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• Granny by Anthony Horowitz
  ...en bowling, but you still don't need to turn into a granny. Smelling like a granny, forgetting everyone's names on purpose, and doling out horridly ina ...ght be up to something, and that the naff gifts, the wrong names, and even a couple of mysterious deaths, might be due to the fact that granny has somet
  3 KB (556 words) - 10:54, 9 March 2018
• The Voyage of the "Dawn Treader" by C S Lewis
  ...sy series ever written for children. Don't miss it and don't let them miss it either. ...anced people. They were vegetarians, non-smokers and teetotallers and wore a special kind of underclothes. In their house there was very little furnitur
  7 KB (1,193 words) - 17:10, 11 March 2018
• Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua
  ...commend this as a guide to parenting, as a memoir and an entertaining read it's outstanding. ...demic' subject. Then there's the piano and violin practice… On hearing she called her
  3 KB (509 words) - 10:29, 26 February 2018
• 1,411 QI Facts To Knock You Sideways by John Lloyd, John Mitchinson and James Harkin
  ...esenting trivia, four (on rare occasion, three) statements to the page, in a very nice little cubical hardback. Now they're being represented in paperb ...way they walk.'' Never has the journey from to A to B made B become such a surprise.
  3 KB (518 words) - 08:12, 30 April 2018
• A Life Without End by Frederic Beigbeder and Frank Wynne (translator)
  |title=A Life Without End ...personal trip to reveal its narrative as easily as it should, but is worth a look.
  4 KB (627 words) - 09:41, 26 April 2020
• Discover the Savage World by Simon Adams, Camilla de la Bedoyere, Ian Graham, Steve Parker, Phil Steele, Clint Twist and Amanda Askew
  ...ry boy-friendly bite sized bits of science, history, geography and more in a fun annual series from the Discovery Channel. ...d the Siege of Masada right up to the Somme, the Battle Of Stalingrad with a heavy focus on snipers and the Battle of Kursk.
  6 KB (976 words) - 16:06, 24 February 2018
• Star Dancer by Beth Webb
  |summary=A rewarding and complex but accessible read in the vein of Michelle Paver's C ...Griff, her "halfhead" foster brother and the druids continue to search for a saviour. But Tegen's destiny cannot be denied...
  3 KB (535 words) - 16:00, 13 June 2019
• What Was Lost by Catherine O'Flynn
  ...even a child could understand but with an intricately woven plot makes for a superb read. Highly recommended by The Bookbag. ...earches the endless service corridors and fails to find her, but over time a relationship grows between Kurt and Lisa.
  3 KB (569 words) - 15:24, 23 August 2020
• Into the River by Mark Brandi
  |summary=A dark and harrowing story, but deftly written and very readable. ...So far, so normal. But with the arrival of a new neighbour for Ben, a man called Ronnie, things begin to change. Ronnie wants Ben to come over to do some o
  4 KB (604 words) - 09:45, 4 January 2019
• The Woman in the Picture by Katharine McMahon
  ...y about the social tensions in early 1926 when England was on the brink of a general strike. The plotting is superb and the story thought provoking. H ...loser. The Wright family worm their way into Evelyn's life: the father is a bullying, drunken, wife beater, the mother is scared and brow beaten, but t
  5 KB (828 words) - 14:32, 22 March 2018
• House of Joy by Sarah-Kate Lynch
  ...e production of champagne which lifts it above the average. Recommended as a holiday read. ...ine's unhappiness. She then discovered that her father had an illegitimate child, the waif-like Sophie who was entitled to another quarter. And what of the
  4 KB (626 words) - 14:30, 4 April 2018
• A Sixpenny Song by Jennifer Johnston
  |title=A Sixpenny Song |summary=The death of a parent doesn't always hit hard and when Annie returns to Dublin she's more
  3 KB (605 words) - 10:20, 31 March 2018
• The Sandhorse by Ann Turnbull
  ...commended for children aged 3-8 and might make the grownup reading it shed a tear too. You call them ''white horses'' in English and in Polish they are called ''manes''. Clearly, there is something distinctly equine about the white se
  5 KB (941 words) - 12:26, 7 March 2018
• Where The Truth Lies by Rosemary Ingham
  ...care and becomes an abuse of trust. The plot is excellent but the book is a little let down by the characterisation. ...ong before the strong physical attraction between Isabel and Jack leads to a passionate love affair.
  5 KB (869 words) - 11:27, 20 March 2018
• Man Booker Prize 2011
  |summary=This short book is almost perfectly formed. A retired, (and somewhat dull), man is forced to recall events soon after lea ...existence in the east end of London. But one day he literally comes across a tiger - and his life is changed forever.
  5 KB (743 words) - 10:22, 11 February 2024
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll and Sir John Tenniel
  It can hardly have escaped anyone's attention that 2015 is the 150th anniversa ...and didn't like it. Sue was quite clear as a child that she didn't enjoy it, but Peter has fond memories of being the White Rabbit in the school play.
  4 KB (673 words) - 12:03, 11 October 2020
• The Museum of Doctor Moses by Joyce Carol Oates
  |summary=A very smart package of gloomy stories for when the evenings close in. How c ...the happiest read, we think, before turning to the second story, which is called Suicide Watch.
  4 KB (632 words) - 09:51, 2 April 2018
• My Experimental Life by A J Jacobs
  |author=A J Jacobs ...rdly original, but his whimsical tasks provoke a good deal of humour - and a surprising amount of thought.
  4 KB (724 words) - 11:41, 23 March 2018
• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Cathy Farr
  ...rs we asked her all about fellhounds, Thesk, and how she feels about being a writer. ...rs we asked her all about fellhounds, Thesk, and how she feels about being a writer.
  7 KB (1,212 words) - 05:55, 13 June 2012
• The Stranger's Child by Alan Hollinghurst
  |title=The Stranger's Child |sort= Stranger's Child
  6 KB (946 words) - 12:54, 5 March 2018

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