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Welcome to the Little, Brown Blog where we will be regularly posting news about our books, along with exclusive content from our authors.
After receiving more than its fair share of great reviews, The Hidden Heart of Emily Hudson by Melissa Jones is a new reading group favourite, so we're sharing the reading group notes with you to help you make the most of your group's discussions.
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Posted 08/02/2010 12:23:22 by Emily Rowland with 0 comments.
Amanda Craig's Hearts and Minds, a gripping detective story, a love story and a book about contemporary Britain, has been selected by Waterstones as February's Book Circle choice.
Posted 02/02/2010 17:14:28 by Emily Rowland with 0 comments.
Linchpins are the essential building blocks of great organizations: they invent, lead (regardless of job title), connect others, make things happen, and create order out of chaos. They love their work and pour their best selves into it and turn each day into a kind of art - and, in today's world, they get the best jobs and the most freedom.
Posted 02/02/2010 16:52:14 by Darren Turpin with 0 comments.
Linda Fairstein is one of Manhattan’s most celebrated District Attorneys. After being the Director of the Sex Crimes Prosecution Unit for over thirty-five years, Fairstein now gives these tasks to her characters. In Fairstein's new book, Hell Gate, main character Alexandra Cooper thrives on being able to bring a little bit of justice to victims of violent and sexual crimes, as Fairstein herself once did.
Posted 01/02/2010 14:26:49 by Emily Rowland with 0 comments.
Yasmine Gooneratne, author of The Sweet and Simple Kind, was inspired by her own personal experiences of growing up in Ceylon in the 1940s and the 1950s when writing this epic literary novel. She portrays with detail and intimacy the lasting friendship between two young cousins, and the novel becomes a gripping family drama that’s set against the turbulent backdrop of Ceylon preparing for independence and its subsequent evolution into Sri Lanka. The girls, Tsunami and Latha, have to fight hard for their own personal freedoms, and so become a reminder to women everywhere that life, although sometimes sweet, is never simple.
Posted 27/01/2010 13:30:22 by Emily Rowland with 0 comments.
In her intelligent, accessible new book, Couples, Kate Figes explores what really goes on in peoples’ lives, helping us to understand our own partnerships and take responsibility for making them work. It is an incisive and important look at how we can learn to make love endure.
Posted 21/01/2010 17:01:19 by Emily Rowland with 0 comments.
Due to popular demand our favourite travel writer, adventurer and motorcycling guru, Charley Boorman, will be appearing live on stage in February and March 2010 as part of a six week UK and Ireland Tour.
Posted 21/01/2010 16:47:26 by Darren Turpin with 0 comments.
Feeling a bit bloated and sluggish, and lacking in energy? Are you annoyed that some people seem to be fit, healthy and happy all the time? Want to find out how they do it?
Posted 05/01/2010 10:45:43 by Darren Turpin with 0 comments.
The latest issue of Entertainment Weekly includes a feature by legendary bestselling writer Stephen King in which he picks his top ten books of 2009, and three of them are published in the UK by the team here at Little, Brown Book Group.
Posted 18/12/2009 12:20:33 by Darren Turpin with 0 comments.
Bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith is the patron of the Alliance for Rabies Control - a charity that works to control rabies in Africe by means of providing vaccinations and educating people to help prevent the spread of the disease - and has recorded the following appeal on their behalf.
Posted 14/12/2009 16:19:45 by Darren Turpin with 0 comments.
On 7th December, taste buds were out in force at the Little, Brown Book group office in Blackfriars. The inaugural Little, Brown Big Bake Off saw talented (and very competitive) cooks from the company enter large and small cakes in order to scoop first place prizes in each category.
Posted 14/12/2009 14:57:20 by Darren Turpin with 0 comments.
Lori Lansens, author of the bestseller The Girls, is back with a new novel, published by Virago in February 2010.
Posted 07/12/2009 10:29:15 by Darren Turpin with 0 comments.
The featured title on BBC Radio 4's Book at Bedtime programme for the next fortnight will be Simon Mawer's Man Booker Prize shortlisted novel The Glass Room.
Posted 09/11/2009 15:27:12 by Darren Turpin with 0 comments.
Mary S Lovell's superb biography Amelia Earhart: The Sound of Wings is credited in the screenplay for the upcoming movie Amelia released by Fox Searchlight in the UK in mid-November, starring Hilary Swank and Richard Gere.
Posted 09/11/2009 15:08:09 by Darren Turpin with 0 comments.
Intrepid explorer Charley Boorman's latest journey saw him travel along the Pacific Rim from Australia to Japan, by any means possible. In a replica Spitfire, an electric car, a bamboo tuk-tuk and of course, on many motorbikes, Charley travelled through some of the world's most exotic countries, meeting fascinating people and testing his endurance to the limit. Now he's back to tell us all about it in a new book, Right to the Edge, packed with adventure and Charley's trademark humour.
Posted 30/10/2009 15:24:28 by Darren Turpin with 0 comments.