LPP celebrated its fifteenth birthday this year, and an excellent year it has turned out to be.

Three of our books were chosen as either a ‘book of the season’ or a ‘book of the year’. A Modern Economic History of Japan by Russell Jones and Inflation is About More Than Money by Brian Griffiths (jointly published with the Centre for Enterprise, Markets and Ethics) were chosen by Martin Wolf as part of his “Best Summer Reading: Economics” list in the Financial Times, and The World at Economic War by Rebecca Harding, part of our Perspectives series (edited by Professor Diane Coyle), was in the end-of-year best of lists in both The New Statesman and the Financial Times (see here and here). This would presumably feel like a good result for any publisher, and considering the relatively small size of our list it feels extraordinary for us.

The LPP year began with publication of the landmark law book The Law of Net Zero and Nature Positive, which has gone on to garner a host of really excellent reviews in a wide variety of publications and which was chosen as book of the month in February by the esteemed legal booksellers Wildy & Sons.

We have also been proud to bring three new St Mary’s University Press books to publication this year, under our partnership publishing model, and to have begun a new collaboration with the Centre for Enterprise, Markets and Ethics – which resulted in the aforementioned book by Brian Griffiths.

We were very grateful to our authors Matthew Molloy and Jonathan Cope for inviting us, for the second year in a row, to the Society of Construction Law annual lunch in February. A thoroughly enjoyable occasion and a chance to meet lots of potential legal authors.

Sam and Richard visited the Frankfurt Book Fair for two days in October. This was a first visit for Sam and the first in a very long time for Richard. It was a productive trip, especially in terms of growing our list of foreign rights contacts and in learning more about Open Access publishing, and we will be launching an Open Access list in the Spring of 2026. Our first title will be Steven King and Paul Carter’s Petty Tyranny and Oppression: Lives Under the 19th Century Poor Laws and we have two more titles in the works already.

Among the other new books we were proudly showing at Frankfurt were How to Reduce your Carbon Emissions by Tony Duckenfield, Circle Back! The Little Book of Business Buzzwords by George Baggaley, and The Business of History by Tom Levitt.

The year ended strongly with the publication of Implementing Value-based Healthcare by Sally Lewis (another book in our Perspectives series), which has had terrific advance sales. Sadly, a bizarre glitch with Amazon saw their algorithm refusing to sell the book to UK customers for several weeks. This was a massively frustrating situation for us and for the author, and it was only finally resolved on discovering a misplaced decimal point in Amazon’s system: they had the book down as being the size of a car, and therefore un-deliverable. An everyday tale from twenty-first-century publishing/bookselling?

Last but not least, we have a new US distributor, Simon & Schuster, and we look forward to strengthening our presence in that market.

Here’s to 2026!