Hachette Livre Australia and New Zealand
Australia
Hachette Livre Australia publishes high-quality commercial fiction and non-fiction for adults and children across a wide range of subject areas, including fiction and non-fiction, biography, memoir, health and self-help, travel, history, Australiana, popular culture, lifestyle and sport.
Our Hachette Australia imprint is home to authors such as Lian Hearn, Hugh Mackay, Peter FitzSimons, William McInnes, James Phelan, Gabrielle Lord, Penelope Green and Kimberley Freeman and Prof Jennie Brand-Miller and Kaye Foster-Powell’s internationally acclaimed Low GI series. We also publish international bestsellers Mitch Albom, The Dalai Lama, Augusten Burroughs and John Grogan. We have recently established our own Orbit list – part of the prestigious international Orbit imprint – and will launch in September 2008.
Our children’s books are published under the highly regarded Lothian Children’s Book imprint and include authors and illustrators such as Shaun Tan, Colin Thompson, Gary Crew, John Marsden and Alison Lester.
We are proud to distribute a stellar collection of bestselling authors and children’s books from our UK and US sister companies including Maeve Binchey, John Le Carre, Lauren Childs, Harlan Coben, Martina Cole, Patricia Cornwell, Jeffery Deaver, Janet Evanovich, Elizabeth George, Stephen King, Alexander McCall Smith, Stephanie Meyer, David Mitchell, Michael Palin, Ian Rankin, Nora Roberts, Peter Robinson, Anita Shreve, Penny Vincenzi, and an enviable collection of illustrated books from Octopus and the PQ and MILK collections.
Visit their website: www.hha.com.au
New Zealand
Hachette Livre New Zealand is a leading publisher of non-fiction in the New Zealand market. While concentrating on sport, cookery and wine titles, other areas covered are history, humour, reference and Kiwiana.
The New Zealand programme is published under the Hodder Moa imprint, and is the leading sports publisher in the market. Biographies of leading rugby and cricket players, celebratory books of sporting history and sports reference make up a substantial part of the list. The branded “Edmonds” and “Food in a Minute” titles are the core of an important cookery list, and Michael Cooper’s award-winning books on New Zealand wine are also internationally known.
Hachette Livre New Zealand is also responsible for operating Anne Geddes Publishing. This is a joint venture with the Geddes Group and is responsible for worldwide sales and production of Anne Geddes books and calendars, best-sellers around the world for over ten years.
The UK and US arms of Hachette Livre are represented in New Zealand by Hachette Livre New Zealand, including their vast array of international best-sellers.