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Read the opening extract of the brand new Garen Ewing novel before its publication on 04/08/2009




 
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Top 10 Opening Extracts

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  1. Playing the Game by Belle de Jour
  2. The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  3. In Bed With... by Imogen Edwards-jones, Jessica Adams, Maggie Alderson, Kathy Letter
  4. The Hungry Ghosts by Anne Berry
  5. No One You Know by Michelle Richmond
  6. Home by Marilynne Robinson
  7. White Nights by Ann Cleeves
  8. Tease by Immodesty Blaize
  9. Killing God by Kevin Brooks
  10. Once Upon a Time in England by Helen Walsh


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Author of the Month - Debbie Macomber This month's 'featured books'
Author of the Month - Debbie Macomber
16 Lighthouse Road
Debbie Macomber
More tales from small-town America. Olivia Lockhart is a court judge dealing not only with the dramas in her court house but also all the drama from her difficult daughter and opinionated mother. Gentle drama for a quiet afternoons reading.
Price: £5.24 - Saving £1.75 (25%)
 
 

204 Rosewood Lane
Debbie Macomber
A host of characters in Cedar Cove to keep you occupied in this new novel from Debbie Macomber. Dramas, romance, gossip and secrets abound in this small American town, they do manage to pack it all in. A gentle and...
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The Shop on Blossom Street
Debbie Macomber
Lydia Hoffman owns a woollen shop and decides to start a knitting class for beginners. The first class, How to knit a baby blanket” brings four women together, all with very different reasons for being in the group, and as...
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311 Pelican Court
Debbie Macomber
The third in the Cedar Cove series brings familiar characters back together. These books make you feel like you are re-visiting an old friend. For such a sleepy sounding town there are plenty of complicated relationships and dramas to keep...
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Summer Reads This month's 'featured books'
Summer Reads
American Wife
Curtis Sittenfeld
This is an absolute joy to read. It follows the life of an ordinary American girl, with a teenage tragedy hanging over her, who falls for an ambitious, rich and privileged boy whose sights are on the White House. It...
Price: £5.99 - Saving £2.00 (25%)
 
 

Bright Girls
Clare Chambers
An feisty story of the ups and downs and sometimes near disasters of two teen sisters sent away from their home in Oxford to stay with an aunt in Brighton after sinister things happen at home. Younger sister Robyn, the...
Price: £4.49 - Saving £1.50 (25%)
 
 

A Penny a Day
Lilian Harry
Lilian Harry is one of those lovely authors whose fans may argue about whether her April Groves books are better than her Burracombe ones. Well, now you have a book that links characters from both in a wedding. What more...
Price: £5.24 - Saving £1.75 (25%)
 
 

Everything Beautiful
Simmone Howell
This novel is so tuned in to the teenage psyche - sharp, full of humour and a touch subversive - that it's hard to believe it's not written by one. In fact it comes from the pen of Simmone Howell...
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Guest Editor - Louise Wener This month's 'featured books'
Guest Editor - Louise Wener
Bad Science
Ben Goldacre
A fascinating book written with real knowledge as well as common sense. Ben Goldacre writes clearly and sensibly about medical fact and steers clear of the scaremongering that takes place in the press. Medical facts and research are put forward...
Price: £6.74 - Saving £2.25 (25%)
 
 

Imogen
Jilly Cooper
A perfect drop of romance for anyone who wants an afternoon of pure escapism. Follow Imogen as she has her ugly duckling moment, transforming from mousey librarian in to a stunning St Tropez beauty. Don’t expect the raciness of Jilly...
Price: £5.24 - Saving £1.75 (25%)
 
 

Charlotte Gray
Sebastian Faulks
When asked on Desert Island Discs how and why he “writes women so extraordinarily well”, Faulks replied: “we are now allowed to admit I think - those wars having been fought and won - that there are small but significant...
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Nature Girl
Carl Hiaasen
This is slapstick satire where one chaotic situation bounces on to another. Full of wacky characters and improbable scenarios and set in the dangerous world of Florida’s ‘gator-strewn Everglades, it’s just the most ludicrous fun you’ll have for a long...
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Books of the Month This month's 'featured books'
Books of the Month
The Tenth Case
Joseph Teller
July 2009 Book of the Month. An American legal thriller with a difference for it stars a clever but disillusioned man who has the feel of an Old Bailey hack to him. He...
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The Girl Who Played with Fire
Stieg Larsson
July 2009 Book of the Month. One of the major success stories to recently come out of Sweden. It’s the second part of the Millennium Trilogy which began with The Girl With...
Price: £5.99 - Saving £2.00 (25%)
 
 

The Host
Stephenie Meyer
July 2009 Book of the Month. Having taken the teenage market by storm this clever girl turns from vampires to alien possession for her first remarkable adult novel. The alien ‘worms’ should completely take over...
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Killing God
Kevin Brooks
July 2009 Book of the Month. A thrilling, thought-provoking novel from the critically acclaimed Kevin Brooks. Dawn Bundy is fifteen. She doesn't fit in and she couldn't care less. Dawn has other things on her...
Price: £5.24 - Saving £1.75 (25%)
 
 

Debut Books This month's 'featured books'
Debut Books
Gauntlet
Richard Aaron
July 2009 Debut of the Month. Exhilarating Action, clever plotting and a bunch of real characters make this debut simply sensational. It’s a brave author makes an autistic savant the hero of a...
Price: £16.49 - Saving £5.50 (25%)
 
 

Even
Andrew Grant
July 2009 Debut of the Month. James Bond and Jason Bourne better hope they don’t meet ex Royal Navy intelligence officer David Trevellyan, the new character created by Birmingham born novelist Andrew Grant,...
Price: £9.74 - Saving £3.25 (25%)
 
 

Outlaw
Angus Donald
July 2009 Debut of the Month. An interesting take on the Robin Hood legend, seen through the eyes of a young man forced to leave home and join the outlaws of Sherwood Forest....
Price: £5.24 - Saving £1.75 (25%)
 
 

The Monsters of Templeton
Lauren Groff
July 2009 Debut of the Month. We have a monster in the lake, we have the supernatural but this book is in essence a rattling good family saga, a tale of small-town America...
Price: £5.99 - Saving £2.00 (25%)
 
 

 

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