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Top 10 Opening Extracts

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  1. Dear Me: A Letter to My Sixteen-Year-Old Self by
  2. Kisses on a Postcard: A Tale of Wartime Childhood by Terence Frisby
  3. Wives V. Girlfriends by Katie Agnew
  4. Twilight - Twilight Saga Book 1 by Stephenie Meyer
  5. Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
  6. Thanks for Nothing by Jack Dee
  7. A Mile of River by Judith Allnatt
  8. Swallowing Darkness by Laurell K Hamilton
  9. The Clouds Beneath the Sun by Mackenzie Ford
  10. Jolly Wicked Actually: The Hundred Words That Make Us English by Tony Thorne


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Uniquely on Lovereading, you can read the Opening Extract of every Featured Book. This could be the first chapter; less if the chapters are long, more if they're short. We aim to give you enough of a book to really get a taste for the author.

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Guest Editor - Katie Agnew This month's 'featured books'
Guest Editor - Katie Agnew
Wives V. Girlfriends
Katie Agnew
This will grip from the first, brilliant opening page. It’s not quite what you might be expecting and makes for a compelling page turner as you race through to find out what has happened and who it has happened to....
Price: £5.24 - Saving £1.75 (25%)
 
 

The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
A classic that captures the mood of the 1920's, the time after the great War when life was for living. Gatsby in pursuing the 'American Dream' finds, with devastating consequences, that money may not be the route to happiness. November 2009...
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Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens
The twists (excuse the pun) and turns of Oliver's life make this a totally engrossing read. The book includes some of the most memorable characters from literature, grotesque and fascinating and thoroughly enjoyable. November 2009 Guest Editor Katie Agnew on...
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Before We Were Thirty
Katie Agnew
A gorgeous novel of yuppies seeking rural bliss – with lots of unexpected plots and nice twists. Well worth a read.
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson 60th Anniversary This month's 'featured books'
Weidenfeld & Nicolson 60th Anniversary
The Color Purple - Special Limited Edition
Alice Walker
A book about friendship and sisterhood. Celie has suffered terrible abuse at the hands of her father, and then husband, but slowly she finds a way to escape the cycle that has been her life. Perfect reading for a book...
Price: £9.74 - Saving £3.25 (25%)
 
 

The Shadow of the Wind - Special Limited Edition
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Barcelona, a city of secret police and secret love. In it a bookseller’s son finds a forgotten novel and stumbles upon a mystery as all copies of the author’s books are sought and destroyed by a sinister character who calls himself after the...
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Special Limited Edition
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Solzhenitsyn experienced Stalin’s camps first hand having been sent for making derogatory remarks about Stalin in a letter. This novel expresses the true horror and injustice of the labour camps by simply describing one day. A brilliant work that should...
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The Reader - Special Limited Edition
Bernhard Schlink
One of my favourite books of 1998, the sort that, on completion, leaves you stunned and really does stay with you for – well, in my case – years as it was 10 years ago that I read it but now, with...
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Stocking Fillers This month's 'featured books'
Stocking Fillers
Last Christmas: The Private Prequel
Kate Brian
The author of this terrific teenage series set in a US private school, has an uncanny ability to get the characters under your skin, whether you like them or not. This is the 8th in the series but is in...
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Am I Alone in Thinking...? Unpublished Letters to the Editor
Iain Hollingshead
A perfect book for dipping in to and guaranteed to bring a smile to the face. This collection of letters to the Telegraph, that never made it in to the paper's letters page are funny, observant and some are downright...
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The Clue Bible: The Fully Authorised History of I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, from Footlights to Mornington Crescent
Jem Roberts
A celebration of “I’m Sorry I’ll Read That Again” and “I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue”, radio programmes that have seen the crème de la crème of British comedy writers contribute to and take part in. A definitive guide to...
Price: £14.24 - Saving £4.75 (25%)
 
 

The Twilight Journals
Stephenie Meyer
November 2009 Book of the Month. Deeply romantic and suspenseful, The Twilight Saga has captured the imaginations of readers around the world. Now in these Twilight Journals Stephenie Meyer invites fans to record...
Price: £12.47 - Saving £4.16 (25%)
 
 

Christmas Gift Books This month's 'featured books'
Christmas Gift Books
Or Is That Just Me?
Richard Hammond
More anecdotes and tales from the Top Gear presenter. Hammond writes in an easy humorous style much like his television persona so all Top Gear fans will want this in their Christmas pile.
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Kisses on a Postcard: A Tale of Wartime Childhood
Terence Frisby
This is an absolute joy to read. Terry and his brother Jack were evacuated during World War Two and sent off to an idyllic spot in Cornwall and taken in by a lovely couple.These are Terry's remembrances of those days....
Price: £11.24 - Saving £3.75 (25%)
 
 

New Moon (Film Tie-in Edition)
Stephenie Meyer
Stephenie Meyer fans, all of whom will have read this already will still be eagerly awaiting the film tie-in edition and here it is. The road for Bella and Edward is never going to be a smooth one and after an incident that...
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A Seaman's Book of Sea Stories
Desmond Fforde
A collection of seafaring stories which will be a must for any C S Forester or Patrick O’Brian fans. All profits form the book go to charity too so a worthwhile gift in more ways than one.
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Books of the Month This month's 'featured books'
Books of the Month
The Twilight Journals
Stephenie Meyer
November 2009 Book of the Month. Deeply romantic and suspenseful, The Twilight Saga has captured the imaginations of readers around the world. Now in these Twilight Journals Stephenie Meyer invites fans to record...
Price: £12.47 - Saving £4.16 (25%)
 
 

Target
Simon Kernick
November 2009 Book of the Month. One of the best London-based, gritty crime novelists around who shot to fame with Relentless which was a Richard and Judy pick. Well, there are lots...
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For Poulton and England: The Life and Times of an Edwardian Rugby Hero
James Corsan
November 2009 Book of the Month. Funny how the world has changed in less than 100 years. Today, it is likely that we would know every aspect Ronnie Poulton-Palmer's life -...
Price: £11.25 - Saving £3.75 (25%)
 
 

Breakneck
Erica Spindler
November 2009 Book of the Month. A very human crime novel which concentrates on the detective and her family as much as on the crime she’s solving. It involves computer hacking and theft...
Price: £7.49 - Saving £2.50 (25%)
 
 

Books of the Year 2009 This month's 'featured books'
Books of the Year 2009
Wildthorn
Jane Eagland
Set in Victorian England, this is a thought-provoking and shocking debut story for teenagers and adults of how a young woman with an ambition to become a doctor (at a time when it was frowned upon for women to have such thoughts) is...
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The Fire Gospel
Michel Faber
A contemporary reworking of Prometheus’ story is the latest addition to this fascinating series of the myths retold by some of our most renowned authors. It’s a satire on the popularity of the historical conspiracy thriller which beautifully mocks the...
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The Traitor Game
B. R. Collins
Winner of for the 2009 Branford Boase Best Debut Novel Award An extraordinary fantasy novel from a supremely talented debut novelist. Set partly in a boys’ school and also in another world that is both fierce and dangerous, it has themes of cowardice,...
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Palace Circle
Rebecca Dean
A family saga of the aristocratic and political circles of London and Cairo from 1911-1941. Infidelities, spying, high society, intrigue and passions sweep you through a multi-voiced narrative of a dramatic and fascinating period spotted with real historical characters. Lovely...
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