Lovereading Top 10

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All the Little Pieces All the Little Pieces Jilliane Hoffman June 2015 Book of the Month. All the Little Pieces should come with a warning label: this is not a light easy read, it’s disturbing, sad, unsettling and… addictive. You are launched straight into the terrified thoughts of a young woman ... Download free opening extract
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The Looking Glass House The Looking Glass House Vanessa Tait ‘The Looking Glass House’ is a bright, bold work of fiction, simply told yet holding a complicated ring of truth. Alice Liddell, the young inspiration for Lewis Caroll is the great-grandmother of the author of this novel. Alice’s keepsakes have ... Download free opening extract
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The Last 10 Seconds The Last 10 Seconds Simon Kernick Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 6 May 2010. Simon Kernick is fast becoming one of the top crime writers in Britain today and at Lovereading we have been fans for a long time. Here we have another ... Download free opening extract
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Find Me Find Me Laura van den Berg June 2015 Debut of the Month. A sensitive debut novel by a young American author, previously praised for her short stories, Find Me belongs to the somewhat topical recent school of hopeful dystopias and reminded me of both Sarah Pinborough’s The ... Download free opening extract
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The Replacement The Replacement Patrick Redmond A Maxim Jakubowski selected title. An accomplished psychological thriller that uncovers the layers of deceit and human delusion at the heart of families and which at times reaches the sharp brilliance of Ruth Rendell's similar tales about the unseen side of ... Download free opening extract
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To Kill A Mockingbird To Kill A Mockingbird Harper Lee You may have read this but it certainly deserves another read.  It’s the sort of book that becomes more profound with each reading.  It is quite simply brilliant, a tale of prejudices and injustice in small town America which should ... Download free opening extract
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The Cartel The Cartel Don Winslow Maxim Jakubowski's June 2015 Book of the Month. Winslow's The Power of the Dog which I once reviewed for The Guardian was a truly epic tale of the war against drugs that felt suffocating and sweaty and scary. This lengthy sequel ... Download free opening extract
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Fifty Shades of Grey Fifty Shades of Grey E. L. James The book everyone’s been talking about, now a major motion picture. Young and innocent Anastasia Steele doesn’t quite know what to make of the smouldering industrialist Christian Grey when she interviews him for her student paper. Things get both troubling ... Download free opening extract
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (150th Anniversary Edition with Dame Vivienne Westwood) Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (150th Anniversary Edition with Dame Vivienne Westwood) Lewis Carroll From her catwalk shows inspired by the Mad Hatter's Tea Party to her world famous twisted take on Britishness, Dame Vivienne Westwood has always seen the world through the looking glass. Now she has illustrated her favourite children's story by ... Download free opening extract
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The Accident Season The Accident Season Moira Fowley-Doyle July 2015 NewGen Debut of the Month. Each October Cara’s family must endure the accident season when for four weeks, no matter how much their mother tries to protect them, covering every surface in padding, removing electrical gadgets, hiding knives, they ... Download free opening extract