About the Publisher
Founded in 1931, Hamish Hamilton is one of Britain's most distinguished literary lists. Now an integral part of Penguin, it provides a home for an exciting and eclectic group of authors, united by the distinctiveness and excellence of their writing. Publishing no more than twenty new titles a year, both fiction and non-fiction, and all points in between, Hamish Hamilton's authors include Ali Smith, Mohsin Hamid, Arundhati Roy, Noam Chomsky, Jonathan Safran Foer, Kiran Desai, Dave Eggers, W.G. Sebald, Iain Sinclair, Roger Deakin, Zadie Smith, Alain de Botton, James Kelman, Hari Kunzru, David Foster Wallace, Susan Sontag and John Updike.