Lovereading.co.uk Top Ten

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 Life's Too Short to Frost a Cupcake Life's Too Short to Frost a Cupcake Rosie Wilde A great, laugh out loud, romantic comedy. Alice is a PA at a music company who is offered the opportunity of a lifetime to go and work in America from the New York office. What this actually means is she ... Download free opening extract
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 Ex-Girlfriends United Ex-Girlfriends United Matt Dunn A highly amusing page-turning tale of a serial womaniser mystified as to how he is suddenly girlfriendless. His best friend discovers that some 47 of his exes are slating him on a mysterious website! Time to seek them ... Download free opening extract
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 Dead Line Dead Line Stella Rimington  October 2008 Book of the Month. Appearing on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 6 November 2008.It’s always slightly thrilling reading a Stella Rimington as you feel you are getting to know the real workings and machinations of the Secret ... Download free opening extract
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 The Private Patient The Private Patient P D James Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 23 October 2008....Download free opening extract
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 Half of a Yellow Sun Half of a Yellow Sun Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 23 October 2008.Shortlisted for Author of the Year at the Galaxy British Book Awards 2008.Winner of the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2007. Reviewed on Richard & Judy on Wednesday 14 ...  Download free opening extract
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 Testimony 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
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 Slapstick Slapstick Roger Mcgough Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 30 October 2008. ... Download free opening extract
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 Just Me Just Me Sheila Hancock Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 6 November 2008. ... Download free opening extract
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 Love All Love All Elizabeth Jane Howard Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 30 October 2008. This is Elizabeth Jane Howard’s first novel for 9 years and it is like welcoming an old friend. This is the story of a group of people brought ...Download free opening extract
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 Twilight (Twilight Saga Book 1) 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

Lovereading4kids.co.uk TOP 10

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 Power Of Five: Necropolis Power Of Five: Necropolis Anthony Horowitz Yet again Anthony Horowitz has come up trumps with an edge-of-the-seat thriller with some brilliantly spun twists that will keep you guessing right up to the very end. The female protagonist is brilliantly portrayed - the first time, we think ... Download free opening extract
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 Before I Die 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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 The 39 Clues 1: The Maze Of Bones The 39 Clues 1: The Maze Of Bones Rick Riordan Want to get your kids reading, well here’s a spellbinding adventure that we think kids of 8 upwards will really pick up on for it’s something more than a book as it integrates books, games, a website, cards and prizes ... Download free opening extract
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 Storlax: The Power of the Deep Storlax: The Power of the Deep Robert Jackson, Bubbi Morthens This is an epic children’s story, told with great humour, optimism and warmth.  It will grip the reader not just because of the loveable fishy characters and exciting adventures but almost more so because it subtly shows us the impact ... Download free opening extract
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 Kaspar Kaspar Michael Morpurgo A wonderfully emotional but heart-warming tale from the pen of one of the foremost writers for children.  Brilliantly interwoven in historical fact at the time of the sinking of the Titanic is the story of Kaspar the Savoy cat, who ... Download free opening extract
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 A Perfect Ten A Perfect Ten Chris Higgins Chris Higgins’ writing rivals the likes of Cathy Cassidy and Jacqueline Wilson.  She’s an author truly in tune with the teen psyche.  This is her fourth novel and she gets better and better with each new storyline.  The characterisation is ... Download free opening extract
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 Stick Man Stick Man Julia Donaldson Creators of The Gruffalo, best selling author/ illustrator Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler are back with another bestseller on their hands. “Stick Man lives in the family tree/ with Stick Lady love/ And his children three”. But one day Stick ... Download free opening extract
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 The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe C S Lewis One of our 'Must Reads'. C.S Lewis’s classic fantasy book The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe tells the story of the four Pevensie children, Lucy, Peter, Edmund, and Susan, and their adventures in the mystical world of Narnia. Sent ... Download free opening extract
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 Aliens Love Underpants! (Book and CD edition) Aliens Love Underpants! (Book and CD edition) Claire Freedman     Joint winner of the Richard and Judy "Early" 5+ Category. Terrific illustrations capture the flood of jokes about pants that underlie this rhyming story now brilliantly brought to even greater life by the addition of a CD to accompany the ... Download free opening extract
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 The Iron Man The Iron Man Ted Hughes One of the greatest modern fairy stories, this tells of the strange giant Iron Man who appears from no where and begins a reign of terror throughout the countryside as he smashes up the farmers’ tractors and diggers.