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The Bodley Head will this week launch a new series of non-fiction trade paperbacks, featuring titles it originally published in hardback plus new editions of books from the Pimlico imprint.
The list brings together “landmark works from leading writers of history, biography, science and politics”. All the titles have new jacket designs.
Publishing director Stuart Williams said: “Some imperishable classics are coming to the Bodley Head list for the first time in striking new editions that will breathe fresh life into them for the years ahead; and future-classic frontlist titles with the potential to flourish in trade paperback at a higher price – like John Sugden’s Nelson and Robert Caro’s The Passage of Power – now can under the Bodley Head name.
“We want all our books to be in the formats that best suit their readers, and we hope this takes a step in that direction.”
He added that the majority of The Bodley Head’s books would continue to go “into Vintage in their paperback life”.
The first books to be released on the list will be out on Thursday (6th February) and include The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert A. Caro, originally published by Vintage, and Nelson: The Sword of Albion by John Sugden, originally published by The Bodley Head.
The new covers were created by Vintage designers James Jones and Matt Broughton, who said the books needed “a design capable of integrating authority with modernity”. They continued: “For this, we chose close-cropped imagery – repeated in its entirety on the back-board – combined with a bold, confident type solution. The off-white uncoated stock adds a lightness of touch to complete a sophisticated, contemporary package.”