Lovereading Top 10

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 Bring Up the Bodies Bring Up the Bodies Hilary Mantel Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2012. May 2012 MEGA Book of the Month. With her dazzling, utterly absorbing style of writing Bring Up the Bodies focuses on the downfall and destruction of the charismatic Anne Boleyn. This is the sequel to ... Download free opening extract
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 The Man Who Forgot His Wife The Man Who Forgot His Wife John O'farrell October 2012 Book of the Month. John O’Farrell’s novels are consistently funny, poking a stick at middle class angst and embarrassing social situations. These are delivered in spades in this poignant and, at times, hilarious story of a man who simply ... Download free opening extract
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 The Twelve The Twelve Justin Cronin When the dystopian vampire epic The Passage  came out in 2010 it was, deservedly, incredibly well reviewed and The Twelve is the eagerly awaited sequel. A military experiment to create humans with superior fighting capabilities goes horrifically wrong and the ... Download free opening extract
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 Standing in Another Man's Grave Standing in Another Man's Grave Ian Rankin The brand-new crime novel from number-one bestselling author Ian Rankin. Read an extract of the book exclusively on Lovereading. Standing in Another Man's Grave will be available in hardback, eBook and audiobook on 8th November 2012. Since Rebus’ first appearance in 1987, the ... Download free opening extract
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 Seventy Times Seven Seventy Times Seven John Gordon Sinclair September 2012 Debut of the Month. Tension and black humour are well mixed in this impressive, sometimes pretty brutal, debut thriller from actor turned author John Gordon Sinclair (Gregory’s Girl). Belfast 1980s. After the death of his brother in the troubles Danny ... Download free opening extract
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 A Half-forgotten Song A Half-forgotten Song Katherine Webb From the author of TV Book Club favourite The Legacy, comes an emotionally powerful story exploring the dark heart of love. Just before WW2 Mitzy Hatcher’s lonely Dorset life is transformed by the arrival of a renowned artist who she ... Download free opening extract
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 The Passage The Passage Justin Cronin One of our Great Reads you may have missed in 2011. It’s the end of the world, but not as we know it.  The rise of a zombie plague, and life in the aftermath, but a real cut above the usual ... Download free opening extract
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 Citadel Citadel Kate Mosse Citadel , again set in South West France this time during WW2, is the thrilling conclusion to the Languedoc trilogy that began with Labyrinth and continued with Sepulchre. Kate Mosse writes such believable, compelling historical adventures you can’t help but ... Download free opening extract
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 Elijah's Mermaid Elijah's Mermaid Essie Fox A panoply of characters bring Victorian London’s polarised society vividly to life. The lives of two orphans brought up by their grandfather and a baby found in the Thames become dangerously bound together. This is the gloriously gothic follow up ... Download free opening extract
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 The Silver Thread The Silver Thread Kylie Fitzpatrick October 2012 eBook of the Month. A beautiful, vividly written historical murder mystery based around the lives of a group of the 30,000 convict women shipped to Australia in the 1840s. The inspiration for this story came from a 3m sq ... Download free opening extract