Wed 24 November 2010 at 12.30 am

Publishing seminar - Toby Mundy

Independent trade publishing in the UK

Taking Place: Buckley Building, Gypsy Lane, Oxford Brookes University

Toby Mundy is a leading figure in the publishing industry.  After training as a graduate recruit at HarperCollins, where he was editorial assistant to Stuart Proffitt, and later took on responsibility for Fontana Press, he joined Weidenfeld & Nicolson as editorial director in 1998. In 2000 he became managing director and publisher of newly formed Atlantic Books, whose bestsellers include the Booker winning The White Tiger, by Aravind Adiga, and recent titles such as The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas.

Atlantic Books is the British subsidiary of the American independent publishing house Grove/Atlantic. It was founded in February 2000 and published its first book in May 2001. It has since developed a list that has a world-wide reputation for quality, originality and breadth, and includes fiction, history, politics, memoir and current affairs.