Aurora Metro Books

Aurora Metro Books, British independent publisher, produces distinctive new fiction, intelligent non-fiction, and world drama with headquarters in Richmond.

Here are key aspects of the company:

• Products & Services: The company publishes original voices across award-winning international titles in translation, contemporary and YA fiction, highly-regarded non-fiction on arts and technology, and a curated selection of modern plays and theatre-focused works.
• Industries: Operations span publishing for film, television, radio adaptations, as well as the promotion of work in translation within the global literary market.
• Innovation: The organization launched its biennial Virginia Prize for Fiction in 2009 to identify new women novelists writing in English from around the world and champions diversity and equality through its editorial focus.

Aurora Metro Books combines a three-decade legacy of publishing original voices with active charitable campaigning, notably securing the unveiling of the first full-size statue of Virginia Woolf in Richmond in 2022.