John Charles Heywood Hadfield (16 June 1907 – 10 October 1999) was an English writer and publisher, best known for his 1959 comic novel Love on a Branch Line.

Hadfield's career began in 1935 when he joined J. M. Dent & Sons as an editor, a position he held until 1942.

[2] After the war he founded the Cupid Press, which specialised in limited-edition anthologies of verse.

[2] In 1956, he published A Book of Britain, an anthology of words and pictures covering 500 years of art, articles and poems celebrating the best of British culture.

Following the success of Love on a Branch Line, he and his wife Anna McMullen bought Barham Manor in Suffolk.