There really is more to the book world than discounted copies of Dan Brown’s next epic! Our mid-month email is packed with dozens and dozens of NEW books, as good if not better – and you can decide by downloading a free Opening Extract of all our featured books! Also if you have a favourite author then use our unique Author Like for Like tool to find more like them.
Book reviews in magazines are good – but wouldn’t it be even better to easily get a free Opening Extract, to see if you really like the books. Well, from September that’s exactly what you will be able to do with an exciting new partnership with Good Housekeeping, one of Britain’s oldest and most successful women’s magazines. Also, if you’re not a regular reader of Good Housekeeping, you can still benefit from the guidance and experience of their book editor Kerry Fowler, simply by logging into your Lovereading Account and updating the list of categories you receive each month to include the Good Housekeeping selections.
In these days of sponsored awards most are a mouthful and these are no exception – but don’t be put off, they are top notch and very highly regarded in the book trade. You can see all the short lists for the ‘Specsavers Crime Thriller Awards’ in a special section on our site and you can tune into ITV3 on Wed 21 October to hear the winners. Also have your say by voting on the Bestseller Award by clicking here.
This years Royal Society Prize for Science Books has just been won by Richard Holmes' extraordinary account of how science influenced the romantic generation - The Age of Wonder. To herald in this worthy winner respected reviewer Sue Baker has helped find some fascinating and accessible books about modern science for our new Popular Science category. As science becomes an increasingly pervasive force in the world, it's a good idea to learn a bit about what's going on in our labs and universities and the implications for our lives and our planet.
30 years ago the Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Galaxy burst into our lives via the radio – and over the years it’s been a series of books, a TV show and even a film. Now, 30 years on, Eoin Colfer has picked up Douglas Adams’ mantle and has written a sequel ‘And Another Thing…’ due out in October. Find out more about this and remind yourself of the hilarious original series of books in our special section and have a chance to win lots of pan-galactic goodies.
As a book lover we don’t need to convince you of the multitudinous benefits you can get from literature – but perhaps you have children, or know parents of children, and you sometimes despair at the amount of time they spend watching TV or playing video games? If so, why not take a look at our sister site Lovereading4kids? Julia Eccleshare,the Children’s Book Editor at The Guardian is our editorial expert and helps us select the books and as with Lovereading, all the featured books, this time split by age, have free Opening Extracts and a 25% discount of the RRP. Show them what they are missing today!Happy Reading
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