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• The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa
  |title=The Book of Disquiet ...st masterpiece. A collection of random musings of a fiercely contemplative mind rather than a novel, it is best treated as you would a book of poetry to be
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• Hearts and Minds by Rosy Thornton
  ...hink. Beware though - you'll have a job getting the characters out of your mind! Highly recommended. ...ly problem though. His appointment wasn't universally welcomed and some of the feminist Fellows (if that doesn't sound like a contradiction in terms) woul
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• Fall Down Seven Times, Get Up Eight: A Young Man's Voice From the Silence of Autism by Naoki Higashida and David Mitchell
  |title=Fall Down Seven Times, Get Up Eight: A Young Man's Voice From the Silence of Autism ...is daily struggles and unique perspective on the world in this sequel to ''The Reason I Jump.''
  4 KB (628 words) - 20:43, 16 February 2018
• Inventions in 30 Seconds by Dr Mike Goldsmith
  ...de takes us on a whistle-stop tour of 30 ingenious inventions that changed the world. ...things work or how things are made. It seems that the minute I have found the answer to one of his questions, another has formulated inside his head to r
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• Beneath the World, A Sea by Chris Beckett
  |title=Beneath the World, A Sea ...and fears. Ben becomes fascinated by the Duendes, but the closer he gets, the more he begins to unravel, with terrifying results...
  3 KB (537 words) - 12:51, 30 January 2019
• Top Ten Books About Language
  ...ing that goes beyond language, and with our favourite variety of language: the one that makes books. Why not [mailto:sue@thebookbag.co.uk tell us] about y |title=How Language Works: How Babies Babble, Words Change Meaning and Languages Live or Die
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• Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious by Gerd Gigerenzer
  |title=Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious |summary=Hunches, gut feelings, intuition. From how a baseball player catches a ball to why incest is wrong to why people do or
  4 KB (645 words) - 11:51, 15 April 2018
• Found by Harlan Coben
  ...a steroid test. Troy isn't exactly Mickey's favourite person, but he knows the team won't play so well without him, so when Troy asks Mickey for help to p ...the agenda of the mysterious 'Bat Lady', leader of the Abeona Shelter and the only person besides Mickey who believes his father could still be alive...
  3 KB (474 words) - 18:01, 5 April 2018
• Words and Pictures: Writers, Artists and a Peculiarly British Tradition by Jenny Uglow
  ...ount of the relationship between words and pictures in books in Britain in the 18th and 19th centuries, and is recommended. From childhood, we start by looking at the pictures in books and these images often remain with us for a long time, pa
  5 KB (822 words) - 11:35, 25 September 2020
• The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature by Steven Pinker
  |title=The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature ..."instant classic" was ever justifiably applied, it should be applied to ''The Stuff of Thought''.
  8 KB (1,310 words) - 12:15, 14 May 2018
• Busy: How to Thrive in a World of Too Much by Tony Crabbe
  |title=Busy: How to Thrive in a World of Too Much ...ed me up short: there was definitely something wrong here - and then I had the opportunity to listen to an audio download of ''Busy'' and I knew that it w
  5 KB (861 words) - 11:28, 12 August 2020
• Over My Dead Body by Hazel McHaffie
  ...ntentious issues of medical ethics in works of fiction, does the same with the matter of organ donation in this book. ..., the situation of this mother quite successfully conveys just how complex the ethics of organ donation are.
  4 KB (603 words) - 15:12, 30 March 2018
• Pom and Pim by Lena Landstrom and Olaf Landstrom
  |summary=You should always look on the bright side of life. Pom and Pim do. ...day things start off well, but bad luck comes their way. Can they look on the bright side of every situation, even when they feel tripped up time and tim
  2 KB (390 words) - 13:02, 6 April 2018
• All Yours by Claudia Pineiro
  |summary=The mundane order of the life of a surburban wife is turned upside down by her determination to prot ...s. Inés takes charge of the ensuing trouble in her usual capable way, with the full confidence of someone who is always in control. But in trying to prote
  3 KB (508 words) - 12:36, 6 March 2018
• Lost Magic: The Very Best of Brian Moses by Brian Moses
  |title=Lost Magic: The Very Best of Brian Moses ...t a lot of people will have a definite favourite from these pages, even if the author himself cannot decide…
  4 KB (683 words) - 09:35, 16 February 2018
• Please Mr Panda by Steve Antony
  ''Give me the pink one,'' replies Mr Penguin<br> ''No, you can not have a doughnut. I have changed my mind.''
  3 KB (524 words) - 10:49, 1 September 2020
• Kurt Vonnegut: Letters by Kurt Vonnegut and Dan Wakefield
  ...ection of all kinds of letters by the Amarican writer Kurt Vonnegut, whose works of fiction are often categorised as science fiction. ...mely death, these letters enable readers to understand the workings of the mind behind classics such as ''Slaughterhouse-5'' and ''Cat's Cradle''.
  5 KB (771 words) - 13:22, 7 April 2018
• Carry Me Home by Terri Wiltshire
  ...the point. It's a story of a family, well-crafted, deep-rooted, and worth the read. ...te girl is raped by a black man, a hobo from the last train through town. The townsfolk are up in arms.
  6 KB (969 words) - 08:29, 21 March 2018
• Dead in the Water (A Kate Shugak Investigation) by Dana Stabenow
  |title=Dead in the Water (A Kate Shugak Investigation) ...er, but like the other two books which I've read two decades have not aged the story and they're darned good reads.
  3 KB (484 words) - 09:20, 8 March 2018
• Microstyle: The Art of Writing Little by Christopher Johnson
  |title=Microstyle: The Art of Writing Little ...Christopher Johnson is here to take you by the hand and guide you through the basics of ''writing small''.
  4 KB (618 words) - 12:53, 28 February 2018

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