Naipaul, Alan Hollinghurst, Graham Swift, Jeffrey Archer, Danielle Steel, Wilbur Smith, Ken Follett, John Banville, Marlon James, Paul Beatty, Chitra Divakaruni and David Baldacci among others. Pan Macmillan, one of the largest general book publishers in the UK, is part of the Macmillan Group, which operates in over 70 countries worldwide. Pan Macmillan’s imprints include Macmillan, Pan, Picador,
Boxtree, Sidgwick & Jackson, Tor, Macmillan Children’s Books, Young Picador and Campbell Books. Set up in 1998, Pan Macmillan India began full scale publishing operations in India in August 2010. Prior to this the company was distributing Pan Macmillan International titles in the Indian subcontinent along with its locally published titles under Picador India. Some of Pan Macmillan’s authors include V.S. Naipaul, Aravind Adiga, Ramachandra Guha, Kunal Basu, Alan Hollinghurst, Jeffrey Archer, Wilbur Smith, David Baldacci, Alan Sugar, Pankaj Mishra, Patrick French, David Vise, Amitava Kumar and Peter Robinson. Pan Macmillan India was, until recently, been publishing only under the Picador imprint. As part of its expansion plans the company has addws Pan and Macmillan, two new imprints to cover its local commercial fiction and non-fiction publishing.