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Constable & Robinson Founded 1999 Country of origin United Kingdom Headquarters location London Distribution The Book Service Publication types Books Imprints Constable, Robinson, Constable Crime, Right Way, Corsair Official website www.constablerobinson.com Constable & Robinson Ltd. is an independent British book publisher of fiction and non-fiction works. Founded in Edinburgh in 1795 by Archibald Constable as Constable & Co. it is probably the oldest independent publisher in the English-speaking world still operating under the name of its founder.
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History
Constable & Co. was founded in 1795 by Archibald Constable, and became Sir Walter Scott's publisher. In 1897 Constable published the most famous horror novel ever published, Bram Stoker's The Un-Dead, albeit with a last minute title change to Dracula. 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, came under the umbrella of Constable & Robinson Ltd.
A new fiction imprint, Corsair, was launched in April 2010, dedicated to publishing groundbreaking debut fiction alongside established authors.
Constable & Robinson now publishes a non-fiction list including current affairs, history and biography, humour and psychology, as well as crime fiction and a growing list of literary fiction in both hardback and paperback. Best known are the popular and longstanding Mammoth paperback list of anthologies and collections, the hugely successful and well-respected Overcoming CBT self help titles, and the history series of Brief Guides and Brief Histories. Constable & Robinson is the UK publisher of the hugely popular Agatha Raisin and Hamish Macbeth crime fiction titles by M.C. Beaton.
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