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Mainstream Publishing

Mainstream Publishing was a publishing company in Edinburgh, Scotland. Founded in 1978, it ceased trading in December 2013. It was associated with the Random House Group, who bought Mainstream in 2005.

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Mainstream Publishing
Parent companyRandom House
Founded1978
Defunct2013
Country of originScotland, UK
Headquarters locationEdinburgh
DistributionThe Book Service
Publication typesBooks

Mainstream Publishing was a publishing company in Edinburgh, Scotland. Founded in 1978, it ceased trading in December 2013.1 It was associated with the Random House Group, who bought Mainstream in 2005.

Notable publications

Its publications include Magnus Magnusson'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), Gordon Brown'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).

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References

  1. Charlotte Williams: Mainstream to cease publishing, 1 March 2013, The Bookseller.com (Retrieved 30 December 2016)