Lovereading Top 10

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The Song Collector The Song Collector Natasha Solomons July 2015 Book of the Month. ‘The Song Collector’ subtly tiptoes under your skin, the first few sentences call to you, draw you in, envelop you… and then it doesn't let you go until the very last page. Fox recollects meeting ... Download free opening extract
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The Girl on the Train The Girl on the Train Paula Hawkins Shortlisted for the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award 2015. A Maxim Jakubowski selected title. In the footsteps of Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl and S.J. Watson's Before I Go to Sleep, the unreliable narrator domestic drama of untruths is the new 'hot' genre. ... Download free opening extract
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Too Close to Home Too Close to Home Susan Lewis A page turner of a family drama that twists and wrenches at your heart strings. The author sets in motion a series of harrowing events and allows the reader glimpses and flashes of knowledge and understanding long before the mum ... Download free opening extract
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Those We Left Behind Jack Lennon Those We Left Behind Jack Lennon Stuart Neville A Maxim Jakubowski selected title. Neville introduced Belfast cop DCI Serena Flanagan in his last novel THE FINAL SILENCE in which she appeared as a firm but empathetic antagonist to his previous lead character, troubled policeman Jack Lennon. Now back at ... Download free opening extract
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Loving Amy A Mother's Story Loving Amy A Mother's Story Janis Winehouse A new and intimate appraisal of Amy Winehouse from her mother, Janis. Watching her precocious and often difficult daughter grow-up, Janis saw her develop into a musician with a world-wide following, beset with addiction problems Janis then lost her daughter ... Download free opening extract
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Fifty Shades of Grey Fifty Shades of Grey E. L. James The book everyone’s been talking about, now a major motion picture. Young and innocent Anastasia Steele doesn’t quite know what to make of the smouldering industrialist Christian Grey when she interviews him for her student paper. Things get both troubling ... Download free opening extract
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Gorsky Gorsky Vesna Goldsworthy Maxim Jakubowski July 2015 Highly Recommended. A rich oligarch's path crosses the path of a disillusioned bookseller through whose voice his story, and that of the beautiful woman married to another whom he loves, is told all the way to its ... Download free opening extract
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To Kill A Mockingbird To Kill A Mockingbird Harper Lee You may have read this but it certainly deserves another read.  It’s the sort of book that becomes more profound with each reading.  It is quite simply brilliant, a tale of prejudices and injustice in small town America which should ... Download free opening extract
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Black by Design: A 2-tone Memoir Black by Design: A 2-tone Memoir Pauline Black Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 15 March 2012. Weaving her rise to fame and recollections of the 2-tone phenomenon with her moving search for her birth parents, Black By Design is a funny and enlightening memoir ... 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 Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 22 March 2012. 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 ... Download free opening extract