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Sort
of Books is an independent publishing venture by Mark Ellingham
and Natania Jansz, founders of the Rough Guide travel series.
We set the company up in 1999 mainly to help our friend Chris
Stewart launch his debut book, Driving Over Lemons, a surprise
UK bestseller. Fired by its success, we have hand-picked two
or three titles each year since, ranging through popular science
(Robert Kunzig's award-winning Mapping the Deep), graphic art
(Peter Blegvad's unique Leviathan), fiction (Tom Bullough's
A), children's books (Tove Jansson's illustrated Moomins), and
travel (Kathleen Jamie's Among Muslims): in short, we publish
the sort of books we like.
Natania Jansz is Sort Of's main editor, supported by
Mark Ellingham (who still has a day job at Rough Guides).
We use the leading designers Peter Dyer (for most of
our covers) and Henry Iles (website, text design and
lay-out), and the publicist Mary Byrne.
Sort of Books are proud to be marketed and distributed worldwide
(excluding North America) by The Penguin Group.
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