Hodder relaunches Coronet imprint for Booth

09.03.10 | Catherine Neilan

Mark Booth is to resurrect the name of Coronet with his launch list at Hodder & Stoughton set to debut in September. Booth, who left Century last year to set up the imprint, said he was "glad to revive the old imprint name", which takes its name from the former publisher of authors such as PG Wodehouse, Ian Fleming and Fay Weldon. The imprint was closed by Hodder in 2004.

The new logo has been taken from an engraving of a coronet from Booth's personal collection of antiquarian books.

The launch list, which kicks off in September, will include hardback offerings such as The Kill Zone by Chris Ryan - "an international thriller of epic scope, based on secret campaigns being waged right now in Afghanistan and on the streets of London" - and Stairways to Heaven by Lorna Byrne - "which contains astonishing revelations of the way that angels are working in the world now" (£18.99 and £14.99 respectively). This will be followed in October Kiss Me, Chudleigh: The Wit and Wisdom of Auberon Waugh by William Cook, which will also be published in hardback (£19.99).

Booth said: "My aim here is to try to prove that Auberon Waugh was the Jonathan Swift of our age, because he still has the power to outrage. I still look at stuff he wrote twenty years ago, mop my brow and wonder 'Can we really get away with publishing this?'"

Other titles scheduled for publication this year include The Lost Key by Robert Lomas - "sometimes said to be the model for Dan Brown's Robert Langdon", Fam by Chyna - about a young girl in a London gang, Bricks by Leon Jenner and Rogue Male: Death and Seduction Behind Enemy Lines With Mr Major Geoff by the pseudonymous former soldier Anthony Knox.
More at The Bookseller.