MORTIMER BOOKS LTD
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-07-01 (in 2mo)
Last made up 2025-06-17
Watchouts
Cash
—
Latest balance sheet
Net assets
£1
-100% vs 2023
Employees
0
Average over period
Profit before tax
£10M
+16,204.7% vs 2023
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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Material uncertainty over going concern
On Ist January 2024, the Company transferred its investments to a group company during the year and did not trade beyond this transfer taking place. The directors will be taking steps to strike off the Company in 2025.
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4 officer resignations in last 12 months
Multiple officers have left the board recently — see the People section for who.
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £0 | £0 | |
| Operating profit | £0 | £0 | |
| Profit before tax | £63,806 | £10,403,384 | |
| Net profit | £63,806 | £10,403,384 | |
| Cash | — | — | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £991,362 | -£508,642 | |
| Net assets | £991,361 | £1 | |
| Equity | £991,361 | £1 | |
| Average employees | 0 | 0 | |
| Wages | — | — | |
| Directors' remuneration | £0 | £0 |
Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers
Year-on-year
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-12-31 vs 2023-12-31
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Turnover
—
Not reported
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Cash
—
Not reported
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Net assets
-100%
£991,361 £1
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Employees
—
Not reported
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Profit before tax
+16,204.7%
£63,806 £10,403,384
Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Return on capital employed | 0.0% | 0.0% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 33.9% | 0.0% | |
| Current ratio | 0.00x | 0.00x |
Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.
Name history
Renamed 2 times since incorporation
- MORTIMER BOOKS LTD 2019-04-04 → present
- JONATHAN GOODMAN PUBLISHING LIMITED 2005-09-15 → 2019-04-04
- NEWINCCO 367 LIMITED 2004-06-17 → 2005-09-15
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Constantin
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Material uncertainty disclosed
“On Ist January 2024, the Company transferred its investments to a group company during the year and did not trade beyond this transfer taking place. The directors will be taking steps to strike off the Company in 2025.”
Group structure
- MORTIMER BOOKS LTD · parent
- Andre Deutsch Limited 100%
- Welbeck Fiction Limited 100%
- Welbeck Children's Limited 100%
- Welbeck Non-Fiction Limited 100%
- Carlton Books Limited 100%
Significant events
- “On 1st January 2024, the Company transferred its investments to a group company during the year and did not trade beyond this transfer taking place. The directors will be taking steps to strike off the Company in 2025.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
2 active · 13 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WRIGHT, Dylan Matthew | Secretary | 2026-04-01 | — | — |
| WRIGHT, Dylan Matthew | Director | 2026-04-01 | Mar 1973 | British |
Show 13 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| DE CACQUERAY, Pierre | Secretary | 2022-12-02 | 2026-04-01 |
| GOODMAN, Jonathan Richard | Secretary | 2004-06-17 | 2005-06-06 |
| WHITTON, Adrian Matthew | Secretary | 2005-06-06 | 2016-04-29 |
| OLSWANG COSEC LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2004-06-17 | 2004-06-17 |
| DE CACQUERAY, Pierre | Director | 2022-12-02 | 2026-04-01 |
| GOODMAN, Jonathan Richard | Director | 2004-06-17 | 2019-04-01 |
| KITSON, Richard David | Director | 2022-12-02 | 2025-09-30 |
| LEAVER, Marcus Edward | Director | 2019-04-01 | 2022-12-02 |
| SHELLEY, David Richard | Director | 2022-12-02 | 2025-09-30 |
| SMITH, Mark Alexander | Director | 2019-04-01 | 2022-12-02 |
| ZILKHA, Michael | Director | 2004-06-17 | 2019-04-01 |
| OLSWANG DIRECTORS 1 LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Director | 2004-06-17 | 2004-06-17 |
| OLSWANG DIRECTORS 2 LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Director | 2004-06-17 | 2004-06-17 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hachette Uk Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100% | 2022-12-02 | Active |
| Hachette Uk (Holdings) Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100% | 2022-12-02 | Active |
| Lagardère Sa | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100% | 2022-12-02 | Active |
| Louis Hachette Group Sa | Corporate entity | Shares 50–75% | 2022-12-02 | Active |
| Welbeck Publishing Group Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2019-04-01 | Active |
| Mr Jonathan Richard Goodman | Individual | Shares 50–75% | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2019-04-01 |
| Mr Michael Zilkha | Individual | Shares 25–50% | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2019-04-01 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 102 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-07 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2026-04-01 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2026-04-01 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2026-04-01 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2026-01-19 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2026-01-16 | PSC02 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2026-01-16 | PSC02 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2026-01-16 | PSC02 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2026-01-16 | PSC02 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-09-30 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-09-30 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-08-07 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-06-18 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-07-25 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-07-19 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-01-24 | AD03 | address | Move registers to sail company with new address | |
| 2024-01-23 | AD02 | address | Change sail address company with new address | |
| 2024-01-08 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2023-11-30 | SH19 | capital | Capital statement capital company with date currency figure | |
| 2023-11-30 | CAP-SS | insolvency | Legacy |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 13
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 2
- Officers resigned
- 4
last 12 months
last 24 months
last 12 months
last 12 months
Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.