Lovereading Top 10

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 What a Way to Go What a Way to Go Julia Forster January 2016 Debut of the Month. Sharp, poignant and amusing, this is a beautifully observed novel about growing up during the 80’s as a child of divorced parents. The prologue is short, quirky and full of feeling, it sets the stage ... Download free opening extract
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 Coffin Road Coffin Road Peter May January 2016 Book of the Month. A masterful tale from beginning to end, quite literally unputdownable.  If you are a fan of his terrific Lewis trilogy, then you’ll not be disappointed; if anything this is even better.  We are still in ... Download free opening extract
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 Our Endless Numbered Days Our Endless Numbered Days Claire Fuller January 2016 Debut of the Month. One of our Books of the Year 2015. Seventeen-year old Peggy has recently returned home, initially we know not from where. Her father is dead, her mother has destroyed all evidence of him from their home. ... Download free opening extract
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 Spill Simmer Falter Wither Spill Simmer Falter Wither Sara Baume One of our Books of the Year 2015. November 2015 Debut of the Month. Shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award 2015. Slow starting, slightly monotonous first-person monologue that builds into a hypnotic tale which becomes strangely compulsive.  It is a novel of ... Download free opening extract
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 SPQR A History of Ancient Rome SPQR A History of Ancient Rome Mary Beard November 2015 Book of the Month. Mary Beard has pulled off a totally involving and immersive history of Ancient Rome. She calls it her view of why Rome matters – and it does as she makes so clear. What makes this ... Download free opening extract
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 A Broken World Letters, Diaries and Memories of the Great War A Broken World Letters, Diaries and Memories of the Great War Sebastian Faulks Many of the writings included in this anthology have never been published before, war memories culled from letters, diaries and memoirs reflecting the extremes as experienced by those who fought and were left behind. Not restricted to the trenches, A ... Download free opening extract
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 The Santa Monica Suicide Club The Santa Monica Suicide Club Jeremy C. Thomas An intricate and entertaining debut crime thriller set in Los Angeles. Mandy, a male, British, ex actor, ex cop, now private investigator has little regard for the sanctity of crime scenes and all too easily falls in love with a ... 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 Bottom of Your Heart Inferno for Commissario Ricciardi The Bottom of Your Heart Inferno for Commissario Ricciardi Maurizio de Giovanni A Maxim Jakubowski selected title. Another sterling mystery from one of the leading, and most consistent, of Italian crime authors, this is the 7th case involving the aristocratic-born Commissario Ricciardi, of the Naples police, set in the 1930s, a fertile period ... Download free opening extract
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 The Story of a Nutcracker The Story of a Nutcracker Alexandre Dumas December 2015 Book of the Month. What a lovely Christmas treat this book is, from the beautifully designed cover, to the Foreword by the translator Sarah Ardizzone all add to the richly dark, yet magical tale within. As you read the ... Download free opening extract