Little, Brown Book Group is a UK publishing company created in 1988, 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. [1]
Little, Brown has won the Publisher of the Year Award four times – in 1994, 2004, 2010 and 2014.[citation needed]
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).[3] Another Constable and Robinson imprint, Corsair, publishes literary fiction and non-fiction separately from PCR.[4]
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. The Fleet imprint's releases include Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism (2021) by Kathleen Stock,[5][6] and Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? (2021) by Seamas O'Reilly.[7]
Imprints
Little, Brown Book Group publishes across the following imprints:
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. ISBN0-8103-1727-3
1 Louis Hachette Group (via Lagardère SA) owns these brands in the United Kingdom only. These brands are owned by Scholastic Corporation in the United States.
