Quercus Publishing Plc is an international trade publisher with offices in London and New York, and is a distinct publishing division of Hodder & Stoughton, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Hachette UK Group.Quercus specialises in commercial fiction, non-fiction and children’s publishing in digital and print formats and incorporates the prestigious MacLehose Press, Jo Fletcher Books and Heron Books imprints. Founded in 2004, Quercus has in its short life won many awards including Small Publisher of the Year in 2007, the Costa Book of the Year Award in the same year for Stef Penny’s Tenderness of Wolves, Independent Publisher of the Year in 2008 and Publisher of the Year in 2011.