Lovereading.co.uk Top 10
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Twilight (Twilight Saga Book 1) Stephenie Meyer Deeply seductive and irresistibly compelling, this is an extraordinary love story that will stay with you long after you’ve finished it. It’s the first in the Twilight series and is a captivating sage of vampire romance. ... Download free opening extract |
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The Outcast Sadie Jones Winner of the Costa First Novel Award 2008. Shortlisted for the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2008. Costa Book Awards 2008 Judges' comment: "The repressive society of ordinary people is elegantly portrayed ... Download free opening extract |
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The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher Kate Summerscale Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 4 December 2008.This reads like a first rate crime novel but is in fact an analysis of real life events. It's so good it won the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction ... Download free opening extract |
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Past-it Notes Maureen Lipman Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 27 November 2008. This is a collection of some of Maureen Lipman's best writing, taken from previous books along with new stories and anecdotes. Some of the old stories are reworked here ... Download free opening extract |
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Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Stars Gervase Phinn Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 4 December 2008.A delightful anthology with stories taken from Phinn's books about his teaching in the Dales but also some of his poems from his popular poetry books for kids. We ... Download free opening extract |
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A Scandalous Man Gavin Esler Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 11 December 2008.An excellent debut with the perfect combination of politics, sex and scandal. The narrative gives a fast pace to the story and the reader gets a real sense of ... Download free opening extract |
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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 ...Download free opening extract |
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The Stepmother's Diary Fay Weldon Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 11 December 2008.A story not of a wicked stepmother but more a wicked stepdaughter. Fay Weldon gets right to the heart of this dysfunctional family, making the hairs stand up on ... Download free opening extract |
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Florence Nightingale : The Woman and Her Legend Mark Bostridge Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 27 November 2008.A very absorbing book on the life of Florence Nightingale. Probably nothing else out there as in depth or as interestingly written. Download free opening extract |
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Testimony Anita Shreve October 2008 Book of the Month. Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 30 October 2008. A sex scandal rocks the sheltered world of a private Vermont school, affecting students, parents and teachers alike. The story moves quickly as Shreve ... Download free opening extract |
KIDS SITE TOP 10
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Revolting Rhymes Roald Dahl Age 6+ A brilliant collection of comic and often gory versions of popular fairy tales. ... Download free opening extract |
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Twilight Stephenie Meyer Deeply seductive and irresistibly compelling, this is an extraordinary love story that will stay with you long after you’ve finished it. It’s the first in the Twilight series and is a captivating sage of vampire romance. The 2nd ... Download free opening extract |
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The Birthday Book Michael Morpurgo This is a sumptuous collection of stories and verse compiled by Michael Morpurgo, beautifully illustrated by Quentin Blake and published in aid of The Prince's Foundation for Children and Arts and to celebrate the Prince of Wales's 60th birthday. It's ... Download free opening extract |
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Alice In Wonderland (slipcase edition) Lewis Carroll, Rodney Matthews The story is timeless and can be read at so many different levels, but this lavish slipcased edition is quite simply stunning and will bring to the reader a very different Wonderland - even more fantastical and a little darker ... Download free opening extract |
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Coraline (film tie-in edition) Neil Gaiman This edition is due to coincide with the film version of Coraline which will be released in February 2009. When Coraline’s family move into a new home, she steps through a door into another house which seems strangely familiar. It has ... Download free opening extract |
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New Moon Stephenie Meyer The road for Bella and Edward is never going to be a smooth one and after an incident that puts Bella’s life in danger Edward decides he must leave her “as if he had never existed”. In the following months ... Download free opening extract |
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The Knife of Never Letting Go Patrick Ness Winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize 2008 and Booktrust Teenage Prize 2008. The electrifying and unflinching young adult debut novel about the impossible choices of growing up by award-winning fiction writer Patrick Ness. This title is part of Walker Books’ ... Download free opening extract |
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Gorilla Anthony Browne Greenaway winner in 1983.Wonderfully inventive story and almost tear-jerking at times but with a happy ending. The illustrations are both detailed and colourful and children will delight in them. I’m sure for some parents it really touches a nerve as ... Download free opening extract |
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The Extraordinary Adventures of Ordinary Basil Wiley Miller A wonderful debut from an incredibly talented wordsmith and illustrator. Fans of The Wizard of Oz and James and the Giant Peach will love Basil and his erstwhile adventures. Basil is an ordinary boy living a very ordinary life in a lighthouse, ... Download free opening extract |
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Before I Die Jenny Downham Winner of the Branford Boase Award 2008. This is a haunting yet truly amazing read but don't read it too young. Definitely not for someone less than 14 years old. If you knew you were going to die what would ... Download free opening extract |
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