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Mainstream Publishing

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Mainstream Publishing
Parent companyRandom House
Founded1978
Defunct2013 Edit this on Wikidata
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

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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).

References

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