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Constable & Robinson Ltd. is a British book publisher. It serves as an imprint of Little, Brown, publishing fiction and non-fiction books and ebooks.
In 1897, Constable released the well-known horror novel, Bram Stoker's The Un-Dead, albeit with a last-minute title change to Dracula.
In 1813, the company was the first publishing company to give an author advance against royalties.
In 1821, it introduced the standard three-volume novel, and in 1826, with the launch of the book series Constable's Miscellany, it became the first publisher to produce mass-market literary editions.
Over the decades; Constable has published books by notable British authors such as Sir Walter Scott, Henry James, Bram Stoker, George Bernard Shaw, Elizabeth Bowen and B. S. Johnson.
By 1921, Constable was the first publishing house to advertising books on the London Underground.
Ralph Arnold joined the firm in 1936, rising to chairman between 1958 and 1961. In his memoir Orange Street and Brickhole Lane (1963) he described the firm as having "a strangely endearing persona".'Mr Ralph Arnold', in The Times, 24 September 1970, p. 12
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 Enoch Powell, came under the umbrella of Constable & Robinson Ltd. C&R buys Elliot Right Way – The Bookseller Retrieved 10 October 2012.
A new fiction imprint, Corsair, was launched in October 2009, dedicated to publishing groundbreaking debut novel alongside established authors. Our new fiction imprint, CORSAIR, sets sail Retrieved 10 October 2012. On the back of its success, the company launched the Canvas imprint in December 2011 to focus on commercial fiction. Constable & Robinson to launch new commercial fiction list, Canvas Retrieved 10 October 2012. 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. New fiction books imprint for children and young adults: Much-in-Little Retrieved 10 October 2012.
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 Agatha Raisin and Hamish Macbeth crime fiction titles by M. C. Beaton.
In 2013, Constable & Robinson created controversy when it responded to a manuscript submission by J. 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.
In 2014, Constable & Robinson was purchased by the Little, Brown Book Group.
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