Hamish Hamilton Limited was a British book publishing house, founded in 1931 eponymously by the half-Scot half-United States, American Jamie Hamilton (publisher), Jamie Hamilton (''Hamish'' is the vocative form of the Gaelic Seumas [meaning James], ''James'' the English language, English form – which was also his given name, and ''Jamie'' the diminutive form). Jamie Hamilton was often referred to as ''Hamish Hamilton''. The Hamish Hamilton imprint is now part of the Penguin Random House group.

History and current publishing

Hamish Hamilton Limited originally specialized in fiction, and was responsible for publishing a number of American authors in the United Kingdom, including Nigel Balchin, Nigel Balchin (including pseudonym: Mark Spade), Raymond Chandler, James Thurber, J.D. Salinger, E. B. White and Truman Capote. In 1939 Hamish Hamilton Law and Hamish Hamilton Medical were started but closed during the war. Hamish Hamilton was established in the literary district of Bloomsbury and went on to publish many promising British and American authors, many of whom were personal friends and acquaintances of Jamie Hamilton. During the late 1940s Hamish Hamilton Limited published authors including Denis William Brogan, 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, Bernardine Evaristo, 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

* Antelope Books * Famous Regiments * Fingerprint Books * Hamish Hamilton Paperbacks * Makers of the New World * The Modern Library * The Novel LibraryNovel Library
owu.edu. Retrieved 13 April 2019. * The Little Golden Library - series edited by Herbert Strang. Titles include Scouting Stories (1931), True Adventure Stories (1931), Stories of Great Inventions (1932), Stories of the Sea (1933), Stories of Field and Forest (date unknown).

External links

Hamish Hamilton
- a brief history of the publishing house and its founder
Five Dials
- a literary magazine from Hamish Hamilton

References

{{Penguin Random House Book publishing companies of the United Kingdom Publishing companies established in 1931 1986 mergers and acquisitions Penguin Random House