The Random House Group is one of the largest general book publishing companies in the UK. The Group is based in London with subsidiary companies in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and India.

The Group comprises six publishing companies with over 40 diverse and highly respected imprints and brand-name publishers including BBC Books, Jonathan Cape, William Heinemann, Chatto & Windus, Vintage, Corgi, Doubleday, Bantam Press and Virgin Books. Novelists published by the Group include Dan Brown, Jilly Cooper, John Grisham, Robert Harris, Mark Haddon, Ian McEwan, Andy McNab, Terry Pratchett and Ruth Rendell.

Random House’s non-fiction publishing consists of broad general non-fiction and specialist categories such as cookery, gardening, travel and business books. Notable authors of non-fiction include Bill Bryson and Nigella Lawson. The Group’s classic backlist of over 6000 titles includes the works of Graham Greene, Iris Murdoch and Virginia Woolf amongst others. Random House Children’s Books publishes many bestselling writers including Philip Pullman and Jacqueline Wilson, the former Children’s Laureate. The Random House Group distribution business services its own imprints as well as 50 other UK publishers.

The Random House Group is an independently managed subsidiary of Random House Inc in the US, the trade book publishing division of Bertelsmann AG, one of the world’s largest and most diversified integrated media companies. Bertelsmann owns RTL Group, the No. 1 European broadcaster; Random House; Gruner + Jahr, Europe’s biggest magazine publisher; and BMG, the division which holds the joint venture stake in Sony BMG Music Entertainment, the second-largest music company worldwide. You can read more on Bertelsmann here.

In this section you can find out all about the different companies that make up the Random House Group.