Welcome to Oneworld
Oneworld was founded in 1986 by husband and wife team Juliet Mabey and Novin Doostdar as an independent publishing house focusing on stimulating non-fiction. Now publishing over 100 books a year, Oneworld has retained its founding commitment to the old-fashioned principles of great writing, editorial excellence, high production values, and marketing flair, to produce books that are read by the intellectually curious all over the world.
Our fiction list showcases intelligent, challenging, and distinctive novels that sit at the intersection of the literary and the commercial: emotionally engaging stories with strong narratives and distinctive voices. In addition to being beautifully written, we hope our novels play their part in introducing the reader to a different culture or an interesting historical period/event, and deeply explore the human condition in all its vagaries. We aim to publish novels that matter, that stay with you long after the last page is turned.
We have always brought an international approach to our publishing, reflecting the global society in which we live. We work with authors, literary agents and publishing partners throughout the world, and achieve effective international distribution through a comprehensive network of distributors and representatives.
Winner of the Booker Prize 2015 and 2016
Winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2019
15th March, 2024
Oneworld Publications has been shortlisted for Independent Publisher of the Year 2024, as well as Children’s Publisher of the Year for imprint Rock th…
6th March, 2024
Nightbloom is a stunning novel about a childhood friendship rocked by hidden secrets, from a star of Ghanaian writing Growing up in the same Ghanaian…
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17th April, 2024
Paul Lynch’s 2023 Booker Prize-winning Prophet Song perfectly captures the social and political anxieties of our contemporary moment. An exhilarating…