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Sceptre (imprint)

Imprint of Hodder & Stoughton

Summary

Imprint of Hodder & Stoughton

Field	Value
parent	Hodder & Stoughton
founded	1986
country	United Kingdom
headquarters	London, England
topics	Various
genre	Literary fiction
url	Sceptre Books

Sceptre is an imprint of Hodder & Stoughton, a British publishing house that is a division of Hachette UK.

Founded in 1986 as the literary imprint of Hodder & Stoughton, Sceptre’s remit is to publish original fiction and non-fiction that aims not just to entertain and absorb but also to stretch the mind: to be thought-provoking, stimulating, surprising and enlightening.

Notable publications

David Mitchell :- Cloud Atlas (2004) - winner of the British Book Awards Literary Fiction Award, Richard & Judy Book of the Year Award; shortlisted for the 2004 Booker Prize, Nebula Award, and Arthur C. Clarke Award. Adapted into a 2012 film of the same name, starring Tom Hanks and Halle Berry. :- The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (2010) - winner of the 2011 Commonwealth Writers' Prize regional prize, longlisted for the Booker Prize, shortlisted for the 2011 Walter Scott Prize.
Thomas Keneally :- Schindler's Ark (1982) - winner of the Booker Prize, adapted into the film Schindler's List, directed by Steven Spielberg :- The Widow and Her Hero (2007) - shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award and for the Prime Minister's Literary Award :- The Daughters of Mars (2012) - winner of the Colin Roderick Award
Andrew Miller :- Ingenious Pain (1997) :- Oxygen (2001) - shortlisted for the Booker Prize and for the Whitbread Novel Award :- Pure (2011) - winner of the Costa Prize :- The Land in Winter (2024) - winner of the Walter Scott Prize; shortlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize
Chris Cleave :- The Other Hand (2008) - shortlisted for the 2008 Costa Book Award :- Gold (2012)
Jenn Ashworth
Siri Hustvedt
Ned Beauman :- Boxer, Beetle (2010) - shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award 2010
Polly Atkin :- Some of Us Just Fall: On nature and not getting better (2023) - winner of the Lakeland Book of the Year 2024

Cited sources

References

[https://web.archive.org/web/20111111074202/https://www.hodder.co.uk/AboutUs/Imprints.aspx About Us - Imprints], hodder.co.uk. Retrieved 4 April 2023.
"Imprints". Hodder & Stoughton.

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