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 Room Room Emma Donoghue August 2010 Book of the Month. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2010. This is probably the most extraordinary book you will read for a long time.  Although the premise has been done before and the story told from both the captor ... Download free opening extract
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 Freedom Freedom Jonathan Franzen Selected as the Oprah's Book Club pick. The long awaited new novel from Jonathan Franzen is a masterpiece, being heralded as the return of the Great American Novel and so it should be. The story revolves around the close relationships of ... Download free opening extract
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 Minding Frankie Minding Frankie Maeve Binchy A great family tale about the power of love and friendships. Noel finds himself left alone to bring up baby Frankie but Noel is a troubled soul himself and when Social Workers start threatening to take Frankie away family and ... Download free opening extract
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 The Finkler Question The Finkler Question Howard Jacobson Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2010. The Finkler Question is a scorching story of friendship and loss, exclusion and belonging, and of the wisdom and humanity of maturity. Funny, furious, unflinching, this extraordinary novel shows one of our finest writers at his brilliant best. ... Download free opening extract
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 Rupture Rupture Simon Lelic September 2010 Debut of the Month. CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger Finalist 2010. It has been some time since I picked up a first novel that I literally couldn’t put down but this tale about a shooting in a school, the ... Download free opening extract
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 Parrot and Olivier in America Parrot and Olivier in America Peter Carey Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2010. Olivier is a French aristocrat, the traumatized child of survivors of the Revolution. Parrot the son of an itinerant printer who always wanted to be an artist but has ended up a servant. Born ... Download free opening extract
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 A Weekend with Mr Darcy A Weekend with Mr Darcy Victoria Connelly September 2010 Book of the Month. You don’t have to be an Austen fan to love this.  It’s set around a Jane Austen conference that dedicated fans flock to but it’s really a tale of a woman in love with an ... Download free opening extract
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 Bloody Women Bloody Women Helen FitzGerald It’s not often you come across a thriller that is as funny as it is scary but here is such a book with the title a slight give away to the tone. When Cat tries to settle her pre-wedding nerves ... Download free opening extract
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 The Disappeared The Disappeared M.R. Hall September 2010 Book of the Month. This is the second case to feature the coroner Jenny Cooper, a divorcee, single mum of a difficult teenage son, a woman prone to anxieties and panic attacks who is on heavy medication … interesting.  ... Download free opening extract
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 The Long Song The Long Song Andrea Levy Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2010. Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 1 April 2010. Longlisted for the prestigious 2010 Orange Prize. With the recent television adaptation of Levy’s best known novel, Small Island, ... Download free opening extract