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  • #REDIRECT [[The Black Book of Secrets by F E Higgins]]
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  • |title=Black Cat, White Cat ...in a strong graphic style and finishes with a humorous twist in the tail. The joke works on different levels so both parent and child will laugh out loud
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  • ...y: The Salt-Stained Book by Julia Jones and Claudia Myatt|The Salt-Stained Book]] 2011 [[The Lion of Sole Bay by Julia Jones|The Lion of Sole Bay]]
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  • **The three novels above are published as Rebus: the Early Years *{{amazonurl|isbn= 0752883577 |title= The Black Book }} (1993)
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  • |title=Mindfulness for Black Dogs and Blue Days: Finding a Path Through Depression |summary=A beautifully produced book which might give you an insight into another way through depression.
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  • |title=The Black Hand |sort=Black Hand
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  • |title=The Lemur |author=Benjamin Black
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  • |title=The Curious Mystery of Miss Lydia Larkin and the Widow Marvell |sort= Curious Mystery of Miss Lydia Larkin and the Widow Marvell
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  • ...d a rich and expansive plot. Unfortunately it doesn't quite work although the time reading it isn't entirely wasted. ...he disappointed townsfolk respond by setting fire to the train and leaving Black unconscious.
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  • |summary= A sophisticated board book which will appeal to parents and the more thoughtful child, with its limited palette of colours. Cautiously rec ...een. The theme is set for a book which is mainly black and white with just the occasional splash of colour. It's chubby; perfect for small hands and with
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  • |title=The White Cat (Curse Workers, Book 1) |sort=White Cat (Curse Workers, Book 1), The
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  • |author=Cara Black |summary= This latest offering in the Aimee Leduc series would make for perfect summer reading. Utterly absorbing
    4 KB (634 words) - 11:00, 10 March 2018
  • |title=The Black Cauldron |sort=Black Cauldron
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  • |title=Black Rabbit Hall ...s different ways of coping. A ''bad thing'' is due to happen at the end of the summer holidays, but is anyone powerful enough to stop it?
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  • ...he normal US murder rate. What were the reasons and the solutions to make the streets safer – or is there nothing that could be done? ...the 80s through to the late 2000s such a dangerous place to live for young black men?
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  • |author=Holly Black ...ly enjoyable follow-up to [[The White Cat (Curse Workers, Book 1) by Holly Black|White Cat]], this urban fantasy combines romance with crime fiction in a wo
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  • ...ry= Funny, literary, sharp as a knife, and moving in a dark direction from the horrifying first few pages, this is a deeply gratifying read. |publisher= Black Swan
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  • |title=The Novice (Black Magician Trilogy) |sort=Novice (Black Magician Trilogy)
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  • |title=The Silver Swan |author=Benjamin Black
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  • ...ard-hitting look at what it's like to be black - and particularly black in the television industry. Very thought-provoking and everyone should read it. ...ce and poverty, yet still compartmentalise? It's as though I were telling the truth whilst simultaneously running away from it.''
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  • |title=Black Cairn Point ...rit. There is something out there in the darkness, and it won't stop until the teens are all dead.
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  • ...ves the reader on a positive note. Definitely recommended particularly for the pre-teen with an interest in horses. ...hard times it was Chancey who was left out in the field to suffer despite the fact that he was no longer a young horse.
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  • |title=The Black Kids |sort=Black Kids
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  • |title=The End of Bias: How We Change Our Minds ...for considering how life is biased against the disabled, the black man and the white woman. Eye-opening, fascinating and frightening in equal measures.
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  • ...tand-alone case for Shetland detective Jimmy Perez, and is just as good as the first. Highly recommended crime fiction. ...f year. In the morning, though, the Englishman is found dead, hanging from the rafters of a fisherman's hut.
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  • |title=Hilda and the Black Hound ...black hound is terrifying the population but Hilda is more concerned with the worries of one small house spirit named Tontu.
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  • |title=The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Naima B Robert |summary=Robert was impressed when he read [[Black Sheep by Naima B Robert]] and delighted when she popped into Bookbag Towers
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  • ...ent who was a heartbeat away from the Presidency should anything happen to Black. ...rts of hundreds of people could not be found. For Ambassador Price it was the beginnings of a nightmare.
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  • |title=The Crime at Black Dudley |sort=Crime at Black Dudley
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  • |title=The King's Justice ...etween those elemental forces – and to a place where he really cannot take the control he's used to…
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  • |sort=Black Book of Secrets |title=The Black Book of Secrets
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  • |title=The Woman in Black |sort= Woman in Black
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  • ...that needs a mistress. Common sense truths and compassion permeate though the whimsy and humour of a beautifully told tale. ...ast thing Black Nose says to Dog is ''If you go to the town, watch out for the cars. Dodge, little one, remember.''
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  • |title=The Black Snow |sort=Black Snow, The
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  • |title=The Black Book of Modern Myths: True Stories of the Unexplained |sort=Black Book of Modern Myths: True Stories of the Unexplained
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  • |title=Black God: v. 2 (Black God) ...s a most different kind of punch with the ending. Best for people to read the opening volume first, but almost recommendable even if you haven't.
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  • ...ble and frightening when you realise what we, as a society, are losing. A book everyone should read. ''To be a dark-skinned Black woman is to be seen as less desirable, less hireable, less intelligent and
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  • |title=Black Dog Summer ...r teenage daughter Gigi. Now Sally is dead, murdered, and Gigi is alone in the world.
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  • ...=An utterly gorgeous board book that everyone will love to pore over, from the very youngest right on up. ...er, its black, white and red illustrations, and its clever use of holes in the pages. A zebra's stripes on one page become an juggler's stripy trousers on
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  • ...ct with a twist of the supernatural, ''Hand of Isis'' moves deftly through the wars and politics that shaped Cleopatra's remarkable life. A rich and decad ...ild, of little consequence when born, being the fourth legitimate child of the Pharaoh and a girl, would one day become Egypt's most famous Queen. Her nam
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  • |author= Peter Jay Black ...ible odds, and the whole of London in deadly peril: how can five kids save the city and themselves? A heart-stopping, thrill-a-minute conclusion to this e
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  • |author=Benjamin Black ...ies Dublin. It's pacey, atmospheric and totally compelling. It may well be the best crime novel of 2006 and comes highly recommended by Bookbag.
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  • |summary=A fun book which encourages children to look beyond the obvious. ...of Mum's washing and is the colour of the sheets which she has hung out on the line.
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  • |title=The Blackest Hole in Space ...of fact and fiction. Despite an interesting core idea, it's not pitched at the right level for its audience, so becomes a frustrating missed opportunity.
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  • |title=On the Train ...es and functions and reveal what is inside them by shining a light through the page. Engaging fun for transport mad children.
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  • |title=The Devil's Cave: A Bruno Courreges Investigation ...njoyable police procedural set in the Dordogne and which makes the most of the location.
    3 KB (534 words) - 10:27, 8 March 2018
  • |title=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
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  • |title=Black Cats and Evil Eyes: A Book of Old-Fashioned Superstitions ...k at superstitions and their origins. The research is commendable but the book is very readable.
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  • |title= Alice Jones: The Ghost Light ...ctive Alice. The old theatre is full of dark corners, dust and menace, and the company risks far more than a couple of bad reviews if she doesn't work out
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  • |title=The Boy in a Turban ...with vivid characters, and you'll get a spot of historical education along the way.
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  • |title=The Coldest Girl in Coldtown |sort=Coldest Girl in Coldtown, The
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  • ...George’s County. Join them in this bleak and over sensationalised look at the senseless murder of so many in a broken part of America. ...lthough it is 'real’. Is there a place to sensationalise actual death for the entertainment of others?
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  • |title=No Less the Devil |summary=It's the fifth book in the Oldcastle series and a compelling read. The humour is dark and you'll occasionally need a strong stomach. Definitely re
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  • |title=Black God |summary=This will not help build anyone's interest in the style of manga, but it is a strong initial volume in a series new to these
    3 KB (527 words) - 08:33, 15 August 2020
  • ...is a horrible little snob, but somehow an endearingly unreliable narrator. The true heroes are his brothers, if only he knew it. Great stuff. ...hering momentum. Jupiter's own family has fought its way out of slavery in the Americas and gone through Nova Scotia to Sierra Leone, home of an African d
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  • ...cked full of all the information you'd want to know. It's all written with the fabulous quality that made [[Why is Snot Green? by Glenn Murphy|Why is Snot ...estible chunks, and the illustrations and Mike Phillips' fun cartoons keep the interest up throughout.
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  • |title=Bellman and Black ...rook and the echoes of this action will colour the rest of his life. Like the best ghost stories you're bever quite certain what is and what isn't a ghos
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  • ...year in this wonderfully illustrated and poignant, but brooding children's book. '''Longlisted for the 2017 CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal'''
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  • ...d use with it by taking up colouring in. This is no ordinary colouring in book, but one designed for adults and packed with intricate images of fauna and ...adults after a hard day at work could do with a relax. This could come in the form of a nice glass of wine or something creative. I tell you what, why n
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  • ...ehind the others, one which will end with the most delightful moral - that the ability to be anything one imagines is in our DNA. ...highwayman and the wronged slave mostly. But beyond reading and exploring the over-arching tale we can then return to peruse eighteen little flipbooks, a
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  • |title=A Day in the Life of Alfred |summary=What's black, white and red all over? This little book should be.
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  • |title=The Phlunk |sort=Phlunk, The
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  • ...publication of the English translation is shown ''after'' the title of the book 1995 - {{amazonurl|isbn= 0099554976 |title= In The Darkness }} 2012
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  • |title=Black Waters (Strong Winds) |sort=Black Waters (Strong Winds)
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  • ...y of a black woman's determination to fly in the American Air Force during the Second World War. ...her devastating secret from the people around her, rescue her brother from the war, as well as continue to fulfil her dream as a pilot?
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  • |title=The No Black Project |sort=No Black Project
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  • |title=The Lock-Up ...nd Strafford novel but it's John Banville, so the writing is exquisite and the plot skillfully handled.
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  • |title=Blue Sky Black |summary=Fourth in a series about a boy who can command the elements. Satisfying world building and a rollicking adventure.
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  • |summary=It's book eight in the Quirke series and if anything they're getting better. A recommended read. ...e with bubbles in the ''morning''? It was after Percy's death that he saw the benefits of taking up a job in Spain.
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  • |author=Tony Black |publisher=Black & White Publishing
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  • ...s way. You could read this book on either or both levels - the humorous or the religious - and get an enjoyable read from both. ...g to take religion in a new (and rather amusing) direction in order to get the public interested in it again. Bunyan claims to have a direct link with God
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  • '''Shortlisted for the YA Book Prize 2015'''<br> '''Shortlisted for the 2015 Waterstones Children’s Book Prize: Best Book for Teens'''
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  • |title=The Shadows in the Street |sort= Shadows in the Street
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  • ...stationery to kitchen jugs, and now her graphics are available as a baby's book of colours. ...it, which makes it very touchable, and I think babies would like to stroke the cover as you read to them.
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  • |title=Lightbringer: The Black Prism |sort=Lightbringer: The Black Prism
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  • |title=Bageye at the Wheel: A 1970s Childhood in Suburbia ..., but this memoir of a young black boy growing up in Luton in the 1970s in the shadow of a volatile father has some strong points, particularly a bittersw
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  • |title=The Darkest Part of the Forest |sort=Darkest Part of the Forest, The
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  • |title= The Black Prince |sort=Black Prince
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  • ...ou lives the wrong side of the tracks. An indulgent and relaxing read for the younger woman. |publisher=Little Black Dress
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  • |title=Black Chalk ...by focusing on the guilt of the unreliable narrator instead of questioning the attacker's motivations.
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  • |title=The Comic Strip History of the World |sort=Comic Strip History of the World
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  • |title=The Cry of the Go-Away Bird |sort=Cry of the Go-Away Bird
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  • |summary=When the Black Death finally strikes Isabel's quiet Yorkshire village, her entire world co '''Longlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2013'''
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  • |title=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.
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  • ...er growing up during his summer vacation in an American seaport. I enjoyed the writing but hey, isn't there more to life than that? ...John Steinbeck. Within easy reach of New York, in 1985 it was an affluent black enclave within a large, white middle-class holiday area.
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  • |title= Black Rock ...is. If you liked ''Girl with a Pearl Earring'', I think you might enjoy ''Black Rock''.
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  • |summary=A reminder of the infinite power of children's imagination, with a simple, striking & tastefu ...ed with 'This Way Up' and a net weight. Inside, in a minimalist palette of black and red on white, red yellow and brown pages, there is a story of a minimal
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  • |title=Playing With The Moon ...between them who are brought together by the discovery of a body buried in the sand. It's an un-put-downable story of loss and memory.
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  • ...genre. They wouldn't normally be my choice, but I thoroughly enjoyed the book. ...ou were least expecting it. Your comfort zones are going to be invaded in the nicest possible way.
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  • |title=The Lying Carpet |summary=A black and white blaze of simple, yet profoundly charming, fable.
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  • |title=The Wonder ...been brought up by their grandmother on a canal boat in west London, after the death of their parents. Now they are in their 20s, and their grandmother To
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  • ...all Caribbean island with her new husband and their domestic servants, and the point of view shifts between Antoinette and her husband. ...o longer come to visit and her resentful black neighbours eventually torch the place.
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  • |summary=A great picture book, at once quirky and fun, but with appropriate subtlety that rewards further ...n the garden in her saucepans. Is she really a superhero? Milo puts her to the test...
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  • |title=The Last Card |summary=A gambling boxer finds he has to keep the gloves on as his life in London's underworld proves more violent than he th
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  • |title= Modernism: The Lure of Heresy - From Baudelaire to Beckett and Beyond ...g for A level and undergraduate students as well as providing interest for the more casual reader.
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  • ...at what he has meant to the family and what they have learnt from him. In the hands of a lesser writer it could be trite but it's elegant, witty and with ...ain, after what happened to his prostate…) and the next house call will be the last.
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  • |publisher=Little Black Dress ...ife in London and seeks refuge with her mother Mimi and her sister Lily in the beautiful city of Bath. Reeling from her fiancé's deceptions now is as go
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  • |title=The Turn of Midnight ...rs|The Last Hours]] doesn't disappoint but it is best read after the first book.
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  • |title=Black Powder |summary= The Gunpowder Plot in a fast-paced emotional story. What an adventure.
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  • |title=Black Eyed Susans ...ives an attack by a serial killer and tries to recover her memories before the alleged killer is executed.
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