Little Brown Book Group: 2532 books
Edith Sitwell
Avant Garde Poet, English Genius
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2011
For the better part of forty years, Edith Sitwell's poetry has been neglected by critics. But born into a family of privileged eccentrics, Edith Sitwell was highly regarded by her contemporaries: the great writers and artists of the day who attended her unlikely London literary salon. Her quips and...
Jane of Lantern Hill
A Virago Modern Classic
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Jane and her mother live in a gloomy old mansion, where their lives are ruled by her ovebearing grandmother. For most of her life Jane has believed that her father is dead. Then, one dull April morning, a letter comes. Not only is her father alive and well, but he wants Jane to spend the summer with...
Being David Archer
And Other Unusual Ways of Earning a Living
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
'Hilarious' Mail on Sunday
'Stylish, very funny memoir' Daily Mail
Timothy Bentinck has played the part of David Archer in BBC Radio 4's The Archers since 1982. He is also the Earl of Portland and the voice of 'Mind The Gap' on the Piccadilly Line. Aimed primarily at the five million...
Marilyn Monroe: Private and Undisclosed
New edition: revised and expanded
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2012
Following a number of sensationalist biographies of Marilyn Monroe in recent years, this comprehensive, meticulously researched volume brings an important fresh perspective on the many controversies in her life. It is essential reading for anyone interested in Marilyn Monroe and the Golden Age of...
The Modern Library
The 200 Best Novels in English Since 1950
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
For Colm Toíbín and Carmen Callil there is no difference between literary and commercial writing - there is only the good novel: engrossing, inspirational, compelling. In their selection of the best 200 novels written since 1950, the editors make a case for the best and the best-loved works and...
Single-Minded
My Life in Business
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
The story of a high-stakes career
Claude Littner is best known as the mercilessly tough interviewer on the BBC's award-winning The Apprentice. His abrupt style and zero-tolerance policy on nonsense have become the highlights of every series. But what is he like in real business?
Single-Minded...
Four Meals for Fourpence
A Heartwarming Tale of Family Life in London's old East End
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2011
I was born in a tenement flat in the East End of London in the year in which Queen Victoria died.'
FOUR MEALS FOR FOURPENCE is Grace Foakes's memories of her girlhood in Wapping in the early 1900s. With a child's uncluttered eye, she describes the small details - shopping in the market, men...
Smoke in the Lanes
Happiness and Hardship on the Road with the Gypsies in the 1950s
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
In the 1950s the Romani people lived on the brink of great change. In their bright wooden wagons they journeyed between horse-fairs and traditional stopping places - stoic, humorous and wild, often poverty-stricken but protective of their freedom - on the fringes of a society that was soon to close...
Bedpans and Bobby Socks
Five British Nurses on the American Road Trip of a Lifetime
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2011
'In my dreams, I was always in some vast landscape on a long, straight road. Driving. Always driving.'
Gwenda had always loved the open road, but her home town of Newcastle didn't really offer the sort of adventure she longed for. So, in 1957, with friend and fellow nurse Pat in tow, she left...
Shiny Pennies and Grubby Pinafores
How We Overcame Hardship to Raise a Happy Family in the 1950s
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2010
After her years in domestic service, Winifred Foley married and started a family. But, while scraping a living as a charwoman in a rundown north London tenement, she continued to long for her home in the Forest of Dean and the cherished relatives she had left behind. Determined to give their children...
Tea By The Nursery Fire
A Childrens Nanny at the Turn of the Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
Emily Huckwell spent almost her entire life working for one family. Born in a tiny Sussex village in the 1870s, she went into domestic service in the Burton household before she was twelve, earning £5 a year. She began as a nursery maid, progressing to under nurse and then head nanny, looking after...
I've Said It Before...
Unpublished Letters to the Daily Mail
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2011
'I read that a woman has left her husband and children to go and live with a Red Indian she met on the internet. Could it be said that her marriage was going through a bad Apache?'
Thousands of letters to the Daily Mail go unpublished every week - until now. Included in this collection of 'the...
by Josef M. Bauer
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2011
Originally published in 1955, this must be one of the most dramatic adventures of our time. Clemens Forell, a German soldier, was sentenced to 25 years of forced labour in a Siberian lead mine after the Second World War.
Rebelling against the brutality of the camp, Forell staged a daring escape,...
Manchester United: The Biography
The Complete Story of the World's Greatest Football Club
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2010
75 MILLION FANS.
AN ANNUAL INCOME OF MORE THAN £200 MILLION.
AND A STORY THAT HAS NEVER FULLY BEEN TOLD - UNTIL NOW.
'A wonderfully entertaining history' Sunday Telegraph
'When historians 1,000 years from now try to fathom the cult of Manchester United Football Club, White will be a...