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 A Weekend with Mr Darcy A Weekend with Mr Darcy Victoria Connelly September 2010 Book of the Month. You don’t have to be an Austen fan to love this.  It’s set around a Jane Austen conference that dedicated fans flock to but it’s really a tale of a woman in love with an ... Download free opening extract
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 Room Room Emma Donoghue 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 before and the story told from both the captor ... Download free opening extract
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 Rupture Rupture Simon Lelic September 2010 Debut of the Month. CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger Finalist 2010. It has been some time since I picked up a first novel that I literally couldn’t put down but this tale about a shooting in a school, the ... Download free opening extract
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 Bloody Women Bloody Women Helen FitzGerald It’s not often you come across a thriller that is as funny as it is scary but here is such a book with the title a slight give away to the tone. When Cat tries to settle her pre-wedding nerves ... Download free opening extract
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 Mozart's Ghost Mozart's Ghost Julia Cameron September 2010 Book of the Month. A delightful read delivered in a simplistic style with short sentences and much dialogue.  It is very matter-of-fact about a woman who has seen ghosts all her life and spends a lot of time talking ... Download free opening extract
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 The Disappeared The Disappeared M.R. Hall September 2010 Book of the Month. This is the second case to feature the coroner Jenny Cooper, a divorcee, single mum of a difficult teenage son, a woman prone to anxieties and panic attacks who is on heavy medication … interesting.  ... Download free opening extract
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 The Water Theatre The Water Theatre Lindsay Clarke September 2010 Book of the Month. This is deeply impressive, with rich imagery, a complex and absorbing plot and a style reminiscent of John Fowles' The Magus.  It is a tale of a privileged, liberal family with a driven head, a ... Download free opening extract
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 Mini Shopaholic Mini Shopaholic Sophie Kinsella And so we move on to the next generation. Becky, the ultimate shopaholic now has a two year old daughter who seems to be taking after her mother in more ways than one although the current financial climate is taking ... Download free opening extract
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 The Book of Tomorrow The Book of Tomorrow Cecelia Ahern Tamara, suffering from the trauma of the suicide of her father and from being a teenager, finds an old blank diary in the mobile library.  Very strangely she unknowingly begins to write in it, writing up the day to come.  ... Download free opening extract
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 The Grass is Singing The Grass is Singing Doris Lessing This is Doris Lessing’s first novel published in 1950 and is still as powerful today as it was then. As interesting and stunning a read as it was then and surprising how relevant it still is today. A "Piece of Passion" ... Download free opening extract