7 LIVES OF JOHN MURRAY

'A fine testimony to Humphrey's unobtrusive scholarship and narrative skills...a major contribution to our knowledge of publishing practices and the history of the book' -- Byron Journal, Andrew Nicholson 'Humphrey Carpenter's history of the firm, completed by other hands after his death in 2005, is an evocation of a vanished age' -- Jeremy Lewis, Daily Telegraph 20080707 'A treasure-trove of fascinating information paced into Humphrey Carpenter's riveting history of the world's longest surviving publishing house ...Terrific' -- Val Hennessy, Daily Mail 20080711 'The late Humphrey Carpenter, a delightful and generous-minded man to whose memory I doff my cap, died while still at work on the manuscript of Seven Lives' -- Independent on Sunday 20080711 'The highs and lows of the literary world are reported with panache in this fascinating book. Superb photographs too' -- Tatler 20080711 'The highs and lows of the literary world are reported with panache in this fascinating book. Superb photographs too.' -- Tatler 20080711 ' A fitting tribute to a remarkable publisher' -- The Sunday Herald 20080711