BBC Books (also formerly known as BBC Publishing) is an imprint majority-owned and managed by Penguin Random House through its Ebury Publishing division. The minority shareholder is BBC Studios, the commercial subsidiary of the British Broadcasting Corporation. The imprint has been active since the 1980s.
BBC Books publishes a range of books connected to BBC radio and television programming, including cookery, natural history, lifestyle, and behind the scenes "making-of" books. There are also some non-programme related biographies and autobiographies of various well-known personalities in its list.
Amongst BBC Books' best known titles are cookery books by former TV cook Delia Smith, wildlife titles by Sir David Attenborough and gardening titles by Alan Titchmarsh. In the BBC Publishing days, it turned down The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,[1] a book which has now sold over 14,000,000 copies worldwide.
^Simpson, M. J. (2003). Hitchhiker: A Biography of Douglas Adams (First US ed.). Justin Charles & Co. p. 131. ISBN 978-1-932112-17-7.
BBCBooks (also formerly known as BBC Publishing) is an imprint majority-owned and managed by Penguin Random House through its Ebury Publishing division...
shareholding in BBCBooks" (Press release). BBC Press Office. 22 June 2006. Archived from the original on 23 November 2018. Retrieved 20 December 2019. "BBC announces...
and in 2006 the company sold a majority stake in BBCBooks to publisher Random House. In 2007, BBC Worldwide purchased a 75% stake in the travel guide...
The BBC World Service is an international broadcaster owned and operated by the BBC. It is the world's largest external broadcaster in terms of reception...
shareholding in BBCBooksBBC Press Office. 22 June 2006 "Penguin Books and BBC Worldwide form new venture for BBC Children's Books". BBC Press Office....
BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and...
Doctor Adventures. BBCBooks. ISBN 0-563-40579-1. Bulis, Christopher (September 1999). City at World's End. Past Doctor Adventures. BBCBooks. ISBN 0-563-55579-3...
was released in 2023. BBCBooks began reprinting selected Target novelisations starting in July 2011. Starting in 2018, BBCBooks published novelisations...
BBC Online, formerly known as BBCi, is the BBC's online service. It is a large network of websites including such high-profile sites as BBC News and Sport...
1963 to 1989. The Target Books imprint was also used for five books in 2018 and seven books published in 2021. In 1996, BBCBooks published a novelization...
is named after a group originally created by author Lawrence Miles for BBCBooks' Doctor Who novels. Originally a subplot in the Eighth Doctor Adventures...
BBC. BBC One. Richards, Justin (September 2005). The Deviant Strain. BBCBooks. ISBN 0-563-48637-6. Roberts, Gareth (September 2005). Only Human. BBC...
Penguin Books Limited is a British publishing house. It was co-founded in 1935 by Allen Lane with his brothers Richard and John, as a line of the publishers...
Ballantine Books is a major American book publisher that is a subsidiary of German media conglomerate Bertelsmann. Ballantine was founded in 1952 by Ian...
Julie Gardner". BBC Press Office. BBC. 10 March 2005. Retrieved 3 May 2012. Russell, Gary (2006). Doctor Who: The Inside Story. BBCBooks. p. 48. ISBN 978-0-563-48649-7...
Bantam Books is an American publishing house owned entirely by parent company Random House, a subsidiary of Penguin Random House; it is an imprint of...
The BBC Sports Personality of the Year is an awards ceremony that takes place annually in December. Devised by Paul Fox in 1954, it originally consisted...
Adventures. BBCBooks. ISBN 0-563-40577-5. McIntee, David A. (5 January 1998). The Face of the Enemy. Past Doctor Adventures. BBCBooks. ISBN 0-563-40580-5...
employed by BBC Television and BBC Radio. Presenters and journalists appear across BBC television, radio but also contribute to BBC Online. BBC News provides...
The BBC Short Trips books are a collection of short story anthologies published by BBCBooks based on the television series Doctor Who, following a pattern...
by BBCBooks unless otherwise indicated Published by BBCBooks under the Target Collection umbrella unless otherwise indicated Unabridged from BBC Audio/AudioGo...
shareholding of BBCBooks in 2006, BBCBooks published reprints of several of the Target Doctor Who novelisations starting in 2011 . In 2018 BBCBooks started...
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