Myriad Editions

Myriad Editions is an independent publishing house based in Brighton, UK, specialising in three genres: topical atlases, graphic non-fiction and original fiction.

History

Myriad Editions was founded as a book packager in 1993. Myriad's flagship atlas, The State of the World Atlas, was originally devised by Michael Kidron and Ronald Segal and is now authored by leading international peace researcher Dan Smith, O.B.E. It has sold over 700,000 copies worldwide.^[1]

Myriad Editions continues to publish award-winning atlases which map political, social and environmental concerns. Most of the atlases are distributed internationally, through publishers including Penguin and the University of California Press in the USA, Earthscan in the UK, Éditions Autrement in France, Eva in Germany, Obeikan in Saudi Arabia, Publifolha in Brazil, Maruzen in Japan, Sigma in Taiwan and Pajera in Thailand.

Myriad Editions also publishes special projects for the United Nations and other international organizations. These include a miniAtlas series on global development for the World Bank and a series of atlases on health issues for the World Health Organization and the American Cancer Society.

In 2005, Myriad Editions published The Brighton Book, which was a mixture of reportage, fiction, graphics and photographs. They went on to publish full-length novels written by two of the anthology's contributors: Martine McDonagh’s I Have Waited, and You Have Come and Lesley Thomson’s A Kind of Vanishing.^[2]

In 2009, the independent publishing company was awarded an Arts Council England grant to further develop their fiction publishing.^[3] With this funding, Myriad was able to publish two début novels by local authors in 2009, The Cloths of Heaven by Sue Eckstein and Glasshopper by Isabel Ashdown.

In Spring 2010, Myriad Editions launched a fiction list with three new novels, The Noise of Strangers by Robert Dickinson, The Clay Dreaming by comic artist Ed Hillyer and The Spider Truces by Tom Connolly.

As of August 2011, Myriad Editions has published several more new novels, including Quilt, by Nicholas Royle, Invisibles by Ed Siegle and 4a.m. by Nina de la Mer, as well as Elizabeth Haynes's Into the Darkest Corner, winner of Round 1 of Amazon Rising Stars.^[4] Their most recently-published novel is Sue Eckstein's second book Interpreters. The company plans to continue their fiction list with 4-6 new titles every year, mainly by first-time authors from the South East of England.^[5]

Selected recent publications

Atlases

• The State of the American Empire
• The Cancer Atlas
• The State of China Atlas
• The Atlas of Climate Change
• The Atlas of Endangered Species
• The Atlas of Food
• The State of Health Atlas
• The State of the Middle East
• The Atlas of War and Peace
• The Atlas of Water
• The Atlas of Women of the World

Fiction

• The Brighton Book
• The Clay Dreaming
• The Cloths of Heaven
• Glasshopper
• A Kind of Vanishing
• I Have Waited, and You Have Come
• Into the Darkest Corner
• London Triptych
• The Noise of Strangers
• Quilt
• The Spider Truces

Graphic Non-fiction

• Rumblestrip
• 365 Ways to Change the World
• Funny Weather
• The Food of Love

See also

• Isabel Ashdown
• Ed Hillyer
• Judith Mackay
• Michael Kidron

References

1. ^ http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-6780692-all-new-jaw-dropping-stats.do
2. ^ http://vulpeslibris.wordpress.com/2010/02/18/publisher-feature-interview-with-myriad-editions/
3. ^ http://www.thebookseller.com/news/77255-myriad-gets-60000-from-ace.html
4. ^ http://www.amazon.co.uk/b?ie=UTF8&node=598680031
5. ^ http://www.viewfromheremagazine-opportunities.com/2010/01/publisher-profile-myriad-editions.html

External links

• Official website