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Allison & Busby (A & B) is a publishing house based in London established by Clive Allison and Margaret Busby in 1967. The company has built up a reputation as a leading independent publisher.

Launching as a publishing company in May 1967, A & B in its first two decades published writers including Sam Greenlee, Michael Moorcock, H. Rap Brown, Buchi Emecheta, Nuruddin Farah, Rosa Guy, Roy Heath, Chester Himes, Adrian Henri, Michael Horovitz, C. L. R. James, George Lamming, Geoffrey Grigson, Jill Murphy, Andrew Salkey, Ishmael Reed, Julius Lester, Alexis Lykiard, Colin MacInnes, Arthur Maimane, Adrian Mitchell, Ralph de Boissière, Gordon Williams, Alan Burns, John Clute, James Ellroy, Giles Gordon, Clive Sinclair, Jack Trevor Story, John Edgar Wideman, Val Wilmer, Margaret Thomson Davis, Dermot Healy, Richard Stark, B. Traven, Simon Leys, and others

Among the imprint's original titles are The Spook Who Sat by the Door (1969), Behold the Man (1969), The Final Programme (1969), The English Assassin (1972), The Worst Witch (1974), The Bride Price (1976), The Lives and Times of Jerry Cornelius (1976), The Condition of Muzak (1977), Gloriana (1978), The Chairman's New Clothes: Mao and the Cultural Revolution (1979), and The True History of the Elephant Man (1980).

The company was acquired by W. H. Allen Ltd in 1987, was subsequently part of Virgin Publishing, and has since "evolved and thrived under various independent managers", including Peter Day and David Shelley. A & B is now owned by Spanish publisher Javier Moll's Editorial Prensa Ibérica. The current Publishing Director, appointed in 2005, is Susie Dunlop, and the imprint publishes "an array of books, from crime and thrillers to literary, historical and women's fiction, to fantasy, memoirs, and books on popular culture."

At the time of the company's founding, Margaret Busby was the UK's youngest and the first black woman publisher; she left the company in 1987. Clive Allison died on 25 July 2011.

Works in the WWEnd Database

2016 MIDNIGHT BITES Rachel Caine	2016 THE WITCHES OF CAMBRIDGE Menna van Praag	2013 FALL OF NIGHT Rachel Caine	2013 DAYLIGHTERS Rachel Caine	2013 TERMINATED Rachel Caine	2012 TWO WEEKS' NOTICE Rachel Caine
2012 BLACK DAWN Rachel Caine	2012 BITTER BLOOD Rachel Caine	2011 BITE CLUB Rachel Caine	2011 LAST BREATH Rachel Caine	2011 WORKING STIFF Rachel Caine	2010 KISS OF DEATH Rachel Caine
2010 GHOST TOWN Rachel Caine	2011 TOTAL ECLIPSE Rachel Caine	2009 LORD OF MISRULE Rachel Caine	2009 CARPE CORPUS Rachel Caine	2009 FADE OUT Rachel Caine	2011 CAPE STORM Rachel Caine
2009 FEAST OF FOOLS Rachel Caine	2011 GALE FORCE Rachel Caine	2009 THIN AIR Rachel Caine	2008 THE DEAD GIRLS' DANCE Rachel Caine	2008 MIDNIGHT ALLEY Rachel Caine	2008 GLASS HOUSES Rachel Caine
2009 FIRESTORM Rachel Caine	2008 CHILL FACTOR Rachel Caine	2008 WINDFALL Rachel Caine	2008 HEAT STROKE Rachel Caine	2008 ILL WIND Rachel Caine	1984 A ROSE FOR ARMAGEDDON Hilbert Schenck
1981 BRING BACK YESTERDAY A. Bertram Chandler	1981 WHEN THE DREAM DIES A. Bertram Chandler	1979 THE SEED OF EVIL Barrington J. Bayley	1978 THE KNIGHTS OF THE LIMITS Barrington J. Bayley	1977 THE CONDITION OF MUZAK Michael Moorcock	1976 THE LIVES AND TIMES OF JERRY CORNELIUS Michael Moorcock
1976 THE SOUL OF THE ROBOT Barrington J. Bayley	1979 EMPIRE OF TWO WORLDS Barrington J. Bayley	1972 THE ENGLISH ASSASSIN Michael Moorcock	1971 A CURE FOR CANCER Michael Moorcock	1969 BEHOLD THE MAN Michael Moorcock	1969 THE SPOOK WHO SAT BY THE DOOR Sam Greenlee
1981 LEVEL 7 Mordecai Roshwald

Authors Published

• Roxanne Conrad  • Michael Moorcock  • Barrington Bayley  • Arthur Chandler  • Hilbert Schenck  • Mordecai Roshwald  • Menna van Praag  • Samuel Greenlee