Hamish Hamilton

Her first publisher, Jonathan Cape , turned down the novel as being too depressing, and Hamish Hamilton wanted to cut it extensively. They were probably reacting particularly to her depicting an abortion. Constable finally agreed...

AS 's prize-winning novel How To Be Both was published by Hamish Hamilton , which managed to take it from receiving the manuscript to publication in the the abnormally short period of six weeks.

The idea of the series originated at New Year 2016 when someone mentioned a projected referendum on Britain's membership of the European Union . AA asked Simon Prosser of Hamish Hamilton to bring a series...

Rumour has it that Hamish Hamilton accepted the manuscript for publication and paid its advance of £250,000 on the strength of eighty pages which ZS submitted to them in the year of her graduation from...

In 1942 to July 1943 she was working on (and completed) a novel called Never and Always, set in a seaside town, in which the central female character, Emily Hemingway, in her early thirties...

The birth of Angela's brother Denis , four years younger than she was, caused her to suffer severe jealousy. Denis, like her, became a novelist, and later the jealousy issue was reversed. Denis felt that...

She began work by December 1932 as a publisher's reader for Hamish Hamilton . She was paid a pound a book, and called these earnings the price of shame.

About the time of her memoir Three Houses, AT showed some friends and acquaintances a draft fiction entitled Three Sillies. E. V. Lucas told her she had distinct talent although the typescript in...

She played with the metaphor of herself as hunter stalking Hamilton with her proposal for translating some of the stories of Ludwig Richter , largely for the sake of their illustrations, in the spirit, she...

Hamish Hamilton did not want this novel, so far outside her usual run, but Oxford University Press accepted it, and found that advance sales compelled them to reprint it even before publication.

When Hamish Hamilton published an anonymous historical novel, The Bazalgettes, in 1935 while AT was researching Harriette Wilson, she was happily flattered to have it widely attributed to her. In fact it was by...