Raincoast Books is a Canadian book publishing company. Based in Vancouver, British Columbia, the company produces a range of fiction and non-fiction titles for both adults and children. 1. ... This article refers to the city in British Columbia, Canada. ...

Authors who have published work with Raincoast include Anne Fleming, Alison Pick, Colin McAdam, George Bowering, Paul William Roberts, Naim Kattan, Roy Miki and Bill Gaston. The company is also the Canadian publisher of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter books, and the Canadian distributor for Lonely Planet travel guides and UK works published by Bloomsbury's American division. Colin McAdam is a Canadian novelist. ... George Harry Bowering (born 1935) is a prolific Canadian novelist, poet, historian, and biographer. ... Paul WIlliam Roberts is a Canadian travel writer who lives in Toronto, Ontario. ... Roy Akira Miki (born October 10, 1942) is a Canadian poet and scholar. ... Joanne Rowling OBE (born July 31, 1965 in Chipping Sodbury, South Gloucestershire), commonly known as J.K. Rowling (pronunciation: roll-ing; her former students used to joke with her name calling her the Rolling Stone), is a British fiction writer. ... Cover of the original novel in the series, Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone. ... Lonely Planet Publications (usually known as Lonely Planet or LP for short), claims to be the largest independently-owned travel guidebook publisher in the world. ... Bloomsbury Publishing plc is an independent, London-based publishing house best known as the publisher of the Harry Potter series of novels, written by J. K. Rowling. ...