‘Of course, I’m not the first person to write a book on maternity leave – the shelves of your local bookshop will be filled with books by amazing female writers such as Helen Dunmore and Tania Unsworth who wrote novels while pregnant or on maternity leave. And, of course, the world’s bestselling author JK Rowling penned the first Harry Potter in Edinburgh cafes while baby Jessica slept at her feet. Clearly it’s a winning formula.’

Ticky Hedley-Dent on writing a book on your maternity leave for Harper’s Bazaar. Get your copy of Murdered in Chelsea by Ticky Hedley-Dent here.

 ‘I appeal to everyone to read the book for it has the elements of a great confessional dilemma that’s hard to come to terms with.’

Naim Attallah blogs about the publication of A Humour of Love by Robert Montagu.

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‘I stared at the page of ‘A Humour of Love’ for several days trying to figure out a decision. I thought about my current work which occasionally figures men who have abused children or are coming close to doing so. Society condemns sexual acts with children quite rightly and predators often justify their acts as love. But this form of love is that termed by Shakespeare: it is a ‘humour of love’, an apparent feeling and not the real thing. It deliberately chooses to give up all restraint and that is what makes it actually loveless, simply a manipulation.’

The Dorset Echo give a front page spread to Robert Montagu on the publication of A Humour of Love. Get your copy here today!

We’re very excited about our October title Venus by Grace Vane Percy… It seems Tatler are too! Get your copy here today…

‘ It engages with the author’s deep-seated feeling that she needed to write about her mother, and the inevitable limits to what she could achieve by doing so. There’s a real power in the underlying themes of change and loss.’

David Hebblethwaite reviews A Woman’s Story by Annie Ernaux on his blog. Get your copy of A Woman’s Story today!

‘The books offer a fascinating insight into the horrifying life in occupied France during the war and leave you wondering what our own lives would be like today if history had turned a different corner.’

Cold Winter in Bordeaux by Allan Massie is out now. Get your copy here today!

‘Blaming Republicans might be smart electoral politics, but it shifts international attention from the opposition of India and China to any treaty that binds them. Playing into the hands of the blame-America crowd is never good politics for an American president.’

Rupert Darwall on the administration plans to sign a non-binding climate-change accord. Good-Bye, Treaty by Rupert Darwall for the National Review.  Get your copy of The Age of Global Warming by Rupert Darwall today!

“My own contribution was £540,000, of which £300,000 I had borrowed personally when interest rates were cripplingly high,” he says. “When Paul Getty became proprietor, my losses were in excess of £800,000, an amount which quite frankly I could not sustain.”

The Telegraph on our Chairman’s blog post and his financial contribution to The Oldie Magazine

Robert Montagu was sexually abused by his father, Victor Montagu, who was the 10th Earl of Sandwich.

Robert Montagu tells his story for the first time in A Humour of Love which is out on 2nd September.

The Mail on Sunday interviews Robert Montagu on his story. Read it here and get your copy of the book here.

In Fulfilment and Betrayal Chairman of Quartet Books Naim Attallah tells of two decades when many of his varying interests brought him success, and then frustration.

‘There is simply no one around in publishing today with anything like his pizazz’ 

John Walsh, Independent

‘The book is a really touching and life-enhancing experience, like actually meeting its author, and inspires in me a huge range of positive emotions. One is amazed that a man of such wide and complex experience in several high demanding and competitive worlds can emerge with such a gentle and generous heart’

Barbara Bray

‘The enjoyment of autobiography generally depends on how interesting the author is able to make himself. In this instance Attallah’s self-confessed naivety, disgustingness, warmth, sensuality, exceptional energy, bossiness and diversity of enthusiasm certainly make him as colourful as anyone in Dickens or Powell, but the long-term value of Fulfilment and Betrayal will, I suspect, reside not in Attallah’s self-portrait but in the riveting picture he gives of a vibrant literary world that has, in his view, all but vanished – a world invented in his fantasy and brought to life with the bounty of his purse – a crazy, hyped-up, uncommon little world that was centred on Soho, jewels, books, eccentric personalities, gossip columns, ‘It’ girls, parties, rifts and deep friendships’

Alexander Waugh (son of Auberon Waugh, grandson of Evelyn Waugh), Literary Review

‘In his present book, Fulfilment and Betrayal, which deals with his life over the past 25 years, there is a full account of his business and publishing activity… What one finds so interesting about this book is that he gives, in crystal-clear prose, an account of the world of business, which to those outside can be unknown and impenetrable…we are given a glamorous, interesting and coherent insight into the publishing world…’

Ulick O’Connor, Irish Sunday Independent 

‘The history of British publishing is full of colourful characters, many of them Jewish refugees. However, few are a match for Naim Attallah, the Palestinian self-made millionaire, former chief executive of Asprey and for 30 years the man behind Quartet and the Literary Review‘

David Herman, Jewish Chronicle

‘Attallah once said he would like to be remembered as “a man who nurtured and encouraged the talents of others” and as such he has added enormously to the gaiety of life. As a book publisher, and the onetime owner of the Oldie and the Literary Review, he has also proved an exemplary literary patron’

Jeremy Lewis, Mail on Sunday 

‘Fulfilment and Betrayal has attracted much interest from reviewers and interviewers, and even those who poke fun at some of the more flamboyant aspects of Attallah’s behaviour admit that he has a record of solid achievements and has contributed much more to British publishing’

Susannah Tarbush, Saudi Gazzette

‘…an exhaustive account of what it is to  be an outsider in the inner circles of British life’

Simon Callow , Observer Books of the Year, November 2007 

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‘Whatever your taste, The Wall, first published in the UK by Quartet and reissued in 2013, is a must read for all those who appreciate literary endeavour at its best.’

Our Chairman’s blog on The Wall by Marlen Haushofer and the recent showing of the film on Channel 4. Get your copy of the book here today!

‘Alethea Crowe has written an interesting modern parable, that sends great characters on a fun, if not gripping journey.’

The Bookbag reviews The Ascendant by Alethea Crowe. Get your copy of The Ascendant today!