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• My Dearest Jonah by Matthew Crow
  ...twit fate to forge a new future, whatever that may entail. It may be laid out as letters, but that small technical point can be (and is a better read if) ...litting her working life between the local coffee shop and the local strip joint. Their futures begin to appear a lot brighter than their pasts but then cl
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• Race for the South Pole: The Expedition Diaries of Scott and Amundsen by Roland Huntford
  |title=Race for the South Pole: The Expedition Diaries of Scott and Amundsen ...Pole first, told largely through entries from their diaries and from that of Amundsen's companion Olav Bjaaland.
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• Rotten to the Core by Rob Murphy
  ...ns in the making of World Cup finals provide for a very contemporary story of global corruption and espionage, while the book also harks back to recent B ...th their devolution habits, and their first coalition government in a long time, could not get through without damaging themselves?
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• Frenzy!: How the tabloid press turned three evil serial killers into celebrities by Neil Root
  ...e ways in which they achieved their notoriety, and this book is an account of their goings-on, and how the press reported the stories – at times paying ...ction – he killed and then raped three young women, leaving them in a type of coal larder in his kitchen, thus making them join his wife under the lounge
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• The A-Z of Victorian Crime by Neil R A Bell, Trevor N Bond, Kate Clarke and M W Oldridge
  |title= The A-Z of Victorian Crime |sort=A-Z of Victorian Crime
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• A World By Itself: A History of the British Isles by Jonathan Clark
  |title=A World By Itself: A History of the British Isles |sort= World By Itself: A History of the British Isles
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• November 2014 Newsletter
  ...acio]], a book about a disfigured young boy attending school for the first time. We at Bookbag are all for anything that tries to inspire all people to be ...in [[Top Ten Crime Novels of 2014|crime fiction]] or [[Top Ten Teen Books of 2014|teen fiction]] or [[Top Ten Autobiographies 2014|autobiographies]] ? T
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• A Mother's Guide to Cheating by Kate Long
  ...nstantly recognisable, mixed-up family with tender, loving care and a dash of unexpected romance in this, her fifth novel. ...people you most trust to help you through and reinforcements in the shape of Jaz's mother, Carol, swiftly arrive.
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• Knife Skills Illustrated: A User's Manual by Peter Hertzmann
  ...words but you'll hold and use a knife properly, safely and eliminate a lot of waste. Recommended. ...act that I've been cooking for well over four decades I've only just found out how to hold a knife correctly and how to use it to prepare food properly. I
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• The Truth Commissioner by David Park
  ...ks to claim a body and lay it to rest, the repercussions disturb the lives of many others who thought the past was laid to rest. Story-telling at its be But that was a long time ago.
  8 KB (1,434 words) - 14:32, 24 February 2018
• The Peppermint Pig by Nina Bawden
  ...s keeping children in the dark. Full of wonderful writing, there are a lot of life lessons contained within, yet the book is never preachy. It may not be ...inger and it flew like a snapped twig into a pile of sawdust in the corner of the shop. It was hard to tell who was more surprised, Granny Greengrass or
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• Top Ten Teens Books of 2016
  ...s, the Regime's enforcers. And Charlie is a sensible boy. He has the rules of Little Town down pat and he never, never breaks them. ...ng at home for the odd text or email from friends who are having the times of their lives. Ho hum.
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• Delia Smith's Complete Cookery Course by Delia Smith
  ...e Radio Times and I came across a recipe for Gratin Dauphinois - a mixture of potatoes, butter, cream, milk and garlic baked in a gentle oven - and I had ...ompanies were good enough to let us have the full recipe for at least some of the dishes that were demonstrated in their programmes. They are less genero
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Conrad Delacroix
  ...g or on holiday. I remember cycling through the Alps with a hardback copy of Gerald Seymour's ''Holding The Zero''. After a hard day on the road, my tr CD: A long time ago I came across an interview with Shelby Foote (author of ''The Civil War: A Narrative'') who said about writing: ''You may never be
  11 KB (1,944 words) - 10:06, 1 February 2023
• The Double Cross System by J C Masterman
  ...t's introduction makes much more sense reading it after you have some idea of what he's talking about. A fascinating historical document that still reson ...unt of the work of the Twenty Committee is subtitled the ''classic account of World War Two Spy-Masters''. That's a somewhat misleading tease. The book
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• Newest True Crime Reviews
  |title=Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud and the Last Trial of Harper Lee ...Maxwell benefiting substantially from insurance policies which he'd taken out on their lives.
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Gerry Brown, Andrew Kakabadse and Filipe Morais about The Independent Director in Society
  ...and Filipe Morais|The Independent Director in Society: Our current crisis of governance and what to do]] and she had several points she wanted to discus ...and Filipe Morais|The Independent Director in Society: Our current crisis of governance and what to do]] and she had several points she wanted to discus
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• Christmas Gift Recommendations 2008
  ...are good and which have had the benefit of clever marketing. We've picked out the best books which we've seen this year and we think that you should be a ...h stuns everyone. This book is as good as Ian Rankin at his best. Talking of Rankin, he's retired John Rebus but you might like to consider his latest b
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