The Saturday Book provided literary and artistic commentary about life in Britain during the Second World War and the ensuing decades.
Artists included Edward Ardizzone, Rowland Emett, L. S. Lowry, Laurence Scarfe and Richard Chopping.
Photographers included Bill Brandt, Cecil Beaton, Douglas Glass and Edwin Smith.
Wood engravers included Robert Gibbings, George Mackley and Agnes Miller Parker.
George Orwell's essay "Benefit of Clergy", intended for the volume published in 1944, was suppressed on grounds of obscenity, but its title remains in the table of contents.