Hachette Book Group Announces New Sales and Distribution Partnership with Flame Tree Publishing
Frances Bodiam (Managing Director) and Nick Wells (Publisher/Founder)
NEW YORK, NY (September 3, 2026) — Hachette Book Group (HBG) is pleased to announce today that Flame Tree, the art-led publisher of books, gifts and calendars, will join HBG’s sales and distribution slate.
Effective January 1, 2027, HBG will manage sales for Flame Tree across the United States, and distribution across North America (excluding Mexico and Central America).
‘We’re proud to be partnering with Flame Tree to sell and distribute their beautiful range of books, gifts, games and stationery. There’s so much potential for their publishing in the US market and we’re really looking forward to working with them to help grow their sales further.’ David Shelley, CEO Hachette Book Group and Hachette UK.
“In a rapidly changing world it is vital to protect human-centric values in all forms of imaginative expression and means of production. We’ve found exactly that with Hachette UK Distribution, and we look forward to building further with HBG. We’d also like to thank Simon & Schuster for their considerate stewardship over the last six years.” said Nick Wells, Publisher and Founder, Flame Tree Publishing.
Based in London, Flame Tree was founded in 1992 and started as an art book and gift-packaging operation. Since then, Flame Tree has expanded into calendars, luxury stationery, and mythology, folklore and genre driven book publishing. They partnered with Hachette UK Distribution in 2023, and this new arrangement with HBG extends that relationship into North America.
“We are thrilled to begin our partnership in January and, by combining Flame Tree’s creative publishing expertise with Hachette Book Group’s sales and distribution capabilities, we look forward to expanding their reach in the U.S. market. Also, Flame Tree has consumers who come back again and again, and our task now is to widen that circle. We could not be more excited to begin.” said Russell Evans, SVP of Business Development, Hachette Book Group.
Flame Tree is the latest publisher to join HBG as part of their third-party publisher expansion plans. They follow in the footsteps of Rippaverse and Stable Book Group.
About Hachette Book Group:
Hachette Book Group (HBG) is a leading US general-interest book publisher made up of dozens of esteemed imprints within the publishing groups Basic Books Group, Grand Central Publishing Group, Hachette Audio, Little, Brown and Company, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, Orbit; Workman Publishing; and Running Press Group. We also provide custom distribution, fulfillment, and sales services to several publishing companies.
Our books and authors have received the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, Caldecott Medal, Newbery Medal, Booker Prize, Nobel Peace Prize, James Beard Award, and other major honors.
We are committed to diversity in our company and our publishing programs, and to fostering a culture of inclusion for all our employees and authors. We are proud to be part of Hachette Livre, the world’s third-largest trade and educational publisher.
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About Hachette Book Group US Distribution
HBG US Distribution draws together all order management, fulfillment, and cash collection activities in the US for Hachette Book Group and its third-party client publishers, which represent 50 percent of the business. Services for client publishers are performed by the warehouse operations based in Indiana, the Fulfilment team based in both Indiana and Boston, and supported by the Credit Control and Client Accounting teams based in Boston.
About Flame Tree
Flame Tree Publishing spotlights a heady mix of the new and the familiar, with artists and writers, printmakers and mythmakers, creating the beautiful, practical and the collectable.
Flame Tree publishes a wide range of delightful books, gift items, and art calendars. We combine inspiration and imagination with the intensity of the everyday, bringing together the art of fine gifts, and the fine art of reading. We work with museums and gallery collections such as the Bodleian Library, Tate, V&A and the Royal Academy, while always introducing new illustrators and themes. Visual storytelling is at the heart of our publishing, from the Impressionists, the Arts and Crafts movement, and the printmakers of today, highlighted across our stunning notebooks, new textile ranges and long-standing art calendars. Our books too focus on the storytelling thread from myth, through epic literature and history to contemporary fiction, with short stories from open submissions, ancient tales, and folklore a highlight in the Flame Tree Community of writers and dedicated readers. Flame Tree was Independent Publisher of the Year at the British Fantasy Society, in 2024 and 2025.
Hachette Book Group Press Contact:
Gabrielle Gambrell, Chief Communications Officer, Gabrielle.Gambrell@hbgusa.com
Flame Tree Press Contact:
Olivia Jackson, Marketing & PR Manager, olivia@flametreepublishing.com