ARCADIA BOOKS LTD.

Arcadia Books was established in 1996. Our imprints are Arcadia Books (fiction, translated world fiction, biography, memoirs, travel, gay and gender studies), EuroCrime (European crime fiction), Bliss (popular fiction and non-fiction) and BlackAmber (multicultural writing).

Arcadia was winner of the Sunday Times Small Publisher of the Year in 2002/03, after having been short-listed for the previous three years. In 2007 we were shortlisted for the Independent Publishers' Guild Diversity Award. In 2008 Arcadia won the IPG Diversity Award (Independent Publishing Award) and was shortlisted for the 2008 UK Trade & Investment International Achievement of the Year (Independent Publishing Awards), for the 2008 Baker Tilly Imprint & Editor of the Year (British Book Industry Awards) and for the 2008 Decibel Cultural Diversity Award (British Book Industry Awards).

We secured Arts Council funding for another three years, largely thanks to a campaign by our supporters, led by Doris Lessing, Vanessa Redgrave and Joanna Lumley. The list was stronger than ever, and this was made evident by the number of prizes our authors and we either won, or were shortlisted or longlisted for.