Absolute Press
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In 1980 Absolute Press launched a series of cookery books featuring recipes gathered from leading UK restaurant chefs. The series is regarded as being instrumental in laying the foundation for the chef publishing model that was to follow.
In 1982 Absolute Press published Bristol chef Keith Floyd’s first cookbook, Floyd’s Food. Further Floyd books followed, co-published with BBC books, including TV tie-ins Floyd on Fish and Floyd on Fire, which became break out bestsellers and helped establish Keith Floyd as a TV celebrity chef worldwide.
Chefs and cookery writers that have been published by Absolute Press include David Chang, Tom Kerridge, Rick Bayless, Angela Hartnett, Mort Rosenblum, Ben Tish, Atul Kochhar, Amanda Hesser, David Everitt-Matthias, Calum Franklin, Mitch Tonks, Phil Howard and Vivek Singh.
Absolute Classics
In 1988 Absolute Classics was launched. A series made up of foreign language plays, many of them neglected and overlooked classics, translated and adapted into English by leading English language playwrights. Playwrights whose translations and adaptations were published in the series included Nick Dear, David Hare, Ranjit Bolt, Timberlake Wertenbaker, Adrian Mitchell, Neil Bartlett, David Rudkin, Jatinder Verma, Charles Wood, Peter Hall, Olwen Wymark. Absolute Classics was sold to Oberon Books in 1996.