The Maverick: George Weidenfeld and the Golden Age of Publishing Author : Thomas Harding ISBN-13 : 978-1474621090 Publisher : W&N Guideline Price : £20 In an era of ever-consolidating publishing behemoths, the stories of the personalities who shaped the industry continue to captivate. Robert Gottlieb’s 2016 memoir, Avid Reader, covered his time running Simon & Schuster and Knopf; Tony Faber told the “untold story” of his family business in 2019. In The Maverick, Thomas Harding explores the life and work of George Weidenfeld, a co-founder of Weidenfeld & Nicolson, now part of Hachette. Weidenfeld, born in 1919 in Vienna, the...