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• Warriors and Kings: The 1500-Year Battle for Celtic Britain by Martin Wall
  ...e of Britain was changed by the necessity of a state of war. The result is a very interesting journey through often sparse fact and the rich accumulatio ...ng and insular people. This book examines how several tenacious and heroic figures led the Britons and the Welsh against often overwhelming odds.
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• His Illegal Self by Peter Carey
  ...k at relationships, with a real feel for outsiders and landscape, conveyed in rich, beautifully-wrought prose. Much to enjoy if you can accept the slight Seven-year-old Che Selkirk has a lot of questions. Why has he been taken
  4 KB (595 words) - 13:17, 24 March 2018
• The Stone Crown by Malcolm Walker
  ...through older and darker Celtic traditions to a war lord who brings havoc in his wake. The contemporary characters are strong and tied, despite themselv ...spiky and defensive. They both feel like outsiders, and yet they both have a nagging sense that they are where they were meant to be.
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• Unveiled: A Woman's Journey Through Politics, Love, and Obedience by Deborah Kanafani
  |title=Unveiled: A Woman's Journey Through Politics, Love, and Obedience ...the various Middle East conflicts, although the writing can on occasion be a little dry.
  4 KB (674 words) - 08:24, 24 August 2020
• Snip Snap, look who's back! by Mara Bergman and Nick Maland
  |summary=An alligator in the playground causes squeals, scares and surprises. Fortunately, three br ...for further slightly scary fun. The original story is a sure fire hit as a read aloud and fans will definitely want to try this sequel.
  3 KB (475 words) - 10:07, 11 May 2018
• Ice Land by Betsy Tobin
  ...straight out of Angela Carter. Love of the land comes most to the fore in a wonderfully creative take on the Norse pantheon. ...is set at this time of upheaval and is told in the old oral tradition, one in which the boundary between god and mortal is blurred.
  3 KB (461 words) - 13:25, 10 April 2018
• The Lumberjack's Beard by Duncan Beedie
  ...s big bushy beard, without realising just quite what he is letting himself in for… ..., and he soon figures out a new temporary home for his friends, as well as a more long-term solution.
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• Aliens Love Dinopants by Claire Freedman and Ben Cort
  ...ome across some dinosaurs who are equally enthusiastic about undergarments in this vividly illustrated tale. ...p book of course! What would happen if a group of pants loving aliens met a group of pants loving dinosaurs?
  4 KB (666 words) - 14:03, 28 March 2018
• Ice by Sarah Beth Durst
  ...tand the true meaning of love. It's a delight to read, but perhaps more of a passing fancy than one to keep. ...other died when she was just a baby and she can't help feeling a huge hole in her heart. Her scientist father is remote and unloving and her grandmother
  4 KB (618 words) - 09:59, 14 March 2018
• The Art of the Engine Driver by Steven Carroll
  ...the efficiency of diesel, is central as it's used creatively as a metaphor in describing these fictional suburban lives. ...ening in this suburban neighbourhood when all its residents are invited to a celebration party. Carroll see-saws back and forth as he shares the indivi
  4 KB (655 words) - 09:30, 15 March 2018
• Thomas Paine: His Life, His Time and the Birth of the Modern Nations by Craig Nelson
  ...plex, persuasive and radical glory. Required reading for all Americans and a timely ground for reflection for all of us that worry about anti-demoratic ...ondon but came to prominence after his arrival in America with nothing but a recommendation letter from Benjamin Franklin. He went on to become an incre
  7 KB (1,151 words) - 14:06, 9 May 2018
• The Map and the Territory by Michel Houellebecq
  ...rms with one's mortality, a post-modern confusion of author and character, a classy who-dunnit, this book is at once all and perhaps none of those. Houe ...othing but monetary value, and Houellebecq doesn't let any opportunity for a sharp gibe at galleries, art critics and agents go past. The key to Jed's f
  4 KB (721 words) - 13:45, 24 February 2018
• The House of Rajani by Alon Hilu
  |summary=A controversial Israeli novel about colonisation in Palestine in 1895. ...rom the Palestinians. He is also frustrated by his wife’s lack of interest in having sex with him.
  5 KB (788 words) - 13:23, 24 March 2018
• Charles Brandon: Henry VIII's Closest Friend by Steven Gunn
  ...t eighteen months before his royal patron. Although full of detail, it is a somewhat dry study aimed more at the academic than the general reader. ...ever really fell out of favour, and had the good fortune to die peacefully in his bed, just eighteen months before his notoriously capricious royal patro
  4 KB (717 words) - 08:14, 12 April 2018
• Savage Lands by Clare Clark
  ...essive natives, and also their emotionally and cultural struggles to wrest a new lifestyle so far removed from the France of the time. ...gin particularly well for her, as she feels isolated from the other girls. A voracious reader, she has packed her trunk with books as opposed to the mor
  7 KB (1,235 words) - 11:32, 22 March 2018
• Late Nights on Air by Elizabeth Hay
  ...friends head out into the Arctic wastes recreating a canoe expedition from a hundred years earlier. Sparse, eloquent, evocative...tales of planned adv ..., golden summer of 1975 when northern light held that little radio station in the large palm of its hand.''
  7 KB (1,140 words) - 08:25, 2 September 2020
• A Senseless Squalid War: Voices From Palestine 1890s - 1948 by Norman Rose
  |title=A Senseless Squalid War: Voices From Palestine 1890s - 1948 |summary=Voices from Palestine 1890s-1948. A clear history of the troubles in the Promised Land from Herzl's development of Zionism to partition and civi
  7 KB (1,012 words) - 11:52, 27 February 2018
• What's Where on Earth? Atlas: The World as You've Never Seen It Before by DK
  ...s very visually appealing, and can only teach a heck of a lot to a heck of a lot of people. ...a library to check up on whatever bit of trivia I was seeking. I'm so old a lot of things about it now would be most redundant, but if you choose to ri
  5 KB (796 words) - 09:13, 5 May 2018
• The Dog Runner by Bren MacDibble
  |summary=Atmospheric adventure story that might be a bit too exciting for bedtimes, but raises some excellent discussions about ...o his grandfather's house where, he believes, there will still be food and a safe place for them to live until their father can find them again.
  5 KB (870 words) - 09:27, 6 October 2020
• Hunter's Run by George R R Martin, Gardner Dozois and Daniel Abraham
  ...n runs from a murder and finds himself a pawn in a large chase sequence in a slightly old-school but effective sci-fi story. ...e look askance on him stabbing an important diplomat in an alleyway behind a bar, however much vindication there might have been for his actions.
  6 KB (1,000 words) - 13:46, 9 May 2018

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