Bloomsbury Publishing Plc is an independent, worldwide publishing house of fiction and non-fiction. It is a constituent of the
FTSE SmallCap Index. Bloomsbury's head office is located in
Bloomsbury, an area of the
London Borough of Camden and it has a US publishing office located in
New York City, an India publishing office in
New Delhi and an Australia sales office in
Sydney CBD. The company's growth over the past two decades is primarily attributable to the
Harry Potter series by
J. K. Rowling and, from 2008, to the development of its academic and professional publishing division. The Bloomsbury Academic & Professional division won the Bookseller Industry Award for Academic, Educational & Professional Publisher of the Year in both 2013 and 2014.