![]() ![]() ^ Readers' Library (Duckworth), owu.edu.^ The Hundred Years Series (Gerald Duckworth) - Book Series List,.^ "Mayer's Duckworth sold to Prelude for undisclosed sum | The Bookseller". ![]() ^ John Ezard, "D-day dawns for Duckworth", The Guardian, 25 April 2003.^ Claudia Joseph, "Party takes wing with a huge bill", The Times, 16 October 1998, p.^ "Colin Haycraft: A Passionate Publisher", The Guardian, 1 October 1994, p.Prelude Books rebranded itself under the name Duckworth Books and as of 2020 the company has been operating from an office in Richmond-upon-Thames with a focus on publishing non-fiction and historical fiction. Īfter Mayer's death in 2018, Duckworth was sold to Prelude Books and is now operated under the leadership of Pete Duncan and Matt Casbourne. ![]() In 2010, Duckworth's academic list was acquired by Bloomsbury Publishing. In 2007 it was reported that Duckworth's trade books were then to be published "under the Duckworth Overlook" imprint while academic books would continue to "carry just the Duckworth name". Connolly, Suzanne Fagence Cooper and Ray Kurzweil. Under new leadership, the company published authors such as Max Brooks, Julia Child, J. Its assets were bought by Peter Mayer, a former chief executive of Penguin Books, who already owned The Overlook Press of New York City. In 2003 the company suffered a financial collapse and was put into receivership. In 1998 the company celebrated its centenary and moved its premises to Frith Street, Soho. In the period from the 1970s to the 1990s authors published by the company including John Bayley, Beryl Bainbridge, Jeffrey Bernard, Alice Thomas Ellis, Penelope Fitzgerald, Ogden Nash, Dorothy Parker and Oliver Sacks. The company moved from Henrietta Street to The Old Piano Factory in Camden, North London on Old Gloucester Street made famous by Alan Bennett in his bestselling book The Lady in the Van. Meanwhile his wife, the writer Alice Thomas Ellis, was Duckworth's fiction editor and was responsible for publishing "Duckworth's best-selling author", Beryl Bainbridge. In this period Haycraft was described as a "one man university press" publishing at Duckworth a "body of works on Greek and Roman literature, philosophy and society" whose scholarship and originality "equalled the output of the large university houses". Haycraft would run the company until his death in 1994. was purchased by Colin Haycraft and a friend Tim Simon. From 1945 until the 1970s the firm published authors such Simone de Beauvoir, Charlotte Mew and Evelyn Waugh. The company, heavily in debt after the Great Depression, suffered the loss of "its entire stock of unbound sheets" as the result of bomb damage during the Second World War. įollowing Gerald Duckworth's death in 1937, control of the company passed to Mervyn Horder and Patrick Crichton-Smith. Authors in the next two decades included John Galsworthy, Anthony Powell and Edith Sitwell. Heath Robinson and Virginia Woolf (the founder's half-sister). Until the mid-1920s the company's notable authors included Hilaire Belloc, Anton Chekhov, W. Staff included Edward Garnett as literary advisor and (Herbert) Jonathan Cape as the sales manager. Gerald Duckworth founded the company in 1898, setting up its office at 3 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden. ![]()
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