Lovereading.co.uk Top 10

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 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Stieg Larsson Winner of the Galaxy Crime Thriller of the Year 2009. A forty year old mystery all mixed up with family feuds, fraud and corruption this is the first of a trilogy. There is plenty to keep ... Download free opening extract
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 The Neighbour The Neighbour Lisa Gardner A riveting book that I found hard to put down.  A young mother disappears in a novel that explores how physical and sexual abuse can have a devastating effect on future relationships and how we protect ourselves from past memories.  ... Download free opening extract
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 The Solitude of Prime Numbers The Solitude of Prime Numbers Paolo Giordano A bestseller in Italy this book won the Italian equivalent of the Man Booker Prize and it is easy to see why. Beautiful prose and a haunting story about loss, love, growing up and finding yourself, make for a mesmerising ... Download free opening extract
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 Katy Carter Wants a Hero Katy Carter Wants a Hero Ruth Saberton A wonderfully funny, fresh debut. Katy Carter is a lovable character suffering the ups and downs of relationship drama and making some interesting discoveries along the way. You will be routing for her all the way as she realises perhaps ... Download free opening extract
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 The Book of Negroes The Book of Negroes Lawrence Hill A hard-to-put-down, excellent read of slavery, harrowing but full of love and hope.  The characters are very real and the writing is gripping.  Based on fact, the actual document of ‘The Book of Negroes’, which is a list of all ... Download free opening extract
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 The Slippery Year: How One Woman Found Happiness in Everyday Life The Slippery Year: How One Woman Found Happiness in Everyday Life Melanie Gideon February 2010 Editor's Choice. A woman of a certain age wondering quite how her life turned out the way it did, and was this really where she expected to be. When the author published an article in the New York Times ... Download free opening extract
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 The Breaking of Eggs The Breaking of Eggs Jim Powell March 2010 Editor's Choice. An incredibly moving story of a man whose whole life is turned around as he finds everything he had always believed in crumbling around him. Funny, sad and thoroughly absorbing. Dear Reader,How often do you come across a ...Download free opening extract
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 The Suicide Club The Suicide Club Rhys Thomas March 2010 Debut of the Month. My favourite first novel of the month.  A raw, compelling slice of teenage angst taken to the limits.  It tells of the ‘new boy’ influencing a bunch of misfits, loners, who need to belong and ... Download free opening extract
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 The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas John Boyne Voted 2009 Penguin Orange Readers' Group Book of the Year. Now a major film.Initially it is difficult to believe that the young son of the commandant of Auschwitz is as innocent as he is, then you begin to accept his ... Download free opening extract
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 Relics of the Dead Relics of the Dead Ariana Franklin March 2010 Book of the Month. This is the third in a seriously good medical crime series starring a feisty heroine, anatomist Adelia Aguilar.  The first (a must read), Mistress of the Art of Death, won the Crime Writers’ Association’s Historical ... Download free opening extract

Lovereading4kids.co.uk Top 10

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 The Boy Who Fell Down Exit 43 The Boy Who Fell Down Exit 43 Harriet Goodwin Shortlisted for the 2010 Blue Peter 'Book I Couldn't Put Down' Award. Adventurous, charming and poignant by turns, The Boy Who Fell Down Exit 43 is a quirky debut novel laced with humour and a dollop of magic. ... Download free opening extract
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 Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang Emma Thompson With wit and warmth and warts and all, the wonderfully talented writer and star of Nanny Mcphee, Emma Thompson recounts the story of the film, a story of one family’s summer with Nanny McPhee, a story of blackmail, tragedy and ... Download free opening extract
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 The Silver Blade The Silver Blade Sally Gardner Shortlisted for the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize 2009 The dramatic, horrific and sometimes romantic events of the FrenchRevolution, which Sally Gardner so brilliantly portrayed in The Red Necklaceare moved on a stage in this equally vivid and richly imagined sequel, yet stand-alone novel, ... Download free opening extract
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 Little Darlings Little Darlings Jacqueline Wilson Bestselling Jacqueline Wilson tells a fairy tale story of the unlikely intertwining of two very different families against a strong and realistic background. Destiny is growing up poor with her mum who does three jobs and struggles to pay the ... Download free opening extract
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 Drawing with Light Drawing with Light Julia Green A touching and tender teenage novel of love and exploration this tells how sixteen-year-old Emily finds first love and also begins an important search to find her mother. Emily was only two when her artist mother left home and she ... Download free opening extract
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 Jonadab and Rita Jonadab and Rita Shirley Hughes Steeped in magic, this is a wonderful story that demands to be read again and again. A bit old and a bit shabby, Jonadab is a donkey, just one of the many toys in Minnie’s toy box. Both he and ... Download free opening extract
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 The Heart and the Bottle The Heart and the Bottle Oliver Jeffers Award winning Oliver Jeffers’s latest book is wholly compelling for the importance of its message and the brilliance of how that is conveyed in words and pictures. To overcome her sadness when her grandfather dies a little girl decides to ... Download free opening extract
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 Maskmaker Maskmaker Jane Johnson There’s magic deep in the heart of this highly inventive story. Jamie’s life changes when he tries on the tiger mask he makes in an art class. This is an action-packed adventure exploding with magic and mystery.  With the mask ... Download free opening extract
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 Raven Mysteries 3: Lunatics and Luck Raven Mysteries 3: Lunatics and Luck Marcus Sedgwick As told by a raven, this Gothic horror richly laced in humour is a delicious read – especially when the moon is full! Castle Otherhand is beset by problems. There are the usual ones of money troubles but this time ... Download free opening extract
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 The Facts of Life The Facts of Life Joanna Nadin In this, another brilliant installment of Rachel Riley’s hilarious diaries, join her in her no-nonsense, fact-based approach to life.  Just when she thought she had finally found her knight in shining skinny jeans i.e. the ONE, an accidental snog with ... Download free opening extract