Chatto and Windus

It was strongly influenced by the Mau Mau struggle. Chatto and Windus had their lawyer Michael Rubinstein vet the script, and he advised bringing in Jomo Kenyatta by name, so that he could not be...

She prepared for this book with three months touring Australia as a semi-official visitor; she found her trip both rushed and expensive. There were apparently hopes in some quarters that her book would help to...

Around 1952, WM finished another never-published novel: The Usurpers. She submitted it under the pseudonym Alexander Croy to Macmillan , Chatto and Windus , and Hamish Hamilton , but all three rejected it. While...

A reader with Curtis Brown Literary Agency rejected the poems as neurotic but also noted there may be some power in them which she [the reader] has failed to find.SS resubmitted her poetry...

In the American edition, published by Viking Press in November 1933, the two authors' love poems are printed with no attributions, so that readers could not ascertain who wrote each individual poem.However, in the English...

The novel had been submitted to Duckworth in the spring of 1918, but was rejected as too long (production costs had more than doubled as a result of the war). Chatto and Windus offered a...

The Hodder and Stoughton reader's report was damning: a single characteristic, satire on a good Christian lady (the heroine's aunt), was in such bad taste as to doom the book to failure. CC replied defiantly...

She finished her second draft on 28 March 1953, convinced at this point that it was romantic, sentimental, and bad, and gave it to Elias Canetti to read. It was submitted to two successive publishers,...

MA published perhaps her best-known novel, The Tiger in the Smoke, with Chatto and Windus , which had succeeded to Heinemann as her English publisher.

She had been planning this book, as a secret, in February 1927. She worked at it in the rooms she had taken for herself, away from her family, in Keats Grove, Hampstead, pressing...

Also during the 1960s, her immense productivity led her into difficulties over tax (partly because of the taxing, at that date, of married couples as a single unit). In 1965-6 her tax demand was £1,800...

Though AH had a sturdy relationship with his book publisher—he renewed his three-year contract with Chatto and Windus in 1941 for the seventh time—his film work during the war years was freelance. In 1939, before...

The poems were sent to Chatto and Windus by her friend David Garnett .

Mindful that Jon Stallworthy of OUP had expressed increasing reservations about her work (he thought that celebrity status was damaging it), AS withdrew from Oxford and offered this volume for British publicaton to D. J. Enright

EH 's novel about Africans, Red Strangers (once planned as a biography), was published by Chatto and Windus after Macmillan refused to accept it unless she would cut the description of genital mutilation or female circumcision.