Constable & Robinson Ltd. is an imprint of

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which publishes fiction and non-fiction books and ebooks. Founded in Edinburgh in 1795 by

Archibald Constable Archibald David Constable (24 February 1774 – 21 July 1827) was a Scottish publisher, bookseller and stationer. Life Constable was born at Carnbee, Fife, son of the land steward to the Earl of Kellie. In 1788 Archibald was apprenticed to ...

as Constable & Co., and by Nick Robinson as Robinson Publishing Ltd in 1983, is an imprint of Little, Brown, which is owned by

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History

Constable & Co. was founded in 1795 by

, and became

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's publisher. In 1897, Constable released the most famous horror novel ever published,

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's ''The Un-Dead'', albeit with a last-minute title change to ''

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''. In 1813, the company was the first to give an author advance against royalties. In 1821, it introduced the standard three-decker novel, and in 1826, with the launch of the book series

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, it became the first publisher to produce mass-market literary editions. By 1921, it advertised books on the

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, another first for a publishing house. 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. 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 by

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, came under the umbrella of Constable & Robinson Ltd. A new fiction imprint, Corsair, was launched in October 2009, dedicated to publishing groundbreaking debut fiction alongside established authors. On the back of its success, the company launched the Canvas imprint in December 2011 to focus on commercial fiction. A bijou imprint of Corsair, Much-in-Little, was launched in April 2012 and will become home to quirky and imaginative new children's and YA fiction. 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, the ''Overcoming'' CBT self-help titles, and the history series of Brief Guides and Brief Histories. Constable & Robinson is the UK publisher of the

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and

Hamish Macbeth Hamish Macbeth is the lackadaisical police constable of the fictional Scottish Highland town of Lochdubh, in a series of murder mystery novels created by M. C. Beaton (Marion Chesney). Considered by many to be a useless, lazy moocher, Macbeth ...

crime fiction titles by

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. In 2013, Constable & Robinson created controversy when it responded to a manuscript submission by

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by suggesting that she attend a writing course. The novel, ''

The Cuckoo's Calling ''The Cuckoo's Calling'' is a 2013 crime fiction novel by J. K. Rowling, published under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. It is the first novel in the '' Cormoran Strike'' series of detective novels and was followed by ''The Silkworm'' in 2014, ...

'', was published by a competitor, reprinted three times, and was adapted for television. In 2014, Constable & Robinson was purchased by the

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Awards

In 2011, '' A Visit from the Goon Squad'' by Jennifer Egan, published under the Corsair imprint in the UK, won the

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. In 2012, Constable & Robinson was named the IPG Independent Publisher of the Year, calling it "a publisher on a roll — a rising star in a difficult market". The same year, the company was also named Independent Publisher of the Year at ''

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'' Industry Awards. Constable & Robinson also won the IPG Trade Publisher of the Year award in 2013.
IPG Trade Publisher of the Year in 2013.

References

External links

www.constablerobinson.com Archived website

Little, Brown Book Group

C&R Crime

Agatha Raisin
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