Little Brown Book Group: 2532 books
Travelling Light
Journeys Among Special People and Places
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
A charming and beautifully written account of the pleasures of slow travel - for readers of Patrick Leigh Fermor, Colin Thubron and Eric Newby.
'Lawrence Sterne once suggested that we travel for one of just three reasons: imbecility of mind, infirmity of body or inevitable necessity. One might...
The Vintage Springtime Club
A charming novel for fans of The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
Perfect for fans of A MAN CALLED OVE, THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL and THE LITTLE PARIS BOOKSHOP
Newly retired Philip returns home to Cologne and is thrown into emotional turmoil upon bumping into his long-lost sweetheart. In the midst of a domestic crisis, Ricarda confides in Philip that...
by Brett Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Evening Standard Book of the Year. Observer Book of the Year. Guardian Book of the Year. Sunday Times Book of the Year. Telegraph Book of the Year. New Statesman Book of the Year. Herald Book of the Year. Mojo Book of the Year.
Brett Anderson came from a world impossibly distant from rock star...
Game Changers
How a Team of Underdogs and Scientists Discovered What it Takes to Win
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2018
At the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, Great Britain ranked thirty-sixth in the medals table, finishing below countries like Algeria, Belgium and Kazakhstan. It was their worst ever record, a dismal performance labelled a national disgrace. But then something happened. In Sydney in 2000 and then Athens in...
by Chris Brookmyre
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2019
'Gloriously dark, deliciously twisty' CLARE MACKINTOSH
ONE FAMILY, TWO HOLIDAYS, ONE DEVASTATING SECRET
To new nanny Amanda, the Temple family seem to have it all: the former actress; the famous professor; their three successful grown-up children. But like any family, beneath the smiles...
by Marcus Berkmann
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Approaching its 200th birthday in the rudest of health, the Spectator is known for the quality of its writing and the deep eccentricity of some of its writers. Given the freedom to say what they want, they take that freedom and more, and the result is original, provocative, often very funny, sometimes...
Gurkha
Better to Die than Live a Coward: My Life in the Gurkhas
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
In this Sunday Times Top Ten bestselling memoir that 'reads like a thriller', (Joanna Lumley) Colour-Sargent Kailash Limbu shares a riveting account of his life as a Gurkha soldier-marking the first time in its two-hundred-year history that a soldier of the Brigade of Gurkhas has been given permission...
Red & White
An unquenchable thirst for wine
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2018
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 ANDRE SIMON AWARD
SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORTNUM AND MASON DRINK BOOK AWARD
With Red & White*,* Oz Clarke has reinvented wine writing. This is a book to read for pleasure, rather than merely refer to. Combining fast-paced witty memoir with passionately opinionated...
Grave and Learned Men: The Physicians, 1518-1660
500 Reflections on the RCP, 1518-2018: 05 Book Six
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
The Royal College of Physicians celebrates its 500th anniversary in 2018, and to observe this landmark is publishing this series of ten books. Each of the books focuses on fifty themed elements that have contributed to making the RCP what it is today, together adding up to 500 reflections on 500 years....
Closet Queens
Some 20th Century British Politicians
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2015
Closet Queens is a fascinating study of gay men in twentieth century British politics, from Lord Rosebery and Lord Beauchamp in Edwardian times to Michael Portillo and Peter Mandelson in our own era.
As all homosexual activity was illegal until 1967, and exposure meant ruin and disgrace, such...
by Ferdinand von Schirach
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
Sebastian von Eschburg, scion of a wealthy, self-destructive family, survived his disastrous childhood to become a celebrated if controversial artist. He casts a provocative shadow over the Berlin scene; his disturbing photographs and installations show that truth and reality are two distinct things.
When...
The Prime Minister's Ironing Board and Other State Secrets
True Stories From the Government Archives
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
Stored in Whitehall's archives are everything from blood-chilling warnings of imminent nuclear attack to comical details of daily life in the corridors of power. Concerned notes from ministers on the subject of the Heir to the Throne's potential brainwashing by Welsh terrorists are shelved alongside...
A Good Face for Radio
Confessions of a Radio Head
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
Eddie Mair is, by his own account, one of Britain's most beloved broadcasters.
Born in Dundee, Scotland, he has worked in radio all his adult life. From the foothills of commercial radio in his hometown, through the sunlit uplands of the BBC in Scotland, he has reached the peaks of his profession,...
Don't You Leave Me Here
My Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
'Man, there's nothing like being told you're dying to make you feel alive.'
In 2013, Dr Feelgood founder, Blockheads member and musical legend Wilko Johnson was diagnosed with terminal cancer. With ten months to live, he decided to accept his imminent death and went on the road. His calm, philosophical...