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...at being there. In fact she starts to be worried that Cat is upset, so she heads off to find him and, in doing so, discovers that Cat is in bed, covered wit ...rts to look after Cat is quite touching too and this again could be a good talking point with children.

...l He Sleep'' is the author/playwright's fourth McLevy and, although in our heads we fans hear the actor Brian Cox, the penmanship is pure Mr A. ...Before reading this I was under the impression that we would need to bang heads together to encourage them. Has my impression changed any? Not saying!

...gestive references in the text, and although the majority will go over the heads of the target audience, I wondered why Colfer included them in the first pl ...ls. And yet who is the first faitytale character that the children meet? A talking frog called Froggy. And while we are on the subject of 'true' fairy tales,

|summary=A disabled seal, talking heads on pigs, the embodiment of dying cities and the devil - it could only be a

...e who like their fantasy with a gritty street-level RPG feel incorporating heads ''exploding like melons'' this is dystopia at its most brutal and, indeed, ...rise up and remain memorable even if the pronunciation is best left in our heads. (I went for a Welsh pronunciation for the nasty megalomaniacal wannabe-qu

...here's a delightful play on the newspaper obsession with ages, with Bertha talking to ''dark-haired, blue-eyed 33-year-old Mum'' which is, if nothing else, an I did wonder if some of the humour would go over the heads (we're back to hot air again, are we not?) of the target age group of five

...e's still a line here and there which really seems to sing out - like Paul talking about pinball, ''nothing can compare to putting the entirety of your faith ...Paper Towns by John Green|Paper Town]], I think they'd also love [[Severed Heads, Broken Hearts by Robyn Schneider]].

...eving the death of his father when, ignoring his Grandmother’s warning, he heads to the frozen lake and gets drawn into a life changing adventure in another ...ood stuff, and Briscombe gets extra points for never mentioning dodos when talking about extinct creatures.

...care of the former Archangel Gabriel (his paternal grandfather) before she heads off to petition Lucifer for protection from the Archdemon Belial. Whether o ...ng from bad guys sending body parts special delivery FAO small children to talking cats who like to tell dirty limericks (not that the Vicar lets him get that

...ll when her dad goes off to find her mum, and then doesn't come back. She heads out to investigate and discovers a strange, secret world called the Midnigh ...nds speak. But also because it didn't quite feel like the right way to be talking about Emily's bravado. She does speak out, and speak up, and it does get h

...lp smiling every time Amir arrived through the transition room and started talking about the aliens landing.

And then, one day, Jacques overhears his parents talking and discovers a frightening truth. He is not Fleur's brother. He is her ima ...f an Imaginary Friend'' appeals, you could also look at [[The Boy with Two Heads by Andy Mulligan]]. Richard grows a second head. And it's not a very nice o

...e involved in but can't control. We also sit very uncomfortably inside the heads of two extremists, one on each side of the divide - a white supremacist and ...ing happy in a Muslim neighbourhood to getting as far away as possible and talking about just wars. We need to understand why Rafiq ends up throwing a bottle

...led attack on the multinational corporation, and will probably go over the heads of its readers without even giving them an enjoyable read. Not recommended. ...ends. While reading the gravestones, he is surprised to find a dead person talking to him, then more. They have one purpose. They have decided that Johnny wil

...n the Phoney War and does it neither by talking going over the heads of or talking down to his readers. ''Neville Chamberlain's War'' is engaging and interest

...l and homework. Yet there's also a treacle pond in the back garden, and a talking toad! I liked all the silliness, and the mystery surrounding Aunt Tab. Th

...ry good clue as to its content: weapons dripping in blood and decapitated heads. The novel starts with Professor Edward Quinn on a rather unusual journey. ...of dosh is possible, at the drop of a hat. The latest project everyone is talking about is a newly completed night safari with imported animals. Food for th

...did. In amongst the visual sense of levity we get a Disney-ready comical talking dog sidekick, and more, and the whole style is quippy, but I very quickly t .... But finally, in an era when the movies are turning these tales on their heads, this was nowhere near as subversive as it seemed to think. Kids can take

...a pseudonym and he has worked in intelligence, so he should know what he's talking - and writing about. He concentrates on the battle for supremacy (and we'v Putin's secret services rear their secretive heads throughout this fast-paced novel. One mission seems to stand out amongst o

...usive services. She almost splutters - ''Let me get this straight. We're talking twenty-five thousand dollars, cash, for one evening.''

...to situations that turn the conventional ideals of normal society on their heads. Dialogue is the writer's friend here... a heartfelt comment at some criti * '''BB: That gives us a lot to look forward to Gerry and thanks for talking to us.'''

...that is being twisted and I feel a bit uncomfortable talking over innocent heads. The real littlies may also find some of the action a bit macabre too. In

...a food writer who, after a rather upsetting break-up with his girlfriend, heads to Tuscany to finish writing his book. So far, so normal, but of course th ...lk about Becky or the break up, which means, of course, that they all keep talking about things that lead back to love or relationships until Paul finally int

...er recently talking about the 'monkey mind' the chitter-chatter inside our heads. He explained that monkey mind needs a job, loves to have a job and if we In talking about long walks, back-pack treks, he considers the art of packing, which i

...k it matters at all that a lot of ''The Sword in the Stone'' goes over the heads of children the first time they read it. They still enjoy it, they still la ...the grown-ups who talked to him like a baby, but the ones who just went on talking in their usual way, leaving him to jump along in their wake, jumping at mea

...le's brains are enlarged, and teachers are given eyes in the back of their heads.

...nly what we live but what we are taught that we should try and keep in our heads (although 'learning by heart' just goes to show a dodgy idea of anatomy). ...l order, updating the previous entries - they just don't know when to stop talking. They never seem to disagree, never contradict, and thankfully, due to a go

...k for help. He also sneaks out of his auntie’s house during the night and heads back to his own home which, whilst understandable, wasn’t exactly a safe ...ns when someone’s family falls apart, and thinking about those things, and talking about those things, is definitely good.

Thomas may be earning a decent living and keeping the roof over his men's heads as Condotierre (Italian mercenaries) but he also has other business to atte Talking of factual, it's in these pages that we encounter the historically true nig

...his own death, murders one of his bosses and ends up in a world of custard talking to his fridge.

...ead anymore?'' scene, or Carrie's ineptly conveyed escape? The TV talking-heads commentaries that made the earlier books' pages sometimes an ordeal to read

...husbands to Vera and George's lunches. They wore dungarees, shaved their heads and they smoked roll-ups. Dad said they were queer and I could see what he ...o admit as much in front of his mates. And he definitely couldn't be seen talking reasonably to a girl, under any circumstances.

...king to each other. Slowly, however, as the unusual landscape makes their heads turn and they lose all sense of direction, they realise something much less

...earliest exponent of this form seems to be Alan Bennett with his ''Talking Heads''. If I had one difficulty in reading ''A Certain Age'' it was that I kept

...that period when the sides were ''pouring buckets of shit on each other's heads'' (sorry for the language, but it’s me quoting Stalin, believe it or not)

...asn't stopped working – like Tony Blair he's joined the speaking circuit. Talking of petrol stations I thought the sub-heading ''BP man and boy'' for Lord Br

...ovitch|Ben Aaronovitch]] – fan. If you don’t take too kindly to exploding heads and/or know nothing of the copper who discovered there was an undercurrent ...natural being de jour are the fae and, like most good adult fantasy, we're talking about something a lot more malevolent than Tinkerbell. You'll also never l

...cow is full of young and beautiful women so why would these two spend time talking with an older man who wears glasses and is nothing to write home about. Ni ...t from the prose. Many people live in fear. So to get by, they put their heads down and get on with their lives. Asking no questions because they know fr

1727: The Marshalsea prison is hell on Earth and a Damoclesian sword over the heads of prospective debtors. Tom Hawkins, gambler and bon viveur, has always st Talking about what we're used to, a high adventure/mystery novel normally forfeits

...marriage and a kid called Ben, because the leads have just banged people's heads together and stopped the quarrelling, or Death by Tybalt (him) or a long li I started with Romeo, talking with my friend about unrequited love, but that didn't mean I stayed Romeo f

My advance reading copy of the book heads up the blurb with ''Why haven't you read Brian Freeman yet?'' That is a ve ...been anywhere near Minnesota can be equally sure of exactly ''where'' he's talking about, despite the fact that scarcely a sentence is wasted in telling us.

By way of a prelude to the Nocturne, I should offer a heads-up, that the review copy I received is titled ''Nocturne'' rather than ''Ha ...fer-bums (who also happen to be genuine, good and respected cops) who are talking to him in words that sound like English, but don't really coagulate into an

...Phil Oakey (Human League), Andy Gill (Gang of Four), David Byrne (Talking Heads, who are American though he was born in Scotland), DJ John Peel, and produc

...the genre of my youth. This is a sci-fi that is willing to quote Talking Heads lyrics, and in fact be quite imbued with '80s pop – a space shanty here q

...olice attention are good enough reasons, he gets his flying van fixed, and heads off into the unexplored areas of the world to follow his unsuccessful prosp ...s, at least before the reason for it is fully clear. That and the fact I'm talking of a £19 hardback is why it only gets four stars.

...ce to probably the first-ever use of the word ‘bugger’ on TV. Fortunately heads did not roll. ...and waggling his upper lip. It gave the impression that he was doing the talking and she was merely miming.

...fully communicate with them, means we cannot be sure what goes on in their heads. We can talk about human capability and facility and potential without havi ...h he does share the important knowledge that to talk about Yoga is akin to talking about 'Sport' – it is something of a catch-all term and many of us the we

...n on Earth as well as the underlying 'language engine' embedded inside our heads. ...is why Orwellian Newspeak will never remove certain concepts from people's heads. ''Concepts of freedom and equality are thinkable even if nameless. Mental

...s to write something in response, I wrote a story about a man in jail cell talking to a penguin. My teacher said he liked my story. He then read it to class. JD: Get their heads out of their factories and cellphones and into the wild. To lose the wild i

|summary=Ranger Sergeant Quinn Colson heads home for a family funeral and he gets tangled up in more than just the ques ...as me, let's get the background out of the way. Those who know we're not talking about a Scottish football team can skip ahead.

...d so (being a Nepali citizen - possibly the first we've learnt of that) he heads over the border, where he decides to take part in the national games. Cue ...monsoons and the power generation plummeted''. I am guessing that we're talking about power cuts (or power outages for the US audience) but I'm not sure.

...ees, chopping off bee toes and collecting them in pots, squishing male bee heads in solvent to make pheromone paint and chopping the feet off old museum spe ...erview: Bookbag Talks To Tess Sharpe|popped in]] to see us. Jim can't stop talking about the [[Sesame Seade Mysteries 1: Sleuth on Skates by Clementine Beauva

...and less full of belly laughs than his famous set of monologues, ''Talking Heads''. Originally published separately as three "pocket money" and also money-s

A CIA sleeper has heard a messenger talking about a message to be passed on: ''The American wants a hundred million dol ...ecruits his trusted sergeant Frances Neagley to ride official shotgun, and heads off to Europe.

...rter Sam is called to do her own tour of duty in the war crimes trials and heads off to Hamburg. She soon learns a little of why Brodie is the way he is. ''Upsetting'' isn't usually a term I deploy when talking about crime fiction. It's meant to be easy-reading entertainment. This on

...olicy wonks (as they are termed in a less deferential age ), diplomats and heads of state. One of the pleasures of reading these letters lies in this invest

MP: In the Talking Heads song, ''This Must Be the Place,'' there’s a line, ''Home is where I want

...-lines, for me it held echoes (or precursors?) of Alan Bennett's ''Talking Heads'' piece ''A Lady of Letters'' – but unlike the Bennet piece it restricts

...n't Run causes the adrenalin to rush. So many good bands and groups. We're talking about my generation here, and yours. Flower power, flowers in your hair, st ...porates a number of powerful world leaders, both politicians and religious heads, and largely revolves around a cart-load of cricket stumps.

...emes, by any means, but to the fantasy magi in a feudal world thinking and talking like a 21st century American therapists.

...as they read the eBook. I can see Westerners living in Japan nodding their heads as they read through each paragraph. Finally, I see students at school and ...I’m trying to put across in each paragraph. I don’t feel very comfortable talking to people about my book when they ask me what it is about. It is difficult

… in talking about the difficulties of precise drafting of statutes he quotes the legend ...ny; for the case was ''quod vi et armis'' he pissed down upon the people's heads."

..., tapirs and snake long before she reaches the realms of scorpions, rabbit heads and the ovarian fat of the snow frog. As the prologue subtitle sums up: T ...it…walking into kitchens and watching and taking notes… and eventually by talking her way into the Sichuan Institute of Higher Cuisine to be formally trained

...We had differences of opinion, but we let the data (the evidence) do the talking. So in this way we really reached meaningful conclusions whilst being full ...ese findings will be used to influence thinking at the Commission and with Heads of State. So, all three of us are busy but I suspect that when we come to