Penguin Random House UK Group Rights represents foreign and domestic rights across the company’s seven divisions.
One team represents Ebury, Cornerstone, Penguin General and Penguin Press, another represents Transworld, Michael Joseph and Vintage, and the third represents illustrated titles across the seven divisions. A separate team represents the Penguin Random House UK Children’s division, which includes Ladybird, Puffin and Penguin imprints.
The Penguin Random House Rights teams help our brands go global. We can help you to expand our books into other markets including:
US rights: publish our books in the US.
Dramatisation rights: turn our books into films, television programs and theatre productions, or find titles for which we hold the rights
Serial rights: publish extracts from our titles in newspapers and magazines.
Audio rights: license our books for audio recordings and broadcast.
Translations: buy rights to translate our UK titles into other languages.
Media rights
Referred to as “TV, film and stage rights”, “dramatisation and documentary rights” or “media rights”, we work to license our works for adaptation into other formats including but not limited to television series, film, theatre production, musical, opera, podcast, radio drama, and song.
Film, TV and stage rights
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Children's highlights
Penguin Random House Children’s Rights represents International and Domestic Rights for Ladybird, ages 0-7; Puffin, ages 0-12; and Penguin, young adult. By bringing together the greatest stories, brands and authors of any global children’s publisher, Penguin Random House Children’s are here to help create and rediscover heroes for each new generation.
Penguin Random House UK Group Rights represents International and Domestic Rights across the company’s seven divisions. One team represents Ebury, Cornerstone, Penguin General and Penguin Press, another represents Transworld, Michael Joseph and Vintage, and the third represents illustrated titles across the seven divisions.
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Cornerstone, Ebury, Penguin General and Penguin Press team
An author, publisher, organisation or other party may control the rights to a book. You can see who first published a book, and who owns its copyright, by checking the information on the copyright page at the front of the book. The first publisher of the book is the one you should approach about the rights.
If you don’t have a copy of the book, use the search bar on this website to find the book, and check the book details see who published it. You can then contact the correct publisher’s rights teams for more information using the contact details below.
Penguin Random House international companies
For titles published outside of the UK, please visit the local site:
