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By Tom Maschler
June 2005
Picador / Macmillan
ISBN: 0330484206
294 pages, Illustrated, 6 ½" x 9 ½"
$43.50 Hardcover

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At the end of the millennium, the leading industry magazine, The Bookseller, selected ten people who had most influenced its century. Tom Maschler - described as 'the most important publisher in Britain; the most innovative, adventurous, and newsworthy' - was one of them; it went on to say that for nearly twenty years, 'he made publishing glamorous and the aura he created for the trade is, even now, not totally dimmed.'

Over the course of his career, Maschler worked alongside Martin Amis, Bruce Chatwin, Roald Dahl, Joseph Heller, Doris Lessing, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Ian McEwan, Desmond Morris, Philip Roth and Kurt Vonnegut, amongst very many others. With illustrations by Quentin Blake, Maschler's memoir gives a rare glimpse into an extraordinary world, offering a candid account of the authors and agents, the successes, failures and enduring friendships from the golden days of British publishing.

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