In The Bookseller Felicity Wood has a Business profile: Hesperus Press -- and reports that signing Jonas Jonasson's The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared worked out really, really, really well for them, as it was:
Hesperus Press that had the lucky foresight to acquire it. Lucky because the success of THYOM, which has sold close to £1.5m through the tills since its publication in July, helped Hesperus see a 900% rise in sales in 2012.I'm not a huge fan of the book, but, hey, if it subsidizes their other good work, I'm all for it .....