Publishing’s heyday

Sarah Moorhouse

Sarah Moorhouse is a critic and freelance journalist KINDLES, SOARING COSTS, A GENERAL crisis about readers and their waning attention spans. The last couple of decades haven’t exactly been plain sailing for those in the book business. It’s not surprising, then, that stories of a supposed golden age of publishing have begun to crop up. Last year gave us Thomas Harding’s The Maverick, a biography of the publishing giant George Weidenfeld told through the 20 books that defined his career. Now Anthony Cheetham, the legendary editor who founded Orion, Century and Head of Zeus, has decided to take a turn at the microphone. His resulting memoir, A Life in Fifty Books, makes Harding’s 20 seem modest. It is a lavishly illustrated survey of a career that enabled its subject “to roam…

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The Critic (Digital) - 1 Issue, March 2025

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