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Sheldrake Press is an independent non-fiction publisher now in its 33rd year. Under its founder, Simon Rigge, a partwork and series book editor by background and a bit of an idealist by inclination, it has built up a reputation for original, meticulously finished and attractively illustrated books. Its main subjects are travel, architecture and design, history and cookery, with gift stationery books illustrated by Kate Greenaway as a sideline. A belief in environmental conservation lies behind many of its publishing decisions.
An editorially led company, Sheldrake Press aims to inform, entertain and persuade its readers. All its books contain a lot of text. Probably more time and money is spent on text than anything else, so you can be confident that what you read has been carefully researched, checked, edited and proof-read. Whenever you open a book, you should find your interest aroused and held. With luck, you will also be amused or inspired.
Authors who have contributed to the Sheldrake list include Michelle Berriedale-Johnson, Frances Bissell, Douglas Botting, Asa Briggs, Robin Guild, Katharine Hepburn, Tim Jepson, Miles Kington, O. S. Nock, Elizabeth Poston and Richard Olney.
Many Sheldrake Press books have a campaigning edge. The Railway Heritage of Britain is intended to draw attention to the wealth of architecture and civil engineering works left to us by I. K. Brunel and his peers, and to encourage their conservation. The Wild Guides aim to describe the natural world and engender a respect for its intricate web of interdependencies on which ultimately we all rely for our survival. The Victorian House Book sets out to prevent the architectural heritage of the Victorian era from being lost, and to promote greater awareness of sympathetic restoration techniques. This is done simply by showing how to renovate and decorate well.
Sheldrake Press started as book packagers, producing titles for other publishers in the UK, US and Europe. Since 1991 the company has been publishing under its own imprint in the UK. International co-edition publishing remains a major part of its business. Past and present customers include Rizzoli International Publications, Inc. and Stewart Tabori Chang, Inc. in the United States, Firefly Books in Canada, Editions du Chêne in France, Calderini in Italy, George Westermann and Meisinger Verlag in Germany, Cantecleer in Holland and Nova Forlag in Norway. In the United States, Interlink Books distribute selected Sheldrake Press titles.
In the UK, sales representation is provided by Parker Associates and distribution by NBN International Ltd. In the US, sales representation and distribution on selected titles is provided by Interlink Books.
Sheldrake Press is an imprint of Sheldrake Publications Ltd, a member of the Sheldrake Holdings Group.
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Sheldrake Press, publishers of the Wild Guides, are running a travel writing competition this month. Share one of your wild travel experiences with us for a chance to be published on our web-site and win a set of guides to Italy, Britain and Ireland. 
Are you a budding writer or a keen poet? Would you like to see your work published on-line? We are running a competition to find the best short poem in the style of a Ruthless Rhyme, a humorous verse form invented by Harry Graham.
