Hachette U.K. has acquired Nicholas Brealey Publishing, with offices in London and Boston, Mass., which publishes books on global business, personal & professional development, and travel writing. The company will become an imprint within John Murray Press, with Nick Brealey continuing to manage the lists. He reports to Nick Davies, managing director of John Murray Press. Hachette U.K. will handle sales and distribution for the imprint.
"Nick Brealey is a brilliant publisher," said Hachette U.K. CEO Jamie Hodder Williams. "His areas of specialism... are also areas of specialism for Nick Davies's team at John Murray Press. I am absolutely delighted that Nick has chosen to come to Hachette so that together we can further develop the wonderful business he has created."
Davies commented: "This is a really important and happy step in the development of John Murray Press. Nick and his colleagues have built a business that publishes the best books and attracts the best authors in their fields."
Brealey called the acquisition "splendid news for everybody," and offered "an example of how good the fit is--John Murray famously published Patrick Leigh Fermor's classic backlist while one of our recent travel titles is Nick Hunt's acclaimed Walking the Woods and the Water: In Patrick Leigh Fermor's Footsteps from the Hook of Holland to the Golden Horn--a perfect piece of publishing serendipity. We're now in our 24th year, and I look forward enormously to working with Jamie and Nick and to celebrating our 25th."
