About the Publisher
Gerald Duckworth and Company Ltd was founded in 1898, and has published classic authors such as Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence and Hilaire Belloc, also Evelyn Waugh and Beryl Bainbridge. We remain an independent publisher - now the oldest independent publisher left in general trade publishing - owned by former Penguin CEO Peter Mayer. 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 publish works from the Ardis imprint, a list of classic Russian literature in translation, and are associated with The Overlook Press in New York.
