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• The Carbon Diaries 2015 by Saci Lloyd
  ...s anyone understand Crit Thinking homework? Will Mum and Dad split up? The list goes on. {{toptentext|list=Costa Book Awards 2008}}
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• Sixes and Sevens by John Yeoman and Quentin Blake
  |author=John Yeoman and Quentin Blake ...|Julia Donaldson's Tyrannosaurus Drip]] being quite far at the top of that list though possibly not topped by [[The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson|The Gruffal
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• Summertime by J M Coetzee
  ...ed by a fictional biographer on the years when the deceased semi-fictional John Coetzee was finding his feet as a writer. Too clever by half, perhaps, but ...hat a young English biographer is working on a book about the late writer, John Coetzee. The dust jacket also has a photograph of Coetzee that seems to hav
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• Hope: a Tragedy by Shalom Auslander
  |reviewer=John Lloyd ...He's moved to a rural location, and found houses like his are on the hit-list of an arsonist, but his new home has an even more unusual secret...
  4 KB (625 words) - 13:20, 24 March 2018
• Jeff Lynne: The Electric Light Orchestra - Before and After by John Van der Kiste
  |author=John Van der Kiste ...gory:John Van der Kiste|historical biographies]]. The book has a complete list of personnel, a discography and Van der Kiste's bibliography gives plenty o
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• Christine Falls by Benjamin Black
  ...a new crime series from Benjamin Black, better known as Man Booker winner John Banville, is set in nineteen-fifties Dublin. It's pacey, atmospheric and to ...rstly, its author, Benjamin Black, is actually the 2005 Man Booker winner, John Banville. Moving from genre to genre isn't unknown in the literary world, b
  5 KB (801 words) - 13:15, 27 September 2020
• Bird by Crystal Chan
  ''Grandpa stopped speaking the day he killed my brother, John.'' ...she can really talk to, who really understands the way her mind works. But John isn't everything he says he is. And his arrival is about to change Jewel's
  4 KB (674 words) - 10:49, 1 March 2018
• Betrayal by Adriaan van Dis
  ...eene's work as well as the more recent novels of [[:Category:John le Carre|John le Carre]] as Adriaan evokes the world of the ageing loner revisiting his p ...is novel isn't going to appear on the South Africa Tourist Board's reading list, but that's not a drawback. The authenticity leaps from the narrative as w
  3 KB (568 words) - 15:53, 29 August 2020
• Do You Think You're Clever?: The Oxbridge Questions by John Farndon
  |author=John Farndon |reviewer=John Lloyd
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• Dillinger's Wild Ride: The Year That Made America's Public Enemy Number One by Elliott J Gorn
  |summary= A serious look at the lfe and crimes of John Dillinger and his place in the American heart. Cautiously recommended for John Dillinger was born and brought up in Indiana. His childhood was no better
  4 KB (703 words) - 10:35, 8 March 2018
• A Little Piece of England: A tale of self-sufficiency by John Jackson
  |author=John Jackson ...Grandchildren]] ''and'' [[Brahma Dreaming: Legends from Hindu Mythology by John Jackson and Daniela Jaglenka Terrazzini|Brahma Dreaming: Legends from Hindu
  4 KB (693 words) - 10:18, 26 February 2018
• Sandrine by Thomas H Cook
  ...this is different and, for me, better (and I speak as one who loves a good John Grisham). There are some common elements: we don't know whether we believe {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Crime Novels 0f 2013}}
  3 KB (581 words) - 11:35, 20 September 2020
• Darkness, Darkness: Resnick's Last Case by John Harvey
  |author=John Harvey ...that this is Resnick's last case. My press release tells me that this is John Harvey's last book. Both have gone out at the top of their game: this is a
  4 KB (621 words) - 14:00, 2 February 2024
• Cold in Hand by John Harvey
  |author=John Harvey With 'Last Rites' I was sure that John Harvey had published his last Resnick novel so it came as something of a su
  4 KB (609 words) - 08:43, 30 September 2020
• The Trip to Echo Spring: Why Writers Drink by Olivia Laing
  |reviewer=John Van der Kiste ...F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, John Berryman, John Cheever, and Raymond Carver. Taking her title from a character in Williams
  6 KB (977 words) - 15:30, 27 August 2020
• Eats, Shoots & Leaves: Why, Commas Really Do Make a Difference! by Lynne Truss
  ...Truss has an uphill struggle. Punctuation has never been top on a child's list of priorities. I've seen the text messages my son sends to his friends. The ...d is struggling with punctuation at school should put it straight on their list. Every school library should have a dozen copies on its shelves. It would m
  4 KB (661 words) - 11:46, 2 March 2018
• A Beatles Miscellany: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the Beatles but Were Afraid to Ask by John Van der Kiste
  |author=John Van der Kiste ...e little facts which are so hard to track down and this is where historian John Van der Kiste comes into his own: he's a man with an eye for detail and the
  5 KB (907 words) - 10:35, 30 August 2020
• A Walk-on Part: Diaries 1994 - 1999 by Chris Mullin
  ...Elvis Presley and Princess Diana, but I'd add another person to the list: John Smith. I remember sitting in my office and a colleague coming in to tell m ...llayed. It takes just a little time to get into its stride – the death of John Smith isn't the vehicle for Mullin's trademark humour – and we were a lit
  4 KB (631 words) - 11:00, 8 April 2018
• How to be Well Read: A guide to 500 great novels and a handful of literary curiosities by John Sutherland
  |author=John Sutherland ...and a handful of literary curiosities. Was I going to find that ultimate list of books which I would have to read to ensure that I could think of myself
  4 KB (721 words) - 12:47, 28 February 2018
• G Engleheart Pinxit 1805: A year in the life of George Engleheart by John Webley
  |author=John Webley |reviewer= John Van der Kiste
  5 KB (898 words) - 10:32, 1 October 2020

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