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• Precious by Sapphire
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• Alexander McCall Smith's The No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Series in Chronological Order
  ...911742X|title=In the Company of Cheerful Ladies}} (also known as The Night-Time Dancer) 2009 {{amazonurl|isbn=034911997X|title=Tea Time for the Traditionally Built}}
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• Precious and the Mystery of the Missing Lion : A New Case for Precious Ramotswe by Alexander McCall Smith
  |title=Precious and the Mystery of the Missing Lion : A New Case for Precious Ramotswe ...AMS' children's stories about his No.1 Ladies Detective Agency character, Precious Ramotswe, when she is a child. So I was looking forward to this one about
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• Precious and the Zebra Necklace by Alexander McCall Smith
  |title=Precious and the Zebra Necklace ...recious is asked to look after her and make sure she settles into school. Precious, already a budding detective at such a young age, soon sniffs out that ther
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• It's Not Yours, It's Mine! by Susanna Moores
  ...A charming debut picture book in which a small rabbit learns about sharing precious possessions. ...definitely not for sharing. This ball belongs to Blieka and no-one else! Time passes and the lovely red ball is not quite so lovely anymore. Blieka needs
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• Precious and Grace by Alexander McCall Smith
  |title=Precious and Grace ...e cup of tea after a stressful morning at work, starting a new story about Precious and Grace is relaxing and heartwarming, leaving you feeling better than whe
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• Akimbo Adventures by Alexander McCall Smith
  ...stival, and I read pretty much everything he writes as he writes it! This time it’s a children’s book, with three stories in one volume all about a b ...McCall Smith|Precious and the Mystery of the Missing Lion : A New Case for Precious Ramotswe]]. We think you'll also enjoy [[The Sands of Shark Island by Ale
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• Category:S J Hardman Lea
  ...s that are entertaining and provide insight into the authentic mood of the time. ...and well-written story, convincing and sympathetic characters, and – most precious of all - it gives readers an utterly convincing immersion in a world long g
  1 member (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 10:06, 30 January 2017
• Share! by Anthea Simmons and Georgie Birkett
  ...older sister learning to share everything, from favourite blankets to tea-time food with her baby brother. ...an to feel uncomfortable, since every time the older girl shared something precious to her it ended up wrecked, which didn't seem to be sending a very positive
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• The Desert of Souls (The Chronicle of Sword and Sand) by Howard Andrew Jones
  ...iph's vizier realises that it has magical qualities that make it even more precious than it appears and isn't too well pleased. He gives Dabir a chance to red ...of my favourite books as a child and now Howard takes us back there. This time we aren't following the exploits of its central character, the Caliph Harun
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• What to Give the Parents of a Newborn with a Limited Budget
  ...the innocence and charm of a newborn, evoking nostalgia and emotion every time it's viewed. ...ical and much-appreciated gift. It not only helps the family during a busy time but also shows your willingness to lend a hand.
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• The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine by Alexander McCall Smith
  ...nd I always look forward to seeing what is happening in their lives. This time around the story is about holidays, amongst other things, and the tricky pl ...ey appear to be no trouble whatsoever! Indeed, she manages to have a full time job with no worries about after school childcare or the making of packed lu
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• Dark Thread by Pauline Chandler
  |summary=Short but sweet time-slip story that deals both with the grief at losing a parent and the terrib ...thy - and Kate collapses. She wakes, still at the mill, but in a long-past time. Here, Kate must learn to weave the dark threads of her life into its overa
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• A Hard Death by Jonathan Hayes
  |summary= This is a fast-paced thriller by the author of ''Precious Blood''. Tension and action go hand-in-hand on almost every page. I haven't read Jonathan Hayes' bestseller 'Precious Blood' so I was a fresh reader, so to speak. His writing biography on the i
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• Wild and Precious Life by Deborah Ziegler
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• Blood Precious by Sara Banerji
  |title=Blood Precious I can't remember the last time a book made me chortle quite so often. Lady Cunningham Smythe is a cantanke
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• Reviews, Time and Filthy Lucre
  |title=Reviews, Time and Filthy Lucre ...o we just cannot afford to get caught up on side issues like this. Time is precious.
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• Precious Babies: Pregnancy, Birth and Parenting after Infertility by Kate Brian
  |title=Precious Babies: Pregnancy, Birth and Parenting after Infertility ...s always the very helpful sense that it's different for every woman, every time, and there are no invalid feelings to have, and having had children herself
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• Ida B by Katherine Hannigan
  ...o the saccharine though and adults may find the central character a little precious. ...great deal of freedom and often left to her own devices, Ida B spends her time with Rufus the dog and Lulu the cat. She talks to the trees and they talk r
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• The No 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
  ...le woman - "Hey fat lady, what are you doing sitting beneath that tree?" - Precious Ramotswe has much experience in life, a keen intelligence and an irrepressi ...a fair amount of meandering along the way. I imagine this was deliberate; Precious Ramotswe is not a woman in a hurry, just as Africa, in McCall's vision, sho
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• Linda Newbery Talks To Bookbag in Praise of Charity Shops
  ...found in bags or pockets; items that may or may not be valuable, or may be precious to someone. Then there were the people. I noticed that some customers came ...chool, leaving only a cryptic note telling Nina and Dad not to worry. Then precious belongings of Mum's start to turn up in the charity shop run by Nina' great
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• The Next Accident by Lisa Gardner
  ...hings she has ever known. Enter Special Agent Pierce Quincy, Rainie's one time lover and constant guiding light, he is a man deeply haunted by his elder d ...can to protect the life of his precious remaining daughter yet at the same time knowingly placing Rainie directly in the path of the killer. Quincy is tor
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• Skinned by Robin Wasserman
  ...or living an even worse Mad Max existence in the ruined cities. There are precious few people in Lia's social circle and it seems as though most of them are r ...doesn't improve a great deal through much of the book. It takes her a good time and quite a few punches before she even begins to see the error of her ways
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• My Life on Fire by Cath Howe
  ...ld get my things back again eventually. You really feel for Ren, spending time in a B&B with nothing at all, not even her own clothes, whilst her parents
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• Barbapapa's Ark by Annette Tison and Talus Taylor
  ...see sick and injured animals suffering from the effects of pollution. Over time, more and more animals come to Barbapapa for help. He decides that the only ...ll delight young readers and hopefully teach them to love and care for our precious planet.
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• Minecraft: The Survivors' Book of Secrets by Stephanie Milton
  ...ient in survival skills. They are breaking their cover to share their most precious secrets with us; valuable insider knowledge on the best ways to survive and ...ed and blank pages for making notes. I'd chose content over quantity every time.
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• Category:R Pollard
  ...ip would one day out manoeuvre the enemy and return home to us bearing its precious cargo. Then we returned to London under the bombs and as the war was endin ...n but contributed much to my Schubertian passions for romantic longing. My time at UCL was both Rabelaisian and restrained by romantic love.
  1 member (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 11:42, 5 October 2017
• The Road To War: Duty & Drill, Courage & Capture by Steven Burgauer
  ...merican financial sector to write science fiction and lecture from time to time. He's therefore surprised when, out of the blue, Mr F's daughter tracks hi ...one looking back and allowing the thoughts that he couldn't indulge at the time.
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• Elmer's First Counting Book by David McKee
  ...ill stand up to a lot of rough handling - this isn't a book you need to be precious about. The book is shaped - elephant-shaped, if that makes sense - and thi ...ye-catching - and just this side of eye-watering but this probably isn't a time in a child's life when subtlety matters. We move from one elephant smiling
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• Babar's Guide to Paris by Laurent de Brunhoff
  ...belle about how sometimes it rains in Paris. He's being kind. Every single time I have been there it rains, and so I know, like Isabelle now knows, that sh ''Babar's Guide To Paris'' is a precious book to read alone or to read together. It is a lovely, gentle introduction
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• This One Wild and Precious Life: the path back to connection in a fractured world by Sarah Wilson
  |title=This One Wild and Precious Life: the path back to connection in a fractured world ...''This! Precisely this.'' I'm lucky enough to be living my one wild and precious life the way I want to. Sarah Wilson is equally lucky. In her book that t
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• School Ship Tobermory by Alexander McCall Smith and Iain McIntosh
  ...good as his other stories? Will I love the characters just as much? This time he has reinvented the boarding school story, because who doesn't love a goo ...ientific research or staying on land with their auntie. Now, however, the time has come for them to join the pupils of the school ship Tobermory. They ar
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• Montacute House by Lucy Jago
  Then Cess finds a precious locket in the hen coop. It's as though someone placed it there specifically ...rt of thing my son has been using as a complementary resource. At the same time, the plot is tense, the mystery well worked out, and the central character
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• People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
  ...umental concept, Brooks has woven an absolutely stunning saga, both of the precious book, the people who made it, and those who guarded it with their lives. Beginning during World War II the novel goes backwards in time, documenting its journey. Each of the sections covers a specific period in
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• The First-Time Gardener: Container Food Gardening by Pamela Farley
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• Phil Earle Talks To Bookbag About Book Covers
  Every author daydreams about how their precious story will finally look on the shelf, the number of finishes it’ll have, I spent far too much time thinking about it, at the expense of writing whatever came next. I knew exa
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• A Hundred Pieces of Me by Lucy Dillon
  ...to create her list, each item evokes powerful memories, opening windows in time and enabling Gina to see the need for closure on past relationships and eve ...each scene. I imagine that the greyhound rescue charities will have a hard time keeping up with demand once this book hits the shelves!
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• The Downstairs Cookbook: Recipes From A 1920s Household Cook by Margaret Powell
  ...her collection of the recipes which she used, or which were current at the time. But it's more than that. Think of it as being rather like a visit to a g It is though, of its time. Bear in mind that these were recipes which originated in the twenties and
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• The Ninth Wave (New Stories from the Mabinogion) by Russell Celyn Jones
  ...l have sink estates, rich boys still have too much time on their hands and precious little meaning in their lives. ...promised to someone else, and Pwyll suddenly finds some purpose - and, in time, a son. But then the son goes missing and his wife is blamed and everything
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• The Girl With No Name by Diney Costeloe
  ...d her only belongings are crammed into a small suitcase. Among them is one precious photograph of the family she has left behind in Germany. Lonely and homesic ...credibly evocative read – transporting the reader back to a rather hellish time in our history.
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• Bone Talk by Candy Gourlay
  ...a mountain tribe in the Philippine jungle meeting Americans for the first time. Candy Gourlay never lets us down and this is a fine piece of gripping hist ...from other tribes, from the Americans, and perhaps even from the march of time itself...
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• The Company Man by Robert Jackson Bennett
  ...ng friendship, but more importantly they trust each other. And trust is a precious commodity in this weird and wonderful place called Evesden. And as a body ...''Centuries, it feels like ... Civilizations have risen and fallen in the time I've been dry ...''
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• Walking to the Moon by Kate Cole-Adams
  ...alone.'' And indeed time is not important in this novel. We have all the time in the world would probably be the motto of the medical staff - if they had ...of both. As if her body has suddenly 'crashed' like a computer. All the precious information has not been saved. Most of it has been deleted.
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• I'll Meet You In Heaven by Jill Thrussell
  ...l returned to her first love - writing. Since then she's made up for lost time, having been prolific in the fields of novels and film scripts in between m ...rbs, it's a spoiler for practically the entire novella. Instead, waste no time; dive straight into the first chapter.
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• Mo Said She Was Quirky by James Kelman
  ...e, James Kelman's latest is another dramatic monologue, although the first time he has placed a female as his main character. Helen is a single mother, wor ...re are precious few times when all three are in the same place at the same time. In particular, I'd loved to have seen more about the relationship between
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• Tracer by Rob Boffard
  ...he common link to both Earth and New Earth being destroyed? Perhaps it is time someone did something about these pesky humans who ruin everything. ...r, these are the unofficial couriers of New Earth, their job is to deliver precious packages across the three miles or so of the space station without being ki
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• My Life in Houses by Margaret Forster
  ...t it soon becomes clear that only one very special house can earn the most precious title: HOME. ...struggles with the two options before her: to leave her home for the last time and spend her final days in a hospice, or die peacefully at home, changing
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• Impostor (Variants) by Susanne Winnacker
  ...ter. But she loves being accepted as part of a loving family for the first time in her life. But she can't forget the danger she is in. Or her feelings for ...n't sure of the murderer's identity right up until the reveal. But by that time I was so fed up with the lack of originality and the useless Tess that I re
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• Zelah Green: One More Little Problem by Vanessa Curtis
  I loved Zelah first time around and I loved her again in this second story about her. Curtis has a t ...s fragility and Dad's flakiness. And Fran's snobby mother doesn't want her precious daughter associating with a "weirdo". Ultimately, it's down to vulnerable Z
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• Edward's Eyes by Patricia MacLachlan
  ...tory of love and loss. Some things you just can't hold onto, no matter how precious they are. And sometimes life brings you pain so sharp that you don't think ...[[:Category:Nina Bawden|Nina Bawden]], which also approaches grief - this time for an animal.
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• Stolen Child by Laura Elliot
  ...carriages over the years and she is desperate to have a healthy birth this time. But the signs are not good ... She starts out on a long journey of lies ...s a pity because she's going to be the subject of wagging tongues for some time - and it's all of her own making. When her longed-for daughter Joy is born
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• Where Do You Go, Birdy Jones by Joanna Nadin
  ...overbearing step mum, a little sister and another baby on the way. There's precious little room for Birdy any more and the only place she really feels happy an ...tigability of the central character. I won't forget Birdy Jones for a long time.
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• The Pearl Thief by Elizabeth Wein
  ...te and its treasures are catalogued and renovations are underway, there is time for Julie and her family to spend the summer making their goodbyes - to hom ...her on the head. The McEwans found her and brought her to hospital but got precious little thanks for it. And the hospital staff are unkind to Julie because th
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• Her Mother's Face by Roddy Doyle and Freya Blackwood
  Time passes, and the adult Siobhán sees her mother smiling back at her in the b ...ny beautiful touches in these pictures – the kitten showing the passing of time by appearing as a grown cat, the tiny illustrations of children and their m
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• Authors and Publishers
  ...d postage costs are high. For this reason, we make a small charge to cover time and costs when we take on a self-published book for review. We know that pu
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• The Disappearances by Gemma Malley
  ...Raffy's jealousy won't leave him and it's threatening to ruin the couple's precious, new-found peace. Back in the City, Lucas is finding that switching off the Ooh! How ''exciting''! I can't remember the last time the second book in a series I was reading went off in such an unexpected di
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• Townie: A Memoir by Andre Dubus III
  ...going to own up? Nope. Bloody feet and pain are a by-product of precious time with his father. So straight away, I'm getting the gist of the book and th ...or all four Dubus children because their mother is absent for a lot of the time. She has very little choice in the matter. She needs to go to work (often
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• Dark Water by Caro Ramsay
  ...West End are given several outings in the guise of wasted police time and precious man hours dealing with trifling minor crimes. The frustration of the polic As so many characters are introduced in and around the same time, It could be a little confusing at times and now and again at the beginning
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• Star Wars Bounty Hunt: Lift the Flap by Katrina Pallant and Robert Ball
  ...script full of multi-syllable words – they might not be spending too much time with this book to make you worry about wear and tear. As the first film was such a key part of my youth, I do feel a little precious about its legacy being diluted. While I know moaning about a book like thi
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• The Maison Sajou Sewing Book: 20 projects from the famous French haberdashery by Lucinda Ganderton
  ...equally clear and not too precious about the materials you'll use. By the time that you get to the projects you'll have the sense that you ''can'' do this ...more than others, I do confess) and which require more of an investment of time and skill. There's a delightful silk slipper bag with a cross stitch inser
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• Blue Flame (Perfect Fire Trilogy) by Katie Grant
  ...he Occitan, on the borders of modern-day France and Spain. It's an unhappy time of civil unrest. Catholics pit themselves against Cathars and the country i ...e blue flame, and Parsifal must decide to which side he should entrust his precious burden.
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• Carols from King's: The Stories of our Favourite Carols from King's College by Alexandra Coghlan
  ...3pm on Chrismas Eve, ''A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols'' provides a precious moment of tranquility amongst the bustle of the festive season. Here author ...istmas carols normally extends to perhaps one carol service near Christmas time, and the annual appointment with Carols from King's on Christmas Eve.
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• Make and Play: Nativity by Joey Chou
  ...to decorate with a box of ornaments and a nativity scene (sometimes quite precious, so it's Not To Be Played With) which is set up Somewhere Safe. Where's th ...h a cover price of £7.99: it's going to ''engage'' children for hours at a time and they'll create something of which ''everybody'' can be proud. I'd like
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• The New World by Andrew Motion
  ...rate chief known as 'Black Cloud' in hot pursuit. Jim has stolen something precious that belongs to the chief, and he wants it back. Along the way, the friends ...ping off at various points in their journey for months and even years at a time. The tale lost its air of suspense and tension and became a leisurely amble
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• No More Mulberries by Mary Smith
  ...lly contributing to their likely death. In some circumstances life is not precious. Mary Smith brings this country to life – and sometimes you feel the nee ...n some considerable skill to deliver a story which moves back and forth in time and between Scotland and Afghanistan without the reader ever losing the thr
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• A Tale of Trees: The Battle to save Britain's Ancient Woodland by Derek Niemann
  ...emann explains that the demand for timber for pit props had reached an all-time high. This, combined with an increased need for agricultural land for food ...l read for anyone with an interest in the natural world and a love for our precious native trees. Many thanks to the publisher for my review copy.
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Lorraine Jenkin Again
  ...wants to be surprised and delighted by her book as she's invested a lot of time to read it, and for some reason that I know will do me no favours to admit ...upon it. Everyone – and I mean everyone - who happened to be on it at the time were told they were not allowed to leave, no matter what their circumstance
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• The Presentation Coach: Bare Knuckle Brilliance For Every Presenter by Graham Davies
  ...endless 'how-to' manuals? My first impression is of no-nonsense, time is precious but also a little in-your-face, American style er, presentation of the book ...ading and also to dip into if time is short. Davies acknowledges time and time again of the business of our daily lives. Readers who prefer a gentler, pe
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• The Dead are Rising (MetaWars) by Jeff Norton
  ...ch people living in a post peak-oil and devasted Earth spend most of their time. But before he died, Jason Delacroix's memories had been uploaded to the Me After destroying one of the Metasphere's four precious server farms and creating a bridge to the rival Changsphere, Jonah and the
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• Sea Journal by Lisa Woollett
  ...mosphere of that ever-changing area between the sea and the land, time and time again. Let me give you an example:
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• Bee-&-Me by Alison Jay
  ...books which I review - I simply don't have the space for any but the most precious. ''Bee-&-Me'' is already one of them and I'd like to thank the publishers
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• Enemies of Books by William Blades, Randolph G. Adams, Bagher Bachchha (Editor)
  ...ll as in the Gordon Riots just over a century later, and closer to his own time, the destruction of a priceless law library at Strasbourg, ravaged by the s ...y''. Librarians, we learn, are just as guilty as anybody else, mutilating precious volumes with embossing or rubber stamps, writing class marks with white ink
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• The Mercy Seat by Elizabeth H Winthrop
  |summary= Time ticks ever forward as a young man prepares for his electrocution by electri ...inously, a truck travels along the dusty road toward the town delivering a precious cargo in its trailer: an innocuous-looking chair with leather straps around
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• The Ransom of Dond by Siobhan Dowd
  ...re to live when she meets Bawn, her minutes-older twin, for the very first time. ...otion. It's about love and grief and justice and sacrifice. It's about how precious life is. And it is beautiful. And lyrical. I read it three times in success
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• Waiting for Santa by Steve Metzger and Alison Edgson
  ...ve and Bear is excited. Badger, though, is not feeling it. It's a waste of time. Santa doesn't know about them. No point getting things ready just for them This is a precious book about belief, friendship, teamwork and a little bit of magic. The illu
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• At A Loss For Words by Diane Schoemperlen
  ...could not put it down. The character is pathetic and admirable at the same time, one has to love her for her suffering, however pointless it is. ...ooled, just to experience the glimpse of love - however short-lived, it is precious nevertheless.
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• Above the Veil (The Seventh Tower) by Garth Nix
  ...that could threaten the world below. Sunstones are this dark world's most precious commodity and, as in any world where particular resources are stretched, a ...back in the castle of the Chosen and part of another uneasy alliance, this time with the rebel Underfolk, led by the unpredictable Crow. Can they unite for
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• Phil Daniels: Class Actor by Phil Daniels
  At one time, he seemed to be heading for a musical career. However a stint with progre ...From the perspective of middle age, he makes the observation that by the time we reach the age of our parents, we are more likely to see things their way
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• Madeleine Goes to the Moon by Peter Lynas and Charlie Roberts
  ...enture'' the book tells us ''there's no telling who she'll be!'' That's a precious gift to give to a child. Imagination should be encouraged. ...hich is going to be read again and again as you'll spot something new each time you read. I've had great fun spotting objects which appeared on the moon t
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• The Homecoming Party by Carmine Abate
  ...ly awaits his father's return, when he can for a few months spend precious time with him before he leaves again. Marco's father Tullio is a migrant worker ...imple style but still full of elegance and meaning. Set in an undetermined time but probably the 60's or 70's, the story is a touching portrait of family l
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• Elizabeth of York by Alison Weir
  And so Elizabeth was a crucial player in English history. Yet precious little about her is well known in today's public consciousness. What was sh ...ir personalities and the non-political details of their lives. At the same time, she doesn't pretend that her subjects were more in control of their lives
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• Mrs D'Silva's Detective Instincts and the Shaitan of Calcutta by Glen Peters
  The story is set during a turbulent time in India's history, thirteen years after independence was granted. One of t ...sense of time but Glen Peters' real success is in the overall evocation of time and place that only comes with personal experience. The murder mystery elem
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• Gardens of Delight by Erica James
  ...and-Boon, but followed that with one of my all-time favourites, ''Precious Time''. Three or four more of her novels since then have also been moving, thoug ...er, designed only to further whatever subplot they were involved in at the time.
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• Snow by John Banville
  ...town, who - despite the different religions - was in the habit of spending time at Ballyglass House. His horse was stabled there. ...maid at the pub where he's staying. He broke up with his girlfriend some time ago - or rather, she broke it off when she threw a glass of wine at him. B
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• Friends and Lovers by Maureen Martella
  ...blin-based private investigation agency. It's what she's wanted for a long time, but the reality is more frightening than she expected. The investigation i ...l Smith's [[The No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency]], or Sara Banerji's [[Blood Precious]]. If you're looking for women's fiction set in Ireland we can recommend Ma
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• Crashed by Robin Wasserman
  ...t the world around her and her search for identity is much compelling this time around. She is supported by a truly three-dimensional cast of characters, m ...mystery that needs solving, but it's not too rushed and there's plenty of time for Lia to find a love interest and tentatively take some steps towards int
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• What are Aunties Made Of? by Carna Brooks
  ...f. Auntie Lin-Chen is a city girl and high-powered deal maker, but Auntie Precious is a lot more relaxed, but that might be because she's the same age as our ...vet, but she's kind and gentle and has been known to shed a tear when it's time to say goodbye. Auntie Sakiya is into fashion and has her own beauty shop,
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• Single, Again, and Again, and Again by Louisa Pateman
  ...eventually have eight of them as age caught up with her, slimmed down the time which was available for engagements and finally the order of having childre ...ut children and over the age of 35. She had to revise her plans one final time.
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• The Eskimo Solution by Pascal Garnier, Emily Boyce and Jane Aitken (translators)
  ...f he can, ''and'' the all-important connections between them. At the same time I both wanted them to be fully developed individual stories, and I wanted t And that link, therefore that thrust, took some time coming. The problems can be evident – namely, that however hard Garnier
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• At the Edge of Light by Maria Peura
  ...? Is it any wonder that for some it is more than slightly, more than for a time? ...he families of her friends. A depiction of a harsh world in which there is precious little love, scarcely more friendship and no loyalty whatsoever.
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• The Last Pearl by Leah Fleming
  |summary= The discovery of a precious freshwater pearl called 'Queenie' changes the lives of a young Scottish boy ...ls. Could this highly-skilled job be her key to a better life? At the same time, many miles away in Scotland, Jem Baillie and his father can't contain thei
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• Ruby Rocksparkle: Her Wildly Incredible Adventure by Jean Clemens Loftus
  ..., Prince Alano, is busily preparing for the day when he must rule, and the time for him to find a wife is fast approaching. Ruby, a vivid, read-headed beau ...of humour. This is a real escapist world and it's a pleasure to spend some time in it. Loftus writes in precise and elegant prose and chooses her vocabular
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• The House of Unexpected Sisters by Alexander McCall Smith
  ...needed in my life at that precise moment in time. Having had a difficult time with a sick child it was, for me, pure and perfect escapism. I met with a ...s. I felt safe, and happy, deep down inside after finishing, and that's a precious gift to bestow on a reader with your story. I can't wait for the next one.
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• Solitude: In Pursuit of a Singular Life in a Crowded World by Michael Harris
  ...istinguish between ''aloneness'' and ''loneliness''. The former is a soul-precious gift that we should all indulge in at times, the latter is a state that has ...cessary activity. The resource is nothing more than empty space and empty time, and this book is an extended look at why we should husband it well. Not h
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• Abbess of Meaux: The Law of Angels by Cassandra Clark
  ...Cistercians, one of the richest and most powerful groups in Europe at the time, and sets out to found a small convent near her childhood home. Chance lead ...m and why, and partly because her abbess wants her to secretly transport a precious relic there, one which would confer great authority on whichever ruling fac
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• The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
  ...appreciate that books, for her, are not just something to do in your spare time. Five pages in and I had lost my heart. ...y differing ways. Similarly, although there are mixed reviews about [[The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger]], I found it simply captivating. If
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• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
  ...point, Laila and her boyfriend take a trip to see the Buddhas of Bamiyan, precious monuments now destroyed as idolatrous by the Taleban. ...melodramatic, over-theatrical, unshaded, and just plain schmaltzy half the time. It's not that it's bad, it's just that it's a holiday read, not a weighty
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• Greetings From Bury Park by Sarfraz Manzoor
  .... And for the young Manzoor, it seemed there was an awful lot of work, but precious little money was spreading his way. In comparison with some of his white pe ...in other people's lives, generally carry on in our own sweet ways, and let time take care of blurring the boundaries. Books like this are little steps alon
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• Losing You by Nicci French
  ...le halt, plot-wise, in her more recent efforts. After all, reading time is precious! In fact, I missed my stop on the Tube last night because I was so immersed ...riends, friends' parents and neighbours leaves Nina coming up blank and as time ticks past, Nina realises that Charlie could not - would not - have simply
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• Faith by Jennifer Haigh
  .... Art is the priest and who is at the centre of the storm. We go back in time and discover a rather pious woman who has had a hard start to married life. ...With plenty of that precious commodity - hindsight. She spends a lot of time telling us all about their childhood days. She clearly looked up to Art bu
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