Little, Brown Book Group

History

Little and Brown was established in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 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. 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). Another Constable and Robinson imprint, Corsair, publishes literary fiction and non-fiction separately from PCR.

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, and Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? (2021) by Seamas O'Reilly.

Imprints

Little, Brown Book Group publishes across the following imprints:

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

References

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.

References

1. "LITTLE, BROWN BOOK GROUP LIMITED". Company Information Service gov.uk.
2. (1992-02-20). "OTHER NEWS - Feb. 20, 1992 {{!}} L.A. Times Archives".
3. Farrington, Joshua. (3 February 2014). "Little, Brown buys Constable & Robinson".
4. Cader, Michael. (19 August 2014). "People, Etc.: Sand Named Abrams Publisher; Hachette UK Merges Piatkus and C&R".
5. (23 July 2020). "Fleet to publish Kathleen Stock's Material Girls".
6. (3 September 2020). "Material Girls".
7. (25 July 2021). "Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? Remarkably funny exploration of childhood grief". [[The Irish Times]].