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  1. Red Mist Patricia Cornwell
  2. Steve Jobs Walter Isaacson
  3. Hawk Quest Robert Lyndon
  4. The Piccadilly Plot Susanna Gregory
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  1. The Map T S Learner
  2. She's Never Coming Back Hans Koppel
  3. The Paris Wife Paula McLain
  4. Never Knowing Chevy Stevens
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  1. Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck Read by Clarke Peters
  2. The Forgotten Highlander Alistair Urquhart Read by David Rintoul
  3. The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party Alexander McCall Smith Read by Adjoa Andoh
  4. Lucia in London E F Benson Read by Miriam Margolyes

Little, Brown

'Great stories, wonderfully told'

Little, Brown is the literary hardback imprint that feeds into Abacus paperback. We publish across a wide range of areas, including fiction, history, memoir, science and travel, but within this diverse list the vast majority of books have in common a strong narrative and a distinctive voice.

Soon after the company’s establishment we were enormously privileged to publish a book that exemplifies these qualities - Iain Banks' The Crow Road - and we are proud that all of Iain’s fiction is now published by Little, Brown/Abacus (with his SF in Orbit). Scotland has in fact proved to be fertile territory for the list as it has also produced both Christopher Brookmyre (described by one critic as ‘Tartan noir’) and Alexander McCall Smith (who has been called ‘Tartan blanc’).

In 2004 Alexander McCall Smith won a hat-trick of prizes – the Booksellers Association Award, Waterstone’s Author of the Year Award and Publishing News Author of the Year Award. We have now sold over nine million copies of his books, including the No. 1 bestsellers The Miracle at Speedy Motors and The Double Comfort Safari Club.

Little, Brown/Abacus also have a distinguished list of American writers, including great names such as Gore Vidal and E. L. Doctorow, and brilliant satirists like David Sedaris and Candace Bushnell. And we are immensely proud to have published the bestselling Anita Shreve throughout her career.

Our non-fiction is extremely strong. Young historians Tom Holland and Juliet Barker complement Abacus’s publishing of Eric Hobsbawm, Thomas Pakenham and backlists. 2010 began with two Sunday Times Number 1 bestsellers: Mark Urban’s Task Force Black and Alistair Urquhart’s The Forgotten Highlander. When you add in talents as diverse as Tim Harford, Professor Steve Jones, Will Hutton and Evan Davis, we believe we have something wonderful for everybody.