Parent company | Random House |
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Founded | 1978 |
Defunct | 2013 |
Country of origin | Scotland, UK |
Headquarters location | Edinburgh |
Distribution | The Book Service |
Publication types | Books |
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.
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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