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The Company You Keep: A Publisher's Memoir
This memoir recounts the adventures, the triumphs and the tragedies of a lifelong career devoted to books.
Before coming to Australia in 1961 to run Collins' long established company, the author worked for eleven years with Hamish Hamilton, one of London's leading literary publishers.
During twenty four years with Collins, until his retirement in 1985, he developed Collins into the largest and most innovative book publisher and distributor in Australia. Collins will be remembered especially as the publisher of My Brother Jack by George Johnston and Poor Fellow My Country by Xavier Herbert, for many important books on natural history and conservation, and the creation of a new genre of Australian children's books.
Before coming to Australia in 1961 to run Collins' long established company, the author worked for eleven years with Hamish Hamilton, one of London's leading literary publishers.
During twenty four years with Collins, until his retirement in 1985, he developed Collins into the largest and most innovative book publisher and distributor in Australia. Collins will be remembered especially as the publisher of My Brother Jack by George Johnston and Poor Fellow My Country by Xavier Herbert, for many important books on natural history and conservation, and the creation of a new genre of Australian children's books.
276 pages, Hardcover
First published May 1, 1995
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