False colours heyer7/8/2023 ![]() ![]() Their departure was a serious loss to Heinemann and both Georgette Heyer and Graham Greene expressed sadness at the way things had unfolded: With Frere went Georgette Heyer, Graham Greene, Eric Ambler and George Millar. In late 1962, fed up with no longer having an active role at Heinemann, Frere resigned as president and moved to the Bodley Head which was owned and managed by his friend, Max Reinhardt. He was no longer in charge and his direct relationships with authors he had nurtured and befriended over many years were effectively severed. He was appointed president instead and “kicked upstairs” into what amounted to little more than a token role. The deal fell through, however, (it was strongly felt by some in the company that Heinemann should remain an English publisher) and Frere lost his position as chairman. In 1961 the company had approached bankruptcy and Frere was one of several people who wanted to sell Heinemann to the American publisher, McGraw-Hill. Frere, had been pushed out of any active role at the firm. ![]() It was a move that she had come to see as inevitable after her close friend and publisher, A. In 1963, Georgette Heyer left Heinemann, her publisher for nearly forty years, and moved to the Bodley Head. The 1963 Bodley Head first edition of False Colours with its jacket by Barbosa. ![]()
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