Lovereading.co.uk Top 10

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 Tell the Wolves I'm Home Tell the Wolves I'm Home Carol Rifka Brunt June 2012 Book of the Month. A deeply touching tale of an unlikely friendship in the face of tragedy. This is a simply stunning debut novel that had publishers fighting over it and deserves to be read.  Originally from New York, Carol ... Download free opening extract
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 The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making Catherynne M. Valente June 2012 Debut of the Month. A witty and original prize-winning debut 'fairy' novel that has won the hearts of readers across the US. Once an ordinary 12 year old, nothing is ever ordinary again for September after Green Wind, a ... Download free opening extract
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 Changeling Changeling Philippa Gregory June 2012 New Gen Book of the Month. Best-selling Philippa Gregory’s first book for teenagers is a thrilling story of malice and betrayal, courage and passion. Tricked out of her inheritance by her greedy and duplicitous brother, Isolde must swap ruling ... Download free opening extract
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 Where the Bodies are Buried Where the Bodies are Buried Christopher Brookmyre June 2012 MEGA Book of the Month. Until this one, Brookmyre's manic crime capers have been dripping with humour, satire, bad taste, wacky incidents and characters and an awful lot of dead bodies.  They are unique and totally addictive.  Now he ... Download free opening extract
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 A Death in Summer A Death in Summer Benjamin Black June 2012 Book of the Month. Money, power, corruption and the apparent suicide of a media baron... The fourth in the atmospheric and beguiling Quirke mysteries.  The Quirke series1. Christine Falls2. The Silver Swan3. Elegy for April4. A Death in Summer5. Vengeance ... Download free opening extract
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 The Accident The Accident Linwood Barclay June 2012 Book of the Month. A compulsive page-turning thriller where a tragic drunk-driving accident rips open the lives of a middle class American family, exposing even more horrific secrets and lies. Since the author gained a following via a Richard ... Download free opening extract
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 Peaches for Monsieur le Cure Peaches for Monsieur le Cure Joanne Harris June 2012 Book of the Month. A fascinating novel. In one way comforting, as you find yourself back in the village of Lansquenet-sous-Tannes for a third time (Chocolat and The Lollipop Shoes). In another challenging and a little unsettling, as Harris ... Download free opening extract
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 A Rural Affair A Rural Affair Catherine Alliott May 2012 Book of the Month. Catherine Alliott is at her sparkling and brilliant best in this her latest feel-good read.  Full of her trademark wit and characters you feel instantly drawn to. Perfect to curl up with in that 'me' ... Download free opening extract
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 Crossbones Yard Crossbones Yard Kate Rhodes June 2012 eBook of the Month. Atmospheric, perfectly paced, compelling plot with a great central character in the agoraphobic psychologist Alice Quentin. A highly recommended and very accomplished London-based crime debut – we look forward to the next in the series.  Click ... Download free opening extract
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 A Perfectly Good Man A Perfectly Good Man Patrick Gale The perfectly good man of the title is a Cornish vicar who is asked, by a wheelchair-bound young man, to witness his suicide.  We then follow the vicar's life, non-chronologically, from 8 years old (the last chapter) to shortly after ... Download free opening extract