Lovereading.co.uk Top 10
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What My Best Friend Did Lucy Dawson March 2009 Book of the Month. As with her first novel, His Other Lover, this is chic-lit with a dark twist. It’s about what happens when friendship turns sour. She’s very good at putting a thumb on a bruise and pushing ... Download free opening extract |
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Skin and Bones Tom Bale With one of the best opening pages to a book you’ll ever read this electrifying debut thriller will leave you gasping for breath. Reminiscent to the writing of Harlan Coben but Tom Bale is British ...Download free opening extract |
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The Secret Scripture Sebastian Barry Winner of the Costa Book of the Year Award 2008. Winner of the Costa Novel Award 2008. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2008. Costa Book Awards 2008 Judges' comment: "A heartbreaking ...Download free opening extract |
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Sashenka Simon Montefiore March 2009 Debut of the Month. A big, sweeping, romantic adventure of half a century of turbulent Russian history beautifully told. It pulls at the heart strings while informing, it forces you through the pages and remains with you long after. ... Download free opening extract |
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The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher Kate Summerscale Reviewed on Richard & Judy's Book Club 2009 on Wednesday 28 January.Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 4 December 2008. This reads like a first rate crime novel but is in fact an analysis of real life events. It's ... Download free opening extract |
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Child 44 Tom Rob Smith February 2009 Book of the Month. Winner of the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger 2008. Shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award 2008.Costa Book Awards 2008 Judges' comment: "This gripping, unputdownable thriller is an exciting new addition to the genre." Download free opening extract |
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I Am Not A Serial Killer Dan Wells March 2009 Debut of the Month. This is definitely not for the feint hearted, but if your stomach is strong enough then this is an original debut from a terrific new voice in teenage fiction. This is the first in a ... Download free opening extract |
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Catch a Fish from the Sea (Using the Internet) Nasreen Akhtar March 2009 Debut of the Month. Shortlisted for the World Book Day 2009 Book to Talk About. If you have ever taken the plunge in to internet dating there is so much that will make you laugh in this book and also ... Download free opening extract |
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The Blackstone Key Rose Melikan March 2009 Debut of the Month. All the style and ingredients of a classic tale with memorable characters and thrilling plot twists. It begins a trilogy of smuggling, spying and skulduggery with a plucky, rather impulsive heroine. Good fun. Comparison: Daphne du ... Download free opening extract |
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East of the Sun Julia Gregson Winner of the Romantic Novel of the Year 2009. This is an utterly captivating story of three young British women in search of freedom and love in 1920s India, but it also provides a wonderful insight into a now vanished world. ... Download free opening extract |
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Shadow Forest Matt Haig Winner of the overall Blue Peter Book of the Year 2009 and category winner of ‘the book I couldn’t put down’. A dramatic adventure story set in an enchanted magical world. Samuel Blink’s life changes forever when a giant log ... Download free opening extract |
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If You're Reading This, it's too Late Pseudonymous Bosch This is the quirky, original and deliciously dark sequel to the hilarious The Name of This Book is Secret. Bursting with inventive characters and laugh-out-loud moments, readers will be instantly hooked once more by the stylish storytelling of Pseudonymous Bosch. A ... Download free opening extract |
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My Mum! Beth Shoshan From the same author that brought us the charmingly funny My Dad! - we now have My Mum! - who is rather silly but simply lovely. Guarenteed to put a smile on your child's face. ... Download free opening extract |
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My Brilliant Book! Michael Broad Short of a good book to read, Sam decides that writing his own is the only way to really enjoy a story. Vibrantly illustrated, Sam’s flights of fancy – aliens, a world full of sweets, a trip to the wildwest ... Download free opening extract |
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Ingo Helen Dunmore This is the first of the Ingo quartet. Helen Dunmore has done what few authors succeed in doing. She’s created an absolutely believable mythical world alongside our own. One that makes you want to be there more than anything else, ... Download free opening extract |
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My (not so) Simple Life Joanna Nadin The further escapades of the engaging and immensely funny Rachel Riley - an Adrian Mole style character of today's teenage world. Written in diary style, this book has all the necessary hallmarks to be a real page-turner. Not just funny but genuinely ... Download free opening extract |
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The Magic Thief Sarah Prineas This is an absolutely captivating debut fantasy adventure. Full of magic and trickery, this is the story of a wizard and his new apprentice trying to discover why the magic in their city is fading and how they must stop it from disappearing ... Download free opening extract |
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Wildthorn Jane Eagland Set in Victorian England, this is a thought-provoking and shocking debut story for teenagers and adults of how a young woman with an ambition to become a doctor (at a time when it was frowned upon for women to have ... Download free opening extract |
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Minty And Tink Emma Chichester Clark The importance of a special toy is perfectly captured in this passionate story about how a toy can be ‘real’. When searching for a birthday present for her baby brother, Minty finds a tiny toy bear who can talk. Instantly, ... Download free opening extract |
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Revolting Rhymes Roald Dahl Age 6+ A brilliant collection of comic and often gory versions of popular fairy tales. ... Download free opening extract |
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