During her 2009 Ted Talk, Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie illustrated the danger of a single story that starts with childhood reading. In 2015, development agency Spread the Word published a report on the U.K. book industry, which laid bare just how resolutely white, middle-class and male it was, and how this spanned literary festivals, book prizes, the publishing industry and staff recruitments.

We therefore wanted to talk about some of the publishing houses / imprints that continue to do this necessary work in 2019.

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