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 Hearts and Minds Hearts and Minds Rosy Thornton Rosy Thornton is a clever and thoughtful writer who comes up with engaging and interesting scenarios for her novels. This one is set in an all female Cambridge college where tradition has been broken with and a man has been ... Download free opening extract
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 The Outcast The Outcast Sadie Jones Reviewed on Richard & Judy on Wednesday 25 June 2008.        Shortlisted for the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2008.An incredibly moving story about a damaged son returning home from prison determined to make a better life for himself. However, some ... Download free opening extract
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 East of the Sun East of the Sun Julia Gregson Reviewed on Richard & Judy on Wednesday 9 July 2008.            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 ... Download free opening extract
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 No Time for Goodbye No Time for Goodbye Linwood Barclay Reviewed on Richard & Judy on Wednesday 2 July 2008.     Lovereading view to appear soon. ... Download free opening extract
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 Tale Of Love And Darkness Tale Of Love And Darkness Amos Oz Winner of the Jewish Quarterly Wingate Literary Prize for Non-Fiction. Internationally acclaimed Israeli author of some eighteen books gives us the story of his childhood, the birth of a nation, the portrait of a family and one of the most ... Download free opening extract
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 Ferney Ferney James Long April 2008 Book of the Month. I fell in love with this book when it was first published in 1997. It did moderately well but not as well as it should. I think one of the problems was that up ... Download free opening extract
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 It's a Kind of Magic It's a Kind of Magic Carole Matthews Emma is getting fed up with boyfriend Leo and when he turns up at her birthday dinner, late, drunk and completely embarrassing her that is the final straw. She wishes she could wave a magic wand and turn him in ... Download free opening extract
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 The Drowned Book The Drowned Book Sean O'brien Winner of the T S Eliot Prize for Poetry 2007.The poet Peter Porter, who chaired the judging panel of WN Herbert and Sujata Bhatt, called O'Brien "a major artist" and described The Drowned Book as "fierce, funny and deeply melancholy". ... Download free opening extract
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 The Forgotten Garden The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton The second novel from the author of the highly absorbing The House at Riverton, the viewers’ favourite of the Richard and Judy titles of last summer. This is even better. Not quite as sad and covering over 100 years, ... Download free opening extract
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 The Birds and the Bees The Birds and the Bees Milly Johnson A warm, tender tale of love and betrayal from an author with a lovely touch and the ability to produce the unexpected, always with a twist of humour. I love her.Comparison: Jill Mansell, Carole Matthews, Carmen Reid. ... Download free opening extract

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