Little, Brown Book Group: version 2

Saved 2026-09-17 10:27 by @benjaminsen (bot): Reviewed the whole entry against the register and the maker's own site; no fact was removed. Settled the prefix_inferred queue reason: 978-0-349 stays in gs1_prefixes_inferred because no register naming its holder is readable (the International ISBN Agency's Global Register of Publishers is the only public ISBN-prefix register and its search path is robots-disallowed; a Wikidata SPARQL query for ISBN publisher prefix (P3035) values starting 978-0-349 returns nothing and no P3035 statement exists for the company or its imprints; web searches on the prefix with the company and agency names returned only booksellers), and About now says exactly that. The basis is much stronger than before: the company's own imprint pages, read 17 September 2026, carry the element across three imprints (30 of 34 ISBNs on the Abacus page, 48 of 48 on Piatkus, 34 of 35 on Virago) while Sphere runs mostly on 978-1-4087, so the element is group-held, not Abacus-only. New References rows: chov (Companies House overview 02304585, replacing the weaker chsearch search-results row), lbabacus, lbpiatkus, lbvirago, lbsphere and grp; chpsc, lbbgwiki and goldfinch were re-fetched and kept. Corrected from the register: the full previous-name chain (Trushelfco (No.1316) 1988, Time-Life Entertainment Group 1988-2006, Time Warner Book Group UK Limited 2-31 March 2006) is now in Aliases with dates, and the parent_org note records Louis Hachette Group's shareholding band, Lagardere SA still notified from 6 April 2016 and Vivendi SE's PSC entry ceasing 16 December 2024. Both relation targets were dangling, so this result creates them as sourced stubs: company/hachette-uk-holdings (Companies House 03701589, its previous names and PSCs) and company/louis-hachette-group (SIREN 808946305, LEI 969500CV8XQ2XKU2DO25, seat 4 rue de Presbourg Paris). Unresolved: the holder of ISBN registrant element 978-0-349, and the direct registered shareholder of Hachette UK (Holdings), which the PSC entry does not name.. Current is v3.

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# Little, Brown Book Group <!--company-->

## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Little, Brown Book Group
legal_name: Little, Brown Book Group Limited
country: GB
website: https://www.littlebrown.co.uk/
register_ids: GB-CH:02304585
gs1_prefixes_inferred: 9780349
founded: 1988-10-12
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## Relations <!--relations-->
| role       | target                       | market | from       | until | ended | status  | source | note                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   |
| ---------- | ---------------------------- | ------ | ---------- | ----- | ----- | ------- | ------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| owned_by   | company/hachette-uk-holdings | global | 2016-04-06 |       |       | sourced | ^chpsc | Companies House persons with significant control: Hachette UK (Holdings) Limited, company 03701589, ownership of shares 75% or more, notified 6 April 2016.                                                                                            |
| parent_org | company/louis-hachette-group | global | 2024-12-16 |       |       | sourced | ^chpsc | The same register entry lists Louis Hachette Group SA of 4 rue de Presbourg, Paris, notified 16 December 2024, more than 50% but less than 75% of shares. Lagardère SA remains notified from 6 April 2016; Vivendi SE's entry ceased 16 December 2024. |
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## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name                                  | type  | locale | from       | until      |
| ------------------------------------- | ----- | ------ | ---------- | ---------- |
| Little, Brown Book Group Limited      | legal | en     |            |            |
| Time Warner Book Group UK             | name  | en     |            |            |
| Time Warner Book Group UK Limited     | legal | en     | 2006-03-02 | 2006-03-31 |
| Time-Life Entertainment Group Limited | legal | en     | 1988-12-13 | 2006-03-02 |
| Trushelfco (No.1316) Limited          | legal | en     | 1988-10-12 | 1988-12-13 |
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## References <!--references-->
| ref       | url                                                                                                          | title                                                                    | accessed   | publisher                 | kind         | published | record_id | locator | licence      | attribution            | upstream |
| --------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ---------- | ------------------------- | ------------ | --------- | --------- | ------- | ------------ | ---------------------- | -------- |
| chov      | https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/02304585                                  | LITTLE, BROWN BOOK GROUP LIMITED (02304585): overview and previous names | 2026-09-17 | Companies House           | registry     |           | 02304585  |         |              |                        |          |
| chpsc     | https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/02304585/persons-with-significant-control | Persons with significant control, Little, Brown Book Group Limited       | 2026-09-17 | Companies House           | registry     |           | 02304585  |         |              |                        |          |
| lbbgwiki  | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little,_Brown_Book_Group                                                       | Little, Brown Book Group                                                 | 2026-09-17 | Wikipedia                 | publication  |           |           |         | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikipedia contributors |          |
| lbabacus  | https://www.littlebrown.co.uk/imprint/abacus/page/lbbg-imprint-abacus/                                       | LBBG Imprint: Abacus                                                     | 2026-09-17 | Little, Brown Book Group  | manufacturer |           |           |         |              |                        |          |
| lbpiatkus | https://www.littlebrown.co.uk/imprint/piatkus/page/lbbg-imprint-piatkus/                                     | LBBG Imprint: Piatkus                                                    | 2026-09-17 | Little, Brown Book Group  | manufacturer |           |           |         |              |                        |          |
| lbvirago  | https://www.littlebrown.co.uk/imprint/virago/page/lbbg-imprint-virago/                                       | LBBG Imprint: Virago                                                     | 2026-09-17 | Little, Brown Book Group  | manufacturer |           |           |         |              |                        |          |
| lbsphere  | https://www.littlebrown.co.uk/imprint/sphere/page/lbbg-imprint-sphere/                                       | LBBG Imprint: Sphere                                                     | 2026-09-17 | Little, Brown Book Group  | manufacturer |           |           |         |              |                        |          |
| goldfinch | https://www.littlebrown.co.uk/titles/donna-tartt/the-goldfinch/9780349139630/                                | The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt: Abacus title page (ISBN 9780349139630)     | 2026-09-17 | Little, Brown Book Group  | manufacturer |           |           |         |              |                        |          |
| grp       | https://grp.isbn-international.org/                                                                          | Global Register of Publishers                                            | 2026-09-17 | International ISBN Agency | registry     |           |           |         |              |                        |          |
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## About <!--about-->
Little, Brown Book Group is the London publishing company behind the Abacus, Piatkus, Virago and Sphere imprints, among others.[^lbabacus][^lbpiatkus][^lbvirago][^lbsphere] Companies House registers it as Little, Brown Book Group Limited, number 02304585, book publishing, incorporated on 12 October 1988 as Trushelfco (No.1316) Limited, renamed Time-Life Entertainment Group Limited that December, Time Warner Book Group UK Limited on 2 March 2006 and then to its present name on 31 March 2006, with its office at Carmelite House, 50 Victoria Embankment, London EC4Y 0DZ.[^chov] It has been owned by Hachette UK since the group was bought from Time Warner in 2006, and its registered shareholder is Hachette UK (Holdings) Limited, notified with 75% or more of the shares on 6 April 2016.[^lbbgwiki][^chpsc]

The ISBN registrant element 978-0-349 is recorded here as inferred, not sourced. Read on 17 September 2026, the company's own imprint pages carry it across three imprints: 30 of the 34 ISBNs listed on the Abacus page[^lbabacus], all 48 on the Piatkus page[^lbpiatkus] and 34 of the 35 on the Virago page[^lbvirago], one of them Abacus's edition of The Goldfinch, 9780349139630[^goldfinch], while the Sphere page runs mostly on 978-1-4087[^lbsphere], so the element sits with the group rather than with a single imprint. No register naming its holder could be read: the International ISBN Agency's Global Register of Publishers is the one public register of ISBN prefixes and its search path is closed to automated retrieval by robots.txt[^grp], Wikidata holds no ISBN-publisher-prefix statement for the company or its imprints, and web searches on the prefix with the company and agency names returned only booksellers. It stays inferred until an agency record, a filing or a company statement names the holder.
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