Reinhardt owned The Bodley Head from 1957 to 1987, and smaller publishers like The Nonesuch Press and Reinhardt Books. This account of his life contains stories about his authors, among them Graham Greene, G.B. Shaw, Charlie Chaplin and his actor friends, illuminating the trajectory of British publishing in the second half of the twentieth century.

JUDITH ADAMSON is the author of several books, including Graham Greene: The Dangerous Edge and Charlotte Haldane: Woman Writer in a Man's World, a biography of JBS Haldane's first wife. She selected and introduced the essays in Graham Greene's acclaimed last book, Reflections, and edited and introduced Love Letters: Leonard Woolf& Trekkie Ritchie Parsons. She is Professor of English at Dawson College, Montreal, Canada.