Harpole & Foxberrow General Publishers

Harpole & Foxberrow General Publishers is the eighth and last novel by J.L. Carr, published in 1992, just after his 80th birthday. The narrator of the story is Hetty Beauchamp, the heroine of What Hetty Did, who describes how George Harpole and Emma Foxberrow (both characters in The Harpole Report) returned from working at a teacher-training college in Sinji, the setting of A Season in Sinji, to establish a small provincial publishing firm.

Harpole & Foxberrow General Publishers

Cover of first edition - 1992
Author J.L. Carr
Cover artist Ian Stephens
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Genre Comic Fiction
Publisher The Quince Tree Press
Publication date
1992
Media type Print (Paperback)
Pages 157
ISBN 978-0-900847-93-6
OCLC 27695837
Preceded by What Hetty Did

The book was issued by The Quince Tree Press, established by Carr in 1967 to publish his maps and small books. Carr printed 4,000 copies of the novel at a cost of £5,500 [1] and sold them direct to bookshops at a 40% discount on the cover price of £4.95 or to whoever wrote to him at his house in Kettering asking for a copy. The novel is still available from the Quince Tree Press.

References

  1. Rogers, B. (2003). The Last Englishman. The Life of J.L. Carr. London: Aurum Press

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