Little Brown Book Group Extract

Nick Belsey’s on the run. Touching down in Mexico City, he doesn’t have much in the way of funds, but he has a new continent and surely that’s enough to start afresh. But it’s not […]

Today we are celebrating the publication of A Million Aunties by Alecia McKenzie who has shared some insights into her writing process and inspiration.     Q:  What inspired you to write A Million Aunties?   […]

  Based on the real history of an English village during the Great Plague, The Hemlock Cure is an utterly beguiling tale of fear and ambition, betrayal, self-sacrifice and the unbreakable bond between two women. Read […]

Read an extract from Hollow Fires by Samira Ahmed FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF INTERNMENT Hollow Fires is a gripping book of our times about the insidious nature of racism, and the complicity of silence and […]

Read an extract from bestselling author, Laura Marshall’s new thriller, The Anniversary.   It’s the most innocuous of questions, but it makes my insides shrivel, curdling them like sour milk: Where did you grow up? […]

The best part of Christmas has always been the gifts for me, and by that I literally mean the gifts for me. I’m not one of these weird virtue- signalling saints who claim my favourite […]

CHAPTER ONE “Home.” The moment Lindy Carmichael turned down Apple Orchard Lane in Wenatchee, Washington, she released a deep sigh. An immediate sense of familiar warmth and welcome filled her. She had two full weeks […]

There is no need to know what no one will ask. Walking on gravel, boots crunching with each step, Shell doesn’t know if she is who she is because it’s what she wants or because […]

PROLOGUE Three years ago, Larry McDonald had himself a crazy notion. A spry, soft-spoken sixty-nine-year-old, by nature, Larry was a steadfast,  dependable sort of guy, not so much of a dreamer. Not someone who typically […]

‘I’m going to be late,’ Éliane said despairingly to Yolande who, at age five, cared not a bit about Éliane’s obligations. In fact, it was obvious from Yolande’s clenched fists that a tantrum was bearing […]

  We’re excited to share a first-look at the next instalment in the classic No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series from bestselling author, Alexander McCall Smith.   Chapter One: Past-tense Men   It was a question […]

Extracted from Chapter Two: 1970 Peer pressure is a very powerful thing, never more so than when you’re a teenager, but for some reason, almost certainly due to my Asperger’s, peer pressure has never really […]