of architecture and interior design titles.
Distribution: NBN International link

Human Givens Publishing
The Barn, Church Farm, Chalvington
East Sussex BN27 3TD
The Human Givens approach to psychology, psychotherapy and education is behind their best-selling titles, which use new knowledge about human psychology, biology and behaviour to create beneficial change in people's lives.
Distribution: Central Books link

Harbour Books
20 Castlegate, York YO1 9RP
A new publishing company that, as well as publishing its own titles, distributes NYRB and The Little Bookroom titles in the UK.
Distribution: Grantham Book Services link

Green Books
Foxhole, Dartington, Devon TQ9 6EB
For over twenty years, Green Books' aim has been to inform and inspire the general reader about environmental, spiritual and cultural issues of our time: the first and still the best Green list in the UK.
Distribution: Central Books link

Ethical Marketing Company
240 Portobello Road, London W11 1LL
Publishers of the annual Good Shopping Guide, and more recently The Good Nutrition Guide: two essential vade mecum for modern life.
Distribution: Central Books link

CYP International
1 Hammersmith Grove, London W6 0NB
The first Chinese publisher to set up business in the UK, CYPI's aim is to introduce and promote Chinese culture to readers around the world, publishing titles on art, politics, economics, science, education, travel, architecture, and industrial and graphic design.
Distribution: Central Books link

Artemis Editions
Pinewood Studios, Pinewood Road
Iver Heath, Bucks SLO ONH
Using new formats to create exciting publications, Artemis's aim is to explain music-making clearly and in plain English - to communicate with anyone who actively takes part in making music, at whatever level.
Distribution: Central Books link

Antique Collectors' Club
Sandy Lane, Old Martlesham
Woodbridge, Suffolk IP12
World renowned publishers of definitive books on antiques and decorative arts, many of which are recognised as standard works of reference. All are beautifully illustrated and most are published in hardback.
Distribution: NBN International link