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The Secret Scripture Sebastian Barry Winner of the Costa Book of the Year Award 2008. Winner of the Costa Novel Award 2008. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2008. Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 19 February 2009. Costa Book Awards 2008 Judges' comment: "A heartbreaking ... Download free opening extract |
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The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher Kate Summerscale Reviewed on Richard & Judy's Book Club 2009 on Wednesday 28 January. Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 4 December 2008. This reads like a first rate crime novel but is in fact an analysis of real life events. It's ... Download free opening extract |
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The Golden Pig Mark Penny, Jonathan Penny February 2009 Debut of the Month. 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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Choral Society Prue Leith Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 19 February 2009. 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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East of the Sun Julia Gregson Winner of the Romantic Novel of the Year 2009. This is an utterly captivating story of three young British women in search of freedom and love in 1920s India, but it also provides a wonderful insight into a now vanished world. ... Download free opening extract |
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The Truth About Love Josephine Hart Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 5 February 2009. It has been a little while since we had a novel from this author but it has been worth the wait as she returns with an emotional and remarkable ... Download free opening extract |
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The Brutal Art Jesse Kellerman Reviewed on Richard & Judy's Book Club 2009 on Wednesay 21 January. This is not a run of the mill police procedural more a thriller that slowly unravels a mystery. When Ethan Muller discovers a series of paintings he ... Download free opening extract |
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The Gargoyle Andrew Davidson Reviewed on Richard & Judy's Book Club 2009 on Wednesday 4 February. A cleverly told debut novel. The narrator of the story is an attractive man who has been horrifically burned in a car crash. While in hospital a mysterious woman ... Download free opening extract |
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Child 44 Tom Rob Smith February 2009 Book of the Month. Winner of the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger 2008. Shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award 2008.Costa Book Awards 2008 Judges' comment: "This gripping, unputdownable thriller is an exciting new addition to the genre." Controversially, and in ... Download free opening extract |
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December Elizabeth H Winthrop Due to be reviewed on Richard & Judy's Book Club 2009 on Wednesday 18 March. A family struggling to cope with the self-imposed silence the eleven year old daughter has been keeping up for the last nine months. This has a ... Download free opening extract |
Lovereading4kids Top 10
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Everything Beautiful Simmone Howell This novel is so tuned in to the teenage psyche - sharp, full of humour and a touch subversive - that it's hard to believe it's not written by one. In fact it comes from the pen of Simmone Howell ... Download free opening extract |
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Running On The Cracks Julia Donaldson A thrilling corkscrew of a novel that twists and turns weaving several strands of story into one compelling narrative, and the first novel from an established and bestselling picture book author for younger readers. Orphaned after the death of her ... Download free opening extract |
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules Jeff Kinney Take a peek into Greg’s diary and find out the story of his life – and especially about his relationship with his older brother Roderick. Wittily told in words and pictures, this diary charts the trials and tribulations of a ... Download free opening extract |
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A Michael Recycle Adventure: Litterbug Doug Ellie Bethel A campaigning picture book that will encourage all to recycle. Litterbug Doug hates recycling; instead he creates a heap of litter all around his home. When green-hero Michael appears Litterbug Doug refuses to listen to the recycling message and does ... Download free opening extract |
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Auslander Paul Dowswell A chilling, powerful and thought-provoking thriller about a Polish orphan's subversion of Nazi ideals. Meticulously researched and incredibly imagined it will at times almost take your breath away. Perceived as the perfect Aryan specimen by the German family who adopt Peter ... Download free opening extract |
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Foul Play Tom Palmer On the Blue Peter Award Shortlist - Football mad boys and girls will devour this all-action adventure novel, virtually in a sitting. Hopefully, even the most reluctant reader, just like the author himself was at school, will devour it too. ... Download free opening extract |
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Flood And Fang: Raven Mysteries Book One Marcus Sedgwick Told from the bird’s eye view of a resident raven, this is a deliciously topsy-turvy comedy full of unusual details. The Otherhand family are far from normal and life in Otherhand Castle is distinctly strange. Edgar the raven cares little ... Download free opening extract |
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Billy Bonkers 2: More Madness Giles Andreae Madcap adventures with huge naughty boy appeal featuring Billy and his family, and wittily illustrated by Nick Sharratt. At school there’s the great sports day fiasco, then there’s the Bonkers’ unfortunate holiday on the shores of Loch Ness and finally ... Download free opening extract |
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Charles Darwin and the Beagle Adventure Amanda Wood This lavish account of Darwin's life and of the voyage of the Beagle from 1831 to 1836 provides the most detailed but accessible account for children about Darwin, his discoveries and a part of his life that was so important ... Download free opening extract |
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Malice Chris Wooding Enter this terrifying parallel world if you dare! From the dramatic 3-D cover onwards, everything about Malice is original and just a little bit different. Cleverly told as both a novel and a graphic novel, this is the scary story ... Download free opening extract |
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