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• Circle, Square, Moose by Kelly L Bingham and Paul O Zelinsky
  There is an anarchic pleasure to ''Circle, Square, Moose'' that borders on the absurd, but manages to turn into genius. Things start off routinely At times this book borders on the precipice of being Meta; deconstructing the fundamentals of the educ
  3 KB (570 words) - 11:07, 29 March 2018
• The Stone Crown by Malcolm Walker
  ...rong and tied, despite themselves, to the harsh landscapes of the Scottish Borders. The harsh landscape of the Scottish Borders plays a vital role. It's old and menacing and powerful, but it's also uncha
  4 KB (733 words) - 17:39, 14 March 2018
• Secrets in Prior's Ford by Eve Houston
  |summary=Village life in the Scottish borders is perfectly captured in this first book of a new series which will appeal ...nd features a fictional village not far from Kirkcudbright in the Scottish Borders. You can tell that it's Scotland because the children pull faces if their p
  4 KB (649 words) - 12:53, 9 May 2018
• The Leopard of Dramoor by P De V Hencher
  |summary=Warfare was never far away in the Scottish-English borders in medieval times. ''The Leopard of Dramoor'' looks at this area and time t ...and betrayal. There's also a tangible understanding and love of the local borders landscape and history that rises from the pages so strongly that you can fe
  4 KB (620 words) - 14:18, 21 March 2018
• The Survival Game by Nicky Singer
  ...by climate change and the mass movement of people and it is one defined by borders, checkpoints and soldiers with guns. Mhairi has made it across Africa and o ...exacerbates it? Will countries institute population control measures? Will borders stay as they are?
  4 KB (661 words) - 12:36, 29 May 2018
• Kingmakers: How Power in England Was Won and Lost on the Welsh Frontier by Timothy Venning
  ...iod, Britain often seemed to be on the verge of civil war. The Anglo-Welsh borders were a perpetual source of trouble, kept at bay only by the Marcher lords a ...iod, Britain often seemed to be on the verge of civil war. The Anglo-Welsh borders were a perpetual source of trouble, kept at bay only by the Marcher lords a
  4 KB (646 words) - 13:03, 12 April 2018
• Dust to Dust (Steven Dunbar) by Ken McClure
  ...th. Deft touch. A lot of the action takes place at Dryburgh Abbey in the Borders. This is a golden opportunity for McClure to give the reader some historic ...onvened meeting in London then back to the relative calm and beauty of the Borders. But the net appears to be closing in. McClure gives us likeable characte
  4 KB (640 words) - 19:44, 29 August 2020
• Guns in the North (The Sir Robert Carey Mysteries Omnibus) by P F Chisholm
  ...omnibus of 16th century murder mysteries and adventure along the Scottish borders that's rich in characters, action and well-textured history. ...become Deputy Warden of the West March in Carlisle. The Scottish/English borders and those who inhabit them are different from the world he's left behind bu
  4 KB (767 words) - 13:39, 14 April 2018
• Christmas Designs by Elaine Hill
  ...riod. The book is filled with beautifully illustrated patterns, motifs and borders. If you are a craftaholic the chances are that this book can be used in a v Page 16 - A selection of borders. A small Christmas tree with frame behind. A bough of holly. A picture of a
  5 KB (915 words) - 10:08, 2 March 2018
• Dacre's War by Rosemary Goring
  ...enry VIII has decided on a scorched earth policy and sends agents over the borders to burn Scottish towns and plunder their churches and monasteries to fund h Talking of Henry, there are interesting parallels between the war along the borders and the modern day Middle East conflicts. Dacre understands the mind of th
  5 KB (799 words) - 12:43, 22 February 2018
• The Marches by Rory Stewart
  ...walked 6,000 miles across Afghanistan in 2002. A walk along the Scottish borders should be a doddle by comparison. ...alk as such. It is about the history of the borders, of the people of the borders. It is about how our perception of history and of national identity gets a
  9 KB (1,559 words) - 18:04, 16 February 2018
• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To W Scott Beaven
  ...arrative. Mixed-race Japanese girls blend easily in London, less so in the Borders, so she would never have expected prejudice because she would not have much ...the space programme. Their constructions are very obvious in the Scottish Borders and North Pennines; disused railway stations and viaducts, cuttings and sid
  6 KB (1,069 words) - 08:23, 21 May 2014
• The Heresy of Dr Dee by Phil Rickman
  ...y needs to find one. With Dudley accompanying him, he sets of to the Welsh borders in pursuit of one such stone, but the land of Dee's father is a dangerous p
  3 KB (440 words) - 15:47, 22 February 2018
• Take Back the Skies by Lucy Saxon
  ...dreams of flying in a skyship and of seeing the world beyond her island's borders. So Catherine becomes Cat. She stows away on the skyship Stormdancer. Here,
  3 KB (432 words) - 15:00, 12 March 2018
• The Littlest Dinosaur by Michael Foreman
  ...ened with details, subtle but arresting, and the tiny dinosaur on his hill borders on .... haunting, really, despite still being the ridiculous type of creatu
  3 KB (444 words) - 17:13, 10 April 2018
• Mrs. Mo's Monster by Paul Beavis
  ...cter illustrations may be a little too dark for the very young. The black borders are a little stark and one or two of the full two page spreads are a little
  3 KB (507 words) - 15:31, 4 April 2018
• Skylarking by Kate Mildenhall
  ...ously taught across schools in Australia, volunteered with Teachers Across Borders in Cambodia – and this is her first novel.
  3 KB (480 words) - 11:36, 19 March 2018
• Tuck (King Raven Trilogy) by Stephen R Lawhead
  ...satifsying conclusion to a trilogy that transports Robin Hood to the Welsh borders in the years after William the Conqueror. The supernatural element from the
  3 KB (486 words) - 13:31, 27 September 2020
• Blue Flame (Perfect Fire Trilogy) by Katie Grant
  ...st stand. And Parsifal does find his way home, back to the Occitan, on the borders of modern-day France and Spain. It's an unhappy time of civil unrest. Catho
  3 KB (494 words) - 15:21, 30 March 2018
• At The Animal Ball by Ella Bailey
  is thoughtful, right down to the pretty borders around the text,
  3 KB (468 words) - 12:00, 7 October 2020

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