INNOVATIVE PUBLISHING AND BESTSELLING FICTION, SINCE 2014.

“In the end, everything comes down to great books by great authors. We just make sure the amazing readers discover them.”
— Jasper Joffe, CEO

Founded in 2014 by Jasper Joffe, we at Joffe Books pride ourselves on our history of innovative publishing. Thanks to the unflagging passion and dedication brought by everyone in Team Joffe, we have built a reputation for crafting great books for readers, long-term relationships with authors and agents, and fleet-footed marketing of the books we love. We were very proud to be shortlisted for Independent Publisher of the Year at the British Book Awards in 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023. We won the IPG Trade Publisher of the Year in 2023.

We created the Joffe Books Prize in 2021 to help increase the diversity of the writers we publish.

We have achieved industry-wide renown for discovering new talent as well as bringing overlooked books back to life and delivering them to millions of readers – transforming the careers of their authors in the process. In 2019, we acquired the Robert Hale backlist from Crowood Press and extended our core list of crime and mystery to include sagas, historical and romance. In 2020, we acquired the rights to Nicholas Rhea’s Constable Nick series, Murder Squad founder Margaret Murphy’s critically acclaimed backlist of gripping thrillers and the whole of Faith Martin’s romance list, written under the pseudonym Maxine Barry. We also began a partnership with Severn House to bring the likes of New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Stella Cameron and Judith Cutler to a whole new audience.

We are deeply invested in creating and maintaining our authors’ careers as writers. Each new title is edited with passion and each new cover is designed with a keen eye on how the book will reach its readers. We have signed debut novelists, such as Taylor Adams and Victoria Dowd, and well-established authors, such as Faith Martin and Joy Ellis, and launched them into the book-reading world with genuine enthusiasm for seeing them succeed. As a result, our authors have become some of the most read in the UK, consistently topping the Amazon Kindle and Audible charts for weeks at a time with every new release.

The wonderful talent of our authors is matched by the conviction and dedication of our readership and the community of vocal, passionate book readers we have created through our active presence on social media.

Joffe Books is committed to giving 1% of its revenue to charity to support literacy and the globally most in-need. Much of its giving is inspired by The Life You Can Save.

To find out more about becoming a Joffe Books author, head to our Submissions page.

JOFFE BOOKS GROUP

In 2023 Joffe Books acquired Lume Books and Choc Lit.

Founded in 2018, Lume Books boasts a wide-ranging and eclectic list featuring many award-winning authors of both fiction and non-fiction including A.J.P. Taylor, H.R.F. Keating, Keith Waterhouse and many more.

Founded in 2009, Choc Lit is an award-winning publisher of romance and women’s fiction.

JASPER JOFFE: “I couldn’t be more delighted to take over the Lume mantle. Matthew Lynn is a true pioneer of digital publishing and has built one of the largest lists of digital books in the UK, with a focus on the genres that Joffe excels in. With this acquisition, Joffe Books becomes the largest independent publisher in the UK by title count.”

“We love Choc Lit and are delighted to acquire the company from Lyn Vernham. Lyn has built one of the most outstanding publishers of women’s fiction and romance in the UK. It’s an honour to take forward this brilliant publisher with its unique tasting panel of readers who help select the books to publish.”

“Our writings are as so many dishes, our readers guests, our books like beauty, that which one admires another rejects; so are we approved as men’s fancies are inclined. ”
— Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy
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WHAT OUR AUTHORS SAY ABOUT US

"It’s quite hard for me to sum up exactly how I feel about Joffe Books in just a few lines. How would you feel about someone who changed your life for the better? I do wonder how many authors working for other publishing houses, feel truly appreciated and worthwhile." Joy Ellis

"Joffe has been a safe pair of hands right from the start and the publication process has felt, for the first time, like a genuinely shared effort. In particular, I love that edits (improvements) are encouraged at every stage and suggestions for jacket images are invited (the image for Deadly Lies is my own photograph). Joffe Books have shown faith, invested in the promotion of the DI Mariner series and suddenly the books are being read. By lots of people." Chris Collett

"Since working with Joffe Books sales of my books have gone from strength to strength. I’m sure I would not have had the success I’ve enjoyed without them. They are excellent at what they do, but more than that are approachable and friendly." Helen H. Durrant

 

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