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Welcome to Legacy Books Press

Legacy Books Press is a publisher based in Kingston, Ontario, specializing in non-fiction about history and Classics.  We are dedicated to exploring those interesting corners of history, both modern history and ancient history, that tend to be overlooked, but still shaped the world as we know it today.

We are currently looking for academic and mainstream non-fiction books about all time periods of modern and ancient history.  Please see our submission guidelines for details.

News

(October 15, 2008) Due to unforseen circumstances, the Legacy Books Press website was unavailable for several days.  The issues have been corrected, and we apologize for any inconvience this may have caused.

(July 21, 2008) Legacy Books Press is pleased to announce that it will publish The Secret History of Star Wars, by Michael Kaminski.  Star Wars is one of the most important cultural phenomena in the world today, and Kaminski has spent years researching how the story and mythology developed, pouring over original scripts and interviews.  The Secret History of Star Wars will be coming out at the end of 2008.

(July 17, 2008) The Bryn Mawr Classical Review has published a very positive review of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Agora.  Read it here.

(May 28, 2008) The Classical Journal has posted an online review of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Agora.  Read it here.

(May 23, 2008) A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Agora authors R. Drew Griffith and Robert B. Marks will be appearing at Chapters Kingston to promote the book on Saturday, May 31, from 1:00-4:00 PM.  This is part of a ten day festival to celebrate the store's 10th anniversary - it's also a charity fundraiser for Indigo's Love of Reading Foundation.  So come out, meet the authors, and support school libraries!

(March 27, 2008) A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Agora has been featured on page 4 of the Queen's Gazette.  The article features photographs of R. Drew Griffith, the primary author, and Laura E. Ludtke, the illustrator.  The issue can be downloaded or viewed here.

(December 27, 2007) A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Agora is now available from Amazon in the United States, Great Britain, Germany, France, and Japan.

(October 10, 2007) Legacy Books Press is proud to announce that it has signed independent historian John-Allen Price to write The War that Changed the World, a book about the Franco-Prussian War.  Right now the Franco-Prussian War is a forgotten war, even though it changed history and shaped the first half of the 20th century.

The War that Changed the World will be coming out in 2009.