CCV focuses on publishing quality literary fiction and non-fiction and is made up of 8 different imprints.

The oldest imprint is Chatto & Windus, founded in 1855. Chatto has a long and continuing tradition of publishing excellent literary fiction as well as great literary biography, memoirs, history, contemporary cultural comment, poetry and works in translation.

Jonathan Cape, founded in 1921, also has a long and illustrious history, and now publishes many leading novelists and non-fiction writers. Cape also has an award-winning poetry list, the best graphic novels list in Britain and a small list of photographic books.

Cape also publishes under the Yellow Jersey Press, a prestigious and very original sports list. Alongside Yellow Jersey, CCV will also launch a new imprint in 2008 called Square Peg. Square Peg will be an eclectic and commercial nonfiction hardback and paperback list.

In October 2005, Harvill and Secker & Warburg merged to become one imprint, Harvill Secker. The combined list has published eighteen Nobel Prize winners and its authors have won the Booker Prize on four occasions.

The new CCV imprint, launching in April 2008, The Bodley Head will immediately revive memories of one of the UK’s most distinguished publishing houses, active between the 1890s and 1980s. The Bodley Head will be devoted to excellence in non-fiction in all fields.

Pimlico was launched in 1991 to publish quality non-fiction in paperback in a number of areas – principally history, including military history and biography.

Finally, Vintage has for over 50 years been a significant and highly respected presence in international publishing. It was initially created to publish paperback editions of books bought by other Random House imprints.

August 2007 saw the launch of Vintage Classics, including a significant list of out of copyright classics which sit alongside the outstanding list of modern classics published by Vintage. Vintage Classics is the top twentieth-century classics list in the UK.