Lovereading TOP 10

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 Child 44 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."   Featured on The ... Download free opening extract
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 What My Best Friend Did What My Best Friend Did Lucy Dawson   March 2009 Book of the Month.As with her first novel, His Other Lover, this is chic-lit with a dark twist.  It’s about what happens when friendship turns sour.  She’s very good at putting a thumb on a bruise and pushing ...  Download free opening extract
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 The Secret Scripture 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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 I Am Not A Serial Killer I Am Not A Serial Killer Dan Wells   March 2009 Debut of the Month.   This is definitely not for the feint hearted,  but if your stomach is strong enough then this is an original debut from a terrific new voice in teenage fiction.  This is the first in a ... Download free opening extract
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 Leaving the World Leaving the World Douglas Kennedy Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 12 March 2009.  Lovereading view to appear soon... ... Download free opening extract
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 East of the Sun 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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 Borderlands Borderlands Brian Mcgilloway Rejoice in the arrival of a great new Irish series featuring a very human, very likeable, moral Inspector Devlin.  The setting is bleak and atmospheric and the plot well structured and compelling, albeit a little full of twists at the ... Download free opening extract
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 Skin and Bones Skin and Bones Tom Bale January 2009 Debut of the Month.  With one of the best opening pages to a book you’ll ever read this electrifying debut thriller will leave you gasping for breath. Reminiscent to the writing of Harlan Coben but Tom Bale is British ... Download free opening extract
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 Billie Jo Billie Jo Kimberley Chambers   March 2009 Debut of the Month.   This will certainly appeal to fans of Martina Cole and June Hampson. Billie Jo’s father has been a villain all his life but kept himself very much in the background, avoiding the long arm of ... Download free opening extract
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 My Secret Diary My Secret Diary Jacqueline Wilson Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 12 March 2009.  Lovereading view to appear soon... ... Download free opening extract

Lovereading4kids TOP 10

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 Shadow Forest Shadow Forest Matt Haig Winner of the overall Blue Peter Book of the Year 2009 and category winner of ‘the book I couldn’t put down’.   A dramatic adventure story set in an enchanted magical world. Samuel Blink’s life changes forever when a giant log ... Download free opening extract
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 If You're Reading This, it's too Late If You're Reading This, it's too Late Pseudonymous Bosch This is the quirky, original and deliciously dark sequel to the hilarious The Name of This Book is Secret.  Bursting with inventive characters and laugh-out-loud moments, readers will be instantly hooked once more by the stylish storytelling of Pseudonymous Bosch.A ...  Download free opening extract
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 Mr Gum And The Dancing Bear Mr Gum And The Dancing Bear Andy Stanton Winner of The Blue Peter book award 2009 'most funny book with pictures' category - Mr Gum is off on his fifth best-selling adventure. And it is as zany and ridiculous as any that have gone before. This time, a gigantic ... Download free opening extract
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 The Book of a Thousand Days The Book of a Thousand Days Shannon Hale Recorded as a highly readable diary, this is an original retelling of a fairy tale that gives a taste of the traditional while adding original and unexpected elements to make it anything but an ordinary fairytale and you certainly won't ... Download free opening extract
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 The Magic Thief The Magic Thief Sarah Prineas This is an absolutely captivating debut fantasy adventure. Full of magic and trickery, this is the story of a wizard and his new apprentice trying to discover why the magic in their city is fading and how they must stop it from disappearing ... Download free opening extract
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 Wallace And Gromit Grand Adventures And Glorious Inventions Wallace And Gromit Grand Adventures And Glorious Inventions Penny Worms Suitable for discerning Wallace and Gromit fans, this all-singing, all-dancing book sets out as Wallace's secret invention scrapbook, with snippets of information and personal memorabilia about his cracking contraptions and his madcap capers with his dog, Gromit. With lots of ... Download free opening extract
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 Gone Gone Michael Grant   Gripping from the first moment on, this is a scary, an unputdownable and a brilliantly plotted fantasy. First the teachers start to disappear from school; soon all the adults are gone. Only the children remain and they are trapped, cut ... Download free opening extract
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 My Brilliant Book! My Brilliant Book! Michael Broad Short of a good book to read, Sam decides that writing his own is the only way to really enjoy a story. Vibrantly illustrated, Sam’s flights of fancy – aliens, a world full of sweets, a trip to the wildwest ... Download free opening extract
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 Minty And Tink Minty And Tink Emma Chichester Clark The importance of a special toy is perfectly captured in this passionate story about how a toy can be ‘real’.  When searching for a birthday present for her baby brother, Minty finds a tiny toy bear who can talk. Instantly, ... Download free opening extract
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 Ingo Ingo Helen Dunmore This is the first of the Ingo quartet. Helen Dunmore has done what few authors succeed in doing.  She’s created an absolutely believable mythical world alongside our own. One that makes you want to be there more than anything else, ... Download free opening extract