Little, Brown Book Group

Orbit is one of the U.K.’s leading science fiction and fantasy imprints, publishing bestsellers Jim Butcher, Trudi Canavan, James S.A. Corey, N.K. Jemisin and Brent Weeks. In recent years, Orbit has launched some of the most exciting and popular new voices in the field, including M.R. Carey, Ann Leckie, Claire North and Anthony Ryan.

Fleet has published two Pulitzer winners (Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad and Caroline Fraser’s Prairie Fires), alongside work from Melissa Fleming, Claire Messud, Paula McLain and Rebecca Makkai, whose novel The Great Believers was shortlisted for the National Book Award. In 2019, Fleet published Colson Whitehead’s The Nickel Boys and Ronan Farrow’s Catch and Kill.

Dialogue Books is home to a variety of stories from illuminating voices in fiction, nonfiction and literary genres often excluded from the mainstream, with a spotlight on the LGBTQI+, disability, working-class and BAME communities.

Little, Brown is one of the U.K.’s most successful hardback publishers, publishing a diverse range of books including literary fiction, history, memoirs, science and travel. Novelists include Donna Tartt, Alexander McCall Smith, Simon Mawer, Celeste Ng, Jane Harper, Jane Gardam, Amanda Craig, Andrew Sean Greer, Chigozie Obioma and Anita Shreve. Its nonfiction list is also acclaimed and includes Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson, as well as authors such as Tom Holland, Tim Harford, Frank Tallis and Gillian Tett. In 2016, Little, Brown published the playscript of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, the biggest book of the decade and subsequently the fastest-selling playscript of all time.

Abacus is the paperback list for Little, Brown’s hardcover books. It also publishes bestselling literary memoirs, including those by Primo Levi and Nelson Mandela, along with prizewinning fiction and original fiction – such as the international bestseller Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts – and nonfiction in paperback.

Piatkus’s lifestyle list covers health, parenting, popular psychology, self-help and personal development. It is also known for its fiction list spanning crime, romance, fantasy and women’s fiction, including authors Nora Roberts, J.D. Robb and J.R. Ward, as well as Richard and Judy bestsellers Saskia Sarginson and Lisa Ballantyne.

Sphere Fiction is the largest single imprint at Little, Brown Book Group and is the home of bestselling commercial fiction, publishing a wide variety of international and Sunday Times bestsellers, including Mark Billingham, Jenny Colgan, Robert Galbraith, Val McDermid, Clare Mackintosh, Carole Matthews, J.K. Rowling and Nicholas Sparks. The Sphere Nonfictionlist ranges from humor and biographies to cooking, history and travel.

Virago has an outstanding international reputation as a publisher of books by women, comprising fiction, narrative nonfiction spanning memoirs and biography, history, science and politics, as well as the Virago Modern Classics list. Leading authors on the frontlist include Sarah Waters, Margaret Atwood, Sarah Dunant and Marilynne Robinson, and on the classics list, Daphne du Maurier, Patricia Highsmith and Muriel Spark.

Atom focuses on publishing mainstream and supernatural young adult fiction, including worldwide bestselling author Stephenie Meyer, creator of the Twilight series. Other leading authors include Chris Colfer and prizewinner Alex Wheatle.

Corsair is an ambitious and groundbreaking literary imprint publishing cutting-edge fiction and nonfiction authors from the U.K., U.S.A. and beyond, including Pulitzer Prize winners Jennifer Egan, Viet Thanh Nguyen, William Finnegan and Mary Oliver. Corsair published the huge international bestseller Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens in 2019.

Blackfriars, a digital-first imprint, was created with the aim of discovering and nurturing new talent across literary fiction and nonfiction genres. The list includes Nobody Told Me by performance poet Hollie McNish, winner of the Ted Hughes Award, as well as the international bestseller Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng.

Hachette Audio UK releases audio editions of titles published by imprints from across Little, Brown Book Group and acquires audio rights directly in a large number of prestige classics.

Constable boasts a long and distinguished publishing heritage. It offers a wide range of general nonfiction and a market-leading traditional crime fiction list featuring M.C. Beaton and other much-loved names.

Robinson is a nonfiction imprint, publishing everything from games and puzzles to cookbooks and popular narrative history, which includes the specialist How To list and Robinson Psychology, the popular psychology and self-help list featuring the market-leading Overcoming brand.