Books to inspire. Books to entertain.

Books of wonder. Books to explain...

Deep in the heart of the British Library’s St Pancras building you will find a dedicated, and very active, book publishing division which celebrates the very best of the collections and tell the stories of the Library.

On this website we present details of the 40–50 books we publish each year including award-winning exhibition catalogues, class-leading fiction series and, of course, our often playful but always inspiring books about books.

These pages also include insightful behind-the-scenes blogs, author contributions, our latest news and details of live and digital events. Booksellers and reviewers can also find trade and contact information.

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Our publishing

British Library Publishing creates high-quality books and eBooks for the UK and international book trade and co-edition markets.

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New releases

For all of our latest new releases

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Trade

For information on how to stock our books

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Publicity

Find international, national and regional press coverage for British Library Publishing titles, corresponding events, and press releases for all new titles.

News stories

Front cover of The Book Lover's Bucket List with an image of the UK

The Book Lover's Bucket List featured in The Telegraph

25 June 2021

British Library Publishing’s June 2021 publication The Book Lover’s Bucket List: A Tour of Great British Literature was featured in The Telegraph this month.

The front covers of two British Library books: Mamma and Tension

Women Writers Blog Tour celebrates new titles

24 June 2021

British Library Publishing runs a blog tour to celebrate the two new additions to the Women Writers fiction series.

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Blog posts

Outernational: Researching Black music and its transatlantic connections

Tuesday, February 7, 2023

Cassie Quarless is a filmmaker was a 2020 Eccles Centre Visiting Fellow at the British Library. As a documentary director, a large part of my job is mining my mind and my experiences for subjects that I am excited about...

Sculptures, time machines and vampires: items from the Americas collections on display in Leeds

Tuesday, January 17, 2023

The Henry Moore Institute in Leeds is currently displaying seven items from British Library collections as part of their FREE exhibition, The Colour of Anxiety: Race, Sexuality and Disorder in Victorian Sculpture – open until 26 February 2023 Two of...

Celebrating the work of Aline Kominsky-Crumb

Tuesday, December 6, 2022

The artist Aline Kominsky-Crumb, best known for her pioneering contributions to underground comics, passed away on 29 November 2022. Kominsky-Crumb leaves an impressive legacy of ‘intimate, self-deprecating, and liberating’[1] comics, some of which were created with her husband, fellow cartoonist...

Black Theatre Makers: Una Marson

Wednesday, November 23, 2022

The British Library has digitised and made available online the only known copy of Una Marson’s pioneering play ‘At What a Price’ (1932). Una Maud Marson was born in Jamaica in 1905. Throughout her lifetime she would live and work...

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