Lovereading Top 10

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The One Pot Cook The One Pot Cook Hattie Ellis There are cookery books to look at, ones to admire, ones to impress, the others are the ones we use everyday.  And I can safely say that this is a book for everyday, one destined to get covered in bits ... Download free opening extract
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After You After You Jojo Moyes Jojo admits that this follow-up to Me Before You came as a result of popular demand.  Fans wanted to know what happened to Lou after Will died.  However if you haven’t read the first book it matters not for this ... Download free opening extract
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Hidden Hidden Emma Kavanagh Full of suspense with any number of red herrings, this is cracking stuff by a former police psychologist.  Narrated from four points of view, it concerns a major shooting incident in a Welsh hospital.  Not only does it jump viewpoints, ... Download free opening extract
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Cross Justice Cross Justice James Patterson November 2015 Book of the Month. The rather wonderful and fascinating Alex Cross returns in his 23rd novel, ‘Cross Justice’. I  almost forgot I was supposed to have my reviewing hat on and just sank into the depths of the story. ... Download free opening extract
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The Light Between Us Lessons from Heaven That Teach Us to Live Better in the Here and Now The Light Between Us Lessons from Heaven That Teach Us to Live Better in the Here and Now Laura Lynne Jackson ‘The Light Between Us’ is moving and fascinating in equal measure. I’m interested in the power of the mind, however I’m sceptical about an afterlife, so will admit to starting to read with an eyebrow ready for raised action. The ... Download free opening extract
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Carrying Albert Home The Somewhat True Story of a Man, His Wife and Her Alligator Carrying Albert Home The Somewhat True Story of a Man, His Wife and Her Alligator Homer Hickam November 2015 Book of the Month. A beautifully quirky, yet at the same time completely logical love story (well it is logical once you've realised that you too, have fallen in love with an alligator). ‘Carrying Albert Home’ is a nine ... Download free opening extract
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Slade House Slade House David Mitchell Slade House, Slade Alley.  We enter it with different narrators from 1979 to the present in nine yearly intervals.  Initially each section is like a separate short story with the mysterious house the link but it soon becomes clear that ... Download free opening extract
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Spill Simmer Falter Wither Spill Simmer Falter Wither Sara Baume November 2015 Debut of the Month. Slow starting, slightly monotonous first-person monologue that builds into a hypnotic tale which becomes strangely compulsive.  It is a novel of companionship, loss and fear.  Our narrator, a frightened, dysfunctional, 57-year old man, talks to ... Download free opening extract
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Deirdre A Life on Coronation Street Deirdre A Life on Coronation Street Glenda Young This is the story of Deirdre from Coronation Street, a story told with love, laughter and drama. I don’t watch the soaps, however as I’ve grown up, I’ve been more than aware of Deirdre, from her gravelly husky voice, to ... Download free opening extract
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The Ice Twins The Ice Twins S. K. Tremayne Chosen as a Richard and Judy Book Club selection Autumn 2015. Twins, the mother Sarah favours one, the father Angus the other. When one dies aged six the devastation in the family is catastrophic. Then Sarah begins to worry whether maybe ... Download free opening extract