Lovereading.co.uk Top 10

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 Ferney Ferney James Long September 2012 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 until ... Download free opening extract
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 The Lighthouse The Lighthouse Alison Moore Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2012. This is Lovereading's favourite to win the 2012 Man Booker Prize. Just click on the 'Download Extract' button above to try it for yourself. If it's showing as 'Out of Stock' this is ... Download free opening extract
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 Swimming Home Swimming Home Deborah Levy Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2012. Swimming Home is a subversive page-turner, a merciless gaze at the insidious harm that depression can have on apparently stable, well-turned-out people. Set in a summer villa, the story is tautly structured, taking place ... Download free opening extract
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 The Girl You Left Behind The Girl You Left Behind Jojo Moyes The Girl You Left Behind is the title of a painting which is at the centre of this dual-time novel of World War I and the present.  Painted by a young French soldier for his wife, it is her most ... Download free opening extract
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 Standing in Another Man's Grave Standing in Another Man's Grave Ian Rankin The brand-new crime novel from number-one bestselling author Ian Rankin. Read an extract of the book exclusively on Lovereading. Standing in Another Man's Grave will be available in hardback, eBook and audiobook on 8th November 2012.  Since Rebus’ first appearance in 1987, the ... Download free opening extract
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 The House of Silk The New Sherlock Holmes Novel The House of Silk The New Sherlock Holmes Novel Anthony Horowitz September 2012 Book of the Month. Shortlisted for the Specsavers Bestseller Dagger 2012. The first official new Sherlock Holmes mystery, written by global bestseller Anthony Horowitz. With devilish plotting and excellent characterisation, Anthony Horowitz delivers a first-rate Sherlock Holmes mystery for a ... Download free opening extract
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 Narcopolis Narcopolis Jeet Thayil Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2012. Stretching across three decades, with an interlude in Mao's China, it portrays a city in collision with itself. With a cast of pimps, pushers, poets, gangsters and eunuchs, it is a journey into a ... Download free opening extract
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 The Garden of Evening Mists The Garden of Evening Mists Tan Twan Eng Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2012. It's Malaya, 1949. After studying law at Cambrige and time spent helping to prosecute Japanese war criminals, Yun Ling Teoh seeks solace among the jungle fringed plantations of Northern Malaya where she grew up ... Download free opening extract
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 White Truffles in Winter White Truffles in Winter N. M. Kelby September 2012 Book of the Month. Bursting with sensuality and wit this is the re-imagined life of the the French chef, credited with pioneering the modern dining experience, Auguste Escoffier and his wife, poet and writer, Delphine Daffis. Escoffier has created ... Download free opening extract
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 The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year Sue Townsend The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year is a funny and touching novel about what happens when someone refuses to be the person everyone expects them to be. Sue Townsend, Britain's funniest writer for over three decades, has ... Download free opening extract