Lovereading Top 10
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Lost & Found Lost & Found Brooke Davis September 2015 MEGA Book of the Month. A book to completely lose yourself in, this is a wonderful quirky little gem. Set in Australia, Millie, Agatha and Karl begin a journey of discovery and along the way contemplate death, love, forgiveness ... 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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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
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The Forty Rules of Love The Forty Rules of Love Elif Shafak Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts at the Hay Festival on 30 May 2011. Ella Rubinstein has a husband, three teenage children, and a pleasant home. Yet there is an emptiness at the heart of Ella's life - an ... Download free opening extract
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Wonders of the Universe Wonders of the Universe Brian Cox, Andrew Cohen Shortlisted for the Galaxy Popular Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award 2011. Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts at the Hay Festival on 29 May 2011. Professor Brian Cox is back with another insightful and mind-blowing exploration of space. This ... Download free opening extract
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Spill Simmer Falter Wither Spill Simmer Falter Wither Sara Baume October 2015 Debut of the Month. A misfit man finds a misfit dog. Ray, aged fifty-seven, 'too old for starting over, too young for giving up', and One Eye, a vicious little bugger, smaller than expected, a good ratter. Both ... Download free opening extract
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Muse Muse Jonathan Galassi A Maxim Jakubowski selected title. A witty tale of the book world, writers, muses and the vagaries of the intellectual mind, this short debut novel by a veteran US publisher and accomplished poet might appear lightweight at first, but its layers ... Download free opening extract
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Eagles at War Eagles of Rome Eagles at War Eagles of Rome Ben Kane Having given us Hannibal and Spartacus, this excellent historical adventure author now features an experienced Roman centurion, Lucius Tullus, and places him against the German tribesmen of the Rhine (AD9) in the battle of Teutoburg Forest, one of the greatest ... 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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You Can't Say That : Memoirs You Can't Say That : Memoirs Ken Livingstone Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 24 November 2011. Written in Livingstone's unmistakable voice, by turns angrily sincere about social justice, wickedly droll and gossipy, and surprisingly wistful about people he has known and loved, this is a ... Download free opening extract