Little, Brown Book Group#Abacus
{{Short description|UK publisher founded in 1992}}
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| headquarters = Victoria Embankment
London, {{postcode|EC|4}}
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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. {{cite web|url=https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/02304585| title=LITTLE, BROWN BOOK GROUP LIMITED |publisher= Company Information Service gov.uk|accessdate=4 March 2025}}
Little, Brown has won the Publisher of the Year Award four times – in 1994, 2004, 2010 and 2014.{{citation needed|date=January 2018}}
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.{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=1992-02-20 |title=OTHER NEWS - Feb. 20, 1992 {{!}} L.A. Times Archives |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-02-20-fi-3703-story.html |access-date=2023-11-15 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}} 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).{{Cite magazine|url=http://www.thebookseller.com/news/little-brown-buys-constable-robinson|magazine=The Bookseller |first=Joshua|last=Farrington|title= Little, Brown buys Constable & Robinson|date=3 February 2014}} Another Constable and Robinson imprint, Corsair, publishes literary fiction and non-fiction separately from PCR.{{Cite web|url=https://lunch.publishersmarketplace.com/2014/08/people-etc-sand-named-abrams-publisher-hachette-uk-merges-quercus-cr/|title=People, Etc.: Sand Named Abrams Publisher; Hachette UK Merges Piatkus and C&R|first=Michael|last=Cader|date=19 August 2014|website=Publishers Lunch}}
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,{{cite magazine|last1=Hackett |first1=Tamsin |title=Fleet to publish Kathleen Stock's Material Girls |url=https://www.thebookseller.com/news/fleet-publish-professor-stocks-material-girls-1212209 |magazine=The Bookseller |date=23 July 2020}}{{cite web|title=Material Girls |url=https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/kathleen-stock/material-girls/9780349726601/ |website=Hachette UK |date=3 September 2020}} and Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? (2021) by Seamas O'Reilly.{{cite news|last1=O'Shea |first1=Sinead |title=Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? Remarkably funny exploration of childhood grief |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/did-ye-hear-mammy-died-remarkably-funny-exploration-of-childhood-grief-1.4615044 |newspaper=The Irish Times |date=25 July 2021}}
Imprints
See also
References
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= 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}}
External links
- Little, Brown Book Group official website: [http://www.littlebrown.co.uk www.littlebrown.co.uk]
- Virago: [http://www.viragobooks.net www.viragobooks.net]
- Orbit: [http://www.orbitbooks.net www.orbitbooks.net]
- Atom: [http://www.atombooks.net www.atombooks.net]
- Piatkus: [http://www.piatkusbooks.net www.piatkusbooks.net]
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Category:Publishing companies established in 1992