Lovereading.co.uk Top 10
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The Man Who Forgot His Wife John O'farrell October 2012 Book of the Month. One of our Great Reads You May Have Missed in 2012. John O’Farrell’s novels are consistently funny, poking a stick at middle class angst and embarrassing social situations. These are delivered in spades in this poignant ... Download free opening extract |
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The Lighthouse Alison Moore Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2012. This was Lovereading's favourite to win the 2012 Man Booker Prize. Just click on the 'Download Extract' button above to try it for yourself. Sir Peter Stothard, Chair of Man Booker Prize 2012 judging ... Download free opening extract |
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Bring Up the Bodies Hilary Mantel Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2012. May 2012 MEGA Book of the Month. With her dazzling, utterly absorbing style of writing Bring Up the Bodies focuses on the downfall and destruction of the charismatic Anne Boleyn. This is the sequel to ... Download free opening extract |
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The Twelve Justin Cronin October 2012 MEGA Book of the Month. When the dystopian vampire epic The Passage came out in 2010 it was, deservedly, incredibly well reviewed and The Twelve is the eagerly awaited sequel. A military experiment to create humans with superior fighting ... Download free opening extract |
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One Hundred Names Cecelia Ahern A seemingly random list of 100 names is all journalist Kitty Logan has to go on to complete an article started by her, now dead, mentor and dear friend. Her own life is in a state of turmoil and perhaps ... Download free opening extract |
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The Lives She Left Behind James Long October 2012 Book of the Month. In 1997 I read Ferney, a love story centred on reincarnation. It was one of my favourite books of that year and remains so to today. Now we have its sequel. Set sixteen years later ... Download free opening extract |
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A Week in Winter Maeve Binchy The Queen of storytelling Maeve Binchy sadly passed away in July 2012 and A Week in Winter is her last book. Full of her trademark warmth, humour and wonderful characters, you race through the pages to find out more about ... Download free opening extract |
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The Mystery of Mercy Close Marian Keyes September 2012 eBook of the Month. Waspish, well-observed and tragically comic in places this is the fifth instalment in the Walsh Family series. Private Investigator Helen Walsh is really on her uppers, with work drying up and her flat being repossessed ... Download free opening extract |
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Elijah's Mermaid Essie Fox A panoply of characters bring Victorian London’s polarised society vividly to life. The lives of two orphans brought up by their grandfather and a baby found in the Thames become dangerously bound together. This is the gloriously gothic follow up ... Download free opening extract |
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Idiomantics: The Weird and Wonderful World of Popular Phrases Philip Gooden, Peter Lewis A look at the use of Idiom from different cultures, how people play with words, mask meaning and joke with language. One country’s idioms can well leave another baffled but what can they tell us of culture and origin? Like for ... Download free opening extract |
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