26th October 2010, 08:07 AM
Stuart Rathbone Wrote:Do you remember the little penguin range with the blue spines? Those were a superb range of books, all the big names seem to have done those at the time. And that range also did history, politics, sociology...There are equivalent sort of books around for those other subjects though, but not in a cohesive and recognisable imprint like that.
I think you mean the old Pelican series, full of fascinating title by Mortimer Wheeler, Leanard Wooley, Jaquetta hawles etc. All good stuff but the problem is that the general readership isn't there to support it any more (if it ever was then). What the general public want (or what publishers think they want) is the book of the whizzy TV series. As for the more specialist end of the market, this seems to written to entertain the authors and their friends or to fill a gap in their department's RAE score.
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Senior Consultant
Vader Maull & Palpatine
Archaeological Consultants
A tremor in the Force. The last time I felt it was in the presence of Tony Robinson.