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  • ...here - but with all this going on can there possibly be a happy ending for one particular family? ...doesn't. In fact, he behaves like a five-year-old himself and almost has a tantrum. Odd. Now poor Laura's doubly confused, upset and doesn't know ho
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  • ...t looking at any scantily clad pretty young things except the one he lives with). I tell you this in part to emulate the smug (quasi) marrieds of [[:Categ ...to wait to text back, to how to respond to friend requests and what to do with the power when you’re unleashed on his Facebook wall, this book promises
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  • ...l written take on the usual "bored housewife embarks on an affair" cliché, with some interesting characters and an easy to follow but intriguing plot. ...ing man (he's still ''not'' her husband, mind), the chance to stay at home with her kids. But being good on paper doesn't necessarily mean her life is perf
    4 KB (746 words) - 15:33, 1 September 2020
  • |summary= Probably the first Queen of England to be accorded a Protestant burial; and in having had some say in the upbringing of Princess ...om Anne of Cleves, the speedily divorced 'Flanders mare', she was the only one to survive him. And while all six of the queens consort remain rather shad
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  • ...mother's death, but there's a history of crime and criminals on his tail. A well-crafted tale that will entertain, but not without its flaws. ...p to find their mother slouched across the bed, dead. Drink and drugs and a hard, sad life had finally got to her, or maybe her body just gave up on it
    4 KB (794 words) - 13:47, 11 March 2018
  • ...admixture of style and setting, results in a disparate array, rather than a cohesive collection. Some gems, some dust. Buy rather than borrow - it's b ...ot available to be pursued as he might otherwise pursue her. What then is a young man to do, but turn to poetry?
    9 KB (1,531 words) - 13:30, 6 March 2018
  • ...ced Persons in Europe in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War. A book full of human interest, political insight, intensive research and accu ...were stranded far from home. How to cope with these Displaced Persons was one of the biggest issues of the immediate post-war period. In ''The Long Road
    5 KB (849 words) - 13:03, 27 February 2018
  • ...iting. Until, that is, Kip realises his little sister is trapped in a film with cannibals, sabre-toothed tigers and enormous snakes, and he only has until ...Mr Lazarus arrives, but Kip is suspicious: the new projectionist may have a gift for raising the quality of the films he shows to enviable standards, b
    5 KB (849 words) - 15:11, 25 February 2018
  • ...ns? A posse of brilliant lawyers and accountants with elastic consciences? A cache of guns and bombs? Well, maybe, although it is very possible that all ...His favourite game is the one in which he and Mum share random facts with one another. Actually, Mum is George's favourite person in the whole world. Eve
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  • ...as games. Usually on the very edge of plausibility, gruesomeness kept to a minimum, police procedure trodden all over in hobnailed enthusiasm of insig ...such that for some reason we're responsible for policing it. Ok, it's got a murder rate that might put you off visiting, but generally the murderers ar
    5 KB (924 words) - 15:46, 9 March 2018
  • |summary=It took Robert a long time to write his review of [[Debutantes: In Love by Cora Harrison]] b It took Robert a long time to write his review of [[Debutantes: In Love by Cora Harrison]] b
    9 KB (1,708 words) - 11:51, 7 October 2013
  • ...young niece is kidnapped at the tender age of 4. We also learn about Alex, a man who can help Christy uncover the truth behind her past as well as Maree ...nce is an engineering genius trying to save the world, whereas Patricia is a qualified witch, working hard to prove herself and cure those on the planet
    9 KB (1,517 words) - 11:17, 3 February 2024
  • |summary=''This is a story about some things that happened to me about twelve thousand years ago ...he federation of villages muster peaceful ways to cope? Can the Traveller, a spiritual figure who interprets the wisdom of All Life, provide solutions?
    8 KB (1,405 words) - 10:14, 3 January 2023
  • |author=A G Slatter ...his secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a while.''
    15 KB (2,604 words) - 09:13, 18 February 2024
  • ...y''. As Smith wanders the coast of Santa Cruz in solitude, she reflects on a year that brings huge shifts in her life - loss and ageing are faced head o ...of the Salvation Army band with his grandfather. This catapults him into a love of music, initially taking piano lessons, and later delving into his t
    12 KB (2,123 words) - 16:30, 29 August 2020
  • ...by Steven Burgauer]] was personal, inspiring & insightful. She had quite a few points to discuss when Steven Burgauer popped into Bookbag Towers to ch ...by Steven Burgauer]] was personal, inspiring & insightful. She had quite a few points to discuss when Steven Burgauer popped into Bookbag Towers to ch
    18 KB (3,100 words) - 16:03, 13 December 2016
  • ...I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand. |summary=''Got a minute to be amused, entertained, or challenged?''
    18 KB (3,111 words) - 17:19, 25 March 2024
  • ...at they will finally learn what became of him. But will the truth come as a relief, or will it raise further questions around what else happened during ...empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?
    22 KB (3,695 words) - 13:52, 8 May 2024
  • ...y answers, no single 'right or wrong', that every upside is likely to have a downside for somebody and that there are some hard choices ahead. |title=Worm: A Cuban American Odyssey
    18 KB (3,174 words) - 12:00, 26 December 2023

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