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• The Spider Truces by Tom Connolly
  ...at life runs smoothly for either of them. It doesn't. For example, Ellis borders on the hysterical over these blasted spiders, so his father, Denny, creates
  5 KB (909 words) - 12:31, 8 September 2020
• Disputed Land by Tim Pears
  ...ovel concerning the problem of what a conflicted family based in the Welsh Borders will bequeath to future generations.
  5 KB (812 words) - 10:04, 24 March 2018
• Little Mouse's Big Book of Fears by Emily Gravett
  ...f an empathetic put-yourself-in-sombeody's shoes exercise that (honestly!) borders on method acting (what are mice scared of? how would one see the word? how
  5 KB (912 words) - 14:48, 30 March 2018
• The Future History of the Arctic: How climate, resources and geopolitics are reshaping the north, and why it matters to the world by Charles Emmerson
  ...ration and exploitation, particularly in the various countries with Arctic borders and/or territory, including the US, Canada, Russia/the Soviet Union, Finlan
  6 KB (998 words) - 11:14, 12 April 2018
• Gatty's Tale by Kevin Crossley-Holland
  ...ear of Our Lord 1203. Nine pilgrims set forth from their home on the Welsh borders on a journey to Jerusalem. One of them is Gatty, a village-girl with a sing
  5 KB (939 words) - 10:26, 9 March 2018
• In the Valley of Mist: Kashmir's Long War - One Family's Extraordinary Story by Justine Hardy
  ...rly known as the state of Jammu and Kashmir and politically straddling the borders of its larger neighbours, with the might of China and threatened Tibet to i
  6 KB (962 words) - 13:43, 28 February 2018
• Heart of Darfur by Lisa French Blaker
  The medical charity Medecins sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) has been in Sudan for more than twenty five years, and Lisa French Blaker
  6 KB (976 words) - 11:33, 3 March 2018
• The Silver Blade by Sally Gardner
  ...to do with fairies and pixie dust either. In fact, more often than not it borders on Gothic horror. There's an underground palace constructed entirely from h
  5 KB (887 words) - 15:40, 25 February 2018
• Saturn's Children by Charles Stross
  ...ly humans but all biological life is extinct and special police patrol the borders in search of self-replicating pink goo (although Lem's Cyberiad is set in a
  5 KB (858 words) - 14:46, 1 April 2018
• Rain Falls On Everyone by Clar Ni Chonghaile
  Théoneste Mukamsonera was a child scooped out of a refugee camp on beyond the borders or Rwanda in 1994; rescued; given a second chance with a foster family in I
  6 KB (988 words) - 13:46, 23 September 2020
• Paralysed with Fear by Gareth Williams
  ...o’s progression past age limits, socioeconomic boundaries and geographical borders. Almost more intriguing, though, is the insight we receive to the cut-throa
  6 KB (913 words) - 13:10, 15 April 2018
• May 2015 Newsletter
  ...fe of relative peace and happiness - knowing to always avoid the wood that borders their land, and safe in the knowledge that they are guarded by a powerful w
  6 KB (984 words) - 16:35, 10 August 2020
• Merchants of Culture: The Publishing Business in the Twenty-First Century by John B Thompson
  ...not just Amazon with its exclusively online presence but Barnes and Noble, Borders and Waterstones as well as many more. There's a look at the history, of ho
  7 KB (1,211 words) - 13:20, 11 October 2020
• A Field Guide To The British by Sarah Lyall
  I have a fascination - one that borders on an unhealthy obsession - with books written about the British: and that
  6 KB (1,042 words) - 12:22, 2 March 2018
• Finding Poland by Matthew Kelly
  Looking at any historical map of Poland anyone may see how its borders have changed over the centuries. Where will you find the Polish home? One a
  6 KB (943 words) - 07:16, 9 August 2020
• Pathlands by Peter Owen Jones
  ...ctive meander through the byeways of Britain from Cornwall to the Scottish Borders
  6 KB (1,092 words) - 13:49, 28 February 2018
• April 2015 Newsletter
  ...ctive meander through the byeways of Britain from Cornwall to the Scottish Borders. Jones has a lovely turn of phrase and a knack for evoking memories. This b
  6 KB (1,045 words) - 16:02, 10 August 2020
• Boobadoodle by Rosy Sherry
  ...quality, the whole book is nicely presented with pretty pastel pages, neat borders and text is a white font which is surprisingly readable.
  6 KB (1,072 words) - 12:31, 20 August 2020
• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Matthew Tree
  ...large, and potentially thriving continent into a vast botch job. They drew borders across the centre of lakes (Tanzania), they rigged elections (Nigeria), and
  6 KB (1,141 words) - 08:50, 14 October 2014
• This Must Be the Place by Maggie O'Farrell
  ...plot threads. She follows her characters to Cumbria, London, the Scottish borders, Paris, New York, California, Sweden, Goa, China and Bolivia – with all t
  6 KB (946 words) - 12:03, 31 March 2018

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