Corporate Information
Simon & Schuster UK is one of the leading general book publishing companies in the UK, dedicated to providing the best in fiction and nonfiction for readers of all ages. Simon & Schuster UK is based in London, and a part of ViacomCBS Corporation, with sister companies in the United States, Canada, Australia and India.
We proudly publish a wide and eclectic mix of authors ranging across commercial fiction, literary fiction, general non-fiction and children's publications. Home to bestselling authors and award winners, Simon & Schuster UK is a publishing house of quality writing and a proud home to authors such as Philippa Gregory, Sarah Vaughan, Benjamin Zephaniah, Ian McGuire, Bob Woodward, Laura Bates and Rupi Kaur, to name only a few.
Simon & Schuster UK also acts as the sales and distribution partner for a number of independent and international publishers including Aconyte, Andrews McMeel Publishing, Black Library, Boom! Studios, Canbury Press, Elliott & Thompson, Humanoids, Inner Traditions, Kaplan, National Geographic, Orenda Books, Pegasus Books, Printer’s Row, Rebellion, Rockpool Publishing, Skyhorse, VIZ Media and Z2 Comics.
Imprints
Scribner
Scribner has ever since the start attracted fresh young writers and published classic works. With a strong literary heritage from authors such as Ernest Hemingway and Scott Fitzgerald, Scribner is today home to some of the biggest modern authors of literary fiction and non-fiction. This includes acclaimed writers Alice Hoffman and Graham Swift as well as exciting emerging authors such as Matson Tyler, author of The Miseducation of Evie Epworth, Rosa Ranking-Gee, author of Dreamland and Cho Nam-Joo, author of Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982.
You can browse our Scribner UK titles here, and stay updated on news, events and new releases on Instagram.
Gallery Books
Gallery Books is our newest non-fiction imprint, and will be the home of a wide range of books about popular culture and lifestyle. Gallery Books publish books that engage, enlighten, and entertain, with titles that represent prescient pop culture, memorable memoirs, smart self-help, and fearless cultural commentary. Some of our titles include Pregnant Then Screwed, Beautiful Things, The Ten Hour Diet, Do Better and the bestselling And Away… by Bob Mortimer.
Children’s Publishing
Simon & Schuster Children’s Books publishes a wide range of books for all ages, across all genres. Our list includes bestselling and award-winning picture books, chapter books for newly confident readers, novels for 8 – 12s and non-fiction. We are also one of the UK’s leading Young Adult publishers. We are proud to publish many bestselling authors and illustrators including Sue Hendra & Paul Linnet (the creators of Supertato), Ben Miller, Adam Silvera, Rachel Renee Russell, Benji Davies, Smriti Halls, Nadia Shireen, Nic Stone, Katie & Kevin Tsang and Cassandra Clare.
You can browse our children’s and young adult titles here and stay updated on news, events, competitions and new releases from our children’s department on Facebook and Twitter.
The Board
Ian Chapman
Chief Executive and Publisher, Simon & Schuster UK and International
Simon & Schuster, LLC
Ian Stewart Chapman was named Chief Executive and Publisher, Simon & Schuster UK and International in July 2013. In this position, Chapman has full responsibility for the publishing, editorial, marketing and sales functions of Simon & Schuster UK, publishing a full range of adult, children’s and audio titles in both printed and digital formats. The company currently publishes about 200 titles per year in first format, of which 20 percent originate from the parent company.
Chapman also holds overall responsibility for Simon & Schuster Australia and in 2011 added responsibility for Simon & Schuster India.
Chapman joined the company in January 2000 as Managing Director and CEO of Simon & Schuster UK. During his tenure notable authors and books include Chronicles by Bob Dylan, Wilson by Pulitzer Prize-winning author A. Scott Berg, Hard Choices and What Happened by Hillary Rodham Clinton. The company is home to numerous bestselling and critically acclaimed authors including #1 bestseller Philippa Gregory, Nicci French, Chris Carter, Milly Johnson, Tom Rob Smith, Graham Swift, Philipp Meyer, Hari Kunzru, Cho Nam-joo, Martin Cruz Smith, Rachel Hore and Santa Montefiore. The company has also enjoyed great non-fiction success including the one-million-copy UK bestseller The Secret by Rhonda Byrne, Phil Knight, Walter Isaacson, Rupi Kaur and Dave Grohl.
Under Chapman’s direction, Simon & Schuster UK’s children’s books publishes an array of award-winning and bestselling authors and illustrators. In picture books, stand-out successes include Sue Hendra & Paul Linnet’s million-copy selling Supertato series, Benji Davies’s The Storm Whale sequence, and new talent Steve Small. In fiction commercial hits include Ben Miller, one of the UK’s fastest growing children’s authors, and the Dragon Realm series by Katie and Kevin Tsang. The YA list is one of the most successful in the market publishing Adam Silvera, Becky Albertalli and Cassandra Clare amongst other global bestsellers.
Prior to joining Simon & Schuster, Chapman was Managing Director of Macmillan General Books, with overall publishing responsibility for the Macmillan, Picador, Pan and Sidgwick & Jackson imprints. He has also held editorial and publishing positions at Pan Macmillan, Hodder & Stoughton, and in the United States at William Morrow, Berkley, and Doubleday. Chapman was a member of the Publishers Association Council for eight years, and is an acting member of the Trade Publishers Council.
Chapman is a graduate of Durham University. He lives in East Sussex.
Suzanne Baboneau
Managing Director, Adult Publishing Division
Suzanne joined Simon & Schuster UK in 2000 from Pan Macmillan. She oversees the Adult Editorial department, working closely with our Fiction and Non-fiction Publishing Directors and Editorial Director, Scribner, on the shape and focus of our hardcover and paperback lists. She has a commissioning role as well, and edit a number of our authors, predominantly in fiction but also in the areas of narrative non-fiction and memoir.
She has been working with authors such as Philippa Gregory, Tom Rob Smith, Santa Montefiore, Nicci French, Louise Candlish, Rachel Hore and Ian McGuire. American fiction is also a great love of hers and she feels fortunate to count among the authors whom she works with Pulitzer Prize-finalist Philipp Meyer, Pulitzer Prize-winning Anna Quindlen, Alice Hoffman and Waterstones favourite Joseph Kanon. Non-fiction highlights have been David Grann’s remarkable Killers of the Flower Moon, Sally Field’s memoir In Pieces and, more recently, Ariana Neumann’s immensely moving When Time Stopped and Rupi Kaur’s stirring new poetry collection, home body.
Rachel Denwood
Managing Director of the Children’s Division
Rachel joined Simon & Schuster in 2019 as Managing Director of the Children’s division following a decade at HarperCollins where she published bestsellers including Rob Biddulph, David Walliams, Anna James, Soman Chainani and Michael Bond. She started out in the children’s editorial team at Macmillan where the drudge of photocopying was offset by the joy of phone calls with legendary novelist Eva Ibbotson. At Simon & Schuster, Rachel leads the Children’s division publishing across all age groups and genres, and takes pride in offering authors and illustrators a nurturing and inspiring creative environment backed up with strong commercial ambition.
She sometimes commissions, mostly middle grade and YA fiction, and acquisitions at S&S include books by Ben Miller, Sophy Henn, Jenny Valentine, Katie & Kevin Tsang and Tracy Deonn. She loves big hooky concepts, narrative voice that leaps from the page, adventurous storylines, and books that leave young readers empowered, hopeful and breathless to line up their next read. Rachel believes that connecting brilliant authors and illustrators with young readers is the best job in the world; she really is living her dream working in publishing.
Gill Richardson
Group Sales Director
Since joining the ranks of the S&S UK Sales team in 1999, having previously lived abroad, Gill has worked with a wide range of customers across the ever-changing retail landscape.
She now oversees the entire Sales team and work closely with the Sales Directors of both the UK and International Divisions to explore every possible opportunity for selling our books, in whatever format that might be. She is a firm believer that every sale counts and that every customer counts too, no matter how small. At S&S we pride ourselves on delivering a first class service to all our customers, from the smallest independent bookshops to high street chains, supermarkets to online retailers, wholesalers to digital platforms. Only by doing so can we get our brilliant authors the support and representation they so richly deserve, and she is blessed with a fantastic team of people who work tirelessly to ensure this happens.
At S&S we are lucky enough to sell not only our own exciting Fiction, Non-Fiction and Children’s books, but also a diverse range of Client Publisher lists, which is a constant source of interest and celebration. There is truly never a dull moment and she would have it no other way!
Russell Evans
Commercial Director
Russell joined Simon & Schuster UK in 2013, having previously worked at Penguin Books for 10 years with responsibilities across inventory management and production. Prior to this he worked at Piatkus Books and Duckworth where he began his career in publishing in sales and marketing positions.
At Simon & Schuster, he is responsible for all operational aspects within the business which includes Publishing Operations, Production, Contracts, Managing Editorial, Systems Operations, IT and Facilities – all the essential functions that underpin the creation of our books and support the creative and sales teams. Additional to this he manages our Rights team responsible for selling the rights and co-editions across all our imprints. Russel also oversee our distribution partnership with HarperCollins Supply Chain.
One of his favourite Simon and Schuster books is The North Water by Ian McGuire which is now a major BBC TV series.
