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 Past Imperfect Past Imperfect Julian Fellowes Reviewed on Richard & Judy on Wednesday 13 May 2009.   Snobs, his first novel, was brilliant and Past Imperfect is better and coming from ‘the bottom end of the gentry’ gives Julian’s ... Download free opening extract
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 Mr Toppit Mr Toppit Charles Elton Due to be reviewed on Richard & Judy on Wednesday 3 June 2009.   Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 26 February 2009.   Fantastic characterisation and plotlines make this an unputdownable read. A brilliant satire on celebrity culture, thoroughly recommended.   ... Download free opening extract
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 The Best Day of Someone Else's Life The Best Day of Someone Else's Life Kerry Reichs   May 2009 Debut of the Month.   Funny, sophisticated, witty and thoroughly enjoyable! Kerry Reichs certainly inherited the writing gene from her mother Kathy and we think you will find her debut novel impossible to put down. Unlucky in love, Vi finds ... Download free opening extract
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 The Drowning Girl The Drowning Girl Margaret Leroy   May 2009 Book of the Month.   A great read, a well thought-out plot with a good build to the final crisis.  It concerns a disturbed child with a mother who is at her wits’ end to find help.  She eventually takes ... Download free opening extract
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 The Great Lover The Great Lover Jill Dawson Due to be reviewed on Richard & Judy on Wednesday 10 June 2009.   Fact and fiction intertwine in this beautifully told story about a love affair between Rupert Brooke and a housemaid called Nell. Using diary entries, letters and poems Jill ... Download free opening extract
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 The Angel's Game The Angel's Game Carlos Ruiz Zafon Fans of  The Shadow of the Wind will be pleased to find that the Cemetery of the Forgotten Books reappears in Zafon’s new novel. Set in 1920’s Barcelona this is a haunting, thrilling, fascinating tale that will keep you thoroughly ... Download free opening extract
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 The Piano Teacher The Piano Teacher Janice Y K Lee Due to be reviewed on Richard & Judy on Wednesday 1 July 2009.   A beautifully written love story set in Hong Kong, slipping back and forth between the love affair between the piano teacher of the title and her lover's previous ... Download free opening extract
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 Tease Tease Immodesty Blaize   Reviewed on "Hay-on-Sky" on 30 May 2009.   The British Queen of Burlesque, Immodesty Blaize, turns her talents to writing, with great success. With all the racy, raunchy fun you could expect from a novel about a girl who has risen to ... Download free opening extract
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 Burnt Shadows Burnt Shadows Kamila Shamsie Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2009 A stunning, captivating novel spanning generations and the globe. From the bombing of Nagasaki through to the attacks of 9/11 we follow Hiroko Tanaka’s life, the people she meets, the places she goes ... Download free opening extract
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 Molly Fox's Birthday Molly Fox's Birthday Deirdre Madden Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2009 Although we never actually meet the character from the title the readers feels they have met her through the reflections of her friend who is staying in her house. A cleverly spun tale ... Download free opening