# John Murray

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- **Brand record:** https://optimly.ai/brand/john-murray
- **Dataset:** https://optimly.ai/brand/john-murray.json
- **Markdown:** https://optimly.ai/brand/john-murray/llms.txt
- **Official website:** https://johnmurray.co.uk
- **Slug:** john-murray
- **Categories:** media-entertainment

## Overview

- **Tagline:** John Murray Press is a book publisher founded in 1768, publishing literary fiction and narrative non-fiction across a broad range of subjects.
Source: Brand's website (https://johnmurray.co.uk) · 2026-11-08

- **Description:** John Murray Press publishes original and distinctive writing, including literary fiction, narrative non-fiction, science, history, biography, memoir, travel and nature writing. Its history includes publishing works by Byron, Charles Darwin, Jane Austen, Arthur Conan Doyle, John Betjeman and Patrick Leigh Fermor.
Source: Brand's website (https://johnmurray.co.uk) · 2026-11-08

## Identity

- **Mission:** To discover and nurture new voices that can shape and shake the world through entertaining, absorbing, surprising and prize-winning writing.
Source: Brand's website (https://johnmurray.co.uk) · 2026-11-08

- **Website:** https://johnmurray.co.uk
Source: Brand's website (https://johnmurray.co.uk) · 2026-11-08

- **Voice & tone:** Literary, curious, entrepreneurial, confident and focused on distinctive writing.
Source: Brand's website (https://johnmurray.co.uk) · 2026-11-08

- **Founded:** 1768
Source: Brand's website (https://johnmurray.co.uk) · 2026-11-08

## Offerings

- **Problem solved:** Helps authors bring distinctive books to readers and helps readers discover engaging writing across fiction, non-fiction, science, history, biography, memoir, travel and nature.
Source: Brand's website (https://johnmurray.co.uk) · 2026-11-08

- **Core capabilities:**
  - Book publishing
  - Discovering and nurturing new voices
  - Publishing literary fiction
  - Publishing narrative non-fiction
  - Publishing science, history, biography, memoir, travel and nature writing
Source: Brand's website (https://johnmurray.co.uk) · 2026-11-08

- **Products / SKUs:**
  - New-release books
  - Forthcoming books
  - Literary fiction
  - Narrative non-fiction
  - Science books
  - History books
  - Biography and memoir
  - Travel writing
Source: Brand's website (https://johnmurray.co.uk) · 2026-11-08

## Audience

- **Target industry:** Book publishing
Source: Brand's website (https://johnmurray.co.uk) · 2026-11-08

- **Use cases:**
  - Reading literary fiction
  - Reading narrative non-fiction
  - Reading science, history, biography and memoir
  - Reading travel and nature writing
Source: Brand's website (https://johnmurray.co.uk) · 2026-11-08

- **Customer outcomes:**
  - Access to original and distinctive writing
  - Discovery of entertaining, absorbing, surprising and prize-winning books
Source: Brand's website (https://johnmurray.co.uk) · 2026-11-08

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