July News

All three titles released in June have seen strong sales, helped along by lots of coverage in the media:

SEIZED! A Sea Captain's Adventures Battling Pirates and Recovering Ships in the World's Most Troubled Waters by Max Hardberger

Man of action Max Hardberger was in the UK for a whistlestop tour, true to form his feet hardly touched the ground. It wasn't illegally impounded ships or dodgy port officials that kept him busy this time, but a string of interviews and appearances. In three days he managed appearances on BBC One's Breakfast, Radio 2 Steve Wright in the Afternoon, BBC Radio Scotland MacAulay & Co, BBC World Service Outlook, BBC Radio4 Midweek, Talk Radio Europe, Newstalk in Dublin with Tom Dunne and interviews in Kaje (digital magazine) and Time Magazine, and Metro. This frenzied activity soon payed dividends, pushing the book into the top 20 on Amazon and making it the top selling title in the travel category. By the end of its first week the book had completely sold out!

“Required reading. Fascinating. Maritime Repo Man Hardberger does it tough; his life is flown by the seat of his pants, or shipped, much like his profession...this book delivers." - Paul Carter, author of Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs and This is not a Drill

Swiss Watching: Inside Europe's Landlocked Island by Diccon Bewes

Not to be outdone Diccon Bewes was also working hard to spread the word about Swiss Watching. After claiming to know nothing about football, he shocked us all by casually reeling off facts and figures about the Swiss team on Radio 5 Live in the run up to the Spain v. Switzerland match, Lookout for his interview on Radio 4's Excess Baggage later in the month. Despite Swiss Watching being an English language release the Swiss and German press have reacted warmly to Diccon's take on his adopted country, and all the attention has given Nicholas Brealey its second June bestseller. Swiss Watching is the Number One non-fiction paperback in Switzerland outselling all English and German language books!

“Diccon Bewes has the Bryson touch, informing and entertaining readers with his observations, considerable knowledge and love for this little known country.” - Sue Baker – Lovereading.com

The New Secrets of CEOs: 200 Global Chief Executives on Leading by Steve Tappin and Andrew Cave

The new updated edition of the The Secrets of CEOs, in which Steve Tappin and Andrew Cave specifically address the challenges of the reset economy has been making waves in the business world. Extracts from the book were serialised in The Daily Telegraph, and interviews with Steve about the cult of the CEO appeared in The Observer and The independent. This, combined with appearances on BBC Radio Scotland, CNBC Squawkbox and BBC World Service Business Daily, helped make the book another strong performer, and gave us one of our best months to date.

“Impressively comprehensive ... a thought-provoking peek at what the future of corporate leadership might be." - Management Today

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For Immediate Release
Nadia Manuelli, Nicholas Brealey Publishing
+44 (0)20 7239 0360

publicity@nicholasbrealey.com
January 7th, 2009

We are pleased to announce the purchase of the Davies-Black® book division from CPP, Inc by Nicholas Brealey Publishing’s North America company (NB Publishing Inc). The deal closed on December 31, 2008

“This acquisition unifies the two best coaching lists from both sides of the Atlantic and Davies-Black’s distinguished titles will add real depth to our already comprehensive range, particularly in the leadership and human resources categories,” said founder and Managing Director Nicholas Brealey. “It brings us the fresh area of career management, while extending our reach into the popular and practical psychology field to build on the success of such titles as 50 Psychology Classics. In addition, we already share the same US distributor in NBN so this will be logistically seamless. This is an exciting expansion of our US list.”

Chuck Dresner, Vice President and Associate Publisher of Nicholas Brealey North America commented, “We are optimistic about the future for books in the areas we publish in and we have been looking for ways to fuel additional growth,” Dresner said. “Davies-Black has built up an excellent publishing programme and a recognized brand in some of the same categories, especially coaching, business and leadership titles. It was clear to us that adding their list to ours would strengthen both and help us become a leader in those areas. We are very excited about the possibilities, particularly coming off a year in which our sales improved and we added to our editorial team.”

Dresner added, “We plan to keep Davies-Black as a separate line to join our existing portfolio of different imprints for different niches.” The Nicholas Brealey Publishing group currently comprises Intercultural Press, which specializes in cross-cultural titles for professional and academic markets, and Nicholas Brealey, which also focuses on coaching, business, and popular psychology books for trade and professional markets.

The acquisition numbers over 100 Davies-Black titles, which focus on enabling people to develop themselves, their work teams and their organizations. It includes renowned coaching and career books like Co-Active Coaching by Laura Whitworth et al, and What’s Your Type of Career? by Donna Dunning as well as new business books like the upcoming The Innovation Zone by Thomas M. Koulopoulos and The Female Brand by Catherine Kaputa. Nicholas Brealey has also acquired world publishing rights to Davies-Black’s bestselling classic Gifts Differing: Understanding Personality Type by Isabel Briggs Meyers and Peter B. Meyers. These titles are joining Brealey’s own top business titles including Coaching for Performance by John Whitmore, When Cultures Collide by Richard D. Lewis, Get to the Top on Google by David Viney and such recent hits as Futures Files by Richard Watson and The Secrets of CEOs by Steve Tappin.

Nicholas Brealey Publishing is an award-winning independent press with an international reputation for innovative books in business and economics, popular psychology, travel writing and crossing cultures.

Founded in the U.K. in 1992, Nicholas Brealey Publishing increased its foothold in the U.S. when it purchased Intercultural Press in 2000. In 2004 the company opened an office in Boston, MA where it has since located all its US sales, marketing and editorial activities.

All Nicholas Brealey group titles including the Davies-Black books will be distributed to the trade through NBN in the US; in the UK through TBS after the May 31st transfer from Eurospan.

For all media enquiries please contact Nadia Manuelli,
publicity@nicholasbrealey.com Tel: +44 (0)20 7239 0360 Fax: +44 (0)20 7239 0370
Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 3-5 Spafield Street, London EC1R 4QB

For all media enquiries in the US & Canada please contact Chuck Dresner,
cdresner@nicholasbrealey.com, Tel: 888.273. 2539