The Quince Tree Press

A family-run business for 6 decades, The Quince Tree Press was first established in 1964 by JL Carr as the publishing house for a series of Pocket Books: small selections from the great poets, idiosyncratic dictionaries, wood engravers, volumes of fabled sayings and small histories.  Hand-drawn, poster-sized historical County Maps completed the early productions. Then followed eight novels, the best known of which is 'A Month in the Country’; shortlisted for the Booker Prize and winning the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1980. 

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As independent publishers we focus on designing and producing quality titles which are complementary to the author's original intentions.  Following in the Founder’s unique and unconventional style, there is a degree of unorthodoxy about all the publications.