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• Chancey by Gigi Amateau
  |summary= A delightful story in the tradition of ''Black Beauty'' but which leaves the reader on a positive note. Definitely recommended pa ...but when Chancey was born she was bitterly disappointed for instead of the black Appaloosa with white marking Chancey was born albino. It was only his stri
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• Hollywood Beauty: Vintage Secrets by Laura Slater
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• Dog by Daniel Pennac
  ...rhood as she possibly can. And then... there's an accident. The last thing Black Nose says to Dog is ''If you go to the town, watch out for the cars. Dodge, ...as an instruction. He knows he'll never be happy living on the tip without Black Nose and so he sets off in search of the town and a mistress to train. But
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• Born To Run by Michael Morpurgo
  |summary=A lovely Black Beauty-style story about a racing greyhound's travels through life. Lots of kind a ''Born to Run'' is an updated version of Black Beauty, replacing horses with dogs. It's just as heart-rending in places, but it's
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• Category:L J Ross
  ...te the first draft of Holy Island, having been inspired by the atmospheric beauty of the real island of Lindisfarne, a place she knew well from childhood. Fo ...riends and family, dancing to 80's music (singing, badly...), watching old black-and-white movies, drinking coffee and eating cake.
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• Forest Gate by Peter Akinti
  ...ut never, ever forgets that love can save us all. It sounds trite, but the beauty of this book is that it isn't trite, and it's true. Peter Akinti was kind e ...deeply affecting novel about contemporary life in Britain. Moulding urban, black and refugee experience and dealing unflinchingly with suicide, it hurts to
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• Pinocchio by Winshluss
  ...images of nightmarish content, which took it upon themselves to break into black and white, or sepia. The prologue might have a character forcing his cat t ...ach who wants to write cult novels, and the seven dwarves' use of Sleeping Beauty is definitely not for the family audience. I can't begin to say how far fr
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Numba Pinkerton
  ...s. When Numba, author of [[The No Black Project by Numba Pinkerton|The No Black Project]] popped into Bookbag Towers, Sue had lots of questions she wanted ...s. When Numba, author of [[The No Black Project by Numba Pinkerton|The No Black Project]] popped into Bookbag Towers, Sue had lots of questions she wanted
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• Harvest by Jim Crace
  '''Winner: James Tait Black Prize 2014''' ...new visitors. As he shows around Mr Quill, and as Mr Quill gazes upon the beauty of nature, Walter reflects:
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• The Shoe Queen by Anna Davies
  |summary=A well-researched story about a society beauty obsessed by shoes - and a shoemaker. Nineteen-twenties Paris is brought to |publisher=Black Swan
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To S B Charles
  |summary=Jill thought that [[Gliding With Black Swans by S B Charles]] was a roller coaster of a thriller and she couldn't Jill thought that [[Gliding With Black Swans by S B Charles]] was a roller coaster of a thriller and she couldn't
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Louisa Reid
  ...y impressed by Louisa Reid's debut novel [[Black Heart Blue by Louisa Reid|Black Heart Blue]] and we had lots of questions we wanted to ask her. ...y impressed by Louisa Reid's debut novel [[Black Heart Blue by Louisa Reid|Black Heart Blue]] and we had lots of questions we wanted to ask her.
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• The Woman Before Me by Ruth Dugdall
  ...by the fact that Rose is no beauty. And even although we all know that ''beauty is only skin deep'' it doesn't help Rose one bit. The whole boyfriend/soci ...ormation which is always a page-turner. A deft touch is Rose's constant ''black book entry'' which gives us the inner thoughts and workings of Rose's mind.
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• Dolly by Susan Hill
  ...to be in the territory of [[The Woman in Black by Susan Hill|The Woman in Black]], but worry not – this new short genre novel is a very different beast. ...young madam, who has inherited the same good fortune, wilful attitude and beauty as her mother. He is here as a semi-permanent resident, being an orphan, s
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• The Visitors Book by Sophie Hannah
  ...se like some of her novels and I didn't find myself gasping over the sheer beauty of her writing like I might with some of her poems. But where she excels he ...r, years later, like, say, [[The Woman in Black by Susan Hill|The Woman in Black]] or Daphne du Maurier's ''Don't Look Now''.
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• Dancing Paws of Magic by Maria McArdle
  ...ing Beauty''. Here everything seems to be going just purr-fectly until the Black Treacle Farm Gang – including Gang Leader Bruiser Bumfluff – appear to ...fall in love with the characters in these pictures. They look wonderful in black and white but, to appreciate their true magnificence, I'd definitely recomm
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• Dear Hound by Jill Murphy
  ...y Deerhounds have the grey hair on their ears stripped back to the velvety-black under fur, but only one of Alfie's ears has been stripped, because, well, i ...hael Morpurgo's [[Born To Run by Michael Morpurgo|reworking]] of the Black Beauty story.
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• The Daylight Gate by Jeanette Winterson
  ...e beginning to question Alice's attitudes, choice of company - and ageless beauty. This, then, is the based-on-truth story of how Alice Nutter got to be one ...be, so brilliantly has Winterson followed the Hammer tradition. Here are black masses, dark spells, heaving bosoms and evil not as some tremendous CGI eff
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• Just Look At Me Now by Nell Dixon
  |publisher=Little Black Dress ...nd frizzy hair she has transformed herself into Tia Carpenter, the stylish Beauty editor at ''Platinum'' magazine. She has always kept her previous life secr
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• The Dirty South by Alex Wheatle
  ...y=Crisp, clean writing with wit and humour tempers this story of the urban black experience in Britain. It's not angry, but it makes some angry points. For ...riend and dealing partner Noel. Outwardly, Noel is the stereotypical urban black youth. He's dirt poor, from a single parent family. His mother hits him. He
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• Paris by Maarten vande Wiele
  ...ian starlets, it is certainly worth a decent perusal. Hope was a juvenile beauty queen, and could now work in fashion were it not for scars due to a car cra ...ly captured by the model on the front cover, a be-bereted doll in a Little Black Dress, with the Eiffel Tower on the front, which has its skeletal arched le
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• Fantasy - CD-Rom and Book by Christy Shaffer
  Some of the designs are in colour and some in black and white. So perhaps another idea for using some of these designs is maybe Obviously, as this is a book of images it is hard for me to describe the beauty and the enchantment that emanates from so many of the pictures. I can only
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• Dragons and Wizards - CD-Rom and Book by Marty Noble
  Some of the designs are in colour and some in black and white. So perhaps another idea for using some of these designs is maybe Obviously, as this is a book of images it is hard for me to describe the beauty and the enchantment that emanates from so many of the pictures. I can only
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• Bloodheir by Brian Ruckley
  ...the battle isn't even nearly over. Encouraged by previous successes, the Black Road are pushing for further gains and they are being assisted by the rogue This isn't entirely welcomed, even amongst the Black Road, as many of them see Aeglyss as a half-breed and not a true follower o
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• Rags and Bones by Melissa Marr and Tim Pratt (Editors)
  ...man|Neil Gaiman]] gives us something truly special here, as his ''Sleeping Beauty''-inspired fantasy ''The Sleeper and The Spindle'' took my breath away. It' ...vampire tale than her recent novel [[The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black|The Coldest Girl in Coldtown]], while a trio of authors I've somehow never
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• Counting Lions by Katie Cotton and Stephen Walton
  |summary=A beautiful book of black and white drawings of wild animals as a counting book will stun adults and ...ost seem unnecessary as we can see all that we need of the unique form and beauty of each creature. But there are words too.
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• Cut on the Bias by Stephanie Tillotson
  ...ntity, yes, from a battered wife's nondescript black leggings in ''Back to Black,'' to a film star's cast-off finery landing in a traditional community in B ...itates a young man's discovery of his sexuality. Lindsay Ashford's little beauty is packed with insights.
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• The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo and Bagram Ibatoulline
  The story put me in mind of ''Black Beauty'' and Michael Morpurgo's [[Born To Run by Michael Morpurgo|recent reworking ...his skill at portraiture but in ''Edward Tulane'' the illustrations are in black and white but they're no less stunning. There's a picture of a dog attacki
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• Dust to Dust (Steven Dunbar) by Ken McClure
  ...st. He's a promising and well-though of academic and his pet subject is - Black Death. Intrigue is high on the agenda right from the beginning. Motram is ...the oldest college in Oxford.'' Apparently the foundation stone pre-dates Black Death. Deft touch. A lot of the action takes place at Dryburgh Abbey in t
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• The Thrift Book: Live Well and Spend Less by India Knight
  ...start with this book is to say what it isn't. Frugality might be the new black but there's no suggestion in this book that you should be living less than ...ous about cooking good food from scratch. You might also find [[Hollywood Beauty: Vintage Secrets by Laura Slater]] interesting.
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• Psy-Q: You know your IQ - now test your psychological intelligence by Ben Ambridge
  ...ed me. For example, there is a page where the reader is invited to scan 50 black and white images before turning the page and trying to recall some of the i The beauty of the book is that its content just has to be shared. You will find yourse
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• Walking Home by Simon Armitage
  ...r his country, the Way, and the people he meets. (Along with some stunning black and white photographs of various points on his journey!) ...e landscape he walks through are wonderful, and he definitely captures the beauty of the route in both words and pictures.
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• Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays by Zadie Smith
  ...known as the author of three novels: White Teeth, The Autograph Man and On Beauty. She now teaches Creative Writing at Columbia University in New York. This ...want to read. Smith's piece is a very personal response about reading as a black woman; she describes her reluctance to read the book when her mum gave her
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• Tommy Sullivan is a Freak by Meg Cabot
  ...she takes part in a beauty pageant in the book – and I love stories about beauty pageants, even if they do have dubious names like ''Quahog Princess''.
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• The Good Mayor by Andrew Nicoll
  |publisher= Black and White Publishing ...s beloved wife Agathe that she questioned her own existence, let alone her beauty. How was she to know that the good Mayor pined for her on the other side
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• The Queen's Secret by Victoria Lamb
  ...Knollys, wife of the Earl of Essex, was beside the point. Lucy Morgan, a black entertainer of Moorish descent, was drawn into the midst of this intrigue a ...than one) is the Queen herself and we get a real feel for the queen whose beauty was rapidly fading and who had all the insecurities of a woman who sees her
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• The Phone Box at the End of the World by Laura Imai Messina
  ...e a man installed a telephone box in his garden. ''Inside there is an old black, telephone, disconnected, that carries voices into the wind.'' It is a real ...cean. That isn't explained in the book, to me, it is a refusal to let the beauty of nature be lost to its cruelty.
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• A State of Fear: Britain After a Dirty Bomb by Joseph Clyde
  ...d an American gentleman. They are soon joined by Kingman, a young male of black Caribbean descent. It seems to be a regular United Nations in the salon. As
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• The Trees by Ali Shaw
  ...journey will take them to the heart of the forest, to a place of terrible beauty and violence, to the dark heart of nature and the darkness inside themselve ...e beauty in the violence, and lightening it with compelling characters and black humour. All the while, he raises serious questions about our world – not
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• The Enterprise of Death by Jesse Bullington
  ...nsported against their will across the continent. One, an African Moorish beauty is being delivered to the King of Spain as ransom payment, but she and two ...e main protagonists are settled as people and not as devices for inspiring black humour, that I satisfactorily felt positive about things.
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• Warren the 13th and the All-Seeing Eye by Tania del Rio and Wilhelm Staehle
  ...s and accompanies what you're seeing, and it all looks resplendent in just black and white and red. It's all in a Victorian, woodcut-effect style – even ...ildren's book I gloried so much over receiving to review due to smarts and beauty combined was [[Goth Girl: and the Ghost of a Mouse by Chris Riddell]]. We t
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• What If Einstein Was Wrong?: Asking the Big Questions About Physics by Brian Clegg
  ...the attractive format. Science textbooks are rarely described as things of beauty, but this book really is an exception to the rule. Each section has its own ...ed to have some prior knowledge of physics, in order to grasp terms like ''Black holes with hair'', ''Maxwell’s Demon'' and ''Schrodinger’s Cat''. Indee
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• God's Own Country by Ross Raisin
  The story, though, is chilling and gripping, the humour black. Sam is one of the great characters of modern fiction – well-intentioned Raisin captures the moors too, with their wildness and stark beauty. There's antagonism to moorland – it doesn't welcome visitors – and yo
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• Ruby Red by Linzi Glass
  ...lives in 1970s Johannesburg. Her father is a liberal lawyer, representing black people accused under the apartheid system. Her mother owns an art gallery t In Ruby's house, there are no black servants. There are black guests; artists free to pursue their muses free of restriction. But they ar
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• The Beauty and the Sorrow: An intimate history of the first world war by Peter Englund
  |title=The Beauty and the Sorrow: An intimate history of the first world war |sort= Beauty and the Sorrow: An intimate history of the first world war
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• The Girl on the Wall: One Life's Rich Tapestry by Jean Baggott
  ...demic interest. She tells her own story from her wartime childhood in the Black Country through to the noughties. There's stories of a way of life which i ...ns – it's a book which will be enjoyed by all ages for the stories and the beauty of the tapestry.
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• A Place Called Here by Cecelia Ahern
  It was unfortunate for Sandy Shorrt that she had black hair and was over six feet tall. People could never resist the temptation t ...rt of that. Sandy Shorrt is a compelling heroine. She's not a conventional beauty but a real personality. It's easy to see how she came to be as she was, hav
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• Sweep: The Story of a Girl and her Monster by Jonathan Auxier
  ...ecome a modern classic, written with the feel of such classics, as ''Black Beauty,'' ''Oliver Twist,'' and ''The Water Babies''. For a similar, feisty heroin
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• Joe and the Hidden Horseshoe by Victoria Eveleigh
  ...n recommend [[Chancey by Gigi Amateau]] which is in the tradition of Black Beauty but ending on a positive note.
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• Wild Town (RSPB) by Mike Dilger
  |publisher=A & C Black ...ies of bird, amphibian and insect, it's all there in all its diversity and beauty.
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• Jim, Who Ran Away From His Nurse and Was Eaten By A Lion by Hilaire Belloc and Mini Grey
  ...heir ideas spark with children and adults alike, and there are lashings of black humour to keep you giggling. Every child should devour both authors like Po ...u'll treasure for years to come - it's up there with the likes of [[Little Beauty by Anthony Browne]] and [[I Really Want To Eat A Child by Sylviane Donnio a
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• The Bishop's Man by Linden MacIntyre
  ...Keats was right in his ''truth beauty'' assertion, then yes, and here the beauty exceeds the mere truth of the story. ...y [[Bad Girl Magdalene by Jonathan Gash]] or [[Christine Falls by Benjamin Black]].
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• The Apothecary by Maile Meloy
  ...s peppered throughout with stunning illustrations by Ian Schoenherr. These black and white renderings appear every few pages and exquisitely create a sense The pacing of this novel is a thing of beauty. No, it is not the fast-paced, roller-coaster ride of a story that we have
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• Sleep Baby Sleep (Detective Pieter Voss) by David Hewson
  ...f a drug which takes Detective Pieter Voss back four years to the Sleeping Beauty murders. He had his doubts at the time as to whether or not everyone invol ...hich Chandra tries to put in his way. There are moments of complete farce/black humour which I'll confess had me laughing out loud. Hewson steers a very n
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• The School for Good and Evil by Soman Chainani
  ...ool for Good and Evil. Sophie has been doing Good Deeds and practising her beauty regime especially. Unlike the other children in the village - who cut their ...e content living a quiet life in her graveyard house with her cat, wearing black clothes and enjoying being alone.
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• Bedlam by Ally Kennen
  |summary=Black humour, teen angst and family crisis combine with an issue-based thriller t ...Lexi discovers that Mothers Mourning Dogs aren't likely to replace broken beauty aids.
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• The Stone Circle (Dr Ruth Galloway) by Elly Griffiths
  ...been very understanding, but then there's the matter of her affair with a black policeman which she'd rather not have to discuss with her daughters. Nelso ...he North Norfolk location, and Elly Griffiths brings it to life in all its beauty and harshness. I feel at home in the books. But the main reason this seri
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• Deloume Road by Matthew Hooton
  ...e a woodpecker rattles off Morse code.'' and '' Lightning cracked open the black jar of night.'' The novel is set in high summer and the whole effect of al
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• Top Ten Love Stories For Teenagers
  ...y=Crisp, clean writing with wit and humour tempers this story of the urban black experience in Britain. It's not angry, but it makes some angry points. For ...rank and open, dealing with every possible taboo subject, but it has great beauty and at times touches on profundity.
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• Simon Packham Talks To Bookbag About ''Firewallers''
  ...g adult section of the Dawdler library are 'timeless classics' like 'Black Beauty', 'What Katy Did at School' and 'Swallows and Amazons'. But whilst retainin
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• Black Ships Before Troy by Rosemary Sutcliff
  |title= Black Ships Before Troy ...an Prince (Paris) and the wife of Menelaus King of Sparta (Helen). Helen's beauty captured the heart of Paris, and as Christopher Marlowe famously said Helen
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• The Little Book Of Perfumes by Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez
  ...to critique, chosen for their ''quality, inventiveness and straightforward beauty'', and many of the classics are double reviewed with comments from both Tur ...way only miniature hardbacks can, with accents of gold shining out of jet black, and one of those ultra helpful built in bookmarks. It should look like a L
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• In the Falling Snow by Caryl Phillips
  ...e very core of this book is colour and to a lesser extent class. Keith is black and lower middle-class whereas his wife is white and middle-class. And th ...nd of the novel, the whole ''In the Falling Snow'' kicks in. The poignant beauty of the book's title is explained along with many dense pages devoted to Ear
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• Thanks For Nothing, Nick Maxwell by Debbie Carbin
  |publisher= Black Swan ...night stand (naturally with a super stud, that only a woman of her immense beauty could reel in) she has a big, if slightly predictable, decision to make. Yo
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• Improper Relations by Janet Mullany
  |publisher=Little Black Dress ...t my usual read. However, between the covers of Improper Relations lies a beauty of a romance that is well written, sharp and witty, with complex characters
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• The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa
  ...he housekeeper becomes fascinated as she and her son also begin to see the beauty and the poetry in numbers. ...If you're looking for something else Japanese then you might want to try [[Black God by Dall-Young Lim|this manga story]] or for something similar in style
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• Into The Frame: The Four Loves of Ford Madox Brown by Angela Thirlwell
  ...h of whom were of the same generation as his daughters. One was the Greek beauty and artist Marie Spartali, the other was the poet, novelist and biographer The illustrations have been very well chosen. Black and white pictures are integrated with the text throughout, complemented by
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• The Glass Girl by Sandy Hogarth
  ...ill made for her. It's a symbol of her emotional fragility but also of the beauty that can be found in uncertainty. ...llow[-]grey leg, etiolated elegance' and 'Outside the wind jousts with the black afternoon' are two particularly beautiful lines I marked. Hogarth's strong
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• At the Edge of Light by Maria Peura
  ...find it like the bleakest of the northern wastes: with haunting aspects of beauty, but ultimately unredeemed. You might also enjoy [[Black Noise by Pekka Hiltunen]].
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• Lala by Jacek Dehnel and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)
  ...os scattered through the book, they range from 1900 to 1995 but are all in black and white, which adds a uniformity and dignity to them, especially as Lala ...strength of Lala's spirit in the tales she tells. For me, though, the real beauty of this book comes towards the end as Lala gets older and older and starts
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• Claude's Journey by John Piper
  ...half. In a way this is almost a human, more explicit and crueller ''Black Beauty''. As the story unfolds and Claude is passed from owner to owner as the ho
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• Half Brother by Kenneth Oppel
  ...les they're looking for, then [[Born To Run by Michael Morpurgo]], a Black Beauty-style story about a greyhound, is just lovely.
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• The Stephensons' Rocket by Jayne Woodhouse
  ...end [[Born To Run by Michael Morpurgo]], an updated version of the ''Black Beauty'' story. Adults might also be interested in the story of another dog who m
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• The Hungry Ghosts by Anne Berry
  ...estroyed by the ghost feeding on her vitality. ''When she grows dizzy and black shapes detonate before her eyes, I have to remind myself that she is only h ...e, but I did not really understand her. But there are moments of profound beauty - a diary flung across a room ''flies through the air, its pages flapping l
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• The Sixteen Trees of the Somme by Lars Mytting and Paul Russell Grant (Translator)
  ...is grandfather's misunderstood connections. Then there's the story of the Black Watch's contribution to the WWI French front and the WWII refugee runs betw ...n dealing with cruel and bitter global inhumanities) but not Lars' lyrical beauty that led me to re-read passages in order to wallow in his words.
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• Waggit's Tale by Peter Howe
  ...phus Tips by Michael Morpurgo]] or for an elegant reworking of the ''Black Beauty'' story we can recommend [[Born To Run by Michael Morpurgo|Born to Run]] by
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• The Wandering Falcon by Jamil Ahmad
  ...istan meet, is a military outpost…'' Thus begins the tale of Tor Baz, the Black Falcon. To this desolate place come two wanderers, a man and a woman seek ...con'' because I had misunderstood it. I felt that for all the clarity and beauty of the story-telling it didn't really hang together properly, the character
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• Rainbow Dust: Three Centuries of Delight in British Butterflies by Peter Marren
  ...hapter is named after a particular species or two and headed and closed by black-and-white images taken from ''Papilionum Britanniae Icones'' by James Petiv ...ause that is the way we are.' For many people, butterflies are a source of beauty and wonder, which can translate into a passion for preserving the natural w
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• The Colosseum by Keith Hopkins and Mary Beard
  ...detail has since gone, enough remains to reveal much of the architectural beauty of the original whole. At the same time we also have to salute the ingenui ...rian, student and general reader alike, this book fills an excellent gap. Black and white illustrations are integrated with the text, though the reader who
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• American Skin by Ken Bruen
  ...ascinating and, for me, the best part of the novel. They have poetry and a beauty but also a sadness. There is a sense of impending doom and a certain sense ...anted to concentrate on that, you might like [[Christine Falls by Benjamin Black]] - another compelling crime novel, set in Dublin in the 1950s. You might
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• Now is Good by Jenny Downham
  ...rank and open, dealing with every possible taboo subject, but it has great beauty and at times touches on profundity. ...t Me at the Boathouse]]. Those who prefer hard subjects to come wrapped in black humour might like Anthony McGowan's [[Henry Tumour]], which deals with a bo
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• The Wonder Garden: Wander through the world's wildest habitats and discover more than 80 amazing animals by Jenny Broom and Kristjana S Williams
  ...e Great Barrier Reef, and up – to deserts and mountains, via Germany's own Black Forest. And the trip is nothing if not spectacular to look at. ...ook in this Wonder Garden there is life in all its extraordinary, profound beauty.
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• The Private Lives of the Impressionists by Sue Roe
  ...ew years later, one reviewer said that they ''seem to have declared war on beauty'', while another assured his readers that every canvas must have been the w ...y. The man then looks at Renoir's canvas and asks him why he uses so much black. They enter into earnest discussion and the knight in shining armour turns
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• It’s About Love by Steven Camden
  ...skilled at reflecting upon the minutiae of detail whether it is a red and black pencil in the hair, a symbolically cracked mobile phone screen, or knuckled
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• Before I Die by Jenny Downham
  ...rank and open, dealing with every possible taboo subject, but it has great beauty and at times touches on profundity. ...t Me at the Boathouse]]. Those who prefer hard subjects to come wrapped in black humour might like Anthony McGowan's [[Henry Tumour]], which deals with a bo
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• To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  ...er Atticus Finch, preparing to undertake the case of his life: defending a black man who stands accused of raping a white woman. Given the novel's time and ''To Kill a Mockingbird'''s beauty lies in the innocence and humour of its narration. As the children grow and
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• Doctor Who: Time Lord Fairy Tales by Justin Richards and David Wardle
  ...n role in many of these tales, as well as meeting a Beast with a potential beauty, and encouraging revenge in what appears to be an original fairy tale. ...hakespeare, [[Doctor Who: 12 Doctors 12 Stories by Malorie Blackman, Holly Black and others|''Peter Pan'']] and more before now, so this book did feel a lit
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• Fred's War by Andrew Davidson
  ...otographs, but even so this is a small part of history captured forever in black in white. If have a strong interest in wartime photography, this book is a [[The Beauty and the Sorrow: An intimate history of the first world war by Peter Englund
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• Academy Street by Mary Costello
  ...ncy of the city, to the accents and the street-grid and the subway, to the black faces on the sidewalk, the sirens at night, the five-and-ten-cent stores te And yet there is beauty and dignity to this small life. 'Had she not, at times, felt blessed? Had s
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• Stormdancer by Jay Kristoff
  ...d the narcotic effects of lotus smoke. The days when he was the legendary Black Fox are behind him which is a shame as the Shogun (not a man known for calm ...to conclusions rather than listening to reason and not slow to notice man beauty. Her father is a definite product of his past, wanting to do the right thi
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• 1916: A Global History by Keith Jeffery
  ...on Russia's ill-fated participation and the confusion that surrounded the black farce that culminated in the murder of Rasputin, the notorious Russian peas ...an]]; and for eyewitness accounts of those involved in the fighting, [[The Beauty and the Sorrow: An intimate history of the first world war by Peter Englund
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• Angel of Brooklyn by Janette Jenkins
  ...ly warmly received into the embrace of the women of this alien place - her beauty is captivating and the stories about where she grew up, enchanting; Jonatha ...s herself to believe that she might be happy here in this bleak, desolate, black brackened landscape. Until, that is that through a series of incredibly un
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• Glow by Ned Beauman
  ...the hidden charms of Beauman's native south London. There is an unexpected beauty in some of his descriptive language: 'Graupels of crushed styrofoam packagi ...o consciously up-to-the-minute, as in 'Rose dozes at his feet like a small black hole on loan from a particle accelerator'.
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• Age of Iron (The Iron Age Trilogy) by Angus Watson
  ...us Watson is likened on the cover to Joe Abercrombie. However, for me the beauty of Angus Watson is that he writes like Angus Watson. He has a lightness of Further Reading: If this appeals, you'll also enjoy [[The Black Guard (The Long War) by AJ Smith|AJ Smith's Long War series]] or [[The Grim
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• Mr Manchester and the Factory Girl: The Story of Tony and Lindsay Wilson by Lindsay Reade
  ...Lindsay, before he left the second Mrs W to move in with Yvette, a former beauty queen. ...ith some reservations, quite a human love story in itself. A selection of black and white photographs complements the story well.
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• The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett
  Amongst the presents I received on Christmas Day was this little beauty – ''The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents'' by Terry Pratchett. Wh ...e 1989. We currently have three – two white ones (Sabrina and Salem) and a black and white one (Hattie). So this subject matter is perfect.
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• The Book of Hope by Jane Goodall and Douglas Abrams
  ...hed chicks from the tomtit nests to their biological parents so they learn black robin behaviour and not tomtit behaviour. ...derstanding that my own mantras of “focus on the good stuff” and “look for beauty, share wisdom” are really also about finding reasons to hope.
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• Whispering Shadows by Jan-Philipp Sendker
  ...rs: the work camps, the split families, the fear, the killing ''for a few black peppercorns''. It is also a place where the people who are even at one tin ...isplay of wealth that buys other people's symbols with a disregard for the beauty and art and richness of their own heritage.
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• Clean: An Unsanitised History of Washing by Katherine Ashenburg
  The devastating bubonic plague epidemic (the Black Death), which started in the 14th century, effectively put an end to bathin ...se of film stars in advertisements, by association with success, youth and beauty. More recently, anxiety about dirt and disease has increased, along with wi
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• Newest Art Reviews
  ...although I could have spelled that more accurately – this one was, and is, black and white and red. Yes, he has an artistic collaborator on this piece, and ...o for pleasure and adventure. His rapturous encounters with their natural beauty, and its literary consequences, changed our view of the world''.
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