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On our fiction list, worldwide bestsellers, such as Maeve Binchy, Ian Rankin, Harlan Coben, Michael Connelly and Kate Mosse, stand alongside our literary high-flyers Colum McCann, Michael Collins, Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Elmore Leonard, Boris Akunin and Bernhard Schlink.
The non-fiction list is equally varied, with bestselling authors Michael Palin, Terry Wogan, Trinny & Susannah, Leslie Phillips and Carol Drinkwater being published simultaneously with the cream of history and science writers such as Simon Sebag Montefiore, A.C. Grayling, Richard Dawkins, Martin Gilbert, Antony Beevor and Andrew Roberts. Orion is also the official publisher for Manchester United.
As well as the classic Masterworks series, Gollancz publishes cutting-edge writers such as Terry Pratchett, Robert Rankin, Stephen Baxter and Alastair Reynolds, along with a full range of Manga titles.
There’s something for children of all ages on the Orion Children’s Books list – from the-boy-you-love-to-hate Horrid Henry and ‘the worst knight in the world’ Sir Gadabout, to the Roman Mysteries, Kevin Crossley-Holland’s acclaimed Arthur trilogy, Alan Gibbons’ popular books for older children and Michelle Paver’s bestselling series The Chronicles of Ancient Darkness. Orion is the sole publisher of all Asterix books in the English language throughout the world.
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And of course there is our backlist – hundreds of books that have become classics – from Shakespeare via Charles Dickens to Alan Clark, Vikram Seth and Antonia Fraser. Enjoy!
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Commence Exit Music... Rebus leaves the stage in a blaze of glory
Ian Rankin’s Exit Music has just been published and now finally fans can find out what happens to Edinburgh’s most famous detective in this the last DI Rebus novel. There have been the most wonderful reviews for Exit Music:
“Rankin has an unparalleled ability to draw in the reader and make us feel every knock and setback in Inspector Rebus’s red-raw life. Rarely has that talent been better displayed than in Exit Music which sees the flawed but redeemingly honest central character staggering towards the finishing line of an inglorious career that has utterly defined his life.” Scotland on Sunday
Read more reviews Ian started his nationwide tour on Sunday 9 September and is giving talks and signing books in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Chipping Norton, London, Bath, Leamington Spa, Nottingham, Blackheath, Newcastle, Edinburgh, Dundee.
See events schedule Listen to James Macpherson read an extract from Exit Music
Michael Palin’s New Europe now on TV
Michael Palin’s brilliant new travel series New Europe is now showing on BBC1 on Sundays at 9pm for a run of seven weeks. Michael Palin has travelled throughout Eastern Europe to explore how the region and its people have developed since the fall of the Berlin Wall almost two decades ago.
“New Europe, as the title suggests, is about the vigour and vitality of that half of Europe which has, for most of my lifetime been seen as grey, secretive and unwelcoming. I am happy to report that almost everywhere we went in the 20 countries of our journey, there was evidence that people were pleased to see us, anxious to talk to us and full of stories to tell.”
Michael Palin will be doing book signings for the accompanying book New Europe. See our events listings for further details.
Interview with Michael Palin about why he loves to travel
Bourne is back on screen
Read the exiting novels by Robert Ludlum, that inspired the breathtaking films.
View Robert Ludlum’s novels listed in chronological order, including the Bourne series Listen to an audio extract from The Bourne Ultimatum read by Geoff Harding View the film trailer
Orion audio is boxing clever
Orion’s extremely cool and collectable new audiobook boxsets offer something for everyone: action packed thrills with The Bourne Trilogy by Robert Ludlum, a box bursting full of cheeky mischief in An Earful of Horrid Henry (and you really do get an earful when you open the lid) by Francesca Simon and superb crime drama with The Ian Rankin Box set containing the first ten Inspector Rebus novels. What ever you are looking for, Orion Audio has it all boxed up.