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Top 10 Opening Extracts

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  1. The Outcast by Sadie Jones
  2. Mr Cavendish, I Presume by Julia Quinn
  3. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
  4. Twilight (Twilight Saga Book 1) by Stephenie Meyer
  5. Hearts and Minds by Rosy Thornton
  6. Over You by Lucy Diamond
  7. When Will There Be Good News? by Kate Atkinson
  8. East of the Sun by Julia Gregson
  9. Goodnight, Beautiful by Dorothy Koomson
  10. New Moon (Twilight Saga Book 2) by Stephenie Meyer


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Relationship Tales This month's 'featured books'
Relationship Tales
The Second Husband
Louise Candlish
A family drama about trust, betrayal and forgiveness. Kate and her daughter are just getting to the difficult “teenage” years and when Davis Calder moves in next door he seems like the peacemaker they need, a confidante for both who...
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Any Way You Want Me
Lucy Diamond
This is a very funny book about a woman who longs for the single, childless life she once had and steps over the boundary in to actually having an affair to spice up her life. Many of the feelings she...
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Goodnight, Beautiful
Dorothy Koomson
My Best Friend’s Girl was a Richard and Judy Book Club title, this is in similar vein, a challenging subject about surrogacy, love and true friendship, beautifully handled, moving and powerful. Comparison: Jane Fallon, Jacquelyn Mitchard,...
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The Spellman Files
Lisa Lutz
This book has some of the funniest dialogue and wackiest characters we have come across in a long time. The Spellman’s are a dysfunctional family firm of private investigators who sadly can’t leave the tools of the trade outside the...
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Black Star Crime This month's 'featured books'
Black Star Crime
A Narrow Escape
Faith Martin
For those missing Morse, there's a new DI in Oxford in the form of Hillary Greene, a strong female lead with a no-nonsense, tough talking attitude. She's got a great supporting cast in her colleagues, and there's plenty of intrigue...
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Streetwise
Chris Freeman
Chris Freeman's Joseph Soyinka is an intriguing and engaging lead with an irresistible combination of police and amateur detective. With plenty of layers to peel away in his character, this ex-police-detective-turned-cab-driver and single father definitely has room to grow, and...
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Murder Plot
Lance Elliot
The reader is swept back to 1975, where the residents of a London suburb start dropping like flies, and GP Lance Elliot (yes, he's also the 'author'!) finds himself on the trail of the killer in his first murder case....
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A Perfect Evil
Alex Kava
Alex Kava is known for her incredibly gripping thrillers and this one is no exception. When a young boy is found killed in the same way as a dead serial killer’s victims, it appears a copycat killer is on the...
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Literary / Contemporary This month's 'featured books'
Literary / Contemporary
The Claude Glass
Tom Bullough
Rural Wales in the 80s and two very different families, one ex-hippy, the other ancient farming stock. Seen through the eyes of children, the two families’ boys who form an unlikely friendship, we are given a dark story of growing...
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The Camel Bookmobile
Masha Hamilton
An idealistic American girl is swept up in the passion of taking the written word to the African tribes of Kenya, and joins a mobile library scheme. We are introduced to each important character chapter by chapter. Simple stories unfold,...
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Small World
Matt Beaumont
Cleverly written in the first person from the point of view of a myriad of characters, this follows the lives, in a few months, of a group of people who interlink, interact and rebound off each other, most in rather...
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The Solitude of Emperors
David Davidar
A beautifully descriptive book with a great deal of insight in to the problems of mixing religion and politics. Sensitively written and very thought provoking this is a great book for a book club to get their teeth in to.
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Summer Reads This month's 'featured books'
Summer Reads
Love and Other Infidelities
Helen Townsend
The story of Martin and Susan’s marriage and the friends and relations around them. Each character has their own voice which gives the reader a great perspective on how different people have such different views on the same situation. A...
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Generation Dead
Daniel Waters
A deeply compelling, sparklingly original supernatural romance about discrimination, prejudice, the power of love and of life and death. A brilliant debut and yet the quality of the writing, both sharp and quirky and the original plot line makes it hard to believe...
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Twenty Wishes
Debbie Macomber
Debbie Macomber is getting better and better. In Twenty Wishes she brings in characters from her previous novel Wednesday’s at Four which gives a nice continuity to the books. Ann Marie has recently been widowed and joins a support group...
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Season of the Witch
Natasha Mostert
A creepy tale of passion, seduction and mind-reading. The known phenomenon of ‘remote viewing’ – a psychic talent allowing the perpetrator to ‘see’ things that are far separate from them, forms the basis of the story. Gabriel, our hero, uses...
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Scifi Series, Saga of Seven Suns This month's 'featured books'
Scifi Series, Saga of Seven Suns
Metal Swarm : The Saga of Seven Suns - Book 6
Kevin J Anderson
Book 6 of The Saga of Seven Suns. What’s brilliant about this series of books, as well as the ‘super science’ is the story that is driven through a large number of central characters. The action of these individuals effects...
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Hidden Empire : The Saga of Seven Suns - Book 1
Kevin J Anderson
First book in the Saga of the Seven Suns. This is Science Fiction on a galactic scale and what makes it really appealing is the combination of amazingly imagined futures with well drawn multic layered characters. At around 700 pages...
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Scattered Suns : The Saga of Seven Suns - Book 4
Kevin J Anderson
Book 4 of The Saga of Seven Suns. In this Sci fi saga the human race is rather small and poorly advanced compared to some of the ancient galactic rivals it finds itself pitted against, we have just one card...
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A Forest of Stars : The Saga of Seven Suns - Book 2
Kevin J Anderson
Book 2 of Saga of Seven Suns. The story develops as does the intrigue. A seemingly invincible race of, previously hidden, aliens now control the galaxy and each race while struggling for survival tries to turn the situation to their...
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Mystery / Thriller This month's 'featured books'
Mystery / Thriller
The Soul Collector
Paul Johnston
Paul Johnston certainly likes to throw red herrings in to the mix in his intricate crime novels and this one has plenty to keep you guessing. The characters from The Death List are back...
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In the Dark
Mark Billingham
Billingham moves away from the DI Thorne series for this story set in the criminal underworld of London. He brings a whole host of characters together and shows the impact of the increasing crime and violence on the streets, not...
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Runaway Minister
Nick Curtis
Charlie Paddon and Alex Chappell form a dynamic new partnership as Diplomatic Protection agents in this scintillating debut. The chemistry between Paddon and Chappell is well balanced against the high drama of a chase from London to Edinburgh. Nick Curtis...
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Murder Plot
Lance Elliot
The reader is swept back to 1975, where the residents of a London suburb start dropping like flies, and GP Lance Elliot (yes, he's also the 'author'!) finds himself on the trail of the killer in his first murder case....
Price: £2.99 - Saving £1.00 (25%)
 
 

'new gen' This month's 'featured books'
'new gen'
Breaking Dawn (Twilight Saga Book 4)
Stephenie Meyer
Sadly this is the fourth and final book in the Twilight series. From the opening chapters you will feel like you are revisiting old friends and also get launched straight back in to the dramas...
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Twilight (Twilight Saga Book 1)
Stephenie Meyer
Deeply seductive and irresistibly compelling, this is an extraordinary love story that will stay with you long after you’ve finished it. It’s the first in the Twilight series and is a captivating sage of vampire romance.
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New Moon (Twilight Saga Book 2)
Stephenie Meyer
The road for Bella and Edward is never going to be a smooth one and after an incident that puts Bella’s life in danger Edward decides he must leave her “as if he had never existed”. In the following months Bella is like...
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Eclipse (Twilight Saga Book 3)
Stephenie Meyer
This is one of the newly popular vampire romances that are flooding over from America. It is the third in a series and one of the best. It is aimed mainly at a teenage reader but if you want a...
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