Pan Macmillan Australia

Picador

Publishing outstanding writing from prize-winning authors and exciting new voices, Picador is the destination for the best in contemporary literary fiction and non-fiction being written today.

Plum

Plum is Pan Macmillan's illustrated lifestyle imprint, home to Australia's most original and exciting books and authors on food, gardening, travel and home. Plum books are bold, well-crafted, beautiful and inspiring.

Momentum

Momentum is the digital-only imprint of Pan Macmillan Australia. Launched in early 2012, Momentum publishes an exciting and vibrant list of new works from established and emerging authors, as well as partnering with agents and individual copyright holders to digitally republish titles that are currently unavailable in print. Publishing ebooks and utilising print-on-demand (POD) technology, Momentum aims to make new and old books more accessible than ever before. Momentum combines the editorial expertise of a traditional publishing house with strong and highly focused marketing and promotion, at the same time embracing the international potential of the digital market by making its digital books available globally.

Macquarie Dictionary

The Macquarie Dictionary was first published in print in 1981 and has been online since 2003. Its reputation has gone from strength to strength and it is now nationally and internationally regarded as the standard reference on Australian English. Macquarie publishes a wide range of dictionaries suitable for users of all ages and language levels. It also publishes other reference texts concerning Australian language, including Macquarie Aboriginal Words, Macquarie Atlas of Indigenous Australia and the Macquarie Australian Slang Dictionary. The Macquarie Dictionary Online is updated annually, making it the most up-to-date Australian dictionary and thesaurus available. A range of dictionaries are also available as Ebooks and Apps (iOS and Android).

Guinness World Records

The 55-year history of Guinness World Records began with a single question, the type that has been repeated millions of times at dinner parties, pubs, classrooms and work places across the globe. During a shooting party in County Wexford, Ireland, in 1951, Sir Hugh Beaver - then Managing Director of the Guinness Brewery - asked a simple question: what was Europe's fastest game bird? Despite a heated argument and an exhaustive search within the host's reference library the answer could not be found. Sir Hugh realized that similar questions were going unanswered all around the world, and that a definitive book containing superlative facts and answers would be of great use to the general public. With the help of the London-based fact-finding twins Norris and Ross McWhirter, he set about bringing this definitive collection of superlative facts to reality. On 27 August 1955, the first edition of "The Guinness Book of Records" was bound and, by Christmas that year, became Britain's number one bestseller. Over the intervening years, copies of The Guinness Book of Records - later renamed Guinness World Records - have continued to fly off bookshop shelves. During this time, it has become clear that, to our readers, a world record is more than a simple fact: it's a means of understanding your position in the world… a yardstick for measuring how you and those around you fit in. Knowing the extremes - the biggest, the smallest, the fastest, the most and the least - offers a way of comprehending and digesting an increasingly complex world overloaded with information.