Lovereading Top 10

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 The Beginning Woods The Beginning Woods Malcolm McNeill September 2016 NewGen Debut of the Month. In a Nutshell: Unfathomable mystery | Timeless fairy tale quest An elegantly atmospheric page-turner that will have readers rooting for main character, Max, and intoxicated by its exquisite style. When people start vanishing from all corners ... Download free opening extract
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 The Girl on the Train The Girl on the Train Paula Hawkins 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. The author was best known under another name for chick lit entertainments. ... Download free opening extract
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 The Girls The Girls Lisa Jewell May 2016 Book of the Month. A captivating and deeply dark family drama and mystery, set in the midst of a London communal garden square. ‘The Girls’ begins as a party is ending, a thirteen year old girl is found unconscious ... Download free opening extract
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 Where My Heart Used to Beat Where My Heart Used to Beat Sebastian Faulks The recurring themes of Sebastian Faulks's fiction are here brought together with a new stylistic brilliance as the novel casts a long, baleful light over the century we have left behind but may never fully understand. Daring, ambitious and in ... Download free opening extract
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 Shopgirls True Stories of Friendship, Triumph and Hardship from Behind the Counter Shopgirls True Stories of Friendship, Triumph and Hardship from Behind the Counter Dr. Pamela Cox, Annabel Hobley From Victorian times down to the present day, a history of the women who have worked in the growing retail trade. Individual stories are laced into the narrative giving us a picture of the conditions the women faced from having ... Download free opening extract
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 The Crow Girl The Crow Girl Erik Axl Sund A Maxim Jakubowski selected title. If you thought The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo was the epitome of Nordic noir's savage darkness, think again. Graphic, violent and weaving a thread of evil with the dexterity of a malevolent spider, this Swedish ... Download free opening extract
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 Eileen Eileen Ottessa Moshfegh Shortlisted for the John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger Award 2016. Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016. A young woman relentlessly drives through the darkness of the American roads. Is she fleeing from a misdemeanour? Is she on a mission? Slowly, ... Download free opening extract
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 The Hanging Club The Hanging Club Tony Parsons June 2016 Book of the Month. The third in the London based detective series featuring a man I really like, one Max Wolf, second in command in the Saville Row Crime Squad. His very human female boss here has some sad ... Download free opening extract
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 A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding Jackie Copleton May 2016 Debut of the Month. Longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2016. A bittersweet, page-turning love story which jumps back and forth in time. It tells of a Japanese couple, Ameterasu and Kenzo, now living in America and the ... Download free opening extract
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 Truth or Die Truth or Die James Patterson New York attorney Trevor Mann's world shatters when he receives a phone call telling him his girlfriend has been shot dead in a mugging. But the circumstances point to something more calculated than a random attack. Claire was a New ... Download free opening extract