Lovereading Top 10

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Lyrebird Lyrebird Cecelia Ahern One of our Books of the Year 2016. Just so, so gorgeous! Laura lives on her own in the woodland wilds of South West Ireland, a film crew discover she has a special gift, will she be exploited or set free? ... Download free opening extract
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When I Was Invisible When I Was Invisible Dorothy Koomson One of our Books of the Year 2016. May 2016 MEGA Book of the Month. An absolute page-turner of a novel, at times uncomfortable, yet powerful and oh so compelling. Roni and Nika meet when they are 8 years old, as the ... Download free opening extract
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Behind Her Eyes Behind Her Eyes Sarah Pinborough Oh my word, this book is devious, twisted, and an absolute knockout! The story, revolving around love, passion, suspicion, and deceit kept me teetering on a razor sharp wire of uncertainty. Sarah Pinborough’s writing is sublime, it’s shrewd, artful, cunning, ... Download free opening extract
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The Beautiful Dead The Beautiful Dead Belinda Bauer One of our Books of the Year 2016. December 2016 Book of the Month. Oh my, this is a clever, chilling, and penetrating read. 29 year old TV crime reporter Eve Singer looks for murder and mayhem, but she needs to watch ... Download free opening extract
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The Spy The Spy Paulo Coelho One of our Books of the Year 2016. December 2016 MEGA Book of the Month. A short, emotional and entirely captivating novel based on the real events that surrounded, enclosed and smothered the notorious Mata Hari. Mata Hari is a name that ... Download free opening extract
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I'm Travelling Alone I'm Travelling Alone Samuel Bjork A Maxim Jakubowski selected title. Already a bestseller in over 30 countries, this stunning Norwegian debut finally appears in English. Such was its impact elsewhere that it will now be the subject of a forthcoming ITV series. When a young girl ... 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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The Crow Girl The Crow Girl Erik Axl Sund 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 trilogy by a collaborative ... Download free opening extract
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The Gustav Sonata The Gustav Sonata Rose Tremain Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2016. Fierce, astringent, profoundly tender, Rose Tremain's beautifully orchestrated novel asks the question, what does it do to a person, or to a country, to pursue an eternal quest for neutrality, and self-mastery, while all ... Download free opening extract
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The Hanging Club The Hanging Club Tony Parsons One of our Books of the Year 2016. 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 ... Download free opening extract