Macmillan Publishers Limited

Oddly, this work, set partly in London and partly in the Western Highlands of Scotland of her youth, received praise from Macmillan 's reader before its publication for its knowledge of London (where FAS had...

MS began her career as a novelist in illness and under financial stress. In 1954, Macmillan , who were looking for promising new writers, invited her to write a novel. Although ill and unable to...

MS received £100 for it, half as an advance. She finished writing in late 1955, but then hit a snag: Macmillan developed cold feet about its being difficult. During this hiatus the proofs...

The print-run was 4,000. She had begun the novel early in 1956, and dedicated it to her mother and father. Macmillan accepted it on the strength of her first success. She felt...

The print-run was 6,000, half as much again as for her previous novel, and this time she galvanised Macmillan into unprecedented efforts at publicity.

In the run-up to publication of this novel she changed agents, replacing David Higham (who had sold some Penguin paperback rights for what she regarded as far too little) with the younger and more energetic...

Macmillan recognised the exceptional appeal of this novel with a print-run of 15,150, more than twice that of Spark's previous novel. Its appearance was followed by another massive row with the firm in the person...

As a book it makes barely a hundred pages in largish type. Macmillan 's London edition followed in September, with a slightly reduced print-run of 15,000. The dedication to Dario Ambrosiani on its first appearance...

Macmillan made an error in their jacket blurb (courtless for countless), which Spark discovered only after many copies had been despatched. The remaining jacket stock was pulped, but that was her last novel...

Her new publisher gave her a print-run of 15,000 copies, a larger number than for some time. Macmillan , meanwhile, held on to her backlist, keeping everything in print with reprints in short press-runs, but...

MS issued through her usual publisher, Macmillan , The Very Fine Clock, her first book for children.

Macmillan accompanied its usual edition of MS 's new novel, Not to Disturb, with a limited edition of 500 specially bound copies signed by Spark.

MS 's next novel, Loitering with Intent, marked her change of publisher from Macmillan to Bodley Head .

After leaving the Poetry Society, MS moved to a lodging-house at 1 Vicarage Gate, off Church Street, Kensington, where she lived from 1949 to 1950. In the summer of 1950 she moved again...

She had originally used the title for a poem. Besides The Seraph and the Zambesi, the eleven stories include The Pawnbroker's Wife, The Twins, and The Portobello Road, which MS considered...