Lovereading.co.uk Top 10

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 Blueeyedboy Blueeyedboy Joanne Harris April 2010 Book of the Month. A brilliantly plotted thriller from the author of Chocolat. This tale of a highly dysfunctional family is gripping, humorous and ever so slightly chilling. Joanne Harris lures the reader in from the opening lines and ... Download free opening extract
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 The Anniversary Man The Anniversary Man R.J. Ellory This man is incapable of writing a mediocre book.  All are, without doubt, first class.  Here a serial killer in New York is copy-catting past killings.  One man, a crime researcher for a newspaper, knows an awful lot about the ... Download free opening extract
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 The Crimson Rooms The Crimson Rooms Katharine McMahon This is her first new one since the Richard and Judy chosen book, The Rose of Sebastopol.  Although there have been several published over here since, they have all been titles written sometime ago, so this has her back on ... Download free opening extract
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 The Weight of Silence The Weight of Silence Heather Gudenkauf April 2010 Debut of the Month. A tense tale of two 7-year old girls disappearing, it is believed together ….. but each, suffering terribly, has been taken separately for different reasons.  The girls are best friends and one, Callie, has selective ... Download free opening extract
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 Instruments of Darkness Instruments of Darkness Imogen Robertson April 2010 Debut of the Month. A rich historical novel, full of mystery, secrets and hidden identities which involve family inheritance, murder and some intriguing characters.  It romps along at a good pace, gaining speed and complexity as it goes.  Atmospheric ... Download free opening extract
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 Katy Carter Wants a Hero Katy Carter Wants a Hero Ruth Saberton A wonderfully funny, fresh debut. Katy Carter is a lovable character suffering the ups and downs of relationship drama and making some interesting discoveries along the way. You will be routing for her all the way as she realises perhaps ... Download free opening extract
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 Positively Yours Positively Yours Amanda Hearty The story of three different women having their first babies.  Anyone approaching, or having been through, young motherhood can empathise here.  It’s a charming, emotional tale of the ups and down of relationships and the eventual unconditional love for a ... Download free opening extract
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 The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ Philip Pullman Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 8 April 2010. Pullman’s re-telling of the life of Christ. Controversial before it was even published Pullman’s book gives his view on the life of Jesus. He is not trying to shock ... Download free opening extract
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 Dark Touch - Shadows Dark Touch - Shadows Amy Meredith Combining the supernatural romance of Twilight with a feisty, appealing heroine more reminiscent of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, this is the first in an exciting new series for girls.  Eve is 15, she’s sassy, cute and enjoying a busy social ... Download free opening extract
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 Evil at Heart Evil at Heart Chelsea Cain April 2010 Book of the Month. The third in a series featuring a serial killer, Gretchen Lowell, who has acquired quite a cult following.  These are gruesome, sick and totally addictive – wide open for a fourth but I do feel ... Download free opening extract

Lovereading4kids.co.uk 10

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 Rich and Mad Rich and Mad William Nicholson Full of the myriad and criss-crossing emotions of adolescent love, this is a warm-hearted and finely observed view of two teenagers’ experience. Sixth-formers Maddy Fisher and Richard Ross both want to fall in love. Both want the heady experience of ... Download free opening extract
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 Where I Belong Where I Belong Gillian Cross Prize-winning author Gillian Cross tells a nail biting and fascinating story that’ll make readers think hard about how the lives of individuals connect and the wide ranging impacts they can have. Told in the voices of three teenagers who become inextricably ... Download free opening extract
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 Inside My Head Inside My Head Jim Carrington A very, very pacy and unputdownable contemporary novel that will be relevant to all teenagers. With sharp teen dialogue and a keen eye for a teenager’s world this punchy novel’s themes of friendship, bullying, the importance of family life and ... Download free opening extract
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 Everybody Was a Baby Once Everybody Was a Baby Once Allan Ahlberg A wonderful collection of the simplest and most joyous poems produced in a gorgeous picture book format. Nineteen delightful poems about everything from meeting a witch to getting sausages to dance jump off the page in Allan Ahlberg’s witty words ... Download free opening extract
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 The Boy who climbed into the moon The Boy who climbed into the moon David Almond Author of the classic Skellig, and winner of the incredibly prestigious Hans Christian Andersen Award, David Almond is a wholly original writer of magical and unusual stories that make anything and everything seem possible. Packed full of wonder and magic, ... Download free opening extract
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 Dreaming of Amelia Dreaming of Amelia Jaclyn Moriarty A spellbinding story about ghosts, secrets, madness, passion, locked doors, femme fatales, and that terrifying moment in the final year of high school when Riley and Amelia realise the future’s coming to get you. They might be glamorous, talented ... Download free opening extract
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 The Pasta Detectives The Pasta Detectives Andreas Steinhofel This is a funny and original mystery starring two unlikely boy detectives, the mildly autistic Rico and the brainy but anxiety-ridden Oscar.  The story of The Pasta Detectives explores the friendships between these two very disparate characters but who together ... Download free opening extract
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 Outside in Outside in Clare Smallman With clear, simple text for any child of 5 or 6+ and some terrific lift the flaps for children to see what's going on inside their body! Loads of information is well described and explained in this introduction to the ... Download free opening extract
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 Vampireology Vampireology Nick Holt Tapping into the current zeitgeist of all things vampire the subject is tackled with originality and flair. It's a terrific book that will be pored over by younger children in the family who are too young to read the plethora of ... Download free opening extract
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 Big Bug, Little Bug Big Bug, Little Bug Paul Stickland A fantastic book of opposites featuring bugs of all shapes and sizes which can be found wriggling, creeping and crawling their way through the book. It also features vibrant illustrations, lively rhyming text and a spectacular pop-up ending. ... Download free opening extract