Transworld (publisher)

{{Short description|British publishing house}} {{About|the publishing company|other uses|Transworld (disambiguation)}} {{Redirect|Black Swan (imprint)|the historical bookseller in London|Black Swan (St. Paul's Churchyard)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2015}} {{Use British English|date=December 2015}} {{Infobox publisher | image = Transworld (publisher) logo.svg | parent = Penguin Random House | status = | founded = {{start date and age|1950}} | founder = | successor = | country = United Kingdom | headquarters = Ealing, London, England | distribution = | keypeople = | publications = Books | topics = | genre = | imprints = Bantam, Bantam Press, Black Swan, Corgi, Doubleday, Wayward TxF | revenue = | owner = | numemployees = | nasdaq = | url = {{URL|https://www.penguin.co.uk/company/publishers/transworld.html}} }}

'''Transworld''' is a British publishing house in Ealing, London that is a division of Penguin Random House, one of the world's largest mass media groups. It was established in 1950 as the British division of American company Bantam Books.<ref>{{Cite news| issn = 0362-4331| last = McDOWELL| first = EDWIN| title = BANTAM'S ECLECTIC NEW CHIEF: ALBERTO VITALE; Weighing Books on Financial Scales| work = The New York Times| access-date = 2018-01-20| date = 1986-08-17| url = https://www.nytimes.com/1986/08/17/business/bantam-s-eclectic-new-chief-alberto-vitale-weighing-books-on-financial-scales.html}}</ref> It publishes fiction and nonfiction titles by various best-selling authors including Val Wood under several different imprints. Hardbacks are published under the Doubleday imprint, whereas paperbacks are published under the Black Swan or Corgi imprint. The Bantam Press imprint publishes both Hardbacks and Prestige softcovers.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Publisher: Bantam Press |url=https://isfdb.org/cgi-bin/publisher.cgi?4254 |website=The Internet Speculative Fiction Database}}</ref>

==Terry Pratchett First Novel Award== Transworld sponsors the Terry Pratchett First Novel Award for unpublished science-fiction novels.<ref>{{cite web|publisher=terrypratchettbooks.com|url=http://www.terrypratchettbooks.com/?p=1348|title=The Terry Pratchett First Novel Award|date=21 December 2011}}</ref>

==See also== * List of largest UK book publishers

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== *[https://www.penguin.co.uk/company/publishers/transworld.html Official website] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20120321140548/http://booksattransworld.co.uk/about/home.htm Company history (as of 2012)] *[https://www.publishinghistory.com/corgi-books-transworld.html Corgi Books] - a book series published by Transworld from the 1950s

Category:1950 establishments in England Category:Book publishing companies of the United Kingdom Category:Companies based in the London Borough of Ealing Category:British companies established in 1950 Category:Bertelsmann subsidiaries