Hamish Hamilton




This article is about the publishing house. For its founder, see Jamie Hamilton (publisher). For the director, see Hamish Hamilton (director).






































Hamish Hamilton
Hamish Hamilton (logo).png
Parent company Penguin Random House
Founded 1931; 88 years ago (1931)
Founder Jamie Hamilton
Country of origin United Kingdom
Headquarters location London
Distribution Penguin Group
Publication types Books
Official website www.penguin.co.uk

Hamish Hamilton Limited was a British book publishing house, founded in 1931 eponymously by the half-Scot half-American Jamie Hamilton (Hamish is the vocative form of the Gaelic Seumas [meaning James], James the English form – which was also his given name, and Jamie the diminutive form). Jamie Hamilton was often referred to as Hamish Hamilton.


Hamish Hamilton Limited originally specialized in fiction, and was responsible for publishing a number of American authors in the United Kingdom, including Raymond Chandler, James Thurber, J.D. Salinger, E. B. White, and Truman Capote.


In 1939 Hamish Hamilton Law and Hamish Hamilton Medical were started[1] but closed during the war. Hamish Hamilton was established in the literary district of Bloomsbury and went on to publish a large number of promising British and American authors, a large number of whom were personal friends and acquaintances of Jamie Hamilton.


During the late 1940s Hamish Hamilton Limited published authors including D. W. Brogan, Albert Camus, L. P. Hartley, Nancy Mitford, Alan Moorehead, Terence Rattigan, Jean-Paul Sartre, Georges Simenon and A. J. P. Taylor.


Jamie Hamilton sold the firm to the Thomson Organisation in 1965, who resold it to Penguin Books in 1986. In 2013, Penguin merged with Random House, making Hamish Hamilton an imprint of Penguin Random House.


Hamish Hamilton’s aim remains to publish innovative literary fiction and non-fiction from around the world. Authors include: Alain de Botton, Esther Freud, Toby Litt, Redmond O'Hanlon, W. G. Sebald, Zadie Smith, William Sutcliffe, R. K. Narayan, Paul Theroux and John Updike.


Hamish Hamilton also publishes an online literary magazine called Five Dials.



Book series



  • Fingerprint Books

  • Hamish Hamilton Paperbacks

  • Makers of the New World[2]

  • The Novel Library



External links




  • Hamish Hamilton - a brief history of the publishing house and its founder


  • Five Dials - a literary magazine from Hamish Hamilton



References





  1. ^ Hamish Hamilton, fivedials.com. Retrieved 18 May 2018.


  2. ^ Makers of the New World (Hamish Hamilton) - Book Series List, publishinghistory.com. Retrieved 18 May 2018.












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