Lovereading Top Ten 10
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Tigers in Red Weather Liza Klaussmann August 2012 Debut of the Month. Eight publishers were fighting over this debut novel from London based New Yorker Klaussmann and all you need to do is read the Opening Extract to see why. Magnificently told from five perspectives, Tigers in ... Download free opening extract |
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Ferney James Long I fell in love with this book when it was first published in 1997. It did moderately well but not as well as it should. I think one of the problems was that up until then James Long had written ... Download free opening extract |
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Maine Courtney Sullivan August 2012 Book of the Month. Four separate points of view from four female narrators of an extended family across three generations as they descend on their holiday beach house in Maine. Thought-provoking and well written, it beautifully portrays how they ... Download free opening extract |
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Habits of the House Fay Weldon August 2012 Book of the Month. Aimed squarely at fans of Downton Abbey this is a pitch-perfect, witty and fun romp of life above and below stairs and an elegy to the last days of aristocracy and Empire. Set in 1899 ... Download free opening extract |
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Sacrilege S. J. Parris August 2012 Book of the Month. We loved her debut Heresy, with the ex-monk turned secret agent Giordano Bruno and the follow up historical mystery, Sacrilege, is just as gripping. Assassinations, threats of plague and dark secrets hidden in the crypt ... Download free opening extract |
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The End of the Wasp Season Denise Mina Winner of the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award 2012. Shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger 2011. In this stunning new novel DS Alex Morrow discovers that nothing is sacred, even human life...The End of the Wasp Season is ... Download free opening extract |
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The Girl You Left Behind Jojo Moyes The Girl You Left Behind is the title of a painting which is at the centre of this dual-time novel of World War I and the present. Painted by a young French soldier for his wife, it is her most ... Download free opening extract |
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Albert of Adelaide Howard L. Anderson August 2012 Debut of the Month. This wonderful, simple, charming book is impossible to categorise and, we think, impossible not to absolutely love. Albert the platypus escapes from Adelaide Zoo in search of a place where humans never venture and animals ... Download free opening extract |
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The Boot Camp Kate Harrison A week of exercise, fresh air and lovely food is what this group of women believe they need to sort out the problems in their lives… Well that was the aim. Author of the brilliant Secret Shopper series turns her ... Download free opening extract |
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The Real Katie Lavender Erica James July 2012 Book of the Month. A lovely warm and witty tale of unexpected inheritance, family, background and life. Katie Lavender gets a request to visit a solicitor where she receives a letter from her deceased mother that literally changes everything ... Download free opening extract |
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