About Us

Straight out of Porto (literally): The opportunity to do this fell to us when in the beautiful Portuguese city of Porto, where we spent a few weeks throwing ideas around while enjoying the delights of the Time Out Market and everything else that glorious place had to offer.

Porto Press is an independent publisher of books for readers across a range of subject areas including wildlife and nature, history and biography, travel and adventure.

Porto Press & Whittles Publishing
The acquisition of Whittles Publishing by Porto Press (in 2025) has been reported by Publishing Scotland, the trade body for the Scottish publishing industry. Whittles Publishing, founded by Dr Keith Whittles and long associated with Scottish subjects, now operates as an imprint of Porto Press, retaining its identity and catalogue. Read Publishing Scotland's acquisition report, or view Porto Press's Publishing Scotland profile.

Distribution of all Porto Press titles is via Booksource in the UK and Simon & Schuster in the US.

Meet the Team

Di - di@portopress.com
I have worked in commercial roles within a variety of publishing companies for nearly 40 years. Most recently, I set up and ran Critical Publishing for 12 years with a colleague; a company specialising in providing books and ebooks for a range of professions. I am responsible for commissioning new titles, general direction of travel, marketing and 101 other things.

Michelle - michelle@portopress.com
Over the past 15 years, I've held a variety of publishing roles centred around international sales, marketing and distribution. I've worked across a broad range of publishers and subject areas, from Shakespeare to engineering, manga to military history, archaeology to mathematics, fiction to medicine. I've managed sales into countries across the entire globe (though, not all at the same time!) I am responsible for sales at Porto Press.

Dave - dave@portopress.com
I am a technical editor of 40 years' experience in a variety of roles, latterly as documentation manager for a well known science company. Have been a newspaper sub-editor and once ran a small publisher specialising in the social history of leisure. I am responsible for production, printing and everything else Di tells me to do, which mainly involves kettles and Hobnobs.