Transworld Publishers Inc. is a
British publishing division of
Random House and belongs to
Bertelsmann, one of the world's largest media groups. It was established in 1950, and for many years it was the British division of
Bantam Books. It publishes fiction and non fiction titles by various best-selling authors including
Val Wood under several different
imprints. Hardbacks are either published under the
Doubleday or the
Bantam Press imprint, whereas paperbacks are published under the Black Swan, Bantam or Corgi imprint.