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• Life! Death! Prizes! by Stephen May
  |title=Life! Death! Prizes! |summary=Billy's mum dies, but Billy's going to be ok. His life isn't as tragic as those in the supermarket magazines and he's still got hi
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• Shadow Goblins by David Melling
  ...ugh repetition. Still, anyone in the target age range of 7-10s who is not charmed by the gently wacky, larky weirdness of this world, is best not thought abo ...e, and we can fall easily into a book that brings their singular nature to life so joyously.
  3 KB (500 words) - 13:12, 19 April 2018
• The Flying Man by Roopa Farooki
  ...a moving and sometimes funny account of a man searching for meaning in his life. ...gambler, avoiding attachment, responsibility and commitment throughout his life.
  5 KB (842 words) - 09:43, 21 August 2020
• Dewey: The True Story of a World-famous Library Cat by Vicki Myron and Brett Witter
  |summary=Vicki Myron could never have guessed how life was going to change one cold winter morning when she walked into the librar ...true story of a cat called Dewey. His beginnings were very humble and his life could quite probably have been quite short if it had not been for a fortuit
  4 KB (705 words) - 12:28, 21 March 2018
• Tirzah and the Prince of Crows by Deborah Kay Davies
  ...at the world around her with new eyes. Is this really what she wants from life? More importantly, is this really all that she is? As she begins to experim ...she tries to decide who she wants to be, and what she wants to do with her life.
  5 KB (909 words) - 12:48, 27 August 2020
• Pet by Akwaeke Emezi
  ...ens a bizarre, terrifying-looking creature named Pet, who somehow comes to life and declares that it is here to hunt the monster. Though Jam tries to conv ...ng relationship builds between Pet and Jam, and I found myself alternately charmed by Pet, and horrified. The style of the writing also hovers between seemin
  3 KB (584 words) - 20:00, 1 April 2024
• Bloodmining by Laura Wilkinson
  ...going to have a child and she's happy about it. We get a peep at Megan's life pre-pregnancy. She's a successful journalist sent to trouble spots around ...all fell a little flat. I sort of guessed the ending as far as Meg's love life was concerned and it was all just a little too twee for me.
  4 KB (609 words) - 11:02, 18 September 2020
• The Beauty of Her Age: A Tale of Sex, Scandal and Money in Victorian England by Jenifer Roberts
  ...men in England, makes for a very entertaining read with its background of life on both sides of the English Channel, especially with its glimpses of Paris Born in 1812, Yolande's early life was an unpromising one. Yet she had the mixed blessing of being born to a
  5 KB (761 words) - 10:33, 26 September 2020
• Big Change for Stuart by Lissa Evans
  You might also enjoy reading [[Charmed Life (The Chrestomanci) by Diana Wynne Jones]]
  3 KB (485 words) - 08:04, 15 August 2020
• Yossarian Slept Here by Erica Heller
  ...e man, but even more about her own colourful but ultimately painful family life in New York. It becomes a rich account of how Erica comes to terms with the 'To live forever or die in the attempt' was the essential glory in life and living that is at the heart of John Yossarian in [[Catch 22 by Joseph H
  4 KB (726 words) - 11:54, 26 February 2018
• Queen of Spies by Paddy Hayes
  ...he ranks in a misogynist institution and achieves any goal she is set. Her life is one of adventure set against a post-imperial backdrop. Anyone who enjoys ...igated her way through the then alien Soviet Russia. Hers is an incredible life, one that brings the nail-biting and seat teetering that we expect from a s
  4 KB (740 words) - 08:41, 13 April 2018
• Milo and the Restart Button by Alan Silberberg
  ...even more difficult. But worst of all is the mother-shaped hole in Milo's life - she's not there and her things aren't there because Milo's father got rid ...ed with kindness and charm and wry humour, ''Milo and the Restart Button'' charmed me to both laughter and a tear or two. Your heart bleeds for Milo, who fill
  3 KB (522 words) - 12:51, 15 April 2018
• This Dark Endeavour by Kenneth Oppel
  ...ee are educated alongside great friend and wordsmith Henry. It's a charmed life in the Frankenstein chateau in the Genevese republic. ...or, Elizabeth and Henry can find a way to recreate the forbidden Elixir of Life, it seems as though Konrad will die...
  3 KB (551 words) - 10:42, 10 October 2020
• The Burning by Jane Casey
  ...l - a charmed life. She had a good job, no financial worries and her love life? A bit hit and miss, shall we say. But was she bothered? Hard to tell wi ...rs from two different vantage points, if you like. The deceased Rebecca's life is picked over mercilessly by the police detectives as part of their job.
  4 KB (635 words) - 14:25, 19 November 2021
• Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions by Mario Giordano
  ...ff by a shotgun, whom she found on the local beach, intervened to give her life some meaning. For a while, she was a suspect, but that (and her wig) was n ...is would annoy me, but this time I was, although I hesitate to admit it, ''charmed''.
  3 KB (585 words) - 10:13, 11 August 2020
• Chasing Lost Time by Jean Findlay
  ...and much more besides. Wonderfully researched, Jean Findlay brings back to life a charming, talented and tragic man. ...ilfully retells the life of an intriguing man – and one whom I was utterly charmed by.
  5 KB (773 words) - 15:14, 8 April 2018
• Paper Swans by Jessica Thompson
  Ben Lawrence has a charmed life it would seem. There’s the highly successful and lucrative career in PR,
  3 KB (540 words) - 08:30, 6 April 2018
• The Final Testimony of Raphael Ignatius Phoenix by Paul Sussman
  ...life in a rock band in the 60's, time spent in a nursing home, and finally life in the castle - amongst other, enchanting tales. ...t the negatives I encountered when reading this - as frankly I was far too charmed, engrossed and utterly delighted to encounter any. So many things are rolle
  4 KB (734 words) - 12:09, 21 February 2018
• The Doctor and the Diva by Adrienne McDonnell
  ...but something is missing so Erika goes to great lengths to try to make her life complete and meets love, lust and loss along the way.
  4 KB (653 words) - 08:40, 4 October 2020
• Unnatural Creatures by Neil Gaiman
  ...a Wynne Jones. It features Chrestomanci, the magic enforcer from ''Charmed Life'', and dragons you cannot see. Anything by Wynne Jones is always a treat an
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