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Publisher of the Month with Richard Walsh

September 2017, no. 394

Publisher of the Month with Richard Walsh

September 2017, no. 394

What was your pathway to publishing?

Richard Walsh 300In 1971 I founded the weekly newspaper that became Nation Review. Soon afterwards my proprietor, Gordon Barton, acquired Angus & Robertson and offered me the job of running the publishing company. I jumped at the opportunity.

What was the first book you published?

My first acquisition was Dennis Altman’s Homosexual, which had recently been published by a small press in the United States. Three months after publication it was the number two non-fiction bestseller here, ultimately establishing itself as an

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