Colin Smythe

Colin Smythe
FounderColin Smythe
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Headquarters locationGerrards Cross
DistributionSelf-distribution (UK)
Casemate Group (US)[1]
Publication typesBooks
Fiction genresScience fiction, fantasy, Irish literature
Official websitecolinsmythe.co.uk

Colin Smythe (born 1942) is a bibliographer of W.B.Yeats and other Irish authors and literary agent.[2] He is also a publisher, having founded his publishing house in 1966, and is based in Buckinghamshire, England.

Smythe published the first five Terry Pratchett novels and later acted as Pratchett's agent. In 1971, Smythe published Konstantin Raudive's Breakthrough, the first book in the English language on the Electronic Voice Phenomenon (EVP) and the inspiration for the film White Noise.[3] Other authors published include George Moore, Lady Gregory and Oliver St John Gogarty.[3]

  1. ^ "Publishers – Casemate Group". Archived from the original on 8 October 2017. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
  2. ^ "Colin Smythe at Ricorso". Retrieved 20 May 2018.
  3. ^ a b "Colin Smythe". Archived from the original on 26 March 2016. Retrieved 29 June 2015.