JOFFE BOOKS CELEBRATES ITS TEN MILLIONTH SALE WITH UNIQUE ARTWORK
We are thrilled to announce Joffe Books has sold its 10 millionth book! Nominated for Independent Book Publisher of the Year in 2020, we have experienced extraordinary growth in the past year, selling 2.1 million books in in 2020 alone. We are very proud to be publishing some of the UK’s best-loved authors and grateful to our amazingly loyal readers. To celebrate we commissioned this brilliant artwork by internationally acclaimed artist Adam Dant, featuring the people of Shoreditch reading books by our authors. It will be displayed on the back cover of the Bookseller, Friday 16 October 2020. Both Joffe Books and the artist are located in the thriving and historic area of Shoreditch, famed for its unique location at the intersection of business, innovation, entertainment and culture.
ABOUT JOFFE BOOKS
Founded in 2014 by Jasper Joffe, we at Joffe Books pride ourselves on our history of innovative publishing. Thanks to the unflagging passion and dedication brought by everyone in Team Joffe, we have built a reputation for crafting great books for readers, long-term relationships with authors, and fleet-footed marketing of the books we love. We were very proud to be shortlisted for Independent Publisher of the Year 2020 at the British Book Awards.
We have achieved industry-wide renown for discovering new talent as well as bringing overlooked books back to life and delivering them to millions of readers – transforming the careers of their authors in the process. In 2019, we acquired the Robert Hale backlist from Crowood Press and extended our core list of crime and mystery to include sagas, historical and romance. In 2020, we acquired the rights to Nicholas Rhea’s Constable Nick series, Murder Squad founder Margaret Murphy’s critically acclaimed backlist of gripping thrillers and the whole of Faith Martin’s romance list, written under the pseudonym Maxine Barry. We also began a partnership with Severn House to bring the likes of New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Stella Cameron and Judith Cutler to a whole new audience.
ADAM DANT BRIEF BIOGRAPHY
Born in 1967 in Cambridge Adam Dant studied Fine Art Printmaking at The Royal College of Art, HDK Berlin and MS University, Baroda, India. He was a recipient of The Rome Scholarship in printmaking in 1993, The Jerwood Drawing prize in 2002 and was appointed by parliament as ‘The Official artist of The 2015 UK General Election’. Adam Dant’s work is exhibited internationally and is in the collections of Tate Britain, MOMA, New York, Deutsche Bank, UBS, Musee D’Art Contemporain. Lyon, HRH The Prince of Wales The Museum of London and various other public and private collections.
IMAGE CREDIT: Adam Dant