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2022
ITV releases The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe, based on the book by David Leigh and Tony Hutchinson
2022
ITV releases Holding, based on the novel by Graham Norton
2022
60 Years of University Challenge is published, with trivia, behind-the-scenes detail and a raft of questions to test your knowledge from the long-running TV quiz
2022
Top 50 Employers for Women, The Times
2022
The Repair Shop by Elizabeth Wilhide and Jayne Dowle is published, from the popular BBC series
2022
Netflix releases Heartstopper, based on the graphic novels by Alice Oseman
2022
Windswept & Interesting by Billy Connolly published
2022
Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason wins the Fiction Book of the Year at the British Book Awards
2022
Dialogue becomes a division, focused on its mission to champion inclusivity
2021
The Louder I Will Sing by Lee Lawrence wins the Costa Biography Award
2021
Hachette UK acquires Paperblanks
2021
Top 50 Employers for Women, The Times
2021
Best Covid-19 Response (Shortlisted), Working Families Best Practice Awards
2021
Hachette becomes the home of global family favourite graphic novels, Asterix which was created in 1959 by writer René Goscinny and illustrator Albert Uderzo
2021
The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich published and wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
2021
Orion wins Publisher of the Year at the British Book Awards
2021
BBC releases The Girl Before, based on the novel by J P Delaney
2021
Amazon Prime releases The Wheel of Time, based on the novels by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson
2021
Amazon Prime releases The Underground Railroad, based on the novel by Colson Whitehead
2021
Feminist Book Box - a subscription service celebrating feminist voices - is launched
2021
Quentin Tarantino’s debut novel Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: A Novel is published, based on his 2019 film of the same name
2021
Netflix releases The Last Letter from your Lover, based on the novel by Jojo Moyes
2021
Netflix releases Shadow and Bone, based on the novels by Leigh Bardugo
2021
Netflix releases Stay Close, based on the novel by Harlan Coben
2021
By Billie Eilish, a visual narrative journey through her life, is published
2021
Inclusivity in Publishing Award, London Book Fair International Excellence Awards
2021
The film tie-in version of Dune by Frank Herbert is published
2020
Women Don’t Owe You Pretty by Florence Given published
2020
Dear NHS curated by Adam Kay published
2020
British Dyslexia Association (BDA) Smart Award, British Dyslexia Association
2020
Me and White Supremacy by Layla Saad published
2020
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
2020
Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey becomes the biggest selling audiobook of all time at HUK
2020
Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell published and wins the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2020 and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction 2020
2020
Netflix releases The Queen’s Gambit, based on the novel by Walter Tevis
2020
Top 50 Employers for Women, The Times
2020
Netflix releases Bridgerton, based on the novels by Julia Quinn
2020
BBC releases A Suitable Boy, based on the novel by Vikram Seth
2020
Employee Network Group of the Year (Private Sector), Employers Network for Equality and Inclusion (enei) Awards
2019
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides published
2019
Netflix releases The Witcher, based on the novels by Andrzej Sapkowski
2019
Hachette UK acquires Laurence King Publishing
2019
Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams published and wins the Book of the Year at the British Book Awards
2019
Becoming the Supervet is published, a memoir by Professor Noel Fitzpatrick, star of the Channel 4 series The Supervet
2019
Hachette Children’s Group author-illustrator Cressida Cowell becomes Children’s Laureate
2018
The Great British Bake Off published
2018
Heartstopper by Alice Oseman published
2018
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens published
2018
In A House of Lies by Ian Rankin published
2018
Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff published
2018
Brief Answers to the Big Questions by Stephen Hawking published
2018
Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser wins the Pulitzer Prize for Biography
2018
Sky One releases A Discovery of Witches, based on the novels by Deborah Harkness
2018
Less by Andrew Sean Greer published and wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
2018
Silent Scream by Angela Marsons, the first in the Detective Kim Stone crime thriller series published
2017
David Shelley appointed CEO of Hachette UK
2017
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
2017
Hachette UK acquires Jessica Kingsley Publishers
2017
Hachette Children’s Group author-illustrator Lauren Child becomes Children’s Laureate
2017
Hachette UK acquires Bookouture
2017
BBC releases Strike, based on the Cormoran Strike detective novels written by J. K. Rowling under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith
2016
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
2016
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by J. K. Rowling published
2016
Famous Five for Grown-Ups series by Bruno Vincent published
2016
Reading Planet, the primary reading scheme, is launched
2016
Hodder Education wins Academic, Educational and Professional Publisher of the Year at the British Book Awards
2016
Hodder Education acquires Singapore list from Pearson, establishing a base for their Asia operations
2015
Hodder Education wins Academic, Educational and Professional Publisher of the Year at the British Book Awards
2015
Hachette Distribution centre opens
2015
Hodder Education acquires Rising Stars and enters the primary curriculum market
2015
Release of the film based on the novel The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith
2014
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng published
2014
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
2014
Little, Brown wins Publisher of the Year at the British Book Awards
2014
Hachette UK acquires Quercus
2014
Release of the film Gone Girl based on the novel by Gillian Flynn
2013
The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith published
2013
Sycamore Row by John Grisham published
2013
Alex Ferguson: My Autobiography published
2013
I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai published
2013
Netflix releases Orange is the New Black, based on the novel by Piper Kerman
2013
Channel 4 releases Labyrinth, based on the novel by Kate Mosse
2012
Mindset by Carol Dweck published
2012
The Casual Vacancy by J. K. Rowling published
2012
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn published
2012
Hachette UK acquires the Enid Blyton estate
2011
The Litigators by John Grisham published
2011
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson published
2011
The Tiger’s Wife by Téa Obreht published and wins the Orange Prize for Fiction
2010
Life by Keith Richards published
2010
Sex and the City 2, the official companion book to the film, is published
2010
Little, Brown Book Group wins Publisher of the Year at the British Book Awards
2009
One Day by David Nicholls published
2008
Release of the film Twilight, based on the novel by Stephenie Meyer
2008
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson published
2006
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier published
2006
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer published
2006
The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney published and wins the Costa Prize for ‘Book of the Year’
2006
Hachette Livre UK acquires Time Warner Book Group, renaming it Little, Brown Book Group
2005
The Island by Victoria Hislop published
2005
Orion wins Publisher of the Year at the British Book Awards
2005
Himalaya by Michael Palin Illustrated Book of the Year at the British Book Awards
2004
Release of the film The Notebook, based on the novel by Nicholas Sparks
2004
Hachette Children’s Books formed through the merger of Hodder Children’s Books and Franklin Watts
2004
Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts published
2004
The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith published
2004
Little, Brown Book Group wins Publisher of the Year at the British Book Awards
2004
Small Island by Andrea Levy published and wins the Orange Prize for Fiction, Whitbread Book of the Year, Commonwealth Writers’ Prize (Overall Winner, Best Book) 2005 and ‘Best of the Best’ Women’s Prize winner from the first decade of the Prize
2004
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón published
2004
Hodder Headline acquired by Lagardère, creating Hachette Livre UK
2004
Quercus founded
2003
How to Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell published
2003
Sahara by Michael Palin wins Illustrated Book of the Year at the British Book Awards
2003
Little, Brown’s audio list is launched in 2003 as Time Warner Audiobooks, changing name to Hachette Audio when it is acquired by Hachette in 2006
2001
Sleepyhead by Mark Billingham published
2001
American Gods by Neil Gaiman published
2001
1st to Die by James Patterson published
2001
Hachette Livre acquires John Murray Press
1999
Giraffes Can’t Dance by Giles Andreae, illustrated by Guy Parker-Rees, published
1998
The Lost Gardens of Heligan by Tim Smit wins Illustrated Book of the Year at the British Book Awards
1997
Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters published
1996
Hachette Livre acquires Orion
1995
Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela published
1994
Little, Brown Book Group wins Publisher of the Year at the British Book Awards
1993
A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth published
1993
Hodder Headline formed by Headline’s acquisition of Hodder & Stoughton
1992
The Quiche of Death by MC Beaton published
1992
Dangerous Lady by Martina Cole published
1991
Orion Publishing Group founded
1990
Postmortem by Patricia Cornwell published
1988
Little, Brown launched in the UK
1986
Headline founded
1984
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou published
1984
The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks published
1976
Hodder Children’s Books founded
1971
Octopus founded
1962
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir published
1953
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis published
1942
The Famous Five by Enid Blyton published
1939
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier published
1938
Teach Yourself series first published
1937
The Trial by Franz Kafka published
1908
A Room with a View by E.M. Forster published
1897
Dracula by Bram Stoker published
1891
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde published
1883
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson published
1872
Chambers English Dictionary published
1868
Hodder & Stoughton founded
1859
On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin published
1847
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë published
1846
L. Hachette et Compagnie is founded
1837
Charles Little & James Brown found Little, Brown in Boston, USA
1826
Louis Hachette founds the bookshop and publisher Brédif
1815
Emma by Jane Austen published
