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Top 10 Opening Extracts

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  1. The Rose Labyrinth by Titania Hardie
  2. The Business by Martina Cole
  3. The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson
  4. Girls are Best by Sandi Toksvig
  5. A Season of Leaves by Catherine Law
  6. The Fidelity Files by Jessica Brody
  7. All in the Mind by Alastair Campbell
  8. Slapstick by Roger Mcgough
  9. Heartsick by Chelsea Cain
  10. Chasing Windmills by Catherine Ryan Hyde


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You wouldn't buy a car without a test-drive; you wouldn't buy shoes without trying them for size; so before you buy a book, make sure it's for you!

Uniquely on Lovereading, you can read the Opening Extract of every Featured Book. This could be the first chapter; less if the chapters are long, more if they're short. We aim to give you enough of a book to really get a taste for the author.

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Stocking fillers This month's 'featured books'
Stocking fillers
The Optimist's - Pessimist's Handbook
Niall Edworthy, Petra Cramsie
Well this could produce some interesting arguments amongst friends, family or colleagues. Wherever you are there will always be those who think the glass is half full and those declare it half empty and this book argues for both sides....
Price: £7.50 - Saving £2.50 (25%)
 
 

The Bedside Book of the Garden
D G Hessayon
Dr Hessayon is best known for the fantastic “Expert” series of gardening books but here we are brought something slightly different and would be the perfect gift for any lover of gardening or gardens. There are lots of great chapters...
Price: £9.74 - Saving £3.25 (25%)
 
 

Amo, Amas, Amat... and All That : How to Become a Latin Lover
Harry Mount
Before I embark on my laudation (from "laudo,-are,-avi,-atum" - the principal parts of the verb "to praise") for Harry Mount's book, I must confess to a vested interest; as a Latin teacher at a London prep school I spend a...
Price: £5.99 - Saving £2.00 (25%)
 
 

Girls are Best
Sandi Toksvig
  Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 13 November 2008.   Women gladiators, women in the Bayeaux Tapestry, women inventors, Sandi Toksvig uncovers them all in her light hearted approach to the serious message of this book – women have...
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Sky Arts Book Show This month's 'featured books'
Sky Arts Book Show
Love All
Elizabeth Jane Howard
  Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 30 October 2008.   This is Elizabeth Jane Howard’s first novel for 9 years and it is like welcoming an old friend. This is the story of a group of people brought together...
Price: £12.74 - Saving £4.25 (25%)
 
 

Girls are Best
Sandi Toksvig
  Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 13 November 2008.   Women gladiators, women in the Bayeaux Tapestry, women inventors, Sandi Toksvig uncovers them all in her light hearted approach to the serious message of this book – women have...
Price: £5.99 - Saving £2.00 (25%)
 
 

My Judy Garland Life
Susie Boyt
  Appearing on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 20 November 2008.   A book about celebrity obsession but also about human nature. Susie Boyt has loved Judy Garland from a young age and in this book comes across others who have...
Price: £11.99 - Saving £4.00 (25%)
 
 

Liver
Will Self
  Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 23 October 2008.   Please note that we are currently unable to provide an extract from this title.   An amazing jacket which can't help but catch your eye brings you to four new short...
Price: £14.24 - Saving £4.75 (25%)
 
 

Xmas Gift Books This month's 'featured books'
Xmas Gift Books
Ritual
Mo Hayder
A terrific author, not for the squeamish, with the start of a Bristol-based series ‘Walking Man’ starring DI Jack Caffery and a police diver Sergeant Flea Marley. The title gives you a clue as to the nastiness of this thriller,...
Price: £5.24 - Saving £1.75 (25%)
 
 

Black Butterfly
Mark Gatiss
Lucifer Box returns in the third and final tale of this Mark Gatiss series. Nearing retirement, our intrepid secret agent cannot resist one last case which takes him from the seedy streets of Soho to the sun drenched beaches of...
Price: £11.25 - Saving £3.75 (25%)
 
 

Silent in the Sanctuary
Deanna Raybourn
Another instalment of the Victorian set crime novels. Once again Lady Julia Grey and Nicholas Birsbane find themselves thrown together in their investigative ways when a murder occurs at Julia’s fathers estate during a family gathering. A feisty heroine, a...
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Happy Birthday
Christina Jones
Christina Jones back with another of her quirky, lively feel-good tales. There are always plenty of characters to keep the action going in her novels and of course there is plenty of comedy and romance. Phoebe Bowler has just been...
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Books of the Month This month's 'featured books'
Books of the Month
The Rose Labyrinth
Titania Hardie
  November 2008 Book of the Month.   Usually known for her books of spells and potions as a white witch, Titania Hardie has written a charming novel. A dual-time tale of a secret world...
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River Run Deep
Rachael Treasure
  November 2008 Book of the Month.   A big, sweeping drama of a plucky girl making her mark in the male dominated outback of Australia. An action-packed novel of adventure, dreams, heartbreak and love....
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A Quiet Belief in Angels
R J Ellory
January 2008 Book of the Month. I am championing this author. I think he is very special. His publisher claims he writes crime novels, and there certainly always is a crime,...
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Ferney
James Long
  April 2008 Book of the Month. I fell in love with this book when it was first published in 1997. It did moderately well but not as well as it should. I...
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Best of 2008 This month's 'featured books'
Best of 2008
White Corridor
Christopher Fowler
Bryant and May, like Holmes and Watson or Poirot and Hastings, are both compelling characters in their own right, but together they form one of fiction’s most pleasing duos. All Fowler’s books are intelligent and well-written but in Bryant and...
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Child 44
Tom Rob Smith
  March 2008 Debut of the Month.   Winner of the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger 2008This is a brilliant first novel from an exceptional writer. Set in Stalinist Russia, it is a tight and...
Price: £9.74 - Saving £3.25 (25%)
 
 

My Vintage Summer
Jane Elmor
  June 2008 Debut of the Month.   Alternating in time between teenage ambition and married boredom, our narrator tells each tale in real-time, building tension and compulsion as she goes. You badly need to know what...
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The Calling
Inger Ash Wolfe
I love the cop, she is close enough to retirement not to care if she bends a rule or two; I love the concept, murder victims who are definitely inviting their killer into their homes; I love the villain, a...
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