The Maverick: George Weidenfeld and the Golden Age of Publishing
By Thomas Harding
Weidenfeld & Nicolson £25
‘If you don't f***ing well deliver your typescript by Tuesday, I'll come and prise it from you with my teeth.’
Oh, the halcyon days of British publishing. This was the late Carmen Callil, of Virago and Chatto, seething with rage and tapping out a letter to me on her typewriter when my first book failed to materialise as expected in the
