HAUS' HISTORY

Haus Publishing is an independent publisher of politics, history, biography, memoir and travel writing.

Haus Publishing was founded in London in 2003 by Barbara Schwepcke.

Inspired by the Monographien of the German publishing house Rowohlt, Haus begun publishing short biographies in the Life&Times series with a translation of Sebastian Haffner’s Churchill. In recent years our list has broadened substantially and now includes history, politics, current affairs, memoir, art books and fiction in translation.

Since 2005, Haus has published travel writing from around the world under the Armchair Traveller imprint, and in 2008 began publishing literary fiction in translation. Initially with the aim of bringing works of contemporary German-language literature into English, our international list of authors includes Siegfried Lenz, Markus Werner, Thomas Mann, Clarice Lispector, Carolina De Robertis, Érik Orsenna, Doron Rabinovici, Michael Köhlmeier, Alex Capus and many others.

Our well-established series include: Haus Curiosities, political pamphlets edited by Peter Hennessy; Makers of the Modern World, a 32-volume history of the Paris Peace Conferences after the First World War; and Armchair Traveller’s Histories.

Publishing 25 books a year, Haus keep over 250 titles in print.

Our recent bestsellers include Afghan Napoleon by Sandy Gall, The Serpent Coiled in Naples by Marius Kociejowski and Leadership by Simon McDonald.