Lovereading.co.uk Top 10

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 The Book of Negroes The Book of Negroes Lawrence Hill A hard-to-put-down, excellent read of slavery, harrowing but full of love and hope.  The characters are very real and the writing is gripping.  Based on fact, the actual document of ‘The Book of Negroes’, which is a list of all ... Download free opening extract
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 The Neighbour The Neighbour Lisa Gardner A riveting book that I found hard to put down.  A young mother disappears in a novel that explores how physical and sexual abuse can have a devastating effect on future relationships and how we protect ourselves from past memories.  ... Download free opening extract
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 The Suicide Club The Suicide Club Rhys Thomas March 2010 Debut of the Month. My favourite first novel of the month.  A raw, compelling slice of teenage angst taken to the limits.  It tells of the ‘new boy’ influencing a bunch of misfits, loners, who need to belong and ... 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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 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Stieg Larsson August 2008 Book of the Month. Winner of the Galaxy Crime Thriller of the Year 2009. A forty year old mystery all mixed up with family feuds, fraud and corruption this is the first of a trilogy. There is plenty to keep ... Download free opening extract
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 Relics of the Dead Relics of the Dead Ariana Franklin March 2010 Book of the Month. This is the third in a seriously good medical crime series starring a feisty heroine, anatomist Adelia Aguilar.  The first (a must read), Mistress of the Art of Death, won the Crime Writers’ Association’s Historical ... Download free opening extract
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 The Solitude of Prime Numbers The Solitude of Prime Numbers Paolo Giordano A bestseller in Italy this book won the Italian equivalent of the Man Booker Prize and it is easy to see why. Beautiful prose and a haunting story about loss, love, growing up and finding yourself, make for a mesmerising ... Download free opening extract
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 The Breaking of Eggs The Breaking of Eggs Jim Powell March 2010 Editor's Choice. An incredibly moving story of a man whose whole life is turned around as he finds everything he had always believed in crumbling around him. Funny, sad and thoroughly absorbing. Dear Reader,How often do you come across a ... Download free opening extract
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 The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas John Boyne Voted 2009 Penguin Orange Readers' Group Book of the Year. Now a major film. Initially it is difficult to believe that the young son of the commandant of Auschwitz is as innocent as he is, then you begin to accept his ... Download free opening extract
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 Black Rock Black Rock Amanda Smyth March 2010 Debut of the Month. As colourful as the country of which she writes, Trinidad and Tobago; as lusty as her protagonist, Celia, a girl who cannot see how she attracts men and suffers for the sex appeal she exudes.  ... Download free opening extract

Lovereading4kids.co.uk Top 10

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 The Boy Who Fell Down Exit 43 The Boy Who Fell Down Exit 43 Harriet Goodwin Shortlisted for the 2010 Blue Peter 'Book I Couldn't Put Down' Award. Adventurous, charming and poignant by turns, The Boy Who Fell Down Exit 43 is a quirky debut novel laced with humour and a dollop of magic. ... Download free opening extract
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 Little Darlings Little Darlings Jacqueline Wilson Bestselling Jacqueline Wilson tells a fairy tale story of the unlikely intertwining of two very different families against a strong and realistic background. Destiny is growing up poor with her mum who does three jobs and struggles to pay the ... Download free opening extract
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 Raven Mysteries 3: Lunatics and Luck Raven Mysteries 3: Lunatics and Luck Marcus Sedgwick As told by a raven, this Gothic horror richly laced in humour is a delicious read – especially when the moon is full! Castle Otherhand is beset by problems. There are the usual ones of money troubles but this time ... Download free opening extract
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 The Heart and the Bottle The Heart and the Bottle Oliver Jeffers Award winning Oliver Jeffers’s latest book is wholly compelling for the importance of its message and the brilliance of how that is conveyed in words and pictures. To overcome her sadness when her grandfather dies a little girl decides to ... Download free opening extract
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 The Silver Blade The Silver Blade Sally Gardner Shortlisted for the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize 2009 The dramatic, horrific and sometimes romantic events of the FrenchRevolution, which Sally Gardner so brilliantly portrayed in The Red Necklaceare moved on a stage in this equally vivid and richly imagined sequel, yet stand-alone novel, ... Download free opening extract
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 Luke and Jon Luke and Jon Robert Williams This is a wonderfully original and arresting debut novel about friendship, grief and love.  Written with great power, warmth and humour with not a word out of place you feel utterly compelled to read on.  Luke and Jon is a ... Download free opening extract
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 I Was Jane Austen's Best Friend I Was Jane Austen's Best Friend Cora Harrison Rich in period detail and full of romance and fantasy, this is a delightful imaginary diary of Jenny Cooper which gives entertaining insights into what Jane Austen might have been like as a teenager.  Jenny is the pretty, clever but ... Download free opening extract
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 Flossie Crums: The Fairies Cupcake Ball Flossie Crums: The Fairies Cupcake Ball Nathan, Helen This is not just a wonderful story of Flossie Crums the Fairy, this is also a wonderful baking adventure too.  Simple mouth-watering recipes are woven into the story so that parents and children together can have fun baking alongside 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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 This Book is Not Good for You This Book is Not Good for You Pseudonymous Bosch Mysterious, marvellous, witty, exciting and dangerous.  Here, in this the author's 3rd book that you really shouldn't be reading but few have taken heed, you'll meet a cursed aztec artefact, an evil and deranged chef, a secret jungle lair inahibited ... Download free opening extract