About

The Random Blog is the official blog for Random House Australia's authors. Each month four of our authors get a week to blog about anything and everything!

Random House Australia (RHA) is part of the Random House Group, one of the largest publishing houses in the world, owned by the German media company Bertelsmann AG. Carl Bertelsmann established his company in 1835, and early publications included the poems of Lord Byron, hymnals and the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm.

Random House Inc was founded in 1925 in the US and was acquired by Bertelsmann AG in 1998. It is one of the oldest and most prestigious publishing companies in the world, as well as being the world's largest English-language trade publishing house. Books published by Random House are sold in almost every country in the world.

As one of Australia's leading publishers, Random House Australia carries on this proud publishing history. It boasts an impressive list of imprints including Arrow, Bantam, Century, Chatto & Windus, Corgi, Doubleday, Ebury, Hutchinson, Jonathan Cape, Knopf, Vintage, William Heinemann, Windmill Books and Woolshed Press.

Today, Australian readers of Random House books can enjoy a wealth of titles that span the mass market, illustrated, literary and children's areas.

Random House Australia has a reputation for excellence, commitment and service. Random House Australia has been awarded the coveted 'Publisher of the Year' award four times and 'Distributor of the Year' twice.

Numerous books published by Random House have won major literary prizes, including the Nobel Prize, the Pulitzer Prize and the Man Booker Prize. Our authors enjoy considerable success on national bestseller lists and are the recipients of major Australian literary prizes.

Some of the international authors we publish include:
Peter Ackroyd, Kate Atkinson, Martin Amis, Julian Barnes, Dan Brown, Bill Bryson, A S Byatt, Lee Child, Louis de Bernieres, Roddy Doyle, Anne Enright, Umberto Eco, Ben Elton, Nicholas Evans, Sebastian Faulks, Diana Gabaldon, Tess Gerritsen, Robert Goddard, John Grisham, Ainsley Harriott, Joanne Harris, Mo Hayder, Sophie Kinsella, Nigella Lawson, Henning Mankell, Armistead Maupin, Ian McEwan, Andy McNab, Toni Morrison, Irene Nemirovsky, Christopher Paolini, John Pilger, Terry Pratchett, Kathy Reichs, Ruth Rendell, Anne Rice, Tom Robbins, Salman Rushdie, Nicholas Shakespeare, Karin Slaughter, Danielle Steel, Joanna Trollope, James Patterson, Irvine Welsh and Jacqueline Wilson.

Random House Australia invests strongly in Australian publishing and has established a firm reputation for an impressive array of Australian titles from literary fiction to popular fiction, non-fiction, illustrated and children's.

Authors published under local imprints include Deborah Abela, Anita Bell, Georgia Blain, Richard Branson, Peter Carey, Matthew Condon, Susan Duncan, Keith Fennell, John Flanagan, Richard Flanagan, Peter FitzSimons, Janet Frame, Leah Giarratano, Bradley Trevor Greive, Wendy Harmer, Robert Hughes, Kate Jennings, Susan Johnson, Gail Jones, Tom Keneally, Christopher Koch, Joan London, David Malouf, Roger McDonald, Susan Mitchell, Drusilla Modjeska, Frank Moorhouse, Judy Nunn, Elliot Perlman, Deborah Robertson and Don Watson.