Marion Boyars Publishers is an independent

publishing company Publishing is the activity of making information, literature, music, software and other content available to the public for sale or for free. Traditionally, the term refers to the creation and distribution of printed works, such as books, newsp ...

located in Great Britain, publishing books that focus on the

humanities Humanities are academic disciplines that study aspects of human society and culture. In the Renaissance, the term contrasted with divinity and referred to what is now called classics, the main area of secular study in universities at the t ...

and

social sciences Social science is one of the branches of science, devoted to the study of societies and the relationships among individuals within those societies. The term was formerly used to refer to the field of sociology, the original "science of so ...

. The company was formed in 1975. When Marion Boyars died in 1999, her daughter Catheryn Kilgarriff took over and is currently the managing director of the company.

Imprints

Prospect Books

Prospect Books is a publisher of books and periodicals on cooking, food history and anthropology, and sometimes horticulture, notably ''

Petits Propos Culinaires ''Petits Propos Culinaires'' (PPC) is a journal covering the history of food and cookery. History and content Founded by Jane and Alan Davidson in 1979 and first published in 1980, ''Petits Propos Culinaires'' is edited by Tom Jaine and publishe ...

''. It was founded in 1979 by Alan Davidson and his wife Jane Davidson. Prospect Books was owned by

Tom Jaine Tom Jaine (born 4 June 1943) is a former restaurateur, a food writer and until recently the publisher of Prospect Books. He was educated at Kingswood School (1955–1959) and at Balliol College, Oxford where he studied Modern history (1961– ...

from 1993 until 2014, when it was acquired by Marion Boyars Publishers."Prospect Books"
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References

External links

Marion Boyars Publishers
(official site)

(8 January 2007) in ''Conversations in the Book Trade'' Book publishing companies of the United Kingdom {{UK-publish-company-stub