Arcadia Books is an innovative independent publishing house established in 1996. We endeavour to bring our readers the best of world writing today.

Arcadia Books was established in 1996. Our imprints are Arcadia Books (fiction, translated world fiction, biography, memoirs, travel, gay and gender studies), EuroCrime, 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.
Brian O'Doherty's The Deposisition of Father McGreevy was short-listed for the Booker; Francis King's The Nick of Time was long-listed for the same prize. José Eduardo Agualusa’s The Book of Chameleons won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, Michael Arditti's Easter was long-listed for the Whitbread (and won the Mardi Gras & Waterstone's Book Award). Lars Saabye Christensen's The Half Brother was short-listed for the International IMPAC, Miklos Banffy's They Were Divided won the Weidenfeld Translation Prize, and The Memory Man by Lisa Appignanesi, A River in May by Edward Wilson and When Memory Dies by A Sivanandan were all listed for the Commonwealth Writers Prize (Sivanandan's novel also won the Sagittarius Prize).

Arcadia, which has consistently punched above its weight, has opened the celebrations for its 10th anniversary by signing the latest novel by Joan Smith, polemicist, campaigner and Independent journalist. What Will Survive is set in Lebanon in July 1997, when a young English woman, a minor celeb, is killed by a land mine. The press descends on her Somerset home, linking her death with Diana, Princess of Wales's high-profile campaign against landmines. Publisher Gary Pulsifer believes this "gripping political thriller" has obvious parallels with the current situation in the Lebanon and plans to rush it through for spring publication'
- Boyd Tonkin, Independent (13.10.06)




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