Little, Brown Book Group: Difference between revisions

▲Little and Brown was established in Boston, Massachusetts, by [[Charles Coffin Little|Charles Little]] and [[James Brown (publisher)|James Brown]] in 1837; as [[Little, Brown and Company]] it was acquired by [[Time Warner|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.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=1992-02-20 |title=OTHER NEWS |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}}</ref> The firm was renamed Little, Brown Book Group (Little, Brown offices moved to New York City in 2001.<!--see TALK 1992/2006-->)

▲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).<ref>[http://www.thebookseller.com/news/little-brown-buys-constable-robinson Little, Brown buys Constable & Robinson]</ref> Another Constable and Robinson imprint, [[Corsair (publishing company)|Corsair]], publishes literary fiction and non-fiction separately from PCR.<ref>[http://lunch.publishersmarketplace.com/2014/08/people-etc-sand-named-abrams-publisher-hachette-uk-merges-quercus-cr/ People, Etc.: Sand Named Abrams Publisher; Hachette UK Merges Piatkus and C&R]</ref>

▲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]],<ref>{{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 |work=[[The Bookseller]] |date=23 July 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Material Girls |url=https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/kathleen-stock/material-girls/9780349726601/ |website=Hachette UK |date=3 September 2020}}</ref> and ''Did Ye Hear Mammy Died?'' (2021) by Seamas O’Reilly.<ref>{{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 |work=[[The Irish Times]] |date=25 July 2021}}</ref>