Colin Haycraft, Chairman of Duckworth for nearly 25 years, and one of the country's last great independent publishers, died in September 1994. This volume of essays, written by a group of friends old and new, is an informal portrait of this man. Contributors include Beryl Bainbridge, Oliver Sacks, Francis King, Richard Gregory, Brian McGuinness, George Weidenfeld, Hugh Lloyd-Jones, A.L. Rowse, Andrew Barrow and A.N. Wilson.