Coterie Press Limited was established in 1996 (by two lifelong Lotus and motor racing enthusiasts) with the objective of publishing it's first book 'The Lotus Book' in time for the 50th anniversary of Lotus in 1998.

The aim of the book was to tell the complete history of Lotus through new and unseen photography, along with brief but informative text, all presented in colour, in a clear and simple style. The success of this first publication has led to several other wonderful books on the Lotus marque and other historic marques as well. The Coterie philosophy is to publish the highest quality automotive books, not just books that look good, but books that have the best content as well, and at a sensible price.

History cannot be changed, only the way you show it and tell it, can. Too many publishers re-hash the same old material we have all seen before in an attempt just to make money. Some try and make poor quality images look good by using fancy layout and designer, others try to make up for what they lack in quality with quantity. Our aim is to give the reader something different, mixing new visual material with not only top quality, but hitherto unseen archive material, backed up by the best research, writing and design. Not for us the poor quality black & white photo books of out of focus images gathered from other publications, or over priced over designed books printed with three languages on the same page that the real enthusiasts can't afford.

Our hope is to produce books that inform, educate and enthuse the real car people the world over.

Above all else though, we must never loose sight of our objective, to produce the best books we can while still remembering to give the people what they want at the best price.