Book Makers

"This is the story of one hundred years of British publishing over the twentieth century. Iain Stevenson looks at how the publishing industry grew from a small elite trade to a world-class business of enormous cultural influence. There are studies of the key figures like William Heinemann, Allen Lane, Paul Hamlyn and Robert Maxwell, but also lesser-known but often significant figures whose contributions were also vital. Organised chronologically by decade, it considers not only fiction and general trade publishing, but also academic, scientific, children's, technical, and professional…