Peter Owen, Not a Nice Jewish Boy

Peter Owen was born in Bavaria in 1927 and, having migrated from Nazi Germany, established his publishing venture in London in 1951. Awarded an OBE for his decades of service to literature as publisher of international writers, many of them Nobel laureates, he died in 2016. James Nye, an award-winning composer based on the Isle of Wight, was born in Suffolk in 1966. He has written for The Wire, Fortean Times and Gneurosis and assisted Peter Owen in writing his memoir for which he has produced a thoughtful and perceptive afterword.

1 Rickets, Semolina and Other Nuremberg Trials; 2 Mother; 3 Kin Hell; 4 A Couple of Old Cows; 5 Wonderland?; 6 Bugger Bognor; 7 Breakdown; 8 Brief Encounter; 9 The Publisher’s Apprentice; 10 A Rajah in Beggar’s Rags; 11 The Reluctant Plonk; 12 Peter Nevill; 13 In For a Penny; 14 Wendy; 15 Prince of Zwemmer’s; 16 Oh, Rudi!; 17 The Men of Vision; 18 Courteous Maniacs; 19 Caligula's Horse and Other Tales; 20 The Beast-Men of Varang-Varang; 21 The Comforters; 22 The Fallen Star; 23 Marion; 24 The End of the Affair; 25 A Duke, Some Snobs and La Bâtarde; 26 The Enigma of Anna Kavan; 27 The Cold World; 28 Palaces, Kings and Killers; 29 Confessions of a Mask; 30 There Goes Wendy Owen; 31 Darkness Visible; 32 Shusaku Endo; 33 Tangerine Dreams; 34 Will I Go to Heaven?; 35 Tangerino Queen; 36 Anaïs Nin; 37 Engaging Eccentrics; 38 Erté; 39 Hello, Dalí; 40 Just Me and the Rodents; 41 Publishing, Censorship and Apollinaire; 42 Dracula’s Daughter; 43 The Passionate Penis; 44 Inhabiting Shadows; 45 Just One Vodkatini; 46 Jeffrey Bernard is Defunct; 47 The Boss from Hell; 48 The Future of Publishing?; 49 Departures; 50 A Far Cry From Kensington; Afterword by James Nye;
Appendix 1 The Story of Owen; Appendix 2 Myths and Reality; Appendix 3 Eccentrically Mean; Appendix 4 Constant Companions and Small Miracles; Tributes to Peter Owen; Acknowledgements; Bibliography and Resources; Index.
1 Rickets, Semolina and Other Nuremberg Trials; 2 Mother; 3 Kin Hell; 4 A Couple of Old Cows; 5 Wonderland?; 6 Bugger Bognor; 7 Breakdown; 8 Brief Encounter; 9 The Publisher’s Apprentice; 10 A Rajah in Beggar’s Rags; 11 The Reluctant Plonk; 12 Peter Nevill; 13 In For a Penny; 14 Wendy; 15 Prince of Zwemmer’s; 16 Oh, Rudi!; 17 The Men of Vision; 18 Courteous Maniacs; 19 Caligula's Horse and Other Tales; 20 The Beast-Men of Varang-Varang; 21 The Comforters; 22 The Fallen Star; 23 Marion; 24 The End of the Affair; 25 A Duke, Some Snobs and La Bâtarde; 26 The Enigma of Anna Kavan; 27 The Cold World; 28 Palaces, Kings and Killers; 29 Confessions of a Mask; 30 There Goes Wendy Owen; 31 Darkness Visible; 32 Shusaku Endo; 33 Tangerine Dreams; 34 Will I Go to Heaven?; 35 Tangerino Queen; 36 Anaïs Nin; 37 Engaging Eccentrics; 38 Erté; 39 Hello, Dalí; 40 Just Me and the Rodents; 41 Publishing, Censorship and Apollinaire; 42 Dracula’s Daughter; 43 The Passionate Penis; 44 Inhabiting Shadows; 45 Just One Vodkatini; 46 Jeffrey Bernard is Defunct; 47 The Boss from Hell; 48 The Future of Publishing?; 49 Departures; 50 A Far Cry From Kensington; Afterword by James Nye;
Appendix 1 The Story of Owen; Appendix 2 Myths and Reality; Appendix 3 Eccentrically Mean; Appendix 4 Constant Companions and Small Miracles; Tributes to Peter Owen; Acknowledgements; Bibliography and Resources; Index.