Directorate

BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC
12 August 1999


Bloomsbury  Publishing  announces  that  David  Reynolds,  Deputy
Managing Director and Publishing Director, is leaving the company
in  October to pursue a career as a writer.  His first project is
to complete a book which is contracted to be published next year.
His resignation from the board is effective from 8 October 1999.

Nigel  Newton,  Chairman  and  Chief  Executive,  said  :  'David
Reynolds has made an enormous contribution to Bloomsbury from his
role  as  co-founder  through to his  commissioning  of  numerous
successful  works of non-fiction over the years.  We  shall  miss
him greatly and wish him well in his new career as a writer'.