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Best summer reads - win over £600 worth!

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CariGransnet (GNHQ) Wed 22-May-19 14:27:01

If you're after ideas for what to read this summer, look no further than our round-up of the best summer reads for 2019.

One very lucky person can win all the books featured on the page - worth over £600.

To enter, simply tell us your favourite female character from a book (old or new and from any genre).

A winner will be drawn at random at midday on Monday 15 July. Usual terms and conditions apply. Note that because of the size and weight of the prize box, we are only able to deliver to mainland UK addresses.

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Florentine88 Wed 29-May-19 00:41:04

Rachel Jedder from Jedders land

baggiebird Tue 28-May-19 23:44:04

My favourite female character is Hermonie Grainger from the Harry Potter books

Chrissiegirl Tue 28-May-19 23:35:45

Queenie Hennessy from
The love song of Miss Queenie Hennessy

Gabby61 Tue 28-May-19 23:29:11

I would love to win this fanatic offer of 2019 best books.

Sox37 Tue 28-May-19 23:18:17

Arwen (Evenstar) from Lord of the Rings

rajdeepuk Tue 28-May-19 23:16:51

I love the character from Eleanor Oliphant - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine ????

Rich1e Tue 28-May-19 23:07:59

March Middleton, from The Gower Street Detective series.

vissos Tue 28-May-19 22:37:55

Julia Garnet

Lorelei Tue 28-May-19 22:31:27

My favourite female character is Ayla from Clan of the Cave Beat (and the 5 other books in the 'Earth's Children' series by J.M. Auel: 'The Valley of Horses' + 'The Mammoth Hunters' + 'The Plains of Passage' + 'The Shelters of Stone' + 'The Land of Painted Caves'). Set at the end of the last Ice Age at a time when modern humans and Neandethals shared Europe, the story follows Ayla (a modern human) from a 5-year-old child orphaned in an earthquake and adopted by the Clan (Neanderthals) to adulthood amongst her own kind. A work of fiction that is very well researched and full of lots of interesting concepts, ideas on how things came to be as such - a great, interesting, diverse, fiercely independent character.

5edith5 Tue 28-May-19 22:25:54

Lisbeth Salander

mistyrose2 Tue 28-May-19 21:35:04

June from The Handmaid's Tale

Rabbit Tue 28-May-19 21:05:02

My favourite female character is Kinsey Millhone from the Alphabet series. I love reading the books and discovering more about her past. She is funny, independently-minded, kind and prone to rash decisions, just like many of us.

dahlia08 Tue 28-May-19 20:40:31

Jo March....little Women

cassey1 Tue 28-May-19 20:40:12

Becky Bloomwood from the shopaholic books

Itsmyfirstrodeo Tue 28-May-19 20:39:28

Helena Justina

dahlia08 Tue 28-May-19 20:39:26

Jane Ayers.....Charlotte Brobté

Vivian123 Tue 28-May-19 20:36:53

Clara Peggotty from David Copperfield

gayrod Tue 28-May-19 20:32:51

Vera Stanhope by Ann Cleeves

Glimble Tue 28-May-19 20:20:03

Kinsey Milhone from Sue Grafton's A,B,C crime novels. Such a shame that she died before she could write Z.

russams Tue 28-May-19 19:53:29

Rebecca (from novel by Daphne du Maurier)

ballie Tue 28-May-19 19:17:35

Matilda Wormwood from Matilda by Roald Dahl

bets1e Tue 28-May-19 19:08:31

Mma Ramotswe from The Ladies No 1 Detective Agency Series

Topi34 Tue 28-May-19 19:08:04

Mary Lennox from The Secret Garden

Abuelamia Tue 28-May-19 18:24:54

Jo March Little Women

Stile Tue 28-May-19 18:12:37

Katherine from Katherine by Anya Seton

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