Lovereading.co.uk TOP 10

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 The Golden Pig The Golden Pig Mark Penny, Jonathan Penny   This is one of those titles we love to discover on Lovereading and pass the word on about. A brilliantly funny detective novel from two new authors -The Penny Brothers. They have written each part ... Download free opening extract
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 Past-it Notes Past-it Notes Maureen Lipman  This is a collection of some of Maureen Lipman's best writing, taken from previous books along with new stories and anecdotes. Some of the old stories are reworked here ...   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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 Crossed Wires Crossed Wires Rosy Thornton When Peter phones his car insurance company to report an accident he gets put through to Mina and there starts a delightful, old fashioned love story. We follow their separate lives  which, although have vast differences also, have great parallels ... Download free opening extract
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 We Need to Talk About Kevin We Need to Talk About Kevin Lionel Shriver  This review is provided by bookgroup.info.Drop everything! This spectacular book will grab you and will not put you down, keeping you guessing until the final pages. Eva’s words may ...   Download free opening extract
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 In Bed With... In Bed With... Imogen Edwards-jones, Jessica Adams, Maggie Alderson, Kathy Letter This is the most enormous fun – a collection of sexy short stories written by bestselling authors. To add to the fun, they have all used ‘porn’ pseudonyms, a combination of their first pet and their street names. ... 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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 Choral Society Choral Society Prue Leith   Three single women join a choir all looking to find different things, a new challenge, friendship, a new man. What they do find is each other and come together ... Download free opening extract
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 Stolen Stolen Lucy Christopher This controversial debut is a moving drama about kidnapping, isolation and survival and an extraordinary psychological thriller that will steal the minds of those who read it. Sensitive, intelligent and gripping, Stolen is a contemporary story which will force the ... 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

Lovereading4kids.co.uk TOP 10

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 Freefall: Tunnels 3 Freefall: Tunnels 3 Roderick Gordon, Brian Williams More spine-tingling and menacing adventure from the authors of Tunnels and Deeper will once again take you way beneath the earth, in a subterranean world that’s almost too frightening to imagine and yet it will pull you into the story ... Download free opening extract
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 Stolen Stolen Lucy Christopher This controversial debut is a moving drama about kidnapping, isolation and survival and an extraordinary psychological thriller that will steal the minds of those who read it. Sensitive, intelligent and gripping, Stolen is a contemporary story which will force the ... Download free opening extract
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 A Child's Garden: A Story of Hope A Child's Garden: A Story of Hope Michael Foreman This is a wonderful celebration of optimism and a thoughtful and touching book about the importance of growth, green shoots and new life in a war torn world. Growing up amidst rubble a small boy tends a green shoot which ... Download free opening extract
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 Pig City Pig City Louis Sachar Bestselling author Louis Sachar is back with a stunning new novel, which all begins with a hat…The hat Laura Sibbie buys from an old man in the street that says Pig City on the front and so Pig City is ... Download free opening extract
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 The Dragonology Chronicles (Vol II): The Dragon's Diary The Dragonology Chronicles (Vol II): The Dragon's Diary Dugald Steer The dragonological adventure continues in this eagerly-awaited second instalment of The Dragonology Chronicles.  An illness has spread among the dragons and Daniel and Beatrice must deliver a strange book to Dr. Drake so that the cure that lies therein can ... Download free opening extract
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 Skellig - TV tie in edition Skellig - TV tie in edition David Almond This is a wonderfully eerie and magical story about believing in something extra special and why it may make a difference.  It’s full of happiness and sadness but ultimately it’s incredibly fulfilling. 'Touched with a visionary intensity, this strange life-affirming tale exercises every ... Download free opening extract
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 The Pickle King The Pickle King Rebecca Promitzer A hugely entertaining adventure story tinged with enough horror to delight but not really to terrify. Bored during a wet holiday, Bea and her friend Sam go exploring and come across the body of a dead man. What’s the story? Bea ... Download free opening extract
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 The Resistance The Resistance Gemma Malley This is an absolutely chilling, powerful sequel to Gemma malley’s acclaimed debut, The Declaration. With a dark and sinister vision of the future, it is set in 2140, The Resistance is an incredibly thought-provoking read. We raved about her first ... Download free opening extract
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 The Museum's Secret: The Remarkable Adventures Of Tom Scatterhorn The Museum's Secret: The Remarkable Adventures Of Tom Scatterhorn Henry Chancellor An irresistible adventure through a world full of dust, insects, magic potions, missing jewels and stuffed animals and an incredible secret that takes Tom back 100 years into a breathtaking adventure to far flung places of the world and back ... Download free opening extract
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 Highway Robbery Highway Robbery Kate Thompson Shortlisted for the Bisto Irish Children's Book Award. With the thundering of hooves never far away, Kate Thompson weaves an attractive yarn as told by a cheeky but brave street boy whose fortunes change after he’s left holding the horse ... Download free opening extract