Random House is a leading book publishing company with an impressive list of local and international authors including James Patterson, Dan Brown, Nigella Lawson, Kathy Reichs, Sophie Kinsella, Lee Child, Ian McEwan, David Malouf and Tom Keneally. We are also proud publishers of the MasterChef cookbook, John Flanagan’s Rangers Apprentice series as well as Bindi Irwin’s Wildlife Adventures. 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.