Constable & Robinson

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Constable & Robinson Ltd. is a British book publisher, concentrating mainly in non-fiction, but with some crime and literary fiction works. Constable & Co. was founded in 1795 by Archibald Constable, grandson of Walter Scott's publisher, and Robinson Publishing Ltd. was founded in 1983 by Nick Robinson. The two merged in December 1999. Constable & Robinson is probably the oldest independent publishing house in the English-speaking world still trading under the name of its founder.

Constable & Robinson now publishes a non-fiction list of current affairs, history and biography, military history, true crime, psychology and health, as well as some literary fiction and a constantly growing list of crime fiction in both hardback and paperback. Best known are the popular and longstanding Mammoth[1] paperback list of fiction and non-fiction titles, the hugely successful and well-respected Overcoming[2] list of psychology self help titles, and the newer history series of Brief Guides, Brief Histories and Britannica expert guides.

In June 2007 Elliot Right Way Books[3], a successful small publisher of ‘how-to’ titles, came under the umbrella of Constable & Robinson Ltd.