The founders of Mainstream Publishing, Bill Campbell and Peter MacKenzie, have announced that the company intends to stop publishing new titles from the end of the year.

Mainstream will close its Edinburgh office by 31 December 2013 after 35 successful years, with the loss of up to 10 jobs.

The company, which has built its name on publishing dynamic non-fiction, will cease to acquire further new titles but will continue to publish all of its already scheduled titles. The last Mainstream title will be published in 2014.

Thereafter the legacy of its formidable backlist - which boasts best-selling and award-winning authors of the calibre of Hugh McIlvanney, Martha Long, Donald McRae, Philip Carlo, Carol Ann Lee and Warren Fellows, among others - will continue to be published as an imprint within the Random House Group.

The Girl With No Name has become a global news story with serialisation in the Mail on Sunday and The Sun followed by stories in The Independent, Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail and interviews on BBC Breakfast TV (10 April), Victoria Derbyshire, Radio 5 (10 April),This Morning, ITV (11 April),and first press interview The Guardian Weekend (13 April). In the US Marina Chapman has been interviewed on the Today Show which resulted in a spoof interview on Saturday Night Live. She was on Pat Kenny, RTE on Thursday 2 May and almost simultaneously on Sunrise in Australia.

For further information contact fiona.brownlee@mainstreampublishing.com