Frankfurt Book Fair 2023 - Wales Trade Mission brochure

This is Creative. This is Wales.

Frankfurt Book Fair

This is Wales. We’re a small but mighty nation shaped by our people, inspired by our places and alive with creative talent. The creative industries in Wales are of huge value to the local economy, with 3,545 businesses operating across sectors including Film, TV and Animation, Games, Music, and Publishing, employing 32,500 people overall as of 2022.

Creative Wales and Books Council of Wales are delighted to be working together to showcase the distinct creative output – in both English and Welsh – of this important sector to an international audience.

Latest figures from 2022 data* show that the Publishing sector in Wales turns over £429m annually, with 965 businesses making up the industry, many of which are microoperations. The sector saw an increase in employment of almost 20% between 2021 and 2022, with a total of 11,000 people employed in Wales. The median gross weekly earnings for those employed in the publishing sector was £561 in 2022, an increase of 16.9% from the previous year.

We want to support creative businesses and boost the industry by offering access to a skilled workforce and the best infrastructure, while creating opportunities to access global markets through international trade missions like Frankfurt Book Fair.

* Data sources: Annual Population Survey (employment); Inter-Departmental Businesses Register (number of businesses and turnover); Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (weekly earnings data). Years refer to calendar years e.g. 2022 refers to the year ending December 2022.

Books Council of Wales

The Books Council of Wales believes in the transformative power of reading. Books enrich our lives, our languages, and communities. We are here to ensure that Wales has a flourishing publishing industry and that the people living here can work in our sector or benefit from its creative endeavours which are made in Wales, for the people of Wales.

We support publishers, bookshops, and magazines, to tell the many stories of Wales and all its communities, in both Welsh and English. We promote reading for pleasure to encourage, inspire and share a love of reading for all.

The Books Council’s vision is for a Wales where everyone can be a reader, and where everyone has access to books, irrespective of their ability to afford them.

We are a national charity, and our funding comes partly from the Welsh Government via Creative Wales and partly from our distribution and wholesaling section bookhub.cymru.

books.wales

Contact: sales@books.wales

Publishing Wales

Having recognised the absence of a single identity and voice for Wales’ publishing sector, a group of publishers from across Wales joined forces to establish 'Cyhoeddi Cymru Publishing Wales' in February 2021.

CCPW’s aim is to be the inclusive, recognised, and authoritative voice for the publishing sector in Wales, representing all Welsh publishers for our collective benefit and for the advancement of the sector.

The organisation will support members to expand our reach globally and foster an ambitious and professional environment in which the sector can thrive. CCPW is supported by Books Council of Wales.

cyhoeddi.cymru

Contact:

post@cyhoeddi.cymru

@PublishingWales @cyhoeddi_cymru

CyhoeddiCymruPublishingWales

Atebol

Atebol is a multi-award winning children’s publishing company based in Wales. The company was established in 2003, specialising in educational resources as well as publishing a broad range of children’s fiction titles.

Today, we are known for our highquality books and progressive approach to content, publishing around 60 Welsh / English / bilingual books annually. As well as working with award-winning authors and illustrators, we are committed to nurturing new talent, providing opportunities to bring fresh stories to new audiences.

Reading for pleasure has been proven to improve a child’s academic attainment, social mobility, and even their mental health. We publish books that aim to inspire a love of reading at home and in the classroom.

Our titles open doors to learning and understanding, they ignite the imagination and excite and delight children of all ages. Through our catalogue of captivating characters and stirring stories, we want to stretch and inspire ourselves and those we reach.

atebol.com

Contact: Rachel Lloyd

rachel@atebol.com

Buzz Publishers

Buzz Magazine has been an independent, pan-Wales cultural publication for 33 years.

Focusing on culture, the arts, entertainment, film, food & drink, literature, lifestyle and listings and all manner of other nooks, crannies and curiosities from across Wales.

Buzz is at the heart of the community in Wales supporting and highlighting the best of Wales through reviews, interviews, features, and social commentary. Cosmopolitan in outlook but with a Welsh focus.

Buzz Culture is our learning experience program providing employability, transversal, entrepreneurship, leadership, and work-based skills for young people who face career access barriers, in particular to journalism and the creative and cultural industries professions.

buzzmag.co.uk

Contact:

Emma Clark

emma@buzzmag.co.uk

@BuzzMagWales

Crown House Publishing Ltd.

Crown House Publishing is an awardwinning independent publisher specialising in the areas of Education, Coaching, Business Training and Development, Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), Hypnotherapy, Psychotherapy, Counselling, Self Help, Mind Body Spirit, Personal Growth and, more recently, children’s fiction.

Our large education list features titles on professional development, leadership, character education, teacher training and behaviour management. It features bestselling titles such as When the Adults Change, Everything Changes, Dirty Teaching, Teaching Creative Thinking, Imperfect Leadership, Mentoring in Schools and Making Kids Cleverer.

crownhouse.co.uk

Contact:

David Bowman

dbowman@crownhouse.co.uk

We have recently launched two new series of children’s books – Feel Brave, a series of picture books for ages 4-7 featuring Wolfgang the wolf who teaches children how to manage their emotions and feelings, and Don’t Doubt the Rainbow, a new middle grade fiction series featuring Edie Marble, a 13-year-old private detective. Look out for the first two books in the series, The Five Clues and Outside Chance.

Firefly Press

Firefly is an independent children’s and Young Audience publisher based in Wales. We publish quality fiction in all genres for 5-19 years old.

We are winners of Wales Small Press of the Year 2020, 2021 and 2023 and Winner of Yoto Carnegie Medal 2023 with The Blue Book of Nebo by Manon Steffan Ros.

fireflypress.co.uk

Contact:

Sian Jones

sian.jones@fireflypress.co.uk

Graffeg

Based in Wales, Graffeg is headed up by Peter Gill and Matthew Howard and publish board books for children

0-3 years, picture books for 4-7 years, early readers for 5-7 years and middle grade fiction for 7-11 years, as well as illustrated non-fiction.

Our children’s list includes Fletcher the playful fox by Julia Rawlinson and Tiphanie Beeke; Molly by Malachy Doyle and Andrew Whitson; Albert the Tortoise by Ian Brown and Eoin Clarke; Mouse & Mole by Joyce Dunbar and James Mayhew; Ceri & Deri by Max Low; Gaspard by Zeb Soanes and James Mayhew, and Jackie Morris titles such as The Ice Bear and The Snow Leopard.

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Our non-fiction illustrated books include the compact British Wildlife series and art and photography titles under the Bird Eye Books imprint –Butterfly Safari by Andrew Fusek Peters, A Love Affair with Peonies by Alec White, Bird’s Eye London by Paul Campbell and Wonders of the Celtic Deep.

Matthew

Howard, Sales Director

matthew@graffeg.com

Graham Lawler Media and Publishing

We, as educational publishers, are experts in helping students to learn and teachers to teach. We have 3 offers:

Studymates, which are guides for post 16 and university level students. Lawler Education, where we provide books of worksheets and lesson plans for teachers. Our SEN books have been particularly successful in helping this cohort of students, and Hamilton-Vale Publishing. We provide a new and growing list of books that are designed to encourage people to read. They are also written in a manner which challenges the reader to develop their own values. We are passionate about encouraging reading because reading is software for the brain.

graham-lawler.com

Contact:

Dr Graham Lawler

info@graham-lawler.com

We know that a 5-year-old in school now, will still be working in 70 years. We have no idea about 2073 but we know that they will have problems. That is the driving force behind our books, we help students to become critical thinkers.

Honno Welsh Women’s Press

Established in 1986, Honno is the longest-standing independent feminist press in the UK. Based in Aberystwyth, Honno publishes a wide range of fiction and non-fiction from women authors and authors identifying as women or non-binary from Wales or with a connection to Wales.

Honno is a grassroots publishing house dedicated to championing new Welsh writing. Publishers of the acclaimed Welsh Women’s Classics series, Honno shines a light on talent emerging and established in Wales with an ethos of supporting and promoting diversity and equality in the creative arts. Honno publishes books in English and Welsh. Our titles are available worldwide.

Honno is a non-for-profit publishing company and receives support from the Books Council of Wales.

honno.co.uk

Contact:

press@honno.co.uk

Lucent Dreaming

Lucent Dreaming is a Cardiff-based independent publisher for new and emerging authors.

Lucent Dreaming began as a creative writing magazine publisher; their first issue launched in 2018.

They expanded into poetry and fiction book publishing in 2022.

Lucent Dreaming promotes unique writing with mass appeal.

lucentdreaming.com

Contact:

dreaminglucent@gmail.com

Seren

Seren is a leading independent literary publisher specialising in Englishlanguage writing from Wales. With over forty years of experience, our list spans poetry, fiction and non-fiction. Many of our books are shortlisted for – and win – major literary prizes across the UK including the Forward Prize for Poetry and Wales Book of the Year.

Our aim is not simply to reflect what is going on in the culture in which we publish, but to drive that culture forward, to engage with the world, and to bring Welsh literature, art and politics before a wider audience.

At the heart of our list is a good story told well or an idea or history presented interestingly or provocatively. We’re international in authorship and readership, though our roots remain in Wales where we prove that writers from a small country with an intricate culture have a worldwide relevance.

serenbooks.com

Contact:

Sarah Johnson, Deputy Publisher sarahjohnson@serenbooks.com

University of Wales Press

University of Wales Press passionately believes in supporting and disseminating scholarship from and about Wales to a worldwide audience. The Press has served Wales and the international academic community since 1922 by publishing scholarly research in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences.

We share in the strong national tradition of bringing education and learning to the population of Wales and consider it our role to support all aspects of learning and the lifelong pursuit of knowledge and academic excellence. Our role in furthering the understanding of Wales’s unique culture, history, heritage, language and politics is critical.

Over the past century, we have provided a platform for Wales’s foremost thinkers and have contributed to the building of modern Wales.

UWP is in a unique position as the only not-for-profit academic press in Wales. With the support of the University of Wales, we have been able to remain faithful to our founding mission.

UWP currently publishes around 50 new books and journals a year, primarily in the fields of European studies, philosophy, literature, history, Welsh and Celtic studies. We also produce general interest books about Wales as part of our mission to disseminate research and to make it accessible for a wider audience.

Contact:

Maria Vassilopoulos

maria.vassilopoulos@press.wales.ac.uk

Wales Literature Exchange

Wales Literature Exchange is the translation junction connecting writers, translators and publishers in Wales and abroad.

WLE was established more than twenty years ago with the aim of creating a platform for promotion of the best literature of Wales abroad and contributing to the internationalisation of the literary scene at home. Our motto is ‘Translating Wales, Reading the World’ and we cooperate with our sister organisation Literature Across Frontiers and other partners to shine a spotlight on the diverse, bilingual literary landscape of Wales and provide

opportunities for Welsh authors to become known beyond our borders, for publishers to connect with each other and for translators to continue developing their skills.

We are committed to literary exchange and translation as necessary elements in a delicate cultural ecology. We celebrate the linguistic diversity that exists in the world today and are determined to contribute to its sustainability and development. We believe that respect for languages and for translation are at the heart of international cultural exchange.

waleslitexchange.org

Contact:

Elin Haf

post@waleslitexchange.org

Literature Across Frontiers

Literature Across Frontiers (LAF), the European Platform for Literary Exchange, Translation and Policy Debate, aims to develop intercultural dialogue through literature and translation and highlight less translated literatures.

We are based in Wales, United Kingdom, at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David, at the Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies.

We work in partnership with organisations and individuals across Europe and beyond to foster literary diversity and create opportunities for new connections, collaborations and projects.

We develop short and longer-term projects; organise events, seminars and workshops; conduct research; contribute to strategic policy debates and provide online resources and information on the international literary sector.

lit-across-frontiers.org

Contact:

Alexandra Büchler

alexandra@lit-across-frontiers.org

Y Lolfa

Established in 1967 Y Lolfa is one of the largest publishers in Wales, employing 22 people, publishing a wide variety of Welsh and English language books. Y Lolfa has a strong non-fiction list in English as well as many high-profile sports books, including the recent autobiography of rugby referee, Nigel Owens.

We also publish prize-winning fiction, non-fiction and a variety of children’s books in Welsh. Many of our authors have won the Welsh Book of the Year award, including Caryl Lewis, Megan Angharad Hunter and Manon Steffan Ros.

We pride ourselves in our original and innovative content and also in promoting Welsh history and the Welsh language. Our Teach your Dog series has become a successful brand, adapted into over 10 different languages.

ylolfa.com

Contact:

Lefi Gruffudd

lefi@ylolfa.com

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