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• Hollywood Frame by Frame: Behind the Scenes: Cinema's Unseen Contact Sheets by Karina Longworth
  |reviewer=John Lloyd ...ng Judy Garland ''A Star is Born'', a deleted scene with a blow-up doll in John Carpenter's ''The Thing'').
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• Newest Children's Rhymes and Verse Reviews
  |author=John Foster ...nthology here at Bookbag, we've enjoyed two previous collections from John Foster. ''See You Later, Escalator'' continues in the same vein, with poems from t
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• The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley by Hannah Tinti
  |reviewer=Rebecca Foster ...small-town New England atmosphere and high-octane action scenes. Imagine a John Irving novel getting the Hollywood shoot-'em-up treatment and you'll have s
  4 KB (725 words) - 09:06, 30 September 2020
• Higglety Pigglety Pop! And Other First Poems by Harry Horse
  ...with books about poetry recently. [[Twinkle Twinkle Chocolate Bar by John Foster]] is a slightly longer, but equally wonderful, set of quirky poems. [[A Kic
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• The Great Unexpected by Sharon Creech
  Naomi lives with her foster parents, Nula and Joe. She is afraid of dogs - one of her arms is useless a You might also enjoy [[Noah Barleywater Runs Away by John Boyne]]. It features a naive central character trying to understand adult i
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• Laura Marlin Mysteries: Kidnap in the Caribbean by Lauren St John
  |author=Lauren St John ...erosity have not been eroded by the experiences she endured in a series of foster homes, and on the one occasion she is tempted to be mean to someone, Tariq
  4 KB (753 words) - 12:57, 21 April 2018
• Star Wars The Force Awakens Novel by Michael Kogge
  |reviewer=John Lloyd ...young readers to use to engage with what they'd just seen. The Alan Dean Foster adaptation of the script was for adults – it was a lot longer and more wo
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• Alan M Turing: Centenary Edition by Sara Turing
  ...ten by Turing's mother and included a memoir written by his older brother, John. I'm rarely impressed by biographies written by [[No Ordinary Man by Domin ...vinced that Alan's homosexuality was down to the time they both spent with foster parents whilst their mother and father were in India and borderline offensi
  4 KB (589 words) - 13:39, 8 April 2018
• Eye Classics: Nevermore - A Graphic Novel Anthology of Edgar Allan Poe's Short Stories by Edgar Allan Poe, Various, Dan Whitehead (Editor)
  |reviewer= John Lloyd ...ic and thrilling when it comes to fiction. Someone who lost his birth and foster mother both to tuberculosis before he was ever twenty. Someone who had mos
  4 KB (664 words) - 12:30, 20 March 2018
• Frances and Bernard by Carlene Bauer
  |reviewer=Rebecca Foster ...meet at a writers' colony in the summer of 1957. Frances senses traces of John Donne in Bernard's spiritual poetry and Bernard loves Frances's biting sati
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• A World Elsewhere by Wayne Johnston
  |reviewer=Rebecca Foster ...ish Druken is a great hulk of a man who lumbers through his hometown of St John's, Newfoundland. Although he thinks of himself as a writer, he has never wr
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• The Spirit Photographer by Jon Michael Varese
  |reviewer=Rebecca Foster Further reading suggestions: [[The American Civil War by John Keegan]] and [[Sherlock Holmes - The Spirit Box by George Mann]].
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• Close Your Pretty Eyes by Sally Nicholls
  |reviewer=John Lloyd ...f her own making. She is living a life of endless switching from a set of foster parents, to would-be adoptive parents, to care homes. Whenever she fetches
  4 KB (676 words) - 09:22, 23 February 2018
• Mother of Eden by Chris Beckett
  |reviewer=Rebecca Foster ...matriarch and patriarch of a new race of primitive humans. A young leader, John Redlantern, rose up within the group, determined to free his people from th
  5 KB (910 words) - 14:11, 1 April 2018
• In Fidelity by Jack Wilson
  |reviewer=Rebecca Foster ...when a once-strong connection has faded over time. Strongly reminiscent of John Updike in Part One, this is the male view of adultery.
  6 KB (925 words) - 12:20, 17 March 2018
• Sophie and the Sibyl: A Victorian Romance by Patricia Duncker
  |reviewer=Rebecca Foster ''Sophie and the Sibyl'', consciously modelled on John Fowles's ''The French Lieutenant's Woman'', is a postmodern blending of his
  6 KB (914 words) - 10:33, 16 September 2020
• Rainbow Dust: Three Centuries of Delight in British Butterflies by Peter Marren
  |reviewer=Rebecca Foster ...in art or in literature. Chapter 4, 'Gatekeepers', focuses on the work of John Fowles and Vladimir Nabokov. Fowles's ''The Collector'' is a creepy novel a
  4 KB (700 words) - 21:57, 15 February 2018
• Daughter of the Flames by Zoe Marriott
  |reviewer=John Lloyd ...or characterisation to come into the story – the gentle presence of Zira’s foster mother, and the other women, girls and men around her as she ages – she i
  5 KB (801 words) - 17:41, 2 April 2018
• The Optickal Illusion: A very eighteenth-century scandal by Rachel Halliburton
  |reviewer=Rebecca Foster ...n weaves in figures like Joshua Reynolds, Henry Fuseli, Joseph Johnson and John Opie. We also get glimpses of wider contemporary history in France and Irel
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• The Last Town on Earth by Thomas Mullen
  |reviewer=John Lloyd ...ovel. It raises moral questions about the pair of guards, and for Philip's foster father, who founded Commonwealth around the mill. It's one of those plots w
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