Marion Boyars Publishers is an independent

publishing company Publishing is the activities of making information, literature, music, software, and other content, physical or digital, available to the public for sale or free of charge. Traditionally, the term publishing refers to the creation and distribu ...

located in Great Britain, publishing books that focus on the

humanities Humanities are academic disciplines that study aspects of human society and culture, including Philosophy, certain fundamental questions asked by humans. During the Renaissance, the term "humanities" referred to the study of classical literature a ...

and

social sciences Social science (often rendered in the plural as the social sciences) is one of the branches of science, devoted to the study of society, societies and the Social relation, relationships among members within those societies. The term was former ...

. The company was formed in 1975. When Marion Boyars died in 1999, her daughter Catheryn Kilgarriff took over and is currently the managing director of the company.

Imprints

Prospect Books

Prospect Books is a publisher of books and periodicals on cooking, food history and anthropology, and sometimes horticulture, notably '' Petits Propos Culinaires''. It was founded in 1979 by Alan Davidson and his wife Jane Davidson. Prospect Books was owned by

Tom Jaine Tom Jaine (born 4 June 1943) is a former restaurateur, a food writer and former publisher of Prospect Books. He was educated at Kingswood School (1955–1959) and at Balliol College, Oxford where he studied Modern history (1961–1964). He wor ...

from 1993 until 2014, when it was acquired by Marion Boyars Publishers."Prospect Books"
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References

External links

Marion Boyars Publishers
(official site)

(8 January 2007) in ''Conversations in the Book Trade'' Book publishing companies of the United Kingdom {{UK-publish-company-stub