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Article  •  15 June 2022

 

Find your perfect winter read!

Temperatures are dropping, the nights are getting darker and it’s the perfect time to find a cozy spot to curl up with a good book . . .

To make extra sure your winter read is the right one for you, we’ve made the first chapter of every book available to read on our website. Click here, or on the picture below, to read the full article with clickable links to the extracts! 

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Winter Time
Set in the Mackenzie Basin, this vivid novel is about familial love, friendship and how our lives touch, connect and impact upon one another.
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The Whalebone Theatre
The Sunday Times bestseller. They raised themselves on stories. Now it's time for them to write their own...
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With a Mind to Kill
A spy is dead. A legend is born. This is how it all began. The explosive prequel to Casino Royale, from bestselling author Anthony Horowitz.
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Clive Cussler's Dark Vector
Kurt Austin and the NUMA crew return in a thrilling new adventure continuing the bestselling series from the grand master of adventure, Clive Cussler.
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Book of Night
#1 New York Times bestselling author Holly Black makes her stunning adult debut with Book of Night, a modern dark fantasy of shadowy thieves and secret societies
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Book Lovers
Set over one sizzling August, BOOK LOVERS is the new chemistry-filled 'rivals to lovers' romcom from New York Times #1 bestseller Emily Henry
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Lion
Discover the rise and fall of the world's greatest empire in the stunning first instalment of The Golden Age, an epic new series from the nation's finest historical novelist
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Killing Floor
The very first book by number one bestseller Lee Child, which introduces his iconic hero Jack Reacher.
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No Less The Devil
Introducing a truly unforgettable, surprising and original new detective, D.S. Lucy McVeigh. The ambitious new crime novel from number one Sunday Times bestselling author Stuart MacBride.
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Lessons in Chemistry
The 8-million-copy worldwide and Sunday Times #1 bestseller and award-winner featuring the uncompromising, unconventional Elizabeth Zott
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22 Seconds
The thrilling new instalment in the globally bestselling series. The Women's Murder Club is back with a fiendish new case which the four friends will need to call upon all their ingenuity to solve
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Harbouring
A distant land, a new life, an escape from the past.
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