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| Parent company | Little, Brown Book Group |
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| Founded | 1999 (Constable & Co. founded 1795, Robinson Publishing Ltd founded 1983) |
| Founder | Archibald Constable and Nick Robinson |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Headquarters location | Russell Square,London |
| Publication types | Books |
| Imprints | Constable, Robinson, C&R Crime, Right Way, Corsair, Canvas, Much-in-Little |
| Official website | constablerobinson |
Constable & Robinson Ltd. is a British book publisher. It serves as an imprint ofLittle, Brown, publishing fiction and non-fiction books and ebooks.
Constable & Co. was founded in 1795 inEdinburgh, Scotland byArchibald Constable, and became the publisher of works bySir Walter Scott. In 1827, following the death of his father,Thomas Constable took over the company. In 1860, Thomas Constable sold the publishing part of his business to Edmonston & Douglas, while continuing the printing activities of his firm. In 1861, the company employed 50 compositors for printing work. In 1865, Thomas' son Archibald joined the firm as a partner and the firm began publishing as T. & A. Constable Ltd.
In 1897, Constable released the well-known horror novel,Bram Stoker'sThe Un-Dead, albeit with a last-minute title change toDracula.
In 1813, the company was the first publishing company to give an author advance against royalties.[citation needed]
In 1821, it introduced the standardthree-volume novel, and in 1826, with the launch of the book seriesConstable's Miscellany, it became the first publisher to produce mass-market literary editions.[citation needed]
Over the decades; Constable has published books by notable British authors such asSir Walter Scott,Henry James,Bram Stoker,George Bernard Shaw,Elizabeth Bowen andB. S. Johnson.
By 1921, Constable was the first publishing house to advertising books on theLondon Underground.[citation needed]
Ralph Arnold joined the firm in 1936, rising to chairman between 1958 and 1961. In his memoirOrange Street and Brickhole Lane (1963) he described the firm as having "a strangely endearing persona".[1]
In 1993, Constable & Co. pioneered the series-based Cognitive Behavioural Therapy self-help publishing, and in 2000, they became the first ad-supported, online book publisher. Lastly, in 2013, Constable & Robinson were a key partner in Digital Innovation Contest 2013.[citation needed]
Robinson Publishing Ltd was founded in 1983 by Nick Robinson. The two companies merged in December 1999. Constable & Robinson continue to publish non-fiction books under the Constable imprint and is therefore probably the oldest independent publishing house in the English-speaking world still trading under the name of its founder. In June 2007, Elliot Right Way Books, a successful small publisher of "how-to" titles and the publisher of compendia of speeches byEnoch Powell,[2] came under the umbrella of Constable & Robinson Ltd.[3]
A new fiction imprint,Corsair, was launched in October 2009, dedicated to publishing groundbreakingdebut fiction alongside established authors.[4] On the back of its success, the company launched theCanvas imprint in December 2011 to focus on commercial fiction.[5] A bijou imprint ofCorsair,Much-in-Little, was launched in April 2012 and will become home to quirky and imaginative new children's and YA fiction.[6]
Constable & Robinson also publishes a non-fiction list including current affairs, history and biography, humour and psychology, as well as crime fiction, and literary fiction in both hardback and paperback. Best known are the longstanding Mammoth paperback list of anthologies and collections, theOvercoming CBT self-help titles, and the history series of Brief Guides and Brief Histories.
Constable & Robinson is the UK publisher of theAgatha Raisin andHamish Macbeth crime fiction titles byM. C. Beaton.
In 2013, Constable & Robinson created controversy when it responded to a manuscript submission byJ. K. Rowling by suggesting that she attend a writing course. The novel,The Cuckoo's Calling, was published by a competitor, reprinted three times, and was adapted for television.[7]
In 2014, Constable & Robinson was purchased by theLittle, Brown Book Group.[8]
In 2011,A Visit from the Goon Squad byJennifer Egan, published under theCorsair imprint in the UK, won thePulitzer Prize for Fiction. In 2012, Constable & Robinson was named theIPG Independent Publisher of the Year, calling it "a publisher on a roll — a rising star in a difficult market".[9] The same year, the company was also named Independent Publisher of the Year atThe Bookseller Industry Awards.[10] Constable & Robinson also won the IPG Trade Publisher of the Year award in 2013.[11]
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