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• You Can Think Yourself Thin by Ursula James
  ...you feel better about yourself and to 'think yourself thin'. Don't borrow the book - buy it. You will need your own copy. ...absolutely astounded by the effects of reading this book and listening to the hypnosis tracks. I had never tried anything like this before and was even a
  5 KB (935 words) - 13:55, 27 February 2018
• Bad Girl Magdalene by Jonathan Gash
  ...ind of thing you would expect to see as the basis for a novel, but that is the background against which Jonathan Gash's ''Bad Girl Magdalene'' is set. ...t and ended the night by ending her life; an event which was covered up by the nuns.
  5 KB (869 words) - 13:54, 6 March 2018
• Angel's Fury and the Easter Egg Giveaway
  |title=Angel's Fury and the Easter Egg Giveaway ===Angel's Fury and the Easter Egg Giveaway===
  5 KB (852 words) - 13:30, 3 March 2018
• The Cat with a Really Big Head by Roman Dirge
  |title=The Cat with a Really Big Head ...substantial enough to make you love them, but at least will remind you of the author's macabre sense of life.
  4 KB (614 words) - 12:10, 20 March 2018
• Sky on Fire (Monument 14) by Emmy Laybourne
  ...fying second book in a dystopian series. The overall arc advances well and the episodic side is nicely tied up. I'll be reading book 3! ...side. And when we say poisoned, we mean it. A bioweapons accident had left the air toxic in different ways to different people, depending on their blood g
  3 KB (498 words) - 14:53, 12 March 2018
• Remember to Breathe by Simon Pont
  ...santly surprised. Recommended. Simon Pont popped into Bookbag Towers to [[The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Simon Pont|chat to us]]. ...n chronological order, with some of it going back to before he met Sarah - the girl he didn't really want, but struggles to get over.
  4 KB (683 words) - 14:16, 18 March 2018
• Jane Eyre: a Retelling by Tanya Landman
  ...re troubled secret in the house. Yes, if you know Jane Eyre then you know the rest – but if you don't, for whatever reason, this is a wonderful book to ...ginal and slathers it on. Which raises things to note in this edition for the young reader.
  5 KB (829 words) - 08:23, 31 March 2024
• Category:K D Knight
  ...re quite critical of his literary output since they heard on the grapevine how well Jilly Cooper's cats live. ...e of achieving if his other half did not insist on him 'doing his bit' for the family income.
  1 member (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 11:10, 20 July 2018
• Keep Walking - Leadership Learning in Action - A thrilling story of a polar adventure with powerful lessons in leadership and personal development by Dr Richard Hale and Alan Chambers MBE
  ...ness leaders might - and should - engage in learning plans of their own at the workplace. ...task at work, who panicked as ''she did not know which theory to apply''. The theory of common sense, I'd have suggested.
  4 KB (741 words) - 09:58, 10 April 2018
• A Lifetime Burning by Linda Gillard
  ...ld have made me replace it hurriedly on the shelf. I wasn't enthralled by the blurb, either: 'disturbing themes', '.. ...t myself in for when I picked up this book, which I had agreed to read for The Bookbag.
  4 KB (750 words) - 13:01, 5 April 2018
• Ladies' Man by John Ramster
  ...imon likes boys. But Simon also likes girls. Well, a girl anyway. Hold on, how did that happen? ...is own boss, with his own ideas. Like the one where he always thought that the song should have been ''When A Man Loves Another Man'' although I'm not sur
  4 KB (629 words) - 14:20, 17 March 2018
• The Truth About Lies by Tracy Darnton
  |title=The Truth About Lies ...a girl with a stupendous memory on the run from an abusive researcher. But how far can memory really be trusted? Super, tense, read.
  4 KB (639 words) - 09:57, 9 April 2018
• Are You Smart Enough To Work At Google? by William Poundstone
  ...ets you answer the question in the title...though you might not approve of the result. William popped into Bookbag Towers to chat to us about [[William Po ...two tasks to the first two because they let you show what you can do, and how you would approach a task, rather than just making you prattle off a prepar
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• Stop Me by Richard Jay Parker
  ...no matter how bad my luck is supposed to become if I don't. But I wonder how many of us would react if a spam E-Mail actually was a matter of life and d ...ned on eleven occasions and each time proof of the murder has been sent to the police soon after. But when Laura Sharpe goes missing and an E-Mail follow
  4 KB (736 words) - 12:50, 11 March 2018
• Will by Christopher Rush
  ...(at both the will and eating Shakespeare out of house and home) William's mind meanders, regaling Francis with stories and opinions from a life well-lived ...e, but presents us with a fictionalised history that is accessible to even the adults for whom Shakespeare is synonymous with past scholarly boredom and w
  5 KB (749 words) - 14:26, 22 March 2018
• How To Write Really Badly by Anne Fine
  |title=How To Write Really Badly ...n't without challenge. It's the twin story of the new kid on the block and the kid with an undiscovered disability. There's nothing of which to disapprove
  7 KB (1,155 words) - 18:31, 18 April 2018
• I Can See in the Dark by Karin Fossum
  |title=I Can See in the Dark |summary=It's all in the complex and convincing lead character here, as the events of his confession don't amount to a full hill of beans – more like
  4 KB (786 words) - 10:32, 3 April 2018
• Lives in Writing by David Lodge
  ...the lives off-page that many of our most famous authors leaked into their works. ...re he found his metier – and fame with TV adaptations– with comedies about the social and sexual lives of academe) he's teaching about and around writing.
  4 KB (748 words) - 11:15, 30 August 2020
• I Love You Father Christmas by Giles Andreae and Emma Dodd
  ...ith the title words, ''I love you Father Christmas'' and works through why the gentleman in question rocks: ...life with a mummy and daddy who love him and do fun things with him. But, the plea remains: can he have some presents, pretty please?
  4 KB (777 words) - 11:45, 30 March 2018
• Complex 90 by Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins
  ...viet Russia where he escaped by killing over 40 men. Does that sound like the type of man you want to hire as a Private Investigator? Check out his bloo ...collaborations and you may be glad to know that it is almost as insane as the movie.
  4 KB (730 words) - 12:36, 7 March 2018

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