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<strong>Other lives</strong>: Film and TV production designer whose work included The Camomile Lawn and Portrait of a Marriage

He used his charm to build a publishing empire—and damn any inconsistencies along the way 

For seven decades, from the late 1940s, George Weidenfeld, an Austrian-born emigré, beguiled the British publishing world as his company Weidenfeld & Nicolson put out more than 6,000 titles.

Newly published record of the struggle to get the controversial 1955 novel past censors adds ‘there could be no better reason’

Biography of George Weidenfeld’s mission to publish ‘the mavericks, the scandalous, the subversive’ is written like a school report

A new biography of George Weidenfeld looks at the heyday of book publishing | Culture

Publishing is a mysterious business. What do editors really do all day? Why is one manuscript accepted and another rejected? Do companies ever recoup the insane amounts they pay for

An appeal has been launched to provide accommodation for a growing number of visitors to the uninhabited Shiant Islands.

‘You can go ahead,’ said the voice at the other end of the telephone. ‘The DPP has decided not to prosecute.’ It was the call that allowed the publication of Lolita, one of the greatest gambles of George Weidenfeld’s career. The moment George – it is impossible to think of him as anything other than

A crowdfunding appeal is being re-launched to help install sustainable and eco-friendly bothies on the uninhabited Shiant Islands.