Little Brown Book Group Extract

      The Welsh Marches, Autumn 1126 On the day Adam de Lacey returned to the borders after an absence of more than a year, the monthly market at Ravenstow was in full, noisy […]

  ‘I might give you some of Vanessa’s brandy too, if we ever get there,’ Alice murmured to the dog as she crawled the car forward. She followed the tail lights of a car up […]

    Last month we published Christmas for Beginners, Carole Matthews’ gloriously festive sequel to her Sunday Times bestselling novel Happiness for Beginners. As part of her Little Book Café Christmas for Beginners takeover, we […]

    PART ONE TORN APART 1916–17 ONE Babs A week to go till Christmas. Such a different Christmas to the one Babs had thought she would have. She pulled her shawl around her and, […]

  PROLOGUE 28 AUGUST 2012 Simon gasped and choked on the brackish, freezing water as he swam for his life. The reservoir was huge, and he churned through inky-black water in a frantic front crawl, […]

    Chapter One   One of the alpacas has eaten the Baby Jesus. I’m not sure which one. Frankly, they all look the picture of innocence, but I know them better. ‘I’m going to […]

This Black History Month let us ask How Long ‘Til Black Future Month? Read an extract from triple Hugo Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author N. K. Jemisin’s short story collection. N. K. Jemisin […]

    Everly Lancaster was ready to explode. Her assistant, Annette, the very one Jack Campbell, her business partner and CEO, had highly recommended she hire, who also happened to be his niece, had made […]

    Below is an extract from readers’ favourite and Sunday Times bestselling novel Happiness for Beginners ahead of the publication of the gloriously festive sequel, Christmas for Beginners. Chapter One Anthony the Anti-Social Sheep lowers his […]

Dustin, I’m sorry. There’s no way to make you understand how sorry, so I can only hope that, in time, you will. For weeks I’ve been asking myself where it all went wrong, but now […]

PROLOGUE   2019   The  church  resembles  an  alpine  chapel,  the  kind  you might find in the mountains outside Salzburg, and inside the cool air is welcoming. Because it’s August in the South, the temperature […]

In anticipation of the release of Jack we’re revisiting the novels where it all began. Read an extract from Lila, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. Lila, homeless and alone after years of […]