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About Mark Smith

Mark Smith founded Quercus with Wayne Davies in May 2004. In the short time since then he has steered the company to three Bookseller industry awards, including two awards for Independent Publisher of the Year. This year Quercus were shortlisted for overall Publisher of the Year for the first time. Before 2004, Mark worked as Managing Director of the Custom Publishing Division of the Orion Publishing Group. An Australian, who has been resident in the UK for over 12 years, Mark lives in West London with his wife and two young children.

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About Quercus

Quercus is a young, independent publishing company, established in 2004 and is the fastest-growing trade publisher in the UK, perhaps best-known as the house behind Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy. Quercus takes great pride in the quality of its list and endeavours to publish the best storytellers from across the globe. Since 2005, Quercus has won in excess of 100 awards and prizes, including the Costa Best Novel Award, the CWA Duncan Lawrie Dagger, the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award and the RBA International Prize for Crime Writing.