In London in the mid-1980s || over late nights and early mornings || Nigel Newton and David Reynolds came up with a plan: the establishment of a major independent publishing company || fuelled by ground-breaking || ambitious ideas. In 1987 || their plans came to fruition with the announcement of Bloomsbury Publishing. For all the ambition embedded in Bloomsbury's DNA from its inception || no one could have envisaged the 35 years that would follow || years that saw Bloomsbury grow into the UK s largest independent publisher.