Preface was established in 2007. The fiction list includes Sunday Times bestselling Ben Kane, historical novelist Fiona Mountain, and thriller writers Tom Bale and Patrick Woodhead. In non-fiction, the list includes big history (Peter Caddick Adams, Montgomery and Rommel; Michael Williams, History of the Railway during World War II; Alan Williams, Operation Crossbow), nostalgic history (Hugh Thompson’s The Old Roads into the Trees), biography (Diane Atkinson, The Criminal Conversation of Mrs Norton), stories of people and place (Tessa Hainsworth, Seagulls in the Attic) and popular culture (Hellraisers author Robert Sellers, Don’t Let The Bastards Grind You Down, Bruce Dessau’s No Laughing Matter and William Cook’s One Leg Too Few).