verification . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . december 2011 learn how and when to remove this template message duckworth overlook parent company the overlook press founded 1898 ; 118 years ago 1898 founder gerald duckworth country of origin united kingdom headquarters location london publication types books official website www.ducknet.co.uk duckworth overlook originally gerald duckworth and company founded in 1898 by gerald duckworth is an independent british publisher . it was important in the development of english literature in the first half of the twentieth century when it published such writers as virginia woolf gerald duckworth s half sister w. h. davies anthony powell john galsworthy and d. h. lawrence . it continues to be highly respected and successful within the publishing industry . contents 1 history 2 imprints 3 bloomsbury acquisition 4 references 5 external links history edit for many years the company operated from a headquarters at camden north london in a building called the old piano factory . this was originally a piano factory and its charm as well as the keen eye of the firm s long standing chairman colin haycraft together with his wife anna who was fiction editor and also eventually a novelist in her own right under the pen name alice thomas ellis attracted some of the best and most notable characters of the writing community of the day . the main stock in trade was the production and publication of academic books for universities . it was also a forward looking company that kept its eye on market trends and opportunities publishing a variety of books by some of the most popular authors of the twentieth century . it widened its range when it entered the world of publishing computing books at the start of the microcomputer revolution including music and sound effects on the commodore 64 by william turner and alf vella . in 2003 the company suffered a financial collapse and was put into receivership . its assets were bought by peter mayer a former chief executive of penguin books who already owned the overlook press of new york city . the may 2007 edition of publishing trends reported that duckworth s trade books were then published under the duckworth overlook imprint . 1 in 2012 duckworth in london and overlook in new york continue to work together to produce and promote their publications . in 2006 duckworth published an incomplete history of the art of the funerary violin by rohan kriwaczek subsequently reported to be a hoax the funerary violin having never existed . kriwaczek had all along designed the work as a pastiche and duckworth profited handsomely from the media coverage . duckworth publishes a wide range of fiction and non fiction from authors such as charles mccarry robert littell and brian clegg spanning history popular science biography and memoir literary fiction and even children s titles . the company now operates from an office in farringdon london . imprints edit duckworth has a number of imprints duckworth general publishes literary and commercial fiction and non fiction including history biography and memoir . as of 2007 update authors include john bayley beryl bainbridge robert littell joan bakewell valerie grosvenor myer mary warnock william vollmann and helmut newton . the company claims recent successes with clive woodall s one for sorrow and j j connolly s layer cake which reached numbers one and two respectively on the independent publisher bestseller list as well as layer cake s 2011 sequel viva la madness . duckworth academic publishes scholarly monographs specialising in history and related areas including archaeology classics ancient history and ancient philosophy . it has an extensive backlist of titles published under the duckworth and bristol classical press imprints and these include school and student texts in latin greek russian french german and spanish language and literature . bloomsbury acquired the imprint in 2010 ; it continues under the bristol classical press name ardis publishes russian literature in translation . duckworth has republished a number of editions of charles dickens novels first issued by the nonesuch press featuring illustrations chosen by dickens himself . these are highly collectible editions and are very popular with dickens enthusiasts . bloomsbury acquisition edit in 2010 duckworth s academic list was acquired by bloomsbury publishing . the 13 digit isbn prefix for duckworth is 978 07156 . archives of the company from 1936 are held by the university of london and include editorial correspondence with authors . 2 references edit http publishingtrends.com clarification needed university of london archive catalogue external links edit company homepage bbc account of the rescue of the firm after 2003 bankruptcy retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title duckworth overlook & oldid 740235806 categories publishing companies of the united kingdompublishing companies established in 1898hidden categories wikipedia articles needing clarification from december 2011articles needing additional references from december 2011all articles needing additional referencesarticles containing potentially dated statements from 2007all articles containing potentially dated statements navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 19 september 2016 at 21 41 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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