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• Chancey by Gigi Amateau
  |summary= A delightful story in the tradition of ''Black Beauty'' but which leaves the reader on a positive note. Definitely recommended pa ...but when Chancey was born she was bitterly disappointed for instead of the black Appaloosa with white marking Chancey was born albino. It was only his stri
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• Hollywood Beauty: Vintage Secrets by Laura Slater
  |title=Hollywood Beauty: Vintage Secrets |sort=Hollywood Beauty: Vintage Secrets
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• Dog by Daniel Pennac
  ...rhood as she possibly can. And then... there's an accident. The last thing Black Nose says to Dog is ''If you go to the town, watch out for the cars. Dodge, ...as an instruction. He knows he'll never be happy living on the tip without Black Nose and so he sets off in search of the town and a mistress to train. But
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• Born To Run by Michael Morpurgo
  |summary=A lovely Black Beauty-style story about a racing greyhound's travels through life. Lots of kind a ''Born to Run'' is an updated version of Black Beauty, replacing horses with dogs. It's just as heart-rending in places, but it's
  3 KB (578 words) - 10:58, 6 May 2018
• Category:L J Ross
  ...te the first draft of Holy Island, having been inspired by the atmospheric beauty of the real island of Lindisfarne, a place she knew well from childhood. Fo ...riends and family, dancing to 80's music (singing, badly...), watching old black-and-white movies, drinking coffee and eating cake.
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• Forest Gate by Peter Akinti
  ...ut never, ever forgets that love can save us all. It sounds trite, but the beauty of this book is that it isn't trite, and it's true. Peter Akinti was kind e ...deeply affecting novel about contemporary life in Britain. Moulding urban, black and refugee experience and dealing unflinchingly with suicide, it hurts to
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• Pinocchio by Winshluss
  ...images of nightmarish content, which took it upon themselves to break into black and white, or sepia. The prologue might have a character forcing his cat t ...ach who wants to write cult novels, and the seven dwarves' use of Sleeping Beauty is definitely not for the family audience. I can't begin to say how far fr
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Numba Pinkerton
  ...s. When Numba, author of [[The No Black Project by Numba Pinkerton|The No Black Project]] popped into Bookbag Towers, Sue had lots of questions she wanted ...s. When Numba, author of [[The No Black Project by Numba Pinkerton|The No Black Project]] popped into Bookbag Towers, Sue had lots of questions she wanted
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• Harvest by Jim Crace
  '''Winner: James Tait Black Prize 2014''' ...new visitors. As he shows around Mr Quill, and as Mr Quill gazes upon the beauty of nature, Walter reflects:
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• The Shoe Queen by Anna Davies
  |summary=A well-researched story about a society beauty obsessed by shoes - and a shoemaker. Nineteen-twenties Paris is brought to |publisher=Black Swan
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To S B Charles
  |summary=Jill thought that [[Gliding With Black Swans by S B Charles]] was a roller coaster of a thriller and she couldn't Jill thought that [[Gliding With Black Swans by S B Charles]] was a roller coaster of a thriller and she couldn't
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Louisa Reid
  ...y impressed by Louisa Reid's debut novel [[Black Heart Blue by Louisa Reid|Black Heart Blue]] and we had lots of questions we wanted to ask her. ...y impressed by Louisa Reid's debut novel [[Black Heart Blue by Louisa Reid|Black Heart Blue]] and we had lots of questions we wanted to ask her.
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• The Woman Before Me by Ruth Dugdall
  ...by the fact that Rose is no beauty. And even although we all know that ''beauty is only skin deep'' it doesn't help Rose one bit. The whole boyfriend/soci ...ormation which is always a page-turner. A deft touch is Rose's constant ''black book entry'' which gives us the inner thoughts and workings of Rose's mind.
  3 KB (571 words) - 09:57, 20 March 2018
• Dolly by Susan Hill
  ...to be in the territory of [[The Woman in Black by Susan Hill|The Woman in Black]], but worry not – this new short genre novel is a very different beast. ...young madam, who has inherited the same good fortune, wilful attitude and beauty as her mother. He is here as a semi-permanent resident, being an orphan, s
  4 KB (646 words) - 08:48, 15 August 2020
• The Visitors Book by Sophie Hannah
  ...se like some of her novels and I didn't find myself gasping over the sheer beauty of her writing like I might with some of her poems. But where she excels he ...r, years later, like, say, [[The Woman in Black by Susan Hill|The Woman in Black]] or Daphne du Maurier's ''Don't Look Now''.
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• Dancing Paws of Magic by Maria McArdle
  ...ing Beauty''. Here everything seems to be going just purr-fectly until the Black Treacle Farm Gang – including Gang Leader Bruiser Bumfluff – appear to ...fall in love with the characters in these pictures. They look wonderful in black and white but, to appreciate their true magnificence, I'd definitely recomm
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• Dear Hound by Jill Murphy
  ...y Deerhounds have the grey hair on their ears stripped back to the velvety-black under fur, but only one of Alfie's ears has been stripped, because, well, i ...hael Morpurgo's [[Born To Run by Michael Morpurgo|reworking]] of the Black Beauty story.
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• The Daylight Gate by Jeanette Winterson
  ...e beginning to question Alice's attitudes, choice of company - and ageless beauty. This, then, is the based-on-truth story of how Alice Nutter got to be one ...be, so brilliantly has Winterson followed the Hammer tradition. Here are black masses, dark spells, heaving bosoms and evil not as some tremendous CGI eff
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• Just Look At Me Now by Nell Dixon
  |publisher=Little Black Dress ...nd frizzy hair she has transformed herself into Tia Carpenter, the stylish Beauty editor at ''Platinum'' magazine. She has always kept her previous life secr
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• The Dirty South by Alex Wheatle
  ...y=Crisp, clean writing with wit and humour tempers this story of the urban black experience in Britain. It's not angry, but it makes some angry points. For ...riend and dealing partner Noel. Outwardly, Noel is the stereotypical urban black youth. He's dirt poor, from a single parent family. His mother hits him. He
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