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Bestsellers
Hardback
  1. Breaking Dawn Stephenie Meyer
  2. The Little Stranger Sarah Waters
  3. Ashes to Ashes Marcus Berkmann
  4. Twilight: Director's Notebook Catherine Hardwicke
  5. Tea Time for the Traditionally Built Alexander McCall Smith
Paperback
  1. Scarpetta Patricia Cornwell
  2. New Moon Stephenie Meyer
  3. Eclipse Stephenie Meyer
  4. Twilight Stephenie Meyer
  5. Testimony Anita Shreve
Audio
  1. Twilight Stephenie Meyer Read by Ilyana Kadushin
  2. New Moon Stephenie Meyer Read by Ilyana Kadushin
  3. Tea Time for the Traditionally Built Alexander McCall Smith Read by Adjoa Andoh
  4. Breaking Dawn Stephenie Meyer Read by Ilyana Kadushin and Matt Walters
  5. Eclipse Stephenie Meyer Read by Ilyana Kadushin

Twice winner of the KPMG publisher of the year award, and with a string of top sellers in each season, Little, Brown Book Group has a proven history of success with three consecutive record years in 2003, 2004 and 2005.

We pride ourselves on our focused publishing strategy: whether in fiction or non-fiction, we believe we should publish a limited number but a broad range of titles and our aim is to buy the best in any category and publish it with flair and enthusiasm.

We focus on getting the most out of each book through detailed attention to every stage of the process, from editorial to design, the marketing and publicity campaigns and the retail strategy with key customers. We do this quite simply because all of us here at Little, Brown love books and love publishing and want to do our very best to achieve the right results for authors and agents, and to keep them informed of progress on a regular basis.

As well as concentrating on all aspects of front-list publishing, we nurture our authors’ backlists, frequently re-covering them and taking advantage of every opportunity for promotion.

Via the imprint logos below, the head of each imprint describes the history and highlights of their lists. These amply demonstrate the variety of titles to be found within Little, Brown, and they include many bestsellers, prize-winners and the whole catalogue of several authors’ works whom we have been privileged to publish from the start of their careers. We take enormous pride in our efficient teamwork, and consider our authors to be a crucial part of that team.

Ursula Mackenzie CEO and Publisher

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Our Imprints

We have three focused publishing divisions:

Literary: Little, Brown; Abacus; Virago

  • Little, Brown
  • Abacus
  • Virago

Commercial: Sphere and Piatkus

  • Sphere
  • Piatkus

SF/Fantasy: Orbit and Atom

  • Orbit
  • Atom

And our own audio list

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