Sceptre

Parent company	Hodder & Stoughton
Founded	1986
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Headquarters location	London, England
Nonfiction topics	Various
Fiction genres	Literary fiction
Official website	Sceptre Books

Sceptre is an imprint of Hodder & Stoughton,^[1] a British publishing house which is a division of Hachette UK.

Founded in 1986 as the literary imprint of Hodder & Stoughton, Sceptre’s remit is to publish original fiction and non-fiction that aims not just to entertain and absorb but also to stretch the mind: to be thought-provoking, stimulating, surprising and enlightening.^[2]

Notable publications

• David Mitchell

- Cloud Atlas (2004) - winner of the British Book Awards Literary Fiction Award, Richard & Judy Book of the Year Award, shortlisted for the 2004 Booker Prize, Nebula Award, and Arthur C. Clarke Award. Adapted into a film (2012) of the same name, starring Tom Hanks and Halle Berry.

- The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (2010) - winner of the 2011 Commonwealth Writers' Prize regional prize, long-listed for the Booker Prize, shortlisted for the 2011 Walter Scott Prize.

• Thomas Keneally

- Schindler's Ark (1982) - winner of the Booker Prize, adapted into the film Schindler's List, directed by Steven Spielberg

- The Widow and Her Hero (2007) - shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award and for the Prime Minister's Literary Award

- The Daughters of Mars (2012)

• Andrew Miller

- Ingenious Pain (1997)

- Oxygen (2001) - shortlisted for the Booker Prize and for the Whitbread Novel Award

- Pure (2011) - winner of the Costa Prize

• Chris Cleave

- The Other Hand (2008) - shortlisted for the 2008 Costa Book Award

- Gold (2012)

• Jenn Ashworth
• Siri Hustvedt
• Ned Beauman

- Boxer, Beetle (2010) - shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award 2010