Castle Hill Press

From editor to publisher....

Jeremy Wilson

Before completing Lawrence of Arabia, The Authorised Biography in 1989, I had started work on a major scholarly edition of Lawrence's correspondence. However, I couldn't find a publisher. For mainstream trade publishers, the market for literary/historical correspondence is too small to be profitable. Academic publishers might have been interested - but only if I could find some way to pay for my research costs.

So, with my wife Nicole, I set up Castle Hill Press. Over half of the retail price of a book usually goes to distributors and booksellers. Because we sell direct, we can use that money to pay for research.

We take great care over editorial work, aiming for high standards. Castle Hill Press books are issued in limited editions, typeset to fine-press standards and printed by high-quality printers. Bindings range from library-quality cloth to goatskin 'specials' with additional content.

We believe that Castle Hill Press books represent excellent value for money, especially where content is previously unpublished. Visiting a distant library to see some Lawrence letters can often cost far more than one of our Letters volumes, to say nothing of the time we have spent researching editorial notes.

We offer special prices for pre-publication subscriptions. There are also discounts on the price of previously published volumes in the T.E. Lawrence Letters series for new subscribers who order more than three volumes at once.

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