Northway Books (also known as Northway Publications) is a British publishing company based in London. It specialises in autobiographies and biographies of musicians, and British social and cultural history. Its main focus is on documenting jazz history in Britain and Europe. Northway, which began operations in 2000, has published autobiographies by saxophonist-bandleader Harry Gold, trumpeter-cornettist Digby Fairweather, saxophonist-club owner Ronnie Scott, bassist Coleridge Goode, trumpeters John Chilton and Leslie Thompson, clarinettist-saxophonist Vic Ash and alto saxophonist Peter King. Its catalogue includes biographies of Johnny Griffin, Hank Mobley, Nat Gonella and Joe Harriott (expanded new edition, 2011), and books on the history of jazz in Britain by Jim Godbolt and Ian Carr and on jazz composition by Graham Collier. Its catalogue also includes jazz-focused books by playwright Alan Plater and poet Chris Searle, as well as the war memoir Boys at War and a study in the history of British Methodism.
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