Anvil Publishing

Anvil Publishing, Inc., is the publishing arm of National Book Store. It publishes print books, e-books, and audiobooks.

Anvil is a nationwide book dealer to network servicing dealers in the Philippines which includes National Book Store (Anvil's parent company), Goodwill Book Store, Rex Book Store, and Solidaridad.

Anvil is an eleven-time Publisher of the Year awardee, as cited by the Manila Critics Circle.

In 2016, founder Karina Bolasco left the company after 25 years. In 2018, Anvil Publishing, under the imprint Anvil Audio, published its first audiobook titled Dear Universe: Poems on Love, Longing, and Finding Your Place in the Cosmos by Pierra Calasanz-Labrador and narrated by actress Joyce Pring.

Notable titles

 * Joaquin, Nick. The Woman Who Had Two Navels.
 * Joaquin, Nick. May Day Eve and Other Stories.
 * Joaquin, Nick. Tropical Baroque: Four Manileño Theatricals.
 * Bulosan, Carlos. America Is in the Heart.
 * Joaquin, Nick. May Day Eve and Other Stories.
 * Joaquin, Nick. Tropical Baroque: Four Manileño Theatricals.
 * Bulosan, Carlos. America Is in the Heart.

Ambeth Ocampo
is a public historian whose research covers the late nineteenth-century Philippines: its art, culture, and the heroes who figure in the birth of the nation. He writes a widely read Editorial Page column for the Philippine Daily Inquirer and moderates a growing Facebook Fan Page.


 * Looking Back Series
 * Rizal Without the Overcoat

Lualhati Bautisa

 * Dekada '70
 * Bata, Bata... Pa'no Ka Ginawa?


 * Desaparesidos.