#Merky Books

#Merky Books is an award-winning imprint launched in 2018 by Stormzy and Penguin Random House UK with a clear ambition to publish books that will own – and change – the mainstream.

Our publishing includes the award-winning That Reminds Me by Derek Owusu and Jade LB’s Keisha the Sket, New Writers’ Prize winners Hafsa Zayyan, Jyoti Patel and Monika Radojevic, with the forthcoming novel Sunstruck by winner William Rayfet Hunter publishing in May. We will also publish Yrsa Daley-Ward’s hotly anticipated debut, The Catch, in 2025. 

In non-fiction, we have published Your Money Life by Bola Sol, Drew Afualo’s Loud, and the life stories of figures such as Children’s Laureate Malorie Blackman and Olympic Champion Caster Semenya. In the future we will publish Reframing Blackness by Alayo Akinkugbe, founder of #ABlackHistoryOfArt and Britco by Ore Ogunbiyi, co-author of Taking Up Space. 

Community values are vital to what we do, and we invest in the voices of today and tomorrow with our New Writers’ Prize and HSBC UK Futures programme alongside cultural brand partnerships which connect directly with an inclusive and intersectional audience. Our partnerships include the award winning #Merky Books Literature Festival powered by Netflix.