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Top 10 Opening Extracts

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  1. Twilight (Twilight Saga Book 1) by Stephenie Meyer
  2. The Outcast by Sadie Jones
  3. Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Stars by Gervase Phinn
  4. Past-it Notes by Maureen Lipman
  5. The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher by Kate Summerscale
  6. A Scandalous Man by Gavin Esler
  7. Frank Skinner on the Road by Frank Skinner
  8. The Private Patient by P D James
  9. Girls are Best by Sandi Toksvig
  10. Testimony by Anita Shreve


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Biography / Autobiography This month's 'featured books'
Biography / Autobiography
Frank Skinner on the Road
Frank Skinner
  Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 11 December 2008.   One of the UK’s best loved and funniest comedians tells us about going back on the road touring after 10 years away from stand up. As you would expect...
Price: £14.24 - Saving £4.75 (25%)
 
 

The Bloomsbury Ballerina
Judith Mackrell
  Shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award 2008.Costa Book Awards 2008 Judges' comment: "The vividly-described, extraordinary life of the lively and eccentric ballerina who was drawn by Picasso, loathed by the Bloomsbury set and adored by her husband, John...
Price: £18.75 - Saving £6.25 (25%)
 
 

Chagall
Jackie Wullschlager
  Shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award 2008.Costa Book Awards 2008 Judges' comment: "Not just the artist's life and his work but a chronicle of the shattering events of the 20th century. Great scholarship, enlightening observations about the paintings...
Price: £22.50 - Saving £7.50 (25%)
 
 

That's Another Story : The Autobiography
Julie Walters
One of the nations best loved actresses and comediennes tells her story in her own words. After a convent education Julie went in to nursing to please her mother but luckily for us she knew her heart lay...
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Historical Fiction This month's 'featured books'
Historical Fiction
The Devil in Amber
Mark Gatiss
Lucifer Box was the young and debonair hero of The Vesuvius Club. Now we have moved towards the eve of the First World War and Box is an old man. I must admit to feeling a little cheated by...
Price: £5.99 - Saving £2.00 (25%)
 
 

The Other Queen
Philippa Gregory
  Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 20 November 2008.   A former Author of the Month on Lovereading Philippa Gregory is back with another fantastic historical novel, this time the focus in the "other queen" Mary Queen of Scots....
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A Season of Leaves
Catherine Law
  October 2008 Debut of the Month.   This is a lovely debut novel, truly romantic and irresistible once you have started it . Be prepared to sit and read this in one long romance filled afternoon...
Price: £9.74 - Saving £3.25 (25%)
 
 

The Rose Labyrinth
Titania Hardie
  November 2008 Book of the Month.   Usually known for her books of spells and potions as a white witch, Titania Hardie has written a charming novel. A dual-time tale of a secret world...
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Books of the Month This month's 'featured books'
Books of the Month
A Quiet Belief in Angels
R J Ellory
January 2008 Book of the Month. I am championing this author. I think he is very special. His publisher claims he writes crime novels, and there certainly always is a crime,...
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Bait
Nick Brownlee
  November 2008 Book of the Month.   We are always pleased to welcome a new writer to one of our most popular genres, Nick Brownlee. He brings us a brilliant partnership in the form...
Price: £5.24 - Saving £1.75 (25%)
 
 

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...
Price: £5.99 - Saving £2.00 (25%)
 
 

The Rose Labyrinth
Titania Hardie
  November 2008 Book of the Month.   Usually known for her books of spells and potions as a white witch, Titania Hardie has written a charming novel. A dual-time tale of a secret world...
Price: £5.24 - Saving £1.75 (25%)
 
 

Mystery / Thriller This month's 'featured books'
Mystery / Thriller
The Vesuvius Club
Mark Gatiss
You may know the author’s name as one of the writers and stars of The League of Gentlemen or from his Dr Who novels, now know him as the creator of an Edwardian 007 spoof character, a secret agent, dandy,...
Price: £5.99 - Saving £2.00 (25%)
 
 

The Brass Verdict
Michael Connelly
Lawyer, Jerry Vincent is murdered leaving his client list to his down-on-his-luck colleague, Mickey Haller. Haller thinks his time in the spot light has come as one of his newly acquired clients is worth millions and could put Hallers career...
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White Corridor
Christopher Fowler
Bryant and May, like Holmes and Watson or Poirot and Hastings, are both compelling characters in their own right, but together they form one of fiction’s most pleasing duos. All Fowler’s books are intelligent and well-written but in Bryant and...
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Silent in the Sanctuary
Deanna Raybourn
Another instalment of the Victorian set crime novels. Once again Lady Julia Grey and Nicholas Birsbane find themselves thrown together in their investigative ways when a murder occurs at Julia’s fathers estate during a family gathering. A feisty heroine, a...
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Sky Arts Book Show This month's 'featured books'
Sky Arts Book Show
Nigella Christmas
Nigella Lawson
  Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 18 December 2008.   Please note that we are currently unable to provide an extract from this title.   Nigella takes her inspirational yet no nonsense time saving approach to ‘de stress’ Christmas food. Everything...
Price: £18.75 - Saving £6.25 (25%)
 
 

Dead Line
Stella Rimington
  October 2008 Book of the Month.   Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 6 November 2008.   It’s always slightly thrilling reading a Stella Rimington as you feel you are getting to know...
Price: £11.24 - Saving £3.75 (25%)
 
 

Frank Skinner on the Road
Frank Skinner
  Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 11 December 2008.   One of the UK’s best loved and funniest comedians tells us about going back on the road touring after 10 years away from stand up. As you would expect...
Price: £14.24 - Saving £4.75 (25%)
 
 

The American Future
Simon Schama
  Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 18 December 2008.   Please note that we are currently unable to provide an extract from this title.   Simon Sharma traces the conflicts in Americas history to put 2008, an historic election year, into...
Price: £15.00 - Saving £5.00 (25%)
 
 

Best of 2008 This month's 'featured books'
Best of 2008
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...
Price: £5.99 - Saving £2.00 (25%)
 
 

My Vintage Summer
Jane Elmor
  June 2008 Debut of the Month.   Alternating in time between teenage ambition and married boredom, our narrator tells each tale in real-time, building tension and compulsion as she goes. You badly need to know what...
Price: £5.24 - Saving £1.75 (25%)
 
 

The Good Mayor
Andrew Nicoll
This is a delicious book! I loved every minute of its magical story-telling and found it difficult to put down. Andrew Nicoll succeeds in creating a vivid and atmospheric portrayal of the town of Dot, in an unspecified part of...
Price: £7.50 - Saving £2.50 (25%)
 
 

The Sisterhood
Emily Barr
I absolutely loved this. A story of two women whose lives become connected after the younger one, Helen, decides that Liz is her half sister, abandoned by Helens mother some thirty years before and sets out to reunite the family....
Price: £5.24 - Saving £1.75 (25%)
 
 

 

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