Books with reviews by our Reader Review Panel
Informative, candid and trusted, book reviews by our own book experts are unique to Lovereading. But within our loyal members and browsers of Lovereading are also prolific readers with years of experience and a real passion for sharing their love of books. So, we decided to invite them to join the Lovereading Reader Review Panel. All the titles in this category have been selected and reviewed by our own Lovereading editorial experts but also reviewed by members of our Reader Review Panel, a panel of book lovers across the UK.
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A Talent for Murder Andrew Wilson June 2017 Book of the Month. A fascinating foray into the past, and the intriguing missing period of time so well documented, yet little known about in Agatha Christie’s life. I’ve visited... Format: Hardback - Released: 18/05/2017 
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Blue A Memoir - Keeping the Peace and Falling to Pieces John Sutherland June 2017 Non-Fiction Book of the Month. A candid, objective, cooly passionate, and often unsettling account of policing from a police officer. John Sutherland joined the Met in 1992 aged 22, we... Format: Hardback - Released: 25/05/2017
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Fierce Kingdom Gin Phillips June 2017 Book of the Month. We are in America. Joan takes her four year old son Lincoln to the zoo regularly. She knows the layout, the areas, the animal enclosures and... Format: Hardback - Released: 15/06/2017
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Peculiar Ground Lucy Hughes-Hallett June 2017 Book of the Month. A huge book both in scope and length, it begins with the journals of a landscape gardener building a great park in 1663 then moves to... Format: Hardback - Released: 18/05/2017
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Six Tudor Queens: Anne Boleyn Alison Weir June 2017 Book of the Month. We know we are in good hands when an eminent historian renowned for her non-fiction work turns her hand to fiction. Lovers of historical novels will... Format: Hardback - Released: 18/05/2017
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Persons Unknown Susie Steiner June 2017 Book of the Month. Manon Bradshaw of Missing, Presumed is back only she is now pregnant, attached to the Cambridgeshire police but working on cold cases until a murder... Format: Hardback - Released: 29/06/2017
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The Boy Who Saw Simon Toyne June 2017 Book of the Month and eBook of the Month. Click here to view the page for the KOBO edition of this book. In Solomon Creed we were introduced... Format: Hardback - Released: 15/06/2017
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After the Fire Will Hill June 2017 NewGen Book of the Month. In a nutshell: tense, super-suspenseful novel based on harrowing real life events After the Fire was inspired by the Waco siege in Texas 1993 when... Format: Paperback - Released: 01/06/2017
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Greatest Hits Laura Barnett June 2017 Book of the Month. A powerfully lyrical day-in-the-life portrait of a successful singer-songwriter reflecting on the ebbs and flows of her life as she prepares her Greatest Hits release after... Format: Hardback - Released: 15/06/2017
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Exquisite Sarah Stovell June 2017 Book of the Month. Wow! This is a cracking psychological thriller. Told in first person from two different viewpoints it causes you to question the reliability of both women. Smart,... Format: Paperback - Released: 01/06/2017
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Rather be the Devil Ian Rankin June 2017 Book of the Month. A truly fabulous blast of crime fiction. John Rebus continues to ignore retirement, and an unsolved case haunts his thoughts as he shoulders his way into... Format: Paperback - Released: 15/06/2017
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Other Featured Books this Month
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The Light We Lost Jill Santopolo June 2017 Debut of the Month. My goodness me did these two have a passion, a chemistry that burned so bright it was painful to behold. They, Lucy and Gabe, met on... Format: Hardback - Released: 18/05/2017
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Ginny Moon Benjamin Ludwig June 2017 Debut of the Month. A dazzling debut about a fostered autistic girl’s poignant search for her Forever Home, and her acute need to be needed. Truly a gem that will satiate an abundance of... Format: Hardback - Released: 01/06/2017
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Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine Gail Honeyman June 2017 Debut of the Month. It is the standard reply when people ask, “How are you?” ....you say “I’m fine.” Well, Eleanor is most definitely not fine and has not been since she was 10... Format: Hardback - Released: 18/05/2017
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Eligible Curtis Sittenfeld Can a retelling of ‘Pride and Prejudice' possibly work? Well, this novel proves it can. The Austen Project consists of six contemporary authors, each retelling one of Jane Austen’s novels. Just imagine being paired with Pride and Prejudice, where on... Format: Paperback - Released: 01/06/2017
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Borne Jeff VanderMeer Finch, the last VanderMeer that I read, was referred to as ‘fungal noir’, a wonderful phrase. With that in mind Borne could be described as a post-apocalyptic thriller with squishy bits, or possible human drama with tentacles. Scavenger Rachel... Format: Hardback - Released: 15/06/2017
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Sidney Chambers and the Persistence of Love James Runcie Charming, atmospheric, and compellingly crafted, The Grantchester Mysteries are the very epitome of cosy crime, with a quintessential English detective for a hero. No wonder, then, that this is the sleuthing Archdeacon’s sixth literary outing, and that the TV adaptation... Format: Hardback - Released: 04/05/2017
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The Friend Dorothy Koomson Oh what a thrilling and gloriously dramatic tale this is! A violent attack on a parent takes place within the grounds of a private school in Brighton, just days later, Cece moves into the area, her two youngest start at... Format: Hardback - Released: 01/06/2017
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The Fireman Joe Hill Tales of overwhelming pandemics striking our world are like buses: you wait for ages and all of a sudden, like a plague, they all emerge at the same time. Recent months have witnessed, among others, the Cronin trilogy reach its... Format: Paperback - Released: 04/05/2017
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The Invitation Lucy Foley A sophisticated, expressive, and emotional story set in the glamorous Italian film promotion world of the 1950’s. Hal and Stella meet at a party, an immediate connection flares into life, yet the spectre of war holds both in a devastating... Format: Paperback - Released: 15/06/2017
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The Nest Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney June 2017 Debut of the Month. A thought-provoking and wittily pointed debut, about the life and loves of the Plumb family. There are four siblings at the centre of this novel, Leo causes uproar when a... Format: Paperback - Released: 01/06/2017
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Island of Secrets Patricia Wilson June 2017 Debut of the Month. Right from the start we realise this is a Montague/Capulet situation; a feud between families, in this case from Crete, that spills blood only here our... Format: Paperback - Released: 18/05/2017
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The Bureau of Second Chances Sheena Kalayil June 2017 Debut of the Month. This gentle yet beautifully told story follows recently-widowed Thomas on a journey back to the India of his birth, where he rediscovers not only himself but also the Bureau of... Format: Paperback - Released: 15/06/2017
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Barkskins Annie Proulx For the Wolf Hall readership, this is a huge historical novel to immerse yourself in. A dramatic, violent, absorbing, long read for which you need to put aside serious time to devour. You will find it difficult to put... Format: Paperback - Released: 11/04/2017
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The Essex Serpent Sarah Perry A gorgeously eloquent and powerfully expressive novel, ‘The Essex Serpent’ explores an unusual relationship in the 1890’s. This isn't exactly a love story, it is rather, a tale about love, in all its different forms. While Cora and Will form... Format: Paperback - Released: 04/05/2017
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The Scattering Kimberly McCreight In a nutshell: gripping adventure that keeps readers tense and guessing As revealed in the first book in this spell-binding series, Wylie is one of a group of people known as Outliers, able to read people’s emotions and intentions. It’s... Format: Paperback - Released: 04/05/2017
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