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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.
2 July 2009. 40 years since the rolling stones' Brian Jones drowned, at the age of 27, in his swimming pool. In her definitive biography of Brian Jones, Laura Jackson - the first to insist that Jones was murdered and the first to identify his killer - rejects the stereotype of a narcissistic rock star who was doomed to self-destruct.
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Posted 03/07/2009 10:23:22 by Darren Turpin with 0 comments.
The Interview Online specialises in providing "high quality audio, and occasionally video, interviews with authors, playwrights and cultural movers and shakers." This month, they've been talking to Virago author Sarah Dunant about her new novel, Sacred Hearts.
Posted 19/06/2009 11:48:04 by Darren Turpin with 0 comments.
Fi Glover, chair of judges at this year's Orange Prize for Fiction called Home, the winning novel, a book that 'has a luminous quality to it that has drawn all of the judges to a unanimous decision. The profound nature of the writing stood out, as has the ability of writer to draw the reader into a world of hope expectation, misunderstanding, love and kindness'.
Posted 17/06/2009 16:02:16 by Darren Turpin with 0 comments.
The Gay Divorcee by Paul Burston has been well received by the press since its publication on 7th May:
Posted 28/05/2009 11:44:57 by Darren Turpin with 0 comments.
Lisa Appignanesi appeared at the Kingston Readers Festival on Wednesday 20 May, where she gave a talk on her book Mad, Bad and Sad: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors from 1800 to the Present which was published in paperback by Virago in January 2009.
Posted 28/05/2009 10:40:30 by Darren Turpin with 0 comments.
Iain [M] Banks will be one of the guests of this year's Prague Writers Festival, which runs from June 7 - 11. He will be taking part in a Guardian Conversation panel discussion on "The Freedom to Lie" and will be part of the International Reading session, as well as signing books at two bookstores in the city.
Posted 28/05/2009 10:15:36 by Darren Turpin with 0 comments.
In an audio interview posted on www.interviewonline.co.uk, Amanda Craig talks about her new novel, Hearts and Minds, which was published by Little, Brown at the end of April.
Posted 28/05/2009 09:58:49 by Darren Turpin with 0 comments.
N.B. The BBC have moved the broadcast date of the Nora Roberts Front Row interview to Friday, May 15th.
Posted 08/05/2009 11:00:54 by Darren Turpin with 0 comments.
Little, Brown's YA fantasy imprint, Atom, has just launched a brand new UK website for fans of P.C. and Kristin Cast's House of Night series.
Posted 05/05/2009 17:22:10 by Darren Turpin with 3 comments.
First off, let me just make it clear that I have no intention of ever becoming a gay divorcee. I may have written a book called The Gay Divorcee, and I may be a dedicated follower of fashion, but I have no plans to follow in the footsteps of Matt Lucas and join the ranks of gay men who married their partners in civil ceremonies only to break up with them a year or so later.
Posted 01/05/2009 16:26:11 by Darren Turpin with 1 comments.
Amanda Craig, author of Hearts and Minds - published on 30 April by Little, Brown and described by Penny Perrick in the Sunday Times as "rich, Dickensian" - is giving talks at the following venues during the month of May:
Posted 01/05/2009 16:03:23 by Darren Turpin with 0 comments.
Hugely exciting news from the US, where Variety.com's New York reporter Michael Fleming has a story on an imminent movie deal - possibly for a series or ongoing franchise - that will see mega-star Angelina Jolie take on the role of Kay Scarpetta, heroine of the mega-best-selling series by the one and only Patricia Cornwell.
Posted 22/04/2009 14:43:13 by Darren Turpin with 0 comments.
We are delighted to announce the winner of the short story competition to celebrate the publication of The Birthing House by Christopher Ransom, which was promoted via the Guardian, online and in-store at Borders.
Posted 17/04/2009 10:33:50 by Darren Turpin with 24 comments.
Linda Grant's The Clothes on Their Backs - a novel of survival, both banal and heroic, and a young woman who discovers the complications, even betrayals, that inevitably accompany the fierce desire to live - is currently the Our Choice title of the Mail on Sunday You Magazine reading group.
Posted 15/04/2009 11:20:54 by Darren Turpin with 0 comments.
Narrated by Johnny Depp, Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, is out on DVD 13th April 2009.
Posted 15/04/2009 10:15:38 by Darren Turpin with 0 comments.