Jonathan Cape was a British publisher founded in 1919 as Jonathan Page and Company; the name was changed in 1921, and it took over the back list of A. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located Publishing is the process of production and dissemination of Literature or Information &ndash the activity of making information available for public view C. Fifield. From that point on it was a major force in British publishing, notably of books by T. E. Lawrence, Arthur Ransome, the latter Roald Dahl books and the James Bond series by Ian Fleming. Arthur Mitchell Ransome (born 18 January 1884 in Leeds - died 3 June 1967) was an English author and journalist Roald Dahl ( 13 September 1916 – 23 November 1990) was a British Novelist Short story Writer James Bond 007 is a Fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve Novels and two Short story Ian Lancaster Fleming ( May 28, 1908 – August 12, 1964) was a British author, Journalist and Second World War A defensive merger with Chatto and Windus was carried out in 1969; later Bodley Head and Virago Press were added to the group, before becoming an imprint of Random House in 1987. Chatto and Windus has been since 1987 an Imprint of Random House, the publishers Bodley Head is an English Publishing house founded in 1887 and existing as an independent entity until the 1970s Virago is a British publishing company originally founded in 1973 by Carmen Callil, Rosie Boycott, and Marsha Rowe to publish books In the Publishing Industry, an imprint can refer to two different things It can mean a Brand name under which a work is published Random House Inc is the world's largest English-language general trade book publisher