Lovereading.co.uk Top 10
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The Stranger's Child Alan Hollinghurst July 2011 Book of the Month. Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2011. This is Alan Hollinghurst's first novel since The Line of Beauty, winner of the 2004 Man Booker Prize. As in The Line of Beauty, his impeccably nuanced exploration ... Download free opening extract |
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House of the Hanged Mark Mills July 2011 Book of the Month. Atmospheric, intriguing and elegantly written, this is an exceptional new thriller set against the backdrop of the French Riviera in the 1930s. It's a riveting and evocative tale of passion and murder from the No.1 ... Download free opening extract |
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The Hidden Child Camilla Lackberg August 2011 Book of the Month. Featured on The TV Book Club on More4 on 31 Jul 2011. Worldwide bestseller Camilla Lackberg weaves together another brilliant contemporary psychological thriller with the chilling struggle of Erica, a young woman who discovers within the ... Download free opening extract |
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The Mistress's Revenge Tamar Cohen July 2011 Debut of the Month. Not since Fatal Attraction has the fallout from an illicit affair been exposed in such a sharp, darkly funny and disturbing way: The Mistress' Revenge is a truly exciting fiction debut. After all, who ... Download free opening extract |
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The Language of Flowers Vanessa Diffenbaugh August 2011 MEGA Book of the Month. The Language of Flowers is a heartbreaking and redemptive novel about the meaning of flowers, the meaning of family, and the meaning of love. We think it will be one of the Debuts of ... Download free opening extract |
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The Villa Girls Nicky Pellegrino July 2011 Book of the Month. This is a cracking, beautifully paced read to curl up with either instead of taking a holiday or while on holiday. It's a story of friendships, of passion, of family secrets and love featuring four ... Download free opening extract |
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Monday to Friday Man Alice Peterson A funny and heart warming novel about love and loneliness, family and loyalty, lodgers and friendships - it'll put a big smile on your face. ... Download free opening extract |
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The Homecoming of Samuel Lake Jenny Wingfield July 2011 Debut of the Month. Funny, wise, heart-stopping and heart-breaking, with a cast of unforgettable characters, The Homecoming of Samuel Lake is a masterpiece of storytelling.A "Piece of Passion" from the publisher... 'I’d almost forgotten what it was like to fall ... Download free opening extract |
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On Canaan's Side Sebastian Barry August 2011 Book of the Month. Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2011. Getting a copy of a new novel from award winning Sebastian Barry in the office is always a treat and his latest simply superb. Spanning nearly seven decades, it ... Download free opening extract |
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The Weird Sisters Eleanor Brown August 2011 Debut of the Month. 'See, we love each other. We just don't happen to like each other very much.' THE WEIRD SISTERS is a trenchantly observant novel about the often warring emotions between sisters that threaten to pull ... Download free opening extract |
Lovereading4kids.co.uk Top 10
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Running Wild Michael Morpurgo Winner of the Independent Booksellers' Prize 2010. Prize-winning author Michael Morpurgo’s new novel is a towering adventure and emotional roller coaster set at the time of a great tsunami. Trying to get over his father’s death, Will and his mother travel ... Download free opening extract |
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One Dog and His Boy Eva Ibbotson Award winning Eva Ibbotson’s poignant and beautiful last book celebrates a boy’s passion for a dog. All Hal has ever wanted is a dog but his parents refuse to contemplate the idea. A dog would mess up their beautiful house ... Download free opening extract |
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Farther Grahame Baker-Smith Winner of the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal 2011. You can see some beautiful artwork images from the book by downloading the free extract. A World Book Day 'Recommended Read' for 2011. Graham Baker-Smith’s debut Leon and the Place Between was shortlisted for ... Download free opening extract |
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The Princess and the Sleep Stealer Elissa Elwick A magical tale of fantasy and adventure perfect for bedtime with sleep-stealing pirates, a friendly dragon and a heroic princess, not to mention a moonlit race over sugar mountains and through liquorice trees, this book has all the ingredients for ... Download free opening extract |
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Tumtum and Nutmeg : Trouble at Rose Cottage Emily Bearn This best-selling series continues to delight. Tumtum and Nutmeg, a pair of totally charming mice, are always up for a new adventure. Rose Cottage has gold under the floor boards but also an influx of newcomers – two town mice ... Download free opening extract |
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Operation Eiffel Tower Elen Caldecott Lauren, Jack, Ruby and Billy live by the seaside with their mum and dad - but their parents are always arguing, and then their dad moves out. Lauren and Jack decide they have to get them together again. And so ... Download free opening extract |
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Fox Friend Michael Morpurgo This is a wonderfully touching and beautifully crafted story about growing up and learning about real life from an author who is widely considered to be the best teller of stories for children. He's the author of War Horse which ... Download free opening extract |
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An Elephant in the Garden Michael Morpurgo Once again the former Children’s Laureate, Michael Morpurgo, weaves an intensely moving story about an extraordinary animal caught up in a very human war. It’s World War Two in Germany, the animals in Dresden are to be killed because of ... Download free opening extract |
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Stitch Head Guy Bass If you liked Marcus Sedgwick's The Raven Mysteries, you'll love this ! Gruesome and scarily witty, this is the spooky story of Stitch Head, a lonely almost-human creature made by a mad professor in the sinister Castle Grotesque. Almost lost ... Download free opening extract |
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Hey Little Bug Poems for Little Creatures James Carter Reviewed and selected by our poetry expert, Liam Parkin: Hey, Little Bug! is a charming and tender collection written for the ‘little bugs’ that constantly absorb sights and sounds around them. As a performer of poetry, James Carter writes with the ... Download free opening extract |
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