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A: Up his sleevies! They say the old ones are the best. That may be debatable, but that particular old joke was the first time anyone ever mentioned Napoleon to Simon as a child, so he was determined we should get it in somewhere. And now, in the same year that we...

Bookswarm has created the brand identity and website for exciting new publishing startup Three Hares. Three Hares is run by Yasmin Standen, a literary agent, and Helen Bryant, a scout and literary consultant. One day over coffee, while chatting about brilliant authors...

This week has seen the launch of Lifeofwellington.co.uk, a new site for Yale University Press by Bookswarm that does more than just promote a history title - it provides readers with an entire additonal level of insight and scope for exploration. Readers of Volume 1...

On Monday night Neil Gaiman delivered the second annual Reading Agency Lecture. Bookswarm's Simon Appleby was there. It was a real privilege to be able to hear Neil Gaiman on Monday. He's long been a favourite author of mine, since I read (and re-read, and re-read)...

Never mind the Nobel Prize for Literature, today's big news is the announcement of this year's Futurebook Innovation Awards shortlists - with a Bookswarm project in the reckoning. Faber Social is shortlisted for Best Publisher Website, along with Drama Online from...

As it's National Poetry Day we thought we'd take a quick break from beavering away to share a few of the Bookswarm team's favourite poems. Simon has always really liked Percy Bysshe Shelley's Ozymandias - and since it lent its name and themes to a heart-stopping...

Today is National Poetry Day, and Faber is launching a new Poetry website to mark the occasion. The site will feature news, commentary, film, audio and 'curious snippets' from across Faber's poetry list. The Faber poetry list, originally founded in the 1920s, was...

Bookswarm has created a new website for Faber's award-winning Factory service, which provides services including ebook conversion, distribution, account management and marketing to fellow independent publishers. The site has launched with an eyecatching editorial from...

Two years after we designed his website for the first time, we're pleased to report a new look for New York Times-bestselling author Raymond Khoury's website. The site goes live in the run-up to the US release of Raymond's sixth novel, Rasputin's Shadow: On a cold,...

The literary world is still mourning the loss of Nobel-winning poet Seamus Heaney - not least his publishers, Faber, who asked us to create a simple microsite to bring together some of the best articles about Seamus Heaney from around the Internet, and to allow anyone...

Are you an Aast (the first person in a mobile phone’s address book, who gets all the calls from handbags and pockets)? Have you ever experienced Knockandhu (fear brought on by the words ‘Don’t take this personally but . . .’)? Or perhaps you've been Meckering lately...

Bookswarm has designed a second eBook for Foodtripper Books, this time focusing on London's thriving gourmet street food scene. Street food has come of age in the eating-out capital of the world. Today, kerb-side cooking offers a serious alternative to more formal and...

Fifty years after first publishing Josef Albers’s Interaction of Color—a classic that is now widely revered as one of the most influential art books ever written—Yale University Press is launching the Interaction of Color app available exclusively for iPad. This app...

It's rare that Bookswarm is asked to work for an author whose output is as diverse as that of Peter Watson. He's written art thrillers and, under the name Mackenzie Ford, romantic novels as well; but he's probably best known for his in-depth non-fiction, covering...

Patrician Press was officially launched on Monday July the 8th, at a friendly gathering in Manningtree, near Ipswich. Patricia Borlenghi set up the Patrician Press in December 2012 after completing her MA in Creative Writing at the University of Essex. Patrician is...

To the annual Futurebook Innovation Workshop, this year held in the environs of agency LBi's Brick Lane offices, and curated by the lovely folks at The Literary Platform. A full house of publishing folk assembled to hear a stimulating range of speakers talk about the...

Blogging platform turned CMS WordPress, so important to so many Bookswarm projects, turned ten years old this week. That's a pretty good run, and as a platform WordPress goes from strength to strength - we have used it to build blogs, corporate websites, Extranets,...

Bookswarm has designed a website for Jo Simmons, author of new children's book series, Pip Street (Scholastic). We had great fun doing it - after all, how often do you get to design a website involving an animated, souped-up  mobility scooter called Pegasus? Not very...