Presença is an independent trade publisher of fiction and non-fiction books. Currently, we are the biggest Portuguese indepen ... dent publishing house. We started our activity more than 50 years ago and since then, we have been developing a strategy of constant modernization, always following market trends, accumulating know-how which has allowed to grow up and consolidate our position in the Portuguese market. Some of our prestigious authors are: J.K. Rowling, Jostein Gaarder, Susanna Tamaro, Patrick Süskind, Antoine de Sait-Exupéry, Ken Follett, Jacquelyn Mitchard, Orhan Pamuk, James Patterson, Mark Haddon, Ann Brashares, Allison Pearson, Maggie O'Farrell, Audrey Niffenegger, Robert Harris, Torey Haden, Doris Lessing, Kahled Hosseini, Aravind Adiga, Toni Morrison, Jhumpa Lahiri, Yann Martell, Patricia Cornwell, James Ellroy, Henning Mankell, Harlan Coben, Brian Freeman, Georges Pellecanos, Lian Hearn, Philip Pullman, Neil Gaiman, Cecelia Ahern, Lauren Weisberger, Henry Miller, Virginia Woolf, Daphne Du Maurier, John dos Passos, Carson McCullers, David Almond, Louis Sachar, C.S. Lewis, Fern Michaels, Debbie Macomber, Maggie Stiefvater, Tea Obreht ("the Tiger's Wife"), Tom Rachman ("The Imperfeccionists"), Kaui Hart Hemmings ("The Descendants"), John Green, Matthew Quick, Anthony Horowitz, Diane Chamberlain, M.L. Stedman, Andrew Miller, Suzanne Collins, James Dashner, David Mitchell, Elyzabeth Haynes, Tracy Chevalier. Some of ours Children and YA bestsellers are: Le Petit Prince; Harry Potter; The Chronicles of Narnia; The Hunger Games; Maze Runner; The Spiderwick Chronicles; The Book Thief and Where Is Wally. We also have a large non-fiction program, from where we can point out: Tim Harford, Steven Levitt, Deepak Chopra, Allan Greenspan, Eric J. Hobsbawm, Paul R. Krugman, T. Berry Brazelton, Anthony Giddens, Seth Godin, The Dalai Lama, Lou Marinoff, Parag Kahnna, Neill Lochery, Richard Templar and George Soros. read more