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Little, Brown Book Group

Little, Brown Book Group

UK publisher founded in 1992

Little, Brown Book Group is a UK publishing company created in 1992, with multiple predecessors. Since 2006 Little, Brown Book Group has been owned by Hachette UK, a subsidiary of Hachette Livre. It was acquired in 2006 from Time Warner of New York City, who then owned LBBG via the American publisher Little, Brown and Company.

Not to be confused with Little, Brown and Company.
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Little, Brown Book Group publishes across the following imprints:

  • Abacus
  • Atom
  • Blackfriars
  • Constable
  • Corsair
  • Fleet
  • Hachette Audio
  • Little, Brown
  • Orbit
  • Piatkus
  • Robinson
  • Sphere
  • Virago

Little, Brown has won the Publisher of the Year Award four times – in 1994, 2004, 2010 and 2014.[citation needed]

History

Little and Brown was established in Boston, Massachusetts, by Charles Little and James Brown in 1837; as Little, Brown and Company it was acquired by Time Inc in 1968. Little, Brown became part of the Time Warner Book Group when Time merged with Warner Communications in 1989. Still based in Boston, the Time Warner subsidiary Little, Brown purchased British publisher Macdonald from Maxwell Communication Corporation in 1992.[1] The firm was renamed Little, Brown Book Group (Little, Brown offices moved to New York City in 2001.)

In 2014, Little, Brown acquired independent publisher Constable and Robinson, and soon merged Piatkus with the Constable and Robinson imprints to form Piatkus Constable Robinson (PCR).[2] Another Constable and Robinson imprint, Corsair, publishes literary fiction and non-fiction separately from PCR.[3]

In 2015, Ursula Doyle (formerly Associate Publisher of Virago) announced a new imprint, Fleet. Fleet's launch titles in 2016 included Charlotte Rogan's Now and Again, Melissa Fleming's A Hope More Powerful than the Sea, and the paperback edition of Virginia Baily's Early One Morning. Its releases include Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism (2021) by Kathleen Stock,[4][5] and Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? (2021) by Seamas O'Reilly.[6]

See also

References

  1. [1]
    "OTHER NEWS". Los Angeles Times. 20 February 1992. Retrieved 15 November 2023.
  2. [2]
    Little, Brown buys Constable & Robinson
  3. [3]
    People, Etc.: Sand Named Abrams Publisher; Hachette UK Merges Piatkus and C&R
  4. [4]
    Hackett, Tamsin (23 July 2020). "Fleet to publish Kathleen Stock's Material Girls". The Bookseller.
  5. [5]
    "Material Girls". Hachette UK. 3 September 2020.
  6. [6]
    O'Shea, Sinead (25 July 2021). "Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? Remarkably funny exploration of childhood grief". The Irish Times.

General references

  • Oliver, Bill (1986) Little, Brown and Company, in Peter Dzwonkonski, Ed. Dictionary of Literary Biography - Volume Forty-nine - American Literary Publishing Houses, 1638 - 1899 Part 1: A-M. Detroit, Michigan: Gale Research Company. ISBN 0-8103-1727-3
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