Duckworth

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The UK's oldest general trade independent, Duckworth Publishers (also known as Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd) was founded by Gerald Duckworth in 1898. Duckworth has published numerous classic authors including Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, Hilaire Belloc, Evelyn Waugh, and Beryl Bainbridge.

Under the imprint Duckworth Overlook, our list encompasses literary, commercial and the odd foray into genre and children's fiction, in addition to a range of non-fiction with particular strengths in popular science, history and biography. Additionally, we hold the Ardis imprint, a list of classic Russian literature in translation, and are associated with The Overlook Press in New York.

With a heritage stretching back more than a century, our most recent successes to sit alongside the greats of old include the worldwide phenomenon that is Max Brooks's zombie books, World War Z (now a Brad Pitt-helmed blockbuster) and The Zombie Survival Guide, JJ Connolly's cult gangster novel Layer Cake (also adapted for the big screen, starring Daniel Craig and marking Matthew Vaughn's directorial debut) and its sequel Viva La Madness (soon to be another hit film starring the inimitable Jason Statham), and Google's Director of Engineering Ray Kurzweil's futurist touchstones The Singularity is Near and How to Create a Mind, to name but a few.

2014 highlights include Elvis Has Left the Building, The Day the King Died by GQ Editor Dylan Jones, Still Reigning, Thoughts of a Queen by the Queen of Twitter, and Legends by Robert Littell, recently adapted into a TV series starring Sean Bean, The Poisoner by Stephen Bates tells the story of Dr William Palmer, Victorian England’s most notorious serial-killer, and Peter Tunstall’s The Last Escaper is the riveting tale of a WWII bomber who as a prisoner of war repeatedly attempted to escape his German captors.

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