Sheldrake Press are independent non-fiction publishers. Under our founder, Simon Rigge, a partwork and series book editor by background and a bit of an idealist by inclination, we have built up a reputation for original, meticulously finished and attractively illustrated books.
We are a close group of editors and writers who take pride in telling a good story. An editorially led company, we think of an idea and strive to make it concrete in the best possible way. We commision the best authors we can find and invite them into our team. Together we create the elaborate result – the visually striking, and we earnestly hope, readable book – which you get to hold in your hands.
We publish fully illustrated books on history, architecture and design, with a few other pet topics thrown in. Our aim is to write well and shed new light on subjects we care about. Many of our books have a campaigning element, whether it’s the sympathetic restoration of old buildings or support for conservation of the natural world.
Sheldrake Press grew out of the publishing renaissance of the ‘60s and ‘70s in which our founder Simon Rigge started his career.
He worked at Purnell’s on history magazines and then, after a stint on The Observer Magazine, became an editor at Time-Life Books.
