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Thanks to Simon & Schuster publishers, you can now read the first chapter of Ali Harris’ debut novel Miracle on Regent Street! We’ve been really looking forward to this one and the first chapter has definitely whet my appetite to read even more! Let us know in the comments what you think of the chapter.

Click on the link to go and read the first chapter now!

http://www.simonandschuster.co.uk/admin_assets/1568_1st_chapter_miracle_on_regent_street_txt.pdf

I was browsing Facebook and saw that Emily Giffin is giving her fans a little exclusive, something I’m sure some of you will like! Her 2012 release Where We Belong may not be out for a good while yet, but Emily is giving her fans the chance to read the first chapter on her website! I’ve had a read and it sounds really good, I can’t wait to read the rest of the book.

Read the first chapter of ‘Where We Belong’ here. Let us know what you think of it!

Paige Toon’s eagerly anticipated third novel Baby Be Mine isn’t due out until July 21st, but if you can’t wait just over a month for that, then you can read the first chapter online at publisher Simon and Schuster’s website! After reading it, I can’t wait for the book, it’s going to be great! Let us know what you think by leaving a comment once you’ve had a read too.

Read the first chapter by clicking here!

We’re very excited to be hosting the final extract in Headline’s blog serialisation of Jessica Ruston’s brand new book To Touch The Stars, and hope it certainly whets your appetite for this brilliant book! I will be reviewing the book this afternoon on the site, but for now, here is our exclusive extract from To Touch The Stars. To celebrate, Jessica’s publishers are giving away five signed copies, with one lucky winner getting a bottle of bubbly to enjoy with the book! For your chance to win answer this simple question:

What was the title of Jessica Ruston’s first novel?

Email answers to [email protected], or tweet answers to @publicitybooks

If you’ve missed any of the other extracts, you can find them here: Novelicious, Bookalicious Ramblings and Dot Scribbles.

“Cavalley’s is renowned for style, glamour and sophistication, providing the ultimate fashion indulgences for film stars and fashionistas. Violet Cavalley has poured her heart and soul into building her multimillion pound business and raising her three children. But Violet is not the woman she appears to be. And her adored children conceal secrets of their own. Behind the Cavalley family’s gilded façade lies a streak of darkness. Darkness that now threatens to destroy them all…

Violet lay in her hospital room. It was off the main corridor, and outside, she could hear trolleys being trundled past, and orderlies speaking to one another. There were a few chairs, a small table, some papers. A jug of water and a plastic rose in a little jar. The depressing contents that filled similar rooms all over the world, rooms where people waited, staring ahead with glazed eyes, just as she did now, waiting for news, hoping that the worst would never come, hoping that each sound of footsteps would not be the ones that brought their lives to a crossroads or a cul de sac. Half desperate for news, half wanting to put off for ever the moment that they feared most of all.

She stared down at her hands, resting on her lap, and thought how old they looked. When had they got like that? She didn’t remember. It had crept up on her sneakily, in the way aging did. One day you were sixteen and everything was ahead of you, and the next, you were… old. The sort of woman they called a doyenne rather than a protegee. A grandmother, a widow. Not that she had had to be old to be a widow. She raised her head. Her mouth was dry. Patrick sat by her side.

‘They’ll be here, soon enough,’ he said. ‘Everyone will be here.’

‘Flip?’ she asked, and her voice was unrecognisable. ‘I need to see Flip.’

Patrick’s eyes crinkled, and he shook his head. ‘No. I’m sorry, my darling. Not Flip. Shh, don’t cry. Don’t cry, lovely girl.’

And then later, as her children stood around her, the door opened and in walked Tillie. Her head was bruised, her face marred by a cut down one side, but she was otherwise unharmed.

‘Tillie.’ Violet swallowed. ‘Have you brought him? Have you brought Flip?’

Her children looked at one another, uncomfortably. Tillie turned to them. ‘Can we have a moment?’ she asked, then turned back to Violet, and gently took her hand, as Sebastian, Fran, Blue and Patrick left the room.

‘Soon,’ she said, softly. ‘Flip’s coming soon.’ Her voice was soothing. ‘Violet. I need to tell you some things.’

She pulled up a chair, and sat close to her mother-in-law, still holding her hand.

‘You’re not the only one who’s been keeping secrets,’ she said.

Violet’s eyes widened.

TO TOUCH THE STARS by Jessica Ruston, published by Headline Review in February 2011, £6.99″

Claire Allan’s fourth book, It’s Got To Be Perfect, is due out in October 2010, and it’s one I am really looking forward to. Claire has let us know you can now read the first chapter of the book on her website, and I’ve had a read myself, and it’s certainly made me want to read the book now! Go to Claire’s website on the link below, and let us know what you think when you’ve had a read!

Read the first chapter of ‘It’s Got To Be Perfect’ here

I recently got to read a book that is probably one of my favourite reads of 2010, Jandy Nelson’s debut novel The Sky Is Everywhere. It’s released in the UK this week and to celebrate, Jandy’s UK publishers Walker are publishing extracts around various blogs. Today is our turn, so have a read and I hope you enjoy it! We’ll be reviewing the book on Wednesday as well as launching a competition where you can win a t-shirt, copy of the book and a notebook so look out for that!

The book is about a girl, Lennie, who after losing her sister Bailey suddenly finds herself thrust into the center of everyone’s world, rather than using her sister as a shield. And despite never really having a boyfriend before, she suddenly finds herself choosing between two - Joe and Toby. A unique aspect of the book is the fact poems are scattered throughout the book, so we have not only an extract but a poem too (click it to enlarge). After reading our extract, head on over to http://www.waterstones.com/waterstonesweb/pages/independent-publishers/2003/ tomorrow (Tuesday) for the last extract as well as being able to buy yourself a copy!

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I found out today that Belinda Jones has put the prologue, chapter 1 and chapter 2 of her new book Living La Vida Loca up on her website for everyone to read, and you’re in for a treat! I’ve already had the pleasure of reading the book, and it’s utterly fantastic, so hopefully this extract will tickle your taste buds and make you want to head out to the shops on June 10th and buy your own copy! Enjoy!

Click here to go to Belinda’s site to read the extract

I absolutely loved Gemma Burgess’s debut novel The Dating Detox so when she offered us the chance of an exclusive sneak-peek to post to our readers, I jumped at the chance. If you haven’t yet read Gemma Burgess’s debut novel, then I ask you - why not? It’s fab, it’s funny and you’ll love it. Here’s Gem to introduce you to her extract of book two!

My first book, The Dating Detox, came out in January 2010, and the second is due out in December 2010. Book Deux still hasn’t got a confirmed title (The Dating Virgin? The Late Starter? The Bastardette? The Single Life? Ah, a thousand titles, and everyone has a different favourite, making a decision impossible – the basic premise: girl learns how to be single, rocks out). So it hasn’t got a cover, either. Those things are coming soon, I promise; the talented people at Harper Collins are in the book kitchen, cooking up something tasty. But as I’m dying to tell you about it, I thought an extract might be fun.

Love and other indoor sports,

Gem x

SNEAK PEEK! EXTRACT FROM THE SECOND BOOK BY GEMMA BURGESS

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