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

The Random House Group is a federation of 31 diverse publishing imprints under four autonomous divisions that between them publish 1500 new books every year. Each imprint is highly individual with its own culture and values and a commitment to publishing the best books in its particular area. Novelists published by the Group include Martin Amis, Jilly Cooper, J M Coetzee, Sebastain Faulks, John Grisham, Robert Harris, Joanne Harris, Ian McEwan, Terry Pratchett, Kathy Reichs, Ruth Rendell, Salman Rushdie, Joanna Trollope and Irvine Welsh.

In non-fiction, the lists range from broad general non-fiction to a number of specialist non-fiction categories such as cookery, gardening including the renowned Expert Books series and Eden Project Books, travel including Fodor's Guides and a new partnership with Time Out and business books. Notable authors of non-fiction include Bill Bryson, Nigella Lawson and David Starkey. The Group's classic backlist of over 6000 titles includes the works of Ernest Hemingway, Graham Greene, Iris Murdoch, Virginia Woolf and Anthony Powell amongst others.

The Random House Group publishes:
31 Nobel Laureates (out of 90 - 34%)
15 Booker Prize Winners (out of 34 - 45%)
60 Waterstone's Books of the Century (out of 100 - 60%)
29 of the BBC's Big Read Top 100 Titles 2003
22 of the Top 50 contemporary 'Essential Reads' chosen at the Hay on Wye Literature Festival 2004.

Random House Children's Books publish many bestselling children's writers including Anthony Brown, Malorie Blackman, Roald Dahl, Phillip Pullman, Jacqueline Wilson and all three of the Children's Laureates Quentin Blake, Anne Fine and Michael Morpurgo.

In the UK, the Random House Group runs a distribution business that services its own imprints as well as 50 other UK publishers. The Random House Group has three distribution sites, at Grantham, Wellingborough and at Frating where the warehouse, built in 1998, is the largest purpose-built book distribution centre in the UK.

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.