Wolfish
John Sutherland: The pushiness of young men in a hurry, 5 May 2005
British Book Publishing as a Business since the 1960s
by Eric de Bellaigue.
British Library, 238 pp., £19.95, January 2004,0 7123 4836 0 Show More
by Eric de Bellaigue.
British Library, 238 pp., £19.95, January 2004,
Penguin Special: The Life and Times of Allen Lane
by Jeremy Lewis.
Viking, 484 pp., £25, May 2005,0 670 91485 1 Show More
by Jeremy Lewis.
Viking, 484 pp., £25, May 2005,
“... Tom Maschler’s memoir, Publisher, appeared in bookshops on 18 March. It might as well not have done. The book was dead on arrival, having been subjected to a barrage of premature review and ridicule. Private Eye’s Bookworm feasted on the still warm corpse. The Guardian’s Editor page ‘digested’ it satirically: ‘I was 27 when Hemingway shot himself ... ”