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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Gerry Wells
  ...to situations that turn the conventional ideals of normal society on their heads. Dialogue is the writer's friend here... a heartfelt comment at some criti * '''BB: That gives us a lot to look forward to Gerry and thanks for talking to us.'''
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• The Sheep in Wolf's Clothing by Bob Hartman
  ...that is being twisted and I feel a bit uncomfortable talking over innocent heads. The real littlies may also find some of the action a bit macabre too. In
  4 KB (714 words) - 11:13, 12 April 2018
• My Italian Bulldozer by Alexander McCall Smith
  ...a food writer who, after a rather upsetting break-up with his girlfriend, heads to Tuscany to finish writing his book. So far, so normal, but of course th ...lk about Becky or the break up, which means, of course, that they all keep talking about things that lead back to love or relationships until Paul finally int
  4 KB (724 words) - 11:46, 18 March 2018
• A Philosophy of Walking by Frederic Gros
  ...er recently talking about the 'monkey mind' the chitter-chatter inside our heads. He explained that monkey mind needs a job, loves to have a job and if we In talking about long walks, back-pack treks, he considers the art of packing, which i
  7 KB (1,204 words) - 10:02, 18 September 2020
• The Sword in the Stone by T H White
  ...k it matters at all that a lot of ''The Sword in the Stone'' goes over the heads of children the first time they read it. They still enjoy it, they still la ...the grown-ups who talked to him like a baby, but the ones who just went on talking in their usual way, leaving him to jump along in their wake, jumping at mea
  6 KB (1,168 words) - 13:09, 5 March 2018
• The Space Crime Conspiracy by Gareth P Jones
  ...le's brains are enlarged, and teachers are given eyes in the back of their heads.
  4 KB (677 words) - 08:56, 6 October 2020
• Memory by Harriet Harvey Wood
  ...nly what we live but what we are taught that we should try and keep in our heads (although 'learning by heart' just goes to show a dodgy idea of anatomy). ...l order, updating the previous entries - they just don't know when to stop talking. They never seem to disagree, never contradict, and thankfully, due to a go
  7 KB (1,213 words) - 13:26, 6 March 2018
• Boy Underwater by Adam Baron
  ...k for help. He also sneaks out of his auntie’s house during the night and heads back to his own home which, whilst understandable, wasn’t exactly a safe ...ns when someone’s family falls apart, and thinking about those things, and talking about those things, is definitely good.
  5 KB (813 words) - 09:07, 15 August 2020
• Gate of the Dead (Master of War) by David Gilman
  Thomas may be earning a decent living and keeping the roof over his men's heads as Condotierre (Italian mercenaries) but he also has other business to atte Talking of factual, it's in these pages that we encounter the historically true nig
  4 KB (663 words) - 09:35, 30 August 2020
• Earth, Air, Fire and Custard by Tom Holt
  ...his own death, murders one of his bosses and ends up in a world of custard talking to his fridge.
  5 KB (784 words) - 10:07, 28 August 2020
• Batman: Dark Knight III: The Master Race by Frank Miller and Brian Azzarello
  ...ead anymore?'' scene, or Carrie's ineptly conveyed escape? The TV talking-heads commentaries that made the earlier books' pages sometimes an ordeal to read
  4 KB (735 words) - 17:14, 16 February 2018
• Kane's Ladder by Carlos Alba
  ...husbands to Vera and George's lunches. They wore dungarees, shaved their heads and they smoked roll-ups. Dad said they were queer and I could see what he ...o admit as much in front of his mates. And he definitely couldn't be seen talking reasonably to a girl, under any circumstances.
  5 KB (795 words) - 16:27, 26 May 2021
• The Ice Lands by Steinar Bragi and Lorenza Garcia (translator)
  ...king to each other. Slowly, however, as the unusual landscape makes their heads turn and they lose all sense of direction, they realise something much less
  5 KB (778 words) - 15:09, 22 March 2018
• A Certain Age by Lynne Truss
  ...earliest exponent of this form seems to be Alan Bennett with his ''Talking Heads''. If I had one difficulty in reading ''A Certain Age'' it was that I kept
  4 KB (778 words) - 09:49, 29 September 2020
• The Devils' Alliance: Hitler's Pact with Stalin, 1939-1941 by Roger Moorhouse
  ...that period when the sides were ''pouring buckets of shit on each other's heads'' (sorry for the language, but it’s me quoting Stalin, believe it or not)
  5 KB (841 words) - 08:48, 18 September 2020
• People of the Day 3: The Rich and Famous Caricatured by Peter Wynter Bee and Lucy Clapham
  ...asn't stopped working – like Tony Blair he's joined the speaking circuit. Talking of petrol stations I thought the sub-heading ''BP man and boy'' for Lord Br
  5 KB (849 words) - 13:56, 9 April 2018
• Foxglove Summer (Rivers of London 5) by Ben Aaronovitch
  ...ovitch|Ben Aaronovitch]] – fan. If you don’t take too kindly to exploding heads and/or know nothing of the copper who discovered there was an undercurrent ...natural being de jour are the fae and, like most good adult fantasy, we're talking about something a lot more malevolent than Tinkerbell. You'll also never l
  5 KB (777 words) - 11:23, 7 July 2022
• Snowdrops by A D Miller
  ...cow is full of young and beautiful women so why would these two spend time talking with an older man who wears glasses and is nothing to write home about. Ni ...t from the prose. Many people live in fear. So to get by, they put their heads down and get on with their lives. Asking no questions because they know fr
  4 KB (790 words) - 12:18, 5 March 2018
• The Devil in the Marshalsea by Antonia Hodgson
  1727: The Marshalsea prison is hell on Earth and a Damoclesian sword over the heads of prospective debtors. Tom Hawkins, gambler and bon viveur, has always st Talking about what we're used to, a high adventure/mystery novel normally forfeits
  5 KB (806 words) - 15:42, 2 February 2024
• Romeo and/or Juliet by Ryan North
  ...marriage and a kid called Ben, because the leads have just banged people's heads together and stopped the quarrelling, or Death by Tybalt (him) or a long li I started with Romeo, talking with my friend about unrequited love, but that didn't mean I stayed Romeo f
  5 KB (948 words) - 09:59, 23 September 2020

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