Michael O'Mara Books

Michael O’Mara Books we specialise in creative and inspired adult non-fiction. Independent, commercial and always on-trend, we are passionate about our books and publish an exciting and varied list – from history and popular science to language, sport and biography to puzzles; gift and humour to craft – that reaches readers across the world.

Michael O’Mara Books is a small, family-run, privately-owned publishing house in the United Kingdom. Established in London in 1985 by an American expatriate, Michael O’Mara, a native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and his British wife, Lesley, the company focuses on non-fiction books from autobiographies and memoirs to colouring. O’Mara Books won the Independent Publishers Guild International Achievement Award in 2007, and the Lambeth Made Charter Mark Award for Best Apprenticeship Employer in 2021.