Lovereading.co.uk Top 10

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 Room Room Emma Donoghue Shortlisted for the Galaxy International Author of the Year 2010. 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 ... Download free opening extract
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 1222 1222 Anne Holt December 2010 Book of the Month. This is crime fiction at its tip top best from one of Scandinavia’s bestselling female crime writers.  It’s modern and a pitch-perfect reinvention of the classic locked room mystery.  Retired police inspector Hanne Wilhelmsen has ... Download free opening extract
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 Deeper Than the Dead Deeper Than the Dead Tami Hoag December 2010 Book of the Month. Three young boys and a girl playing in the woods come across the body of a woman.  Naturally they are traumatised.  Over the next few hundred pages more women are murdered and the children’s families ... Download free opening extract
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 Buried in Books: A Reader's Anthology Buried in Books: A Reader's Anthology Julie Rugg This anthology is built around books; buying, and borrowing, recommending them and, of course, reading them. The joy of anthologies like these is how many buried treasures they unearth, nuggets from long forgotten authors that have you furiously scribbling down ... Download free opening extract
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 Angels in the Snow Angels in the Snow Sarah Morgan December 2010 Book of the Month. A wonderfully feel-good novel with a Christmas storyline and one that’s full of romance and sparkle particularly when snowflakes are falling, Christmas carols are ringing out and the hills of the Lake District are shimmering ... Download free opening extract
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 And Furthermore And Furthermore Dame Judi Dench December 2010 Book of the Month. Judi Dench fans will read this without recommendation but for others I’d say it’s well worth reading, firstly there’s Judi Dench’s own personality which shines through in her dry humour and individual voice and there’s ... Download free opening extract
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 Sin Tropez Sin Tropez Aita Ighodaro December 2010 Debut of the Month. For all fans of the likes of Louise Bagshawe and Jackie Collins three girls chase their dreams through the glittering playgrounds of the super-rich.  Soon all three are sucked in to an exhilarating world of ... Download free opening extract
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 Trade Winds Trade Winds Christina Courtenay December 2010 Book of the Month. It's a real pleasure to read a well written, historically accurate book, that is still a romance novel (at it's heart!) it makes for such an intellectually and emotionally rewarding read. In Trade Winds we ... Download free opening extract
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 Twelve Days of Christmas Twelve Days of Christmas Trisha Ashley November 2010 Book of the Month. Holly, a widow is looking for a quiet Christmas away from festivities and so is Jude whose brother has run off with his fiancee.  They both end up in the same village, which soon after ... Download free opening extract
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 Never Somewhere Else Never Somewhere Else Alex Gray This was Alex Gray’s first crime thriller featuring DCI Lorimer.  However, her thrillers are very much stand-alone novels although if you want to read them all in published order then start here.  Scratch the surface of the polished Glasgow art ... Download free opening extract