Little Brown Book Group Extract

From New York Times bestselling author Mary H.K. Choi comes a funny and emotional story about two estranged sisters and how far they’ll go to save one of their lives – even if it means swapping identities. […]

    Eve The first time I saw him was not in romantic surroundings. Far from it – it was in the rec room of Sunnyside Independent Living Centre, the care home that I work […]

    Love Letters from Paris Prologue Montmartre – that famous hill on the northern edge of Paris, where tourists cluster around the street painters on the Place du Tertre as they create artworks of […]

Read an exclusive extract from Everything is Beautiful, Eleanor Ray’s beautiful and uplifting debut novel. Chapter One   It really was too much. Amy’s colleagues were nice enough, in their way, but she’d spent all […]

Read an exclusive extract from Deborah Rodriguez’s latest novel, The Moroccan Daughter. Chapter One   “Nope. Sorry. Not gonna do it.” Charlie unfastened the two snaps at the back of Amina’s neck and waved the […]

Chapter One ‘What are you looking at?’ Molly’s tone sounded sharp, even to her ears. The boy looked confused, as if trying to work out what he had done wrong. ‘I’m drawing,’ he said. ‘Do […]

    1 The Principality of Antioch, Spring 1139   Antioch, the capital of Prince Raymond’s principality, was for Renard a rude and not altogether welcome awakening. It was easier to skirmish with Turks among […]

I’m not following her. Whatever the others say, I’m really not following her. It’s just that wherever I go she seems to be there – in the park, the library, the shops. Outside her school. […]

      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, […]