Annual Top Ten

Every ​12 months - during each February - the Annual Top Ten Update shows the overall Top Ten selling books on FeedARead.com for the preceding twelve months. This chart was generated in Wednesday, 1 January 2020.

The top ten books will receive feedback on their opening chapters from editors for leading publishers, including Bloombury, Random House and Orion – publishers of bestselling authors such as JK Rowling, Dan Brown and Terry Pratchett.

The aim is for  authors to be considered by, and to receive feedback from world leading publishers to help develop their writing further. FeedARead authors are also free to take up any other advantageous publishing offers that they may be offered. If you would like to view more about any of the books, click on the book title.

1

Courage to Change

By Sylvie Nickels

Nikki’s childhood was blighted by her father’s drinking.She knew she would never lose control of her life like that.But things didn’t work out as she had planned. This is her story.

ISBN: 9781782995579

Type: Paperback

$12.65

2

Autismus - (m)eine andere Wahrnehmung

By Gee Vero

Autismus - (m)eine andere Wahrnehmung ist ein Buch für Menschen, die mit autistischen Menschen leben und arbeiten und diejenigen, die die Begegnung suchen und sich der Herausforderung des Mitmensch-Seins mit autistischen Menschen stellen wollen. Das Buch beschreibt in erster Linie den Autismus der Autorin und den Autismus ihres 10jährigen Sohnes, a...

ISBN: 9781784079734

Type: Paperback

$19.70

3

ORTHODOXY AND THE KINGDOM OF SATAN

By Father Spyridon Bailey

Father Spyridon presents a challenge and a warning to all Christians about the growth of the kingdom of Satan. He points first to the signs of this growing kingdom before explaining how we are each attacked and manipulated by evil powers that have corrupted our world. The looming threat of a one world government is presented by this Orthodox priest...

ISBN: 9781786979513

Type: Paperback

$11.36

4

"ASK ME ANOTHER ?"

By DAVID DUNN-WILSON

AN INVITATIONI’m told that that there are exactly 5467 Promises in the Bible, but some say there are as many as 8,000! Whoever is right, one thing is certain-the Bible is a Book full of Promises. I was thinking about this when I stumbled on Sir Francis Bacon’s claim that, “Who questions much shall learn much and retain much”, and that made me think...

ISBN: 9781788766142

Type: Paperback

$11.95

5

The Troubles in Creggan Parish, 1969-2000

By Kevin McMahon

This is a chronology of events, gleaned from the files of newspapers, of the Troubles in the Parish of Creggan, South Armagh, from 1969 to 2000.

ISBN: 9781788765848

Type: Paperback

$12.95

6

Outside Edge

By Neil Simon Hanley

Twelve-year-old Lewis Duckworth wants to be a cricketer but never seems to get the chance. Playing in his first cricket match for his new school goes horribly wrong.Will he and his family forever remain OUTSIDERS?It makes him determined to prove he can do better as he tries to EDGE his new team to glory in the Inter-Town Twenty Cup

ISBN: 9781786109453

Type: Paperback

$11.95

7

Flashman at the Alamo

By Robert Brightwell

When other men might be looking forward to a well-earned retirement to enjoy their ill-gotten gains, Flashman finds himself once more facing overwhelming odds and ruthless enemies, while standing (reluctantly) shoulder to shoulder with some of America’s greatest heroes.A trip abroad to avoid a scandal at home leaves him bored and restless. They say...

ISBN: 9781839450075

Type: Paperback

$12.95

8

Bulstrode: Splendour and Scandals of a Buckinghamshire Mansion

By DJ Kelly

The beautiful Buckinghamshire estate of Bulstrode, once a hilltop refuge for early man, has been home to medieval Knights Templar; cruel and corrupt judges; blue bloods and blue stockings; a nobleman who twice served as British Prime Minister; ancestors of a US President’s wife; the richest woman in England; the most beautiful woman in England; the...

ISBN: 9781788768108

Type: Paperback

$11.95

9

The Drama Pot

By Joanne Watkinson

A book packed with monologues, script extracts and activities for children of all ages. The Drama Pot has been written by a drama teacher with over twenty years experience which includes heading up a performing arts faculty in a secondary school, GCSE and A-Level examining and most currently residing as the principal of a successful theatre school....

ISBN: 9781788762595

Type: Paperback

$11.23

10

Escape to Auschwitz

By Sonia Ann Waterfall

It was 2004, and a cache of letters was found when our parents house was cleared in preparation for sale. Ilse, our mother, had kept them safe for 50 years, never mentioning them nor telling their story. Hulda, her mother Gisela and daughter Ilse, all born into a Viennese Jewish family, were caught up in the tragedy of Hitler’s Europe. The three wo...

ISBN: 9781782996811

Type: Paperback

$16.11

11

ONLY DEAD FISH GO WITH THE FLOW

By Pauline Messenger

This book contains examples of how you can turn a negative situation into a positive. e.g. divorce, illness, dealing with the death of a child and lots of other situations. I have written about my life experiences and how I turned my life around.

ISBN: 9781788767354

Type: Paperback

$11.83

12

Flashman and the Seawolf

By Robert Brightwell

Following the popularity of the memoirs of Harry Flashman, the Victorian scoundrel who got himself embroiled in many events of his age, this book introduces a new generation of the family: Thomas Flashman, whose career covers the Napoleonic and Georgian era. This first book covers his adventures with Thomas Cochrane, one of the most extraordinary n...

ISBN: 9781781763636

Type: Paperback

$12.65

13

Tales from Beyond the Wood

By Adrian Farrel

Twenty-two new and original fairy stories from the author of "Tales from the Wood" and "More Tales from the Wood". A collection of tales that are reminiscent of those you heard in your childhood.* * *Once the troupe had gone from sight and the chiming of their bells was lost in the air, the farmer rose up and decided to investigate. Fairy palaces, ...

ISBN: 9781788760096

Type: Paperback

$11.95

14

The Ancient Path

By Father Spyridon Bailey

The Ancient Path is a call for twentieth century man to rediscover authentic Christianity. Fr. Spyridon highlights the gulf that exists between modern thinking and the belief and practices of the Early Church. It is a call to abandon the illusions of modern philosophy to return to the one path that leads to Christ. Rich with quotations from the Chu...

ISBN: 9781784079987

Type: Paperback

$11.95

15

The Goal, The End

By Peter J. Clynes

Moor Green Football Club turned 100 years old on September 17, 2001. Six years and a devastating fire later, the historic club, based since 1930 in the suburb of Hall Green, six miles to the south of Birmingham, was consigned to history. The Moors competed in the Dr Martens Southern League at the time of the club’s centennial and had risen to the C...

ISBN: 9781788766739

Type: Paperback

$12.00

16

COLD DAYS, HOT NIGHTS: BUDDY HOLLY AND THE CRICKETS’ BRITISH TOUR

By Andrew Johnston

March 1958 was cold, unusually cold. The arrival of Spring seemed to be forever delayed as Britain remained in winter’s grip. Flying into this frigid climate were Buddy Holly and The Crickets, for whom Saturday the 1st of March marked the beginning of their 25 date UK tour. Having landed at Heathrow Airport, then known merely as London Airport, two...

ISBN: 9781788766036

Type: Paperback

$9.13

17

Buckinghamshire Spies and Subversives

By D J Kelly

Buckinghamshire has a 600 year history of subversion, sedition and espionage. The county has been home to radical plotters, heretics and heretic hunters, agents provocateurs and informers. Two world wars brought spies, secret agents and saboteurs to the county and many of our stately homes housed wartime code-breakers, eavesdroppers, boffins, intel...

ISBN: 9781785108471

Type: Paperback

$13.99

18

Flashman and the Golden Sword

By Robert Brightwell

Of all the enemies that our hero has shrunk away from, there was one he feared above them all. By his own admission they gave him nightmares into his dotage. It was not the French, the Spanish, the Americans or the Mexicans. It was not even the more exotic adversaries such as the Iroquois, Mahratta or Zulus. While they could all make his guts churn...

ISBN: 9781788765077

Type: Paperback

$12.95

19

Duncan Through the Looking Glass

By Duncan Richmond

Duncan Richmond has been a cameraman for forty years. He began his career at Aberdeen University TV Service before training and working at LWT (London Weekend Television). Duncan later moved to TVS (Television South) and became a freelancer in 1992. Duncan Through the Looking Glass gives a look behind the scenes from the vantage point of the author...

ISBN: 9781788766593

Type: Paperback

$11.47

20

Then, Now, and Maybe Tomorrow

By Tom Power

A collection of nine stories and seventy poems that I have chosen for your enjoyment, resonating with the present and invoking the past. Does the past matter? Yes it does, what we are and what is, is defined by the past; an indelible line of connectivity to the present and this will also contribute to the future. A future that is as yet unknown and...

ISBN: 9781788767071

Type: Paperback

$11.95

21

Flashman and the Cobra

By Robert Brightwell

This is the second instalment in the life story of Thomas Flashman, the uncle of the notorious Victorian rogue Harry Flashman, whose memoirs have already been published, edited by George MacDonald Fraser. Thomas shares many of the family traits, particularly the ability to find himself reluctantly at the sharp end of many major events of his age. T...

ISBN: 9781782990055

Type: Paperback

$12.95

22

We appear to have lost the time

By Judi Woodnutt

Woven from true and often darkly humorous experiences, this is the story of what happened to a family when both the parents succumbed to dementia within days of each other. It tells of George and Joan Ellis whose baffled admission: “We appear to have lost the time” set off a series of events that led to irrevocable change in more than just the dyna...

ISBN: 9781788768290

Type: Paperback

$12.95

23

Flashman's Waterloo

By Robert Brightwell

This sixth packet of memoirs from the notorious Georgian rogue Thomas Flashman covers the extraordinary events that culminated in a battle just south of Brussels, near a place called Waterloo. The first six months of 1815 were a pivotal time in European history. As a result, countless books have been written by men who were there and by those who s...

ISBN: 9781786973801

Type: Paperback

$12.95

24

Cowslips and Callipers

By Ann Tomes

"The surrounding countryside lay low and flat, with woods, farms and cottages standing out; their profiles etched against the huge skies like cut-out pop-up pictures in a children’s story book, and it was easy to forget that these houses were occupied by real live people whose history was written in this tiny village". Ann Tomes is one of those peo...

ISBN: 9781788768283

Type: Paperback

$11.95

25

Looking Down, Looking In

By Tony Emerson

This family saga was inspired by a 1935 photo of two brothers and their young wives, their older sister and mother. The reader embarks on a journey based on the collection and recollection of family tales liberally embellished with pure fiction, travelling from Connemara in the far west of Ireland through to Kent in the south-east of England, over ...

ISBN: 9781788766555

Type: Paperback

$12.65

26

The King's Mother

By Judith Arnopp

October 1485With the English crown finally in his possession, Henry Tudor’s endeavours to restore order to the realm are hindered by continuing unrest. While the king is plagued with uprisings and pretenders to his throne, Margaret in her capacity as The King’s Mother oversees the running of his court. The warring houses of York and Lancaster are u...

ISBN: 9781788761659

Type: Paperback

$12.95

27

BEYOND THE DARK PEAK

By KEVIN BORMAN

Beyond The Dark Peak is a selection of Kevin Borman's mountain writing, most of it previously published in a wide range of magazines and journals. It's a paean of praise to the hills and an acknowledgement to the friends with whom he has shared mountain days and nights. There is poetry and prose, reminiscence and reflection, but also plenty of desc...

ISBN: 9781788768740

Type: Paperback

$14.45

28

To Be A Queen

By Annie Whitehead

This is the true story of Aethelflaed, the 'Lady of the Mercians', daughter of Alfred the Great. She was the only female leader of an Anglo-Saxon kingdom. It is the tale of one family, two kingdoms and a common enemy.Born into the royal house of Wessex at the height of the Viking wars, she is sent to her aunt in Mercia as a foster-child, only to re...

ISBN: 9781784071653

Type: Paperback

$14.45

29

Where Hedgehogs Dare - paperback colour

By Elizabeth Morley

FULL COLOUR edition, featuring 53 delightful illustrations by the author. An exciting and witty adventure story for 7-11 year-olds, set in a parallel world populated by hedgehogs. The story opens as the Second World War is unfolding. Great Bristlin stands alone against Hegemony and needs every hedgehog it can get: Spike has joined His Majesty’s Air...

ISBN: 9781788767149

Type: Paperback

$8.18

30

Back in Action

By Ian Atkinson

In December 1986, the Swiftsure-class submarine, HMS Saracen sailed from Devonport for a routine patrol within the Arctic Circle.A series of catastrophic incidents combine to leave her crippled on the bottom of the Barents Sea, dangerously close to the Russian coast. The crew struggle for days to repair the boat before their life support systems fa...

ISBN: 9781788766258

Type: Paperback

$12.81