Sarah Harkness has seen the proposal that won her the Tony Lothian (now Elizabeth Buccleuch) prize come to fruition with Macmillan’s release of her Literature for the People: How the Pioneering Macmillan Brothers Built a Publishing Powerhouse. The launch of the book took place at Hatchards, where the guests included Daniel Macmillan’s great-great grandson the Earl of Stockton and his brother, the Hon David Macmillan. Also there was Henry Oliver, another graduate of the MA biography course at the University of Buckingham (run until recently by Biographers’ Club chair Jane Ridley); his debut, Second Act: What Late Bloomers Can Tell You About Success and Reinventing Your Life (John Murray), like Harkness’, came out on 9 May.
Tony Lothian Prize winner Sarah Harkness launches debut
