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Allison & Busby
Allison & Busby (A & B) is a publishing house based in London established by Clive Allison and Margaret Busby in 1967.〔("Margaret Busby remembers Clive Allison" ), Poetry Book Society, posted 5 August 2011.〕 The company has built up a reputation as a leading independent publisher.〔("Independent Publisher of the Month: Allison & Busby" ), Amazon.com, 2009.〕
==Background==
In its first two decades, A & B published writers including Sam Greenlee, Michael Moorcock, H. Rap Brown, Buchi Emecheta, Nuruddin Farah, Roy Heath, C. L. R. James, George Lamming, Geoffrey Grigson, Jill Murphy, Andrew Salkey, Ishmael Reed, Julius Lester, Rosa Guy, Adrian Mitchell, Michael Horovitz, Ralph de Boissière, Gordon Williams, Colin MacInnes, Alexis Lykiard, Adrian Henri, Alan Burns, Giles Gordon, Clive Sinclair, John Edgar Wideman, Val Wilmer, and others.
Among the imprint's original titles are ''The Spook Who Sat by the Door'' (1969), ''Behold the Man'' (1969), ''The Final Programme'' (1969), ''The English Assassin'' (1972), ''The Worst Witch'' (1974), ''The Bride Price'' (1976), ''The Lives and Times of Jerry Cornelius'' (1976), ''The Condition of Muzak'' (1977), ''Gloriana'' (1978), and ''The True History of the Elephant Man'' (1980).
The company was acquired by W. H. Allen Ltd in 1987, was subsequently part of Virgin Publishing,〔(Virgin Group History, Funding Universe. )〕 and has since "evolved and thrived under various independent managers",〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Co-founder of Allison & Busby dies )〕 including Peter Day and David Shelley.〔Caroline Dawnay and David Shelley, ("Peter Day: a man of unerring human and literary insight" ), BookBrunch, 23 July 2014.〕 A & B is now owned by Spanish publisher Javier Moll's Editorial Prensa Ibérica.〔("New face at Allison & Busby" ), Publishing News Digital Archive, Kingston University Information Services, 25 February 2005.〕 The current Publishing Director, appointed in 2005,〔 is Susie Dunlop,〔("Contact Us" ), A&B website.〕 and the imprint publishes "an array of books, from crime and thrillers to literary, historical and women's fiction, to fantasy, memoirs, and books on popular culture."〔(Allison & Busby Books – Overview ), Facebook.〕
At the time of the company's founding, Margaret Busby was the UK's youngest and first black woman publisher.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Margaret Busby profile at guardian.com )〕 Clive Allison died on 25 July 2011.〔
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