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Book SynopsisThe gripping history of a venerable publishing house and its behind-the-scenes sagas
Trade ReviewHumphrey Carpenter s history of the firm, completed by other hands after his death in 2005, is an evocation of a vanished age - Jeremy Lewis, Daily Telegraph
A treasure-trove of fascinating information paced into Humphrey Carpenter s riveting history of the world s longest surviving publishing house...Terrific - Val Hennessy, Daily Mail
'The late Humphrey Carpenter, a delightful and generous-minded man to whose memory I doff my cap, died while still at work on the manuscript of Seven Lives' - Independent on Sunday
The highs and lows of the literary world are reported with panache in this fascinating book. Superb photographs too - Tatler
'The highs and lows of the literary world are reported with panache in this fascinating book. Superb photographs too. - Tatler
A fitting tribute to a remarkable publisher' - The Sunday Herald
A fine testimony to Humphrey s unobtrusive scholarship and narrative skills...a major contribution to our knowledge of publishing practices and the history of the book - Byron Journal, Andrew Nicholson
