Mainstream Publishing was a publishing company in

Edinburgh Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 Council areas of Scotland, council areas. The city is located in southeast Scotland and is bounded to the north by the Firth of Forth and to the south by the Pentland Hills. Edinburgh ...

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. Founded in 1978, it ceased trading in December 2013.Charlotte Williams
Mainstream to cease publishing
1 March 2013,
The Bookseller.com
' (Retrieved 30 December 2016) It was associated with the

Random House Random House is an imprint and publishing group of Penguin Random House. Founded in 1927 by businessmen Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer as an imprint of Modern Library, it quickly overtook Modern Library as the parent imprint. Over the foll ...

Group, who bought Mainstream in 2005.

Notable publications

Its publications include

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's ''Fakers, Forgers and Phoneys'' (2005), Trevor White's '' Kitchen Con: Writing on the Restaurant Racket'' (2006), Gordon Haskell's autobiography ''The Road to Harry's Bar: Forty Years on the Potholed Path to Stardom'' (2006),

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's '' Britain's Everyday Heroes'' (2007), Henry Allingham's ''Kitchener's Last Volunteer'' (2008) (with Denis Goodwin), and Mukesh Kapila's '' Against a Tide of Evil'' (2013).

References

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