Lovereading Top 10

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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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 The Swimming Pool The Swimming Pool Louise Candlish Tense and full of intrigue, this is a novel that sinks into the depths of obsession and discovers a very dangerous game afoot. The newly opened, glamorous lido calls to Natalie and in one summer her life changes beyond all ... Download free opening extract
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 The House at the Edge of the World The House at the Edge of the World Julia Rochester Shortlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize 2016. Longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2016. A wonderfully unconventional and thought-provoking read, where a mystery waiting to be solved shelters behind a penetrating and wryly emotional family tale. The first paragraph, short ... 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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 American Wife American Wife Curtis Sittenfeld January 2015 Guest Editor Harriet Evans on American Wife... Ooh, this book is so good. I’m saving it to reread for when I really need it. It is so absorbing, so sweeping, and yet it is also so intricate and beautifully ... Download free opening extract
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 The House of Fame The House of Fame Oliver Harris A Maxim Jakubowski selected title. Nick Belsey, from Hampstead CID, is a crooked cop, or at any rate a cop who bends the rules as far as they can be bent. Although, by hook or by crook, he normally does get ... Download free opening extract
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 No Place to Hide No Place to Hide Susan Lewis Overflowing with suspense, this is a dramatic and gripping family tale. Justine attempts to start a brand new life in the USA and bury all evidence of her old one in England, however fate isn't prepared to hold her hand. ... Download free opening extract
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 The Accidental Agent The Accidental Agent Andrew Rosenheim A Maxim Jakubowski selected title. The third novel to feature FBI agent Jimmy Nessheim, of German origin who has been manipulated to infiltrate Nazi spy rings in the USA during WW2. Having now resigned and opted for a new career studying ... 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 Road to Little Dribbling More Notes from a Small Island The Road to Little Dribbling More Notes from a Small Island Bill Bryson Marking the twentieth anniversary of Notes from a Small Island, the author makes a brand-new journey round Britain to see what has changed. He gives us an acute and perceptive insight into all that is best and worst about Britain. ... Download free opening extract