Publishing Industry & Book Trade

'Hastings is one of our greatest living biographers' Simon Heffer, Daily TelegraphSybille Bedford's life contained all the grand feeling and seismi...

A step-by-step guide to crafting a compelling scholarly book proposaland seeing your book through to successful publicationThe scholarly book propo...

Dickens' rise to fame and his world-wide popularity were by no means inevitable. He started out with no clear career in mind, drifting in and out o...

In the fall of 1959, Harpers Magazine published a special supplement on the state of writing and the American literary scene. The supplement was gr...

What is The Tiger Who Came to Tea really about? How is Meg and Mog related to Polish embroidery? And why does death in picture books involve bein...

What does it mean to author a piece of music? What transforms the performance scripts written down by musicians into authored books? In this fascin...

Isabel Hofmeyr is one of the worlds leading scholars on African print cultures, postcolonial literary histories, Indian Ocean studies and the ocean...

This volume provides the first transnational overview of the relationship between translation and the book trade in early modern Europe. Following ...

Popular science books, selling in their thousands even millions help us appreciate breakthroughs in understanding the natural world, while highli...

Book History has emerged as one of the most exciting new interdisciplinary fields of study in the humanities. By focusing on the production, circul...

The Handbook of Journal Publishing is a comprehensive reference work written by experienced professionals, covering all aspects of journal publishi...

Journalism in the Civil War Era presents the historical context of Civil War journalismplacing the press of the era within the entire nineteenth c...

A SPECTATOR AND EVENING STANDARD BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020'A joy. Each chapter instantly became my favourite' David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas'Won...

The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain is an authoritative series which surveys the history of publishing, bookselling, authorship and readin...

During the Italian Renaissance, laywomen and nuns could take part in every stage of the circulation of texts of many kinds, old and new, learned an...

Revisions form a natural part of the writing process, but is the concept of revision actually an intrinsic part of the formation of the novel genre...

A groundbreaking history of how the US Post made the nineteenth-century American West. There were five times as many post offices in the United St...

Essays examining aspects of German book history -- in relation to writers, readers, and publishers -- from the 1780s to the 1930s. Over the long n...

This inaugural volume in the African Perspectives series features the workof new and well-established scholars on the diversity and heterogeneityof...

A concise history of the Aries Press, founded in the 1920s by philanthropist, Spencer Kellogg Jnr. The Aries Press was an American private press f...

A field guide to the trade and art of editing, this book pulls back the curtain on the day-to-day responsibilities of a literary magazine editor ...