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  • There is an anarchic pleasure to ''Circle, Square, Moose'' that borders on the absurd, but manages to turn into genius. Things start off routinely At times this book borders on the precipice of being Meta; deconstructing the fundamentals of the educ
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  • ...rong and tied, despite themselves, to the harsh landscapes of the Scottish Borders. The harsh landscape of the Scottish Borders plays a vital role. It's old and menacing and powerful, but it's also uncha
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  • |summary=Village life in the Scottish borders is perfectly captured in this first book of a new series which will appeal ...nd features a fictional village not far from Kirkcudbright in the Scottish Borders. You can tell that it's Scotland because the children pull faces if their p
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  • |summary=Warfare was never far away in the Scottish-English borders in medieval times. ''The Leopard of Dramoor'' looks at this area and time t ...and betrayal. There's also a tangible understanding and love of the local borders landscape and history that rises from the pages so strongly that you can fe
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  • ...by climate change and the mass movement of people and it is one defined by borders, checkpoints and soldiers with guns. Mhairi has made it across Africa and o ...exacerbates it? Will countries institute population control measures? Will borders stay as they are?
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  • ...iod, Britain often seemed to be on the verge of civil war. The Anglo-Welsh borders were a perpetual source of trouble, kept at bay only by the Marcher lords a ...iod, Britain often seemed to be on the verge of civil war. The Anglo-Welsh borders were a perpetual source of trouble, kept at bay only by the Marcher lords a
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  • ...th. Deft touch. A lot of the action takes place at Dryburgh Abbey in the Borders. This is a golden opportunity for McClure to give the reader some historic ...onvened meeting in London then back to the relative calm and beauty of the Borders. But the net appears to be closing in. McClure gives us likeable characte
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  • ...omnibus of 16th century murder mysteries and adventure along the Scottish borders that's rich in characters, action and well-textured history. ...become Deputy Warden of the West March in Carlisle. The Scottish/English borders and those who inhabit them are different from the world he's left behind bu
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  • ...riod. The book is filled with beautifully illustrated patterns, motifs and borders. If you are a craftaholic the chances are that this book can be used in a v Page 16 - A selection of borders. A small Christmas tree with frame behind. A bough of holly. A picture of a
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  • ...enry VIII has decided on a scorched earth policy and sends agents over the borders to burn Scottish towns and plunder their churches and monasteries to fund h Talking of Henry, there are interesting parallels between the war along the borders and the modern day Middle East conflicts. Dacre understands the mind of th
    5 KB (799 words) - 12:43, 22 February 2018
  • ...walked 6,000 miles across Afghanistan in 2002. A walk along the Scottish borders should be a doddle by comparison. ...alk as such. It is about the history of the borders, of the people of the borders. It is about how our perception of history and of national identity gets a
    9 KB (1,559 words) - 18:04, 16 February 2018
  • ...arrative. Mixed-race Japanese girls blend easily in London, less so in the Borders, so she would never have expected prejudice because she would not have much ...the space programme. Their constructions are very obvious in the Scottish Borders and North Pennines; disused railway stations and viaducts, cuttings and sid
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  • ...y needs to find one. With Dudley accompanying him, he sets of to the Welsh borders in pursuit of one such stone, but the land of Dee's father is a dangerous p
    3 KB (440 words) - 15:47, 22 February 2018
  • ...dreams of flying in a skyship and of seeing the world beyond her island's borders. So Catherine becomes Cat. She stows away on the skyship Stormdancer. Here,
    3 KB (432 words) - 15:00, 12 March 2018
  • ...ened with details, subtle but arresting, and the tiny dinosaur on his hill borders on .... haunting, really, despite still being the ridiculous type of creatu
    3 KB (444 words) - 17:13, 10 April 2018
  • ...cter illustrations may be a little too dark for the very young. The black borders are a little stark and one or two of the full two page spreads are a little
    3 KB (507 words) - 15:31, 4 April 2018
  • ...ously taught across schools in Australia, volunteered with Teachers Across Borders in Cambodia – and this is her first novel.
    3 KB (480 words) - 11:36, 19 March 2018
  • ...satifsying conclusion to a trilogy that transports Robin Hood to the Welsh borders in the years after William the Conqueror. The supernatural element from the
    3 KB (486 words) - 13:31, 27 September 2020
  • ...st stand. And Parsifal does find his way home, back to the Occitan, on the borders of modern-day France and Spain. It's an unhappy time of civil unrest. Catho
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  • is thoughtful, right down to the pretty borders around the text,
    3 KB (468 words) - 12:00, 7 October 2020
  • ..., given the intensity of their grief and anger and fear. These overlapping borders get a little confusing in the latter half of the story and so this is one f
    3 KB (517 words) - 12:29, 24 April 2018
  • ...he was fighting? How can the Prince of the land not know what's beyond his borders? He was also fiercely gullible and overly trusting. How can a man in his po
    3 KB (552 words) - 08:18, 28 September 2020
  • Queen Rhian of Ethrea has troubles both inside and outside of her borders. Defiant noblemen, reluctant to be ruled by a woman, are disputing her crow
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  • ...nning on making a patchwork quilt with a feminist slogan running round the borders. Just about all the projects would be completed within an afternoon (prefe
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  • ...ot as much substance or practicality, not to mention that the dark imagery borders on the scary for the very small.
    3 KB (639 words) - 13:22, 29 March 2018
  • ...t, an Israeli outpost in Lebanon. From there, they aim to protect Israel's borders from 'terrorists'.
    3 KB (511 words) - 16:20, 11 April 2018
  • ...k. Yes, it has animals gambolling, but it has man-made wire constructs and borders in every frame. It takes us through a year's nature watch, but it also show
    3 KB (540 words) - 11:26, 23 September 2018
  • Rhodri is a master falconer's son living on the Welsh borders during the reign of Richard the Lionheart. There's nothing outwardly unusua
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  • I loved the Borders setting, which is richly described in landscape, food and speech patterns.
    3 KB (562 words) - 11:44, 22 March 2018
  • ...ian cohort is sent to safeguard the Palmyrian royal family and protect its borders from incursion. In turn, their presence incites the Parthians and our heroe
    3 KB (544 words) - 14:48, 25 August 2020
  • ...ieces.Unfortunately, the only thing it suffers from is a writer who almost borders on the too clever as at times I did struggle to keep up with the plot, occa
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  • ...particularly when you add in the counties: reorganisation in 1974 changed borders, created new counties and abolished some old ones. Some were renamed, to s
    4 KB (647 words) - 13:40, 28 February 2018
  • ...y through – I won't spoil it, but it's the blackest of cringe comedy. This borders on being farcical once or twice, but it doesn't lighten the tone of the nov
    3 KB (560 words) - 12:59, 31 January 2022
  • ...rl]], while older readers might enjoy the blend of ancient Ireland and the borders during the Troubles in [[Bog Child by Siobhan Dowd|Bog Child]]. You might
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  • ...osebuds''': In this card the rosebuds are punched out of the page. Lots of borders punches are used and effective paper piercing make this card really stand o
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  • ...s before DNA testing and when it’s harder to access medical records across borders, it’s left to a judge to decide who should raise her, the wealthy and pow
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  • ...tivation is clear. A dead end town. Knowledge of a better life outside its borders, but no resources to leave. Panic is a tradition in Carp, so many of the co
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  • There's a neat tie-up between the situation on the borders of Ukraine as Putin's tanks mass there and the beleaguered Prime Minister w
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  • ...gend – the inhabitants are forbidden to leave the island or even cross the borders of their village into the Forbidden Territories beyond their homes. Isabell
    4 KB (617 words) - 10:14, 28 September 2020
  • ...art. Hernández's picture of the socially reclusive student, clad in black borders, on stereotypical and fails to arouse any emotion comparable to the paragra
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  • ...sh Country Doctor]] - beforehand. For a similar story set in the Scottish Borders you might enjoy [[Secrets in Prior's Ford by Eve Houston]].
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  • ...nting is the predictable middle-eastern style bad guy, just waiting at the borders of the country to invade. Though King Hablet is a three-dimensional charac
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  • ..., or even worse: expelled to the wilderness beyond the Central Authority's borders.
    4 KB (635 words) - 11:55, 13 February 2019
  • Apart from knowing that it borders Venezuela, Brazil and Suriname, a fact hammered into me in Year 8 Geography
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  • ...when it could be said that assuming that others will be equally honourable borders on naivety. He's far from being aware of his own charms and assumes that p
    4 KB (648 words) - 12:33, 21 August 2020
  • Brookfield writes in a few male interests for Charlotte, and one borders on obsessively creepy, which is a nice humourous addition to the book. As w
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  • ...of an icebound castle. Her quest to discover a mysterious ancient artefact borders on obsession – a dangerous one that threatens the lives of her travelling
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  • ...ear, hear'' not ''here, here'', ''out of sight'' not ''out of site'' and ''borders'' not ''boarders'', for example. And the time travel section could have bee
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  • ...y the collective consciousness of dead and drowned Icelanders of old – the borders between the living and the dead are also fluid.
    4 KB (736 words) - 11:52, 19 March 2018
  • ...touches such as a map of ancient Greece and some information on modern day borders in the foreword. A note on archaeology or culture follows at the end of eac
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  • ...more concerned in transporting less salubrious produce across post-Soviet borders.
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  • ...t the eight of them should have a week's holiday in a cottage on the Welsh borders. So, there's four adults, four children and a lot of emotional baggage. O
    4 KB (716 words) - 08:54, 31 March 2018
  • ...indeed film) ''Water for Elephants''. This time out Sara stays within the borders of historical fiction but leaves the animal-exhibiting circuses behind in f
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  • ...even more valuable for a small child just starting to delineate his or her borders and learning to assert their independence, both behaviourally and emotional
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  • ...Breda's powerful women. She is the Maestra of the Crowfoot Inn on the very borders of Breda, close to the mountains. Kat is a restless child and finds it diff
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  • ...mericans are stupid and have no sense of language and cultures outside the borders?
    4 KB (677 words) - 11:34, 6 April 2018
  • ...they're groups of people from obscure places in eastern Europe such as the borders of Ukraine and Belarus. Until ''La Tribune Gauloise'' broke the story, few
    4 KB (666 words) - 12:06, 29 December 2023
  • ...was once a contained and riveting universe has opened into something that borders on the bland.
    4 KB (724 words) - 14:04, 1 April 2018
  • ...London to its criminals and its gang wars, going so far as to surround its borders with released ''halfmen'', genetically manipulated creatures with a lust fo
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  • ...ng drive to the weekend retreat in Northumbria, right up near the Scottish borders and to make it worse the three husbands had all - for one reason or another
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  • Moving over to Lyon, on the Swiss and Italian borders with France we discover some savoury semolina dumplings (they could be read
    4 KB (663 words) - 12:45, 10 April 2018
  • ...ould be to have a novice spy to try and get a wanted girl across Germany's borders, but it does mention it more than once, rather than resolve the issue. We
    4 KB (659 words) - 08:23, 31 March 2024
  • What is this evil? What can follow and brutally destroy generations across borders of both geography and chronology? I'm not going to tell you and suggest yo
    4 KB (638 words) - 15:02, 19 February 2018
  • It begins as a humorous look at an unlikely pair in a small Welsh borders town/village bookshop (topically published now, during the Hay-on-Wye Festi
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  • Sinking boats in stormy seas, national borders boosted with barbed wire, and overcrowded shelters – the media's portraya
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  • ...inds himself landed with his grandparents on their small farm in the Welsh Borders. Here he finds his true self, as he silently observes his grandfather rear
    4 KB (743 words) - 12:49, 29 September 2020
  • ...could translate his own works, and other equally complex pieces can cross borders. It's a market that has actually doubled in sales volume between 2000 and 2
    4 KB (725 words) - 19:57, 8 July 2018
  • In the 'Borders of Myself', Brandmark portrays an older narrator than some of the other sto
    4 KB (752 words) - 09:29, 2 April 2018
  • ...person to the world inside any book. Colfer has essentially opened up the borders and created the potential for a wealth of new storylines and characters. As
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  • ...d. The depiction of street gangs and the working class in general at times borders on cardboard cut-out. And one glaring plot detail – so specific it seems
    4 KB (635 words) - 11:59, 19 April 2018
  • ...open and relatively safe then are war zones now. Contrariwise: the closed borders of the seventies are now open to all comers. The world has changed as much Borders have shifted. Wars have been fought and lost. Seeing the world through Th
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  • ...this beautiful book of incredibly high production values. There are silver borders around single and double page spreads. There are giants and gods and animal
    4 KB (708 words) - 20:52, 9 March 2018
  • ''In the tangle of crumbling, weather-beaten and broken hills, where the borders of Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan meet, is a military outpost…'' Thus be
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  • ...if it was well written. But it isn't. Most of the dialogue is wooden, some borders on crude stereotyping. The author has a habit of making mildly interesting
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  • ...truly controversial? Not in the slightest. Plant seeds. Form bonds across borders. Tear down barbed wire.
    5 KB (794 words) - 15:22, 26 February 2018
  • ...rivacy of home. Public worship and proselytising are outlawed. Outside the borders of the UIA, religion is still a feature of life. This also means that secta
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  • ...ast met Kikarin, the then teenager growing up in the wilds of the Scottish borders surrounded by some pretty wild people. Her parents have gone back to live
    4 KB (736 words) - 14:05, 11 March 2018
  • ...mething means, it helps to have pages with lemon and violet and aquamarine borders, dotted with presents and hearts and stars. That’s not to say the diction
    5 KB (791 words) - 10:23, 6 October 2020
  • ...bject matter is helpful - my knowledge and appreciation of classical music borders on 'heathen' and so, unsurprisingly, this chapter washed over me a bit - al
    5 KB (804 words) - 13:32, 6 April 2018
  • ...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
    4 KB (769 words) - 15:07, 2 February 2024
  • ...dly funny, or even a bit fluffy - it actually achieves the unthinkable and borders on "serious" literature thanks to those aforementioned storylines. It's jus
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  • ...d Sophie McKenzie's ability to read the mind and emotions of a teenage boy borders on a psychic power itself! Readers looking for a thrilling roller-coaster s
    5 KB (812 words) - 12:13, 26 September 2020
  • .... What they don't know however, is that the real cold war is fought on the borders of this world, far from prying eyes at the edges of the light. British Inte
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  • ...g with all its people and buildings, and since then Britain has closed its borders to all foreigners. For most people in this country, little or nothing is kn
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  • |summary=Emerald's happy life on the Welsh Borders is destroyed with the news that she is to marry an unpleasant, vulgar old m
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  • ...aughter was born in 1982. All these years later Dan enjoys blurring genre borders in his novels; something he's demonstrated well in ''The Fifth Heart'' as h
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  • ...the King of France, but the latter suspected him of planning to extend his borders on the mainland by force – and after a decisive battle in which the Frenc
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  • ...ks' works, then the excellent [[Zero History by William Gibson]] certainly borders on sci fi and is highly recommended.
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  • ...ric that still infuses political debates: the necessity of building strong borders, of being tough on terrorism, and of maintaining a national identity. This
    5 KB (753 words) - 15:12, 5 September 2020
  • ...oves with her family from cosmopolitan London to the wilds of the Scottish borders where not all accept her Japanese/English mixed heritage. Her father works
    4 KB (742 words) - 16:09, 27 August 2020
  • ...enmark over the ownership of the duchy of Schleswig, which lay between the borders of both countries. A complex issue which could not be solved by simple neg
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  • ...e array of large double-page spreads – we get the typical array of country borders with major cities marked, the topography and types of landscape, a spread o
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  • ...e mix can be – the anxiety and anticipation of questing children, crossing borders for the first time, could easily have been written sixty years ago but feel
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  • ...that a Croatian would be interested in an Italian city. However, Trieste borders the former Yugoslavia and, therefore, modern Croatia. By the beginning of
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  • As a result, Commonwealth has barricaded the sole track to its borders and is now keeping armed guard - guards such as sixteen-year-old Philip, an
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  • ...with Scottish history led to a move from her native Ulster to the Scottish borders and armfuls of literary accolades. The one that stands out should itself w
    5 KB (741 words) - 13:42, 22 March 2018
  • ...d with the help of the great worm who lives in the ice of the glacier that borders the lake and the glacial trolls who serve him, he intends to purge the life
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  • ...ed window, which also happens, to the easy accessibility of a way to cross borders undiscovered, to long dormant talents suddenly reawakening just when they b
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  • ...as far as such a thing is possible in the world of branding, its delivery borders on the understated by industry standards. Yes, there is a generous sprinkli
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  • ...into a filthy pit.'' The depravity seen in her own home is disgusting and borders on absurd. However, Borgo uses this absurdity to illustrate to the reader t
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