It's a gripping tale, with sales to date of 18,000 and rising. Since 1993, Prospect Books has been owned by Tom Jaine, but continues to publish only books about cookery, food history and the ethnology of food. It is one of the very few British publishers to specialise in this field, and produces four to eight books a year. An Inventory . Founded in 1999 by Melissa Ulfane, Pushkin Press is devoted to the publication of European literature in translation, both classics and contemporary work.
Every nationality has a secret store of special volumes that everyone has read and treasured.
From now on Pushkin will publish one title a month, beginning with Stefan Zweig's Beware of Pity .