Haus Publishing was founded in London in 2003 by Barbara Schwepcke.
Inspired by the Monographien of the German publishing house Rowohlt, Haus begun publishing short biographies in the Life&Times series with a translation of Sebastian Haffner’s Churchill. In recent years our list has broadened substantially and now includes history, biography, politics, current affairs, and memoir.
Since 2005, Haus has published travel writing from around the world under the Armchair Traveller imprint, and from 2008 to 2022 published literary fiction in translation. Initially with the aim of bringing works of contemporary German-language literature into English, our international list of authors grew to include Siegfried Lenz, Markus Werner, Thomas Mann, Clarice Lispector, Carolina De Robertis, Érik Orsenna, Doron Rabinovici, Michael Köhlmeier, Alex Capus and many others.
Our well-established series include: Haus Curiosities, short political works edited by Peter Hennessy; Makers of the Modern World, a 32-volume history of the Paris Peace Conferences after the First World War; and Armchair Traveller’s Histories.
Our recent bestsellers include Afghan Napoleon by Sandy Gall, The Serpent Coiled in Naples by Marius Kociejowski and Leadership by Simon McDonald.