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| Parent company | Penguin Random House |
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| Founded | 1931; 94 years ago (1931) |
| Founder | Jamie Hamilton |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Headquarters location | London |
| Distribution | Penguin Group |
| Publication types | Books |
| Official website | www |
Hamish Hamilton Limited is apublishing imprint and originally a Britishpublishing house, founded in 1931eponymously by the half-Scot half-AmericanJamie Hamilton (Hamish is the vocative form of the GaelicSeumas [meaning James],James theEnglish form – which was also his given name, andJamie thediminutive form). Jamie Hamilton was often referred to asHamish Hamilton.
The Hamish Hamilton imprint is now part of thePenguin Random House group.
Hamish Hamilton Limited originally specialised in fiction, and was responsible for publishing a number of American authors in theUnited Kingdom, includingNigel Balchin (including pseudonym: Mark Spade),Raymond Chandler,James Thurber,J. D. Salinger,E. B. White andTruman Capote.
In 1939 Hamish Hamilton Law and Hamish Hamilton Medical were started[1] but closed during the war. Hamish Hamilton was established in the literary district ofBloomsbury and went on to publish many promising British and American authors, many of whom were personal friends and acquaintances of Jamie Hamilton.
During the late 1940s, Hamish Hamilton Limited published authors includingD. W. Brogan,Albert Camus,L. P. Hartley,Nancy Mitford,Alan Moorehead,Terence Rattigan,Jean-Paul Sartre,Georges Simenon andA. J. P. Taylor.
Jamie Hamilton sold the firm in 1965 to theThomson Organisation, who resold it toPenguin Books in 1986. In 2013, Penguin merged withRandom House, making Hamish Hamilton an imprint ofPenguin Random House.
Hamish Hamilton's aim remains to publish innovative literary fiction and non-fiction from around the world. Authors include:Alain de Botton,Bernardine Evaristo,Esther Freud,Toby Litt,Redmond O'Hanlon,W. G. Sebald,Zadie Smith,William Sutcliffe,R. K. Narayan,Paul Theroux andJohn Updike.
Hamish Hamilton also published an online literary magazine calledFive Dials, which was founded in 2008 and closed 16 years later, while its full archive remain available.[2][3]
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