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• Category:Richard Brook
  ...mind body-connection as Richard helps you understand the mechanics behind the fundamental areas of your life! ...ationship dynamics how they differ with each person you meet; and explains the importance of healing practices such as yoga, meditation & therapies.
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• My Magical Oasis: Art Therapy Colouring Book for Creative Minds by Eglantine de la Fontaine et al
  |summary=Yet another colouring book with an adult audience in mind, but one that offers more scope for DIY activity to make it more of a perso ...up, here I'm mentioning this volume because it allegedly would change your mind.
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• Theory of Mind by Sanjida O'Connell
  |title=Theory of Mind ...ary= Part love story, part thriller, and part psychology study, "Theory of Mind" takes in apes, romance, autism and robots, but binds them together with an
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• CBD Spray Benefits & The Best CBD Nasal Sprays On The Market
  ...there could be an even better way. One such method to consider outside of the CBD creams and drops is that of [https://senseicbdoil.com/cbd-spray CBD spr '''How does a CBD nasal spray differ to other CBD products?'''
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• Friends Like These by Sarah Alderson
  ...here once was. But yes, she doesn’t really have much time for the past and the people from it. ...k into Lizzie’s life. She fell out of it about the same time she fell down the stairs at work. Smash, she went. Splat. It wasn’t pretty and it resulted
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• How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like by Paul Bloom
  |title=How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like |sort=How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like
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• Why We Think the Things we Think: Philosophy in a Nutshell by Alain Stephen
  |title=Why We Think the Things we Think: Philosophy in a Nutshell ...how ideas are formed'' was the highest science, although that sounds like the psychology that I did indeed study. Still, study it many people do – and
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• Warduff and the Corncob Caper by Mat Head
  |title=Warduff and the Corncob Caper ...at she, and all the other farm animals, are on the menu! Can Warduff save the day?
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• Eye Benders: The Science of Seeing and Believing by Clive Gifford and Professor Anil Seth
  |title=Eye Benders: The Science of Seeing and Believing ...art and a whole lot of fun in a book that adults may well enjoy as much as the children.
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• Worlds Elsewhere by Andrew Dickson
  ...om – this is an exploration of Shakespeare around the world, and considers the global and cultural reach of a man who never once left England… ...are – a man who never once left England, which has made him an icon across the globe? Travelling across four continents, six countries and 400 years, ''Wo
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• The Music Instinct: How Music Works and Why We Can't Do without it by Philip Ball
  |title=The Music Instinct: How Music Works and Why We Can't Do without it |sort=Music Instinct: How Music Works and Why We Can't Do without it
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• How to Win: The Argument, the Pitch, the Job, the Race by Dr Rob Yeung
  |title=How to Win: The Argument, the Pitch, the Job, the Race |summary=Business Psychologist Dr Rob Yeung discusses ways to get ahead in the workplace in this self-help manual packed with useful tips, real-life exper
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• That Was a Shiver, and Other Stories by James Kelman
  ...st is a deep, dark mixture of fiction whose literary riches may well elude the reader. ...orks to be the more interesting places to turn. Opening these pages, from the pen of such an esteemed pro, came with no small sense of anticipation.
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• Where my Heart Used to Beat by Sebastian Faulks
  ...my Heart Used to Beat'' is a journey through age, war, love, and the human mind. Haunting, moving and yet more proof of Faulks immense talent. ...anity and raises the question – is life comprised of events themselves, or the way in which an individual chooses to remember them?
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• Is it worth buying and investing in contemporary art
  ...uctions also pay attention to ''small'' investors who have decided to join the art. Especially for them, inexpensive lots are exhibited with starting pric Factors that affect the value of an art piece:
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• How to Be Happy (or at least less sad): A Creative Workbook by Lee Crutchley
  |title=How to Be Happy (or at least less sad): A Creative Workbook ...gentle, non-preachy way to look at the good things in life. And, yes - it works.
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• You Can Be Amazing: Transform Your Life with Hypnosis by Ursula James
  ...lacing old and familiar negative thoughts and messages with positive ones. The book is clear, well written and supportive, and is highly recommended. ...a CD of hypnotic suggestions which reinforce the messages and exercises in the book.
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• Thinking Allowed by Julian Wiles
  |summary=Not a prescriptive 'how to run your business' book, but an easy-to-read series of short articles an ...apter numbers (you pick from the menu) and it's not even necessary to read the book in any particular order.
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• Warlock Holmes: A Study in Brimstone by G S Denning
  ...ements of the Sherlock Holmes stories and you may be surprised how well it works. ...mes? A genius eccentric whose mind works on a different plain, or perhaps the more obvious option is that he was a Warlock? Surely his ability to see wh
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• A Week in December by Sebastian Faulks
  |summary=Brilliant state-of-the-nation novel from Sebastian Faulks. I loved it. ...ooks with the Queen. Looping all these people together is a Tube driver on the Circle Line.
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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.''
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• 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...
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• 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
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• 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...
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• 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
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• 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''.
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• 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
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• 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.
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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…
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• 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.''
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• 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''.
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• 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.
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• 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.
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• 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''.
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• 3 Questions to Ask Yourself When Choosing a Writing App
  ...e actual task of writing. To help you achieve the first effect rather than the latter, here are three crucial questions to ask yourself when deciding whic '''1. What do I need the most help with?'''
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• The Genius and the Goddess by Aldous Huxley
  |title=The Genius and the Goddess |sort=Genius and the Goddess
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• Seven Second Delay by Tom Easton
  ...running for her life, but is seven seconds enough of a head start to keep the government off her tail? ...r is not over, and as she falls into the hands of the Agents, she realises the real price of freedom.
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• The Last of the Greenwoods by Clare Morrall
  |title=The Last of the Greenwoods |sort=Last of the Greenwoods
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• The Currency of Paper by Alex Kovacs
  |title=The Currency of Paper ...lenging, but worth the effort. Alex Kovacs popped into Bookbag Towers to [[The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Alex Kovacs|chat to us]].
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• A Dedicated Man by Peter Robinson
  ...in the Inspector Banks series is fresh and intriguing. It has a twist at the end which I didn't see coming. Recommended. ...ondon for north Yorkshire? The sixteen-year-old decodes that she could be the local heroine and sets off to investigate for herself.
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• In the Company of Sherlock Holmes: Stories Inspired by the Holmes Canon by Laurie R King and Leslie Klinger (editors)
  |title= In the Company of Sherlock Holmes: Stories Inspired by the Holmes Canon |summary=The book that took the literary world into the courthouse – all the while intending to provide many more cases for us to read in return.
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• Can You Say It Too? Brrr! Brrr! by Sebastien Braun
  ...n't tell you is that they only have children for their own entertainment – the little tykes can be hilariously funny. One fun area is when a baby starts ...m at Nosy Crow have deliberately made a sturdy book that will survive even the most troublesome of tiny hands.
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• Hogs Hate Hugs by Tiziana Bendall-Brunello and John Bendall-Brunello
  ...s don't believe him. This is cute book but we had a few reservations about the methods. ...this case, Little Hog has a solution. He makes a bold sign and hangs it on the tree. ''HOGS HAT HUGS!'' it reads. And that’s that.
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• Kipper by Mick Inkpen
  ...er, and everyone would love a book, love a book, love a book about Kipper. The 10 episode DVD is a great bonus in this 21st anniversary edition. ...e a dog like Kipper. Now we're treated to a 21-year anniversary edition of the original book, complete with a 10 episode DVD.
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• One Hundred Names For Love: A Stroke, a Marriage, and the Language of Healing by Diane Ackerman
  |title=One Hundred Names For Love: A Stroke, a Marriage, and the Language of Healing |summary=An unsentimental look how the knowledge which a wife had of the way in which her husband's brain worked helped to lagely restore his power
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• Thereby Hangs a Tail by Spencer Quinn
  ...vestigator and his dog solve a mystery. Narrated by the dog - and yes, it works. ...suspenseful than Agatha Christie's relatively tame works. But the pun in the book's title suggested that there might be an element of humour, so I succu
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• How to Wash a Woolly Mammoth by Michelle Robinson and Kate Hindley
  |title=How to Wash a Woolly Mammoth |summary=A How To guide for something you probably don't know How To do. As useful as it is entertaining.
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• Sanctuary Line by Jane Urquhart
  ...he Mexican workers who came each year for the harvest and those members of the Butler family who came Ireland - some to grow fruit and others to become li ...and love affairs which might or might not be the same thing - and loss, of how place affects us and makes us who we are, or highlights who we are not.
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• Why Can't Elephants Jump? by Mick O'Hare
  ...ale or unoriginal. Highly recommended. Mick O'Hare was kind enough to be [[The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Mick O'Hare|interviewed by Bookbag]]. ...any more, then do yourself a favour and pick up the latest collection from the New Scientist's [http://www.last-word.com/ Last Word column].
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• Beaded Jewellery by Maya Brenner
  ...f you want to impress people with stunning handmade jewellery then this is the book for you. ...to me. I also wanted a book which I could use when I got more advanced at the jewellery-making skills. This fitted my needs perfectly.
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• Foxy Tales - The Cunning Plan by Caryl Hart and Alex T Smith
  |title=Foxy Tales - The Cunning Plan ...s and absurd adventures should be a hit. The engaging illustrations add to the book’s appeal.
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• The Pleasure of Thinking: A Journey Through the Sideways Leaps of Ideas by Theodore Dalrymple
  |title=The Pleasure of Thinking: A Journey Through the Sideways Leaps of Ideas |sort=Pleasure of Thinking: A Journey Through the Sideways Leaps of Ideas, The
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• Build It! 25 Creative STEM Projects for Budding Engineers by Caroline Alliston
  ...Creative and fun activity projects for curious kids who want to understand how things work. ...ger scientist in mind, so there is a focus on the fun aspect, with many of the projects involving toys.
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• Citrus and Spice: A Year of Flavour by Sybil Kapoor
  ...ink between aroma, food, flavour and emotion with recipes to appeal to all the senses. ...the food – which gave a dish its flavour. It's the overall experience of the food. Sybil Kapoor wants me to think differently.
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• Opera by Robert Cannon
  ...the subject and is written to some extent with the informed specialist in mind. ...acets of opera in its development over the centuries, and its relevance to the modern world. While he does not intend to write a history as such, he has
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• Dark Benediction by Walter M Miller Jr
  ...uctions. Miller is considered one of the finest science fiction writers of the 1950s, and in ''Dark Benediction'', fourteen of this author's best short st ...' and its tale of civilization's demise, there are smaller and more subtle works focusing on one or two characters. This range fits well together without se
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• The Chippendale Factor by John Malcolm
  |title=The Chippendale Factor ...ut the rogues of the antiques trade takes a little getting into but repays the effort.
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• Vanishing Girls by Lauren Oliver
  ...t that was before the accident that left Dara's beautiful face scarred and the two sisters totally estranged. Nicole, known as Nick, and younger sister Da ...to her, climbing out of her window and running through the woods. Forever the sensible sister, Nick starts working at a local theme park, while Dara hide
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• All Our Worldly Goods by Irene Nemirovsky
  ...elf in world affairs and private lives in this highly recommended story of the power of love. ...reputation Pierre proposes. In doing so he alienates his grandfather and the wealthy Renaudins. Pierre and Agnes' marriage and its consequences would re
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• Supercontinent by Ted Nield
  ...e natural sciences, the Earth and the place of humans on the planet and in the world in general. How much popular interest can be generated by the presentation of the supercontinent cycle? Certainly enough for a magazine article, a chapter in
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• The Pale House Devil by Richard Kadrey
  |title=The Pale House Devil ...o keep them going. But when a young woman called Tilda hires them to kill the 'something' that appears to be haunting a wealthy gentleman's house they fi
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• The Boy Who Killed Demons by Dave Zeltserman
  |title=The Boy Who Killed Demons ...miles with those behind the sofa moments of foreboding; a kind of darker [[The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole by Sue Townsend|Adrian Mole]] aged 15-and-a-ha
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• The Khazar Codex by Graham Fulbright
  |title=The Khazar Codex ...ci Code'' and there is a mystery to solve, but there's far more depth in ''The Khazar Codex''.
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• Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel by Ruth Hogan
  ...and riveting depth of feeling for her characters. With a touch of mystery, the paranormal, and unexpected shots of humour, and who could ask for more? ...help of Queenie Malone, caring, and gregarious, Tilda begins to pick apart the tricky and uncertain relationship she had with her sometimes cruel and dist
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• Little Doubt (D I Kelly Porter) by Rachel Lynch
  ...t wants to be involved in the first but isn't bothered about the second. How's DI Kelly Porter going to cope? ...cond woman was stabbed to death a few hours later. Keira Bradley lived on the Beacon estate and Ormond's view seemed to be that anyone living there shoul
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• The Naked Don't Fear the Water by Matthieu Aikins
  |title=The Naked Don't Fear the Water |sort=Naked Don't Fear the Water
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• The Indies Enterprise by Eric Orsenna
  |title=The Indies Enterprise ...s quietly understated fictional account of the most momentous discovery of the Americas shows his range of talent and insight.
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• Flowerpot Farm: A First Gardening Activity Book by Lorraine Harrison
  ...e for a youngster thinking about growing their own fruit, veg or flowers. The use of pots means that they can go ahead and get their wellies on in any si ...l show them how to create their own fruit, veg and flower garden no matter how small a space they have to work with.
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• The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen, Lucie Arnoux and Misha Hoekstra (translator)
  |title=The Snow Queen ...for his life, but soon found her way to start a miraculous journey to find the truth behind his disappearance and behaviour…
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Danaan Elderhill
  |title=The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Danaan Elderhill ...to our lives with her book [[The Magic Book of Cookery by Danaan Elderhill|The Magic Book of Cookery]]. We had quite a few questions for her when she pop
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• Candor by Pam Bachorz
  |summary=A new take on the old ''there must be something in the water'' adage, welcome to Candor where subliminal messages in music help yo The children of Candor know how to behave and the children of Candor stick to those rules:
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• The Trading Game: A Confession by Gary Stevenson
  |title=The Trading Game: A Confession |summary=A warts-and-all look at the trading floor of a major bank in the last decade.
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• Why We Make Things and Why It Matters: The Education of a Craftsman by Peter Korn
  |title=Why We Make Things and Why It Matters: The Education of a Craftsman ...raftsman and reflects on how creative work with one's hands contributes to mind/body wholeness.
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• Cockfosters by Helen Simpson
  ...f results from this sterling short story writer, which does not always hit the bulls-eye but certainly shows great variety. ...what might be remaining ahead – but you soon discover that not only do all the pieces here have titles that are unadorned place names, but they all concer
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• Branding Only Works On Cattle by Jonathan Salem Baskin
  |title= Branding Only Works On Cattle ...yped way; it provides incisive observations about what the Internet did to the purchasing process; it champions measurable goals for well focused campaign
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• Joe and the Race to Rescue by Victoria Eveleigh
  |title=Joe and the Race to Rescue |summary=The final book in this excellent trilogy is the best yet. and we have to shout ''HURRAH!'' when we see a horse book for bo
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• The Boy at the Top of the Mountain by John Boyne
  |title=The Boy at the Top of the Mountain |sort=Boy at the Top of the Mountain
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• Memory by Harriet Harvey Wood
  ...ng. So much of it, in fact, you cannot remember any of it, and wonder what the book was ever designed to do. ...oint of view of the experience, and created my current sense of it for me. The other two options I remember considering, I have since forgotten.
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• Ellipsis by Nikki Dudley
  ...orrific death, then it's suspense all the way till the end. It's also how the ''ellipsis'' of daily life can have drastic consequences. ...many, many questions that his immediate family struggle to answer. But as the story progresses we discover that secrets have been kept for a long time.
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• L'Auberge by Julia Stagg
  ...in the Pyrenees taken over by a young English couple. The author lives in the Pyrenees and definitely knows what she's talking about. ...er people in Fogas who don't see what's happening in quite the same way as the mayor.
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• Mr Mercedes by Stephen King
  ...ary=Disappointing on many levels, I did like the protagonist, and wouldn’t mind reading about him again, perhaps in a better sequel. ...staying alive. Is this actually the murderer? Why is he crawling out of the woodwork now? And can Hodges stop him from killing again?
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• In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind by Eric R Kandel
  |title=In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind ...ons on the future of neuroscience as well as an excellent insight into how the science is done. Highly recommended.
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• The One Safe Place by Tania Unsworth
  |title=The One Safe Place |sort=One Safe Place, The
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• Sand by Hugh Howey
  ...e in. 'Sand' is a masterclass in dystopian world building by an author at the peak of his powers. ...‘Wool’ trilogy under his belt and following this up was always going to be the difficult second album syndrome. Well, be prepared to be sucked quickly in
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• The Short Giraffe by Neil Flory and Mark Cleary
  |title=The Short Giraffe |sort=Short Giraffe, The
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• Charlotte Says by Alex Bell
  ...explores the origin story of the murderous Charlotte dolls. Creeptastic to the max and a fantastic addition to Stripes's Red Eye horror series. ''Charlotte says... don't open the door.''
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• The Wind's Twelve Quarters and The Compass Rose by Ursula K Le Guin
  |title=The Wind's Twelve Quarters and The Compass Rose |sort=Wind's Twelve Quarters and The Compass Rose
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• Shh! We Have a Plan by Chris Haughton
  ...agging along for the fun of it, and he finds himself getting shushed along the way each time he shouts out 'hello birdy!' ...with him...and then there are LOTS of birdies with him! His friends with the nets begin to get ready to try and catch one, but a rather larger bird is c
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• The Tower by Alessandro Gallenzi
  |title=The Tower |sort=Tower, The
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• Career options in a bookshop that might interest you
  ...d when you think about what you want to do with your life, but it's one of the more interesting and fulfilling ones. Bookshops offer more than just books; ...portunity to work with people from all walks of life and to help them find the books they're looking for. There are many interesting [https://uk.jooble.or
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• The Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davies
  |title=The Welsh Girl ...hemes are lightly sprinkled across an excellently told story, however, and the whole is just a charm – and highly recommended.
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Nigel McClea
  |title=The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Nigel McClea ...hope is there for my readers? I still get a lump in my throat when I read the death of Harry.
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• Diana's Story by Deric Longden
  |summary=Author Deric Longden tells of how he and his wife coped with her illness, which would now be diagnosed as ME. ...this book thinking it was about Diana, Princess of Wales, but upon reading the back cover, I decided to give it a go anyway.
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• The Hidden by Mary Chamberlain
  |title=The Hidden ...historian and author Mary Chamberlain takes the reader to the dark days of the Channel Islands under German Occupation, and tells a hugely moving tale of
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• You Can Think Yourself Thin by Ursula James
  ...you feel better about yourself and to 'think yourself thin'. Don't borrow the book - buy it. You will need your own copy. ...absolutely astounded by the effects of reading this book and listening to the hypnosis tracks. I had never tried anything like this before and was even a
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• Bad Girl Magdalene by Jonathan Gash
  ...ind of thing you would expect to see as the basis for a novel, but that is the background against which Jonathan Gash's ''Bad Girl Magdalene'' is set. ...t and ended the night by ending her life; an event which was covered up by the nuns.
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• Angel's Fury and the Easter Egg Giveaway
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• The Cat with a Really Big Head by Roman Dirge
  |title=The Cat with a Really Big Head ...substantial enough to make you love them, but at least will remind you of the author's macabre sense of life.
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• Sky on Fire (Monument 14) by Emmy Laybourne
  ...fying second book in a dystopian series. The overall arc advances well and the episodic side is nicely tied up. I'll be reading book 3! ...side. And when we say poisoned, we mean it. A bioweapons accident had left the air toxic in different ways to different people, depending on their blood g
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• Remember to Breathe by Simon Pont
  ...santly surprised. Recommended. Simon Pont popped into Bookbag Towers to [[The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Simon Pont|chat to us]]. ...n chronological order, with some of it going back to before he met Sarah - the girl he didn't really want, but struggles to get over.
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• Jane Eyre: a Retelling by Tanya Landman
  ...re troubled secret in the house. Yes, if you know Jane Eyre then you know the rest – but if you don't, for whatever reason, this is a wonderful book to ...ginal and slathers it on. Which raises things to note in this edition for the young reader.
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• Category:K D Knight
  ...re quite critical of his literary output since they heard on the grapevine how well Jilly Cooper's cats live. ...e of achieving if his other half did not insist on him 'doing his bit' for the family income.
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• Keep Walking - Leadership Learning in Action - A thrilling story of a polar adventure with powerful lessons in leadership and personal development by Dr Richard Hale and Alan Chambers MBE
  ...ness leaders might - and should - engage in learning plans of their own at the workplace. ...task at work, who panicked as ''she did not know which theory to apply''. The theory of common sense, I'd have suggested.
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• A Lifetime Burning by Linda Gillard
  ...ld have made me replace it hurriedly on the shelf. I wasn't enthralled by the blurb, either: 'disturbing themes', '.. ...t myself in for when I picked up this book, which I had agreed to read for The Bookbag.
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• Ladies' Man by John Ramster
  ...imon likes boys. But Simon also likes girls. Well, a girl anyway. Hold on, how did that happen? ...is own boss, with his own ideas. Like the one where he always thought that the song should have been ''When A Man Loves Another Man'' although I'm not sur
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• The Truth About Lies by Tracy Darnton
  |title=The Truth About Lies ...a girl with a stupendous memory on the run from an abusive researcher. But how far can memory really be trusted? Super, tense, read.
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• Are You Smart Enough To Work At Google? by William Poundstone
  ...ets you answer the question in the title...though you might not approve of the result. William popped into Bookbag Towers to chat to us about [[William Po ...two tasks to the first two because they let you show what you can do, and how you would approach a task, rather than just making you prattle off a prepar
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• Stop Me by Richard Jay Parker
  ...no matter how bad my luck is supposed to become if I don't. But I wonder how many of us would react if a spam E-Mail actually was a matter of life and d ...ned on eleven occasions and each time proof of the murder has been sent to the police soon after. But when Laura Sharpe goes missing and an E-Mail follow
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• Will by Christopher Rush
  ...(at both the will and eating Shakespeare out of house and home) William's mind meanders, regaling Francis with stories and opinions from a life well-lived ...e, but presents us with a fictionalised history that is accessible to even the adults for whom Shakespeare is synonymous with past scholarly boredom and w
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• How To Write Really Badly by Anne Fine
  |title=How To Write Really Badly ...n't without challenge. It's the twin story of the new kid on the block and the kid with an undiscovered disability. There's nothing of which to disapprove
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• I Can See in the Dark by Karin Fossum
  |title=I Can See in the Dark |summary=It's all in the complex and convincing lead character here, as the events of his confession don't amount to a full hill of beans – more like
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• Lives in Writing by David Lodge
  ...the lives off-page that many of our most famous authors leaked into their works. ...re he found his metier – and fame with TV adaptations– with comedies about the social and sexual lives of academe) he's teaching about and around writing.
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• I Love You Father Christmas by Giles Andreae and Emma Dodd
  ...ith the title words, ''I love you Father Christmas'' and works through why the gentleman in question rocks: ...life with a mummy and daddy who love him and do fun things with him. But, the plea remains: can he have some presents, pretty please?
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• Complex 90 by Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins
  ...viet Russia where he escaped by killing over 40 men. Does that sound like the type of man you want to hire as a Private Investigator? Check out his bloo ...collaborations and you may be glad to know that it is almost as insane as the movie.
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• Letters to Lovecraft : Eighteen Whispers to the Darkness by Jesse Bullington (editor)
  |title=Letters to Lovecraft : Eighteen Whispers to the Darkness ...few flaws in this collection, but the snappy approach of many authors and the rampant variety make this a worthwhile purchase.
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• The Sex Diaries by Arianne Cohen
  |title=The Sex Diaries |sort=Sex Diaries, The
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• Books that Changed the World: The 50 Most Influential Books in Human History by Andrew Taylor
  |title=Books that Changed the World: The 50 Most Influential Books in Human History ...ey's departure, makes life even easier, given ''that'' subtitle. I'm sure the more bibliophilic are already sold, and there is little influence I can bea
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• The Real-Town Murders by Adam Roberts
  |title=The Real-Town Murders ...st people have plugged into The Shrine, Alma has decided to solve crime in the Real World. Join her in this science fiction/crime mash-up that has some g
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• Squeakily Baby by Beth Webb
  |summary=A gentle, soothing book for bedtime. It will help to remove the frustrations that parents often feel when they have a baby who can't get to ...tle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach and you have the sound perfectly. The mermaids join in - ''la lou, la lay...'' And for a moment it seems to have
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• Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain by Maryanne Wolf
  |title= Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain ...on dyslexia. It suffers, however, from the author at times talking down to the reader, and from far too many references to Socrates
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• A Talent for Murder by Andrew Wilson
  ...it really drives the story forward. Agatha is ambushed by a strange man at the train station; she is given a proposition that confuses her and secretly in ...s a powerful hold on her; he knows exactly who she is, where she lives and how to hurt those she loves. He is an imposing figure, an authoritative man who
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• The Iron Man by Ted Hughes
  |title=The Iron Man ...th new, stylised illustrations. You may or may not like the pictures, but the story is, as it always was, superb.
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• You Dear, Sweet Man by Thomas Neviaser
  ...woman in the advert is talking to him. Excellent plotting and a twist in the tale which I ''really'' didn't see coming. ...er menu, but it wasn't the message which caught Bobby's attention. It was the woman. She seemed to be looking directly at him and he could have sworn th
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• Bubble Wrapped Children by Helen Oakwater
  ...ing social networking and adoption, taking too narrow a viewpoint, despite the important points being made. There's plenty of useful information here, but ...ok contact from birth parents, which have had massive knock-on effects for the adopted children.
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• Trading Down by Stephen Norman
  ...But ... has he been promoted beyond his capabilities? There are those in the bank who think so, particularly when things start to go badly wrong. He wa ...very close to home, that it must be someone within the bank. Then there's the tragic story of what's been happening in Yemen and it's one which reaches b
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Wes Stuart
  |title=The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Wes Stuart |summary=Luke enjoyed the combination of compellingly-written science fiction which blends themes of
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• How to Get a Celeb's Body: Discover the Secrets of the Stars with Your Own Personal Trainer by Elise Lindsay
  |title= How to Get a Celeb's Body: Discover the Secrets of the Stars with Your Own Personal Trainer ...nd sport work. We did not need Elise Lindsay to tell us that, which is why the book leaves a bad impression.
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• Outraged of Tunbridge Wells: Original Complaints from Middle England by Nigel Cawthorne
  ...e selections from the Royal town's press itself make a great eye-opener to the complaints and complainants of Kent. ...ow to hang the Union Flag correctly. And a bus shelter was installed near the War Memorial – who knew such a thing would have been a priority in 1943?
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• Black Lung Captain: Tales of the Ketty Jay by Chris Wooding
  |title=Black Lung Captain: Tales of the Ketty Jay ...ollick through this world of aircraft-borne pirates and their duplicity in the sight of treasure.
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• Babies Don't Bite by David Bedford and Tor Freeman
  |summary=Good for toddlers who are a little nervous about the approaching birth of a new sibling! Hegley the pony is excited. His mummy is having a baby! His friends, however, don't
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• Murray and Bun by Adam Stower
  ...heir kin from trolls. Little trolling will be done in this book's regard, mind, for it's great daft fun. ...bit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs.
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• The End of Growth by Richard Heinberg
  |title=The End of Growth ...the current world economic model is. It's a bit too cheery, but you'll get the message.
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• One Shot by Tanya Landman
  ...to stop them from starving? Well, no, not where her mother is concerned – the very idea of a female shooting things, when they could be preparing for a l ...table. But it just ain't gonna happen. Until finally she takes the bull by the horns, and starts to show her true worth, to her world, to her disintereste
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• The Dying Minutes by Martin O'Brien
  |title=The Dying Minutes ...elated, they both set off a stream of events that might ultimately lead to the mystery being solved.
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• Hannah's List by Debbie Macomber
  ...etter for her husband asking him to remarry after her death and giving him the names of three women. ...ought would make a good wife for him. Winter Adams was the chef who owned the café on blossom Street, Leanne Lancaster had been Hannah's nurse, but who
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• 1Q84: The Complete Trilogy by Haruki Murakami
  |title=1Q84: The Complete Trilogy |summary=The slow pace of Murakami's beautiful and delicate mixture of love story and al
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• How to Write a Standout Book Review in a Saturated Market
  ...ions are exchanged, ideas discussed, and recommendations found. But though the growth of book review sites is promising for readers, a saturated market al ...tips that might help. As an avid reader of book reviews, I’ve noticed that the ones that stay with me usually follow these three guidelines.
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• Sing if you Can't Dance by Alexia Casale
  ...rformance piece to try to sort out, and just the day to day traumas of all the challenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. So even though ...and sarcastic. She thinks a lot of herself, and is very selfish, but she works really, really hard, and I just wanted things to turn out okay for her.
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• Completely Perfect: 120 Essential Recipes for Every Cook by Felicity Cloake
  ...been published for our favourite dishes, tries them out and comes up with the best. An absolute gem. ...ome. There's a reason for that: roast chicken followed by apple crumble ''works'' and providing that you don't have a vegetarian or a vegan at table, it's
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• High Society: Grace Kelly and Hollywood by Donald Spoto
  |summary=A somewhat wasted opportunity to provide a real insight into the actress who really did become a Princess. ...race of Monaco. It is an analysis of her film career: a consideration of the "Hollywood years".
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• Understanding Human Nature: A User's Guide to Life by Richard Brook
  ...he author’s lived experience & recognising that we are all different: what works for one won’t work for all. ...ting them randomly, so there is a predisposition towards expecting to like the book, even if it doesn't always turn out that way'' ] – but also because
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• 5 Great AI books to read in 2020
  ...hnologies in human history. It comes with so many benefits, from improving the efficiency of simple, basic tasks to helping to solve advanced problems by ...o understand what AI is so you get a better grasp on how modern technology works.
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• The Sea Sisters by Lucy Clarke
  |title=The Sea Sisters |sort=Sea Sisters, The
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• C S Lewis: The Boy Who Chronicled Narnia by Michael White
  |title=C.S. Lewis: The Boy Who Chronicled Narnia ...interested in a quick look at the man who created Narnia it might be just the thing, but it omits large areas of Lewis' interest and applies modern thera
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• The Quest for the Time Bird by Serge le Tendre, Regis Loisel and Ivanka Hahnenberger (translator)
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• Mythos: A Retelling of the Myths of Ancient Greece by Stephen Fry
  |title=Mythos: A Retelling of the Myths of Ancient Greece |summary= The multi-talented Stephen Fry turns his hand to retelling the Greek Myths. Enchanting stories told with considerable skill, this is a col
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• The Day the Screens Went Blank by Danny Wallace and Gemma Correll
  |title=The Day the Screens Went Blank |sort=Day the Screens Went Blank
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• My Best Friend's Life by Shari Low
  ...ed about Shari Low's last book, [[The Motherhood Walk of Fame by Shari Low|The Motherhood Walk of Fame]], but if it's possible, I loved this new one even ...not too far from each other, Roxy in hip and happening London and Ginny in the boring 'burbs with both their mums, back where they grew up.
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• The Little Book of Prison by Frankie Owens
  |title=The Little Book of Prison |summary=A survival guide to prison - a bit on the brief side but entertaining and easy to read.
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• Hitler's Private Library: The Books That Shaped His Life by Timothy W Ryback
  |title= Hitler's Private Library: The Books That Shaped His Life ...of books, now mostly in two major libraries in the United States, showing how they reflected his interests and reinforced his prejudices.
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• Falling for You by Giselle Green
  ...er offering her a place at the university of her dreams... but has no idea how her father will survive without her there to look after him. ...stake. Unfortunately, the neighbours are on a farm some distance away, and the two families have been feuding for many years.
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• A Painted Smile by Frances Fyfield
  |summary=A well-written and very readable crime thriller which works well as a standalone depite being part of a series. Recommended. ...rations for the exhibition, to be presented in the large wine cellar under the old schoolhouse. Not everyone is sure that it's suitable though...
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• Education Under Siege: Why There is a Better Alternative by Peter Mortimore
  ...orough account based on his wide experience of statistics and education of the current plight of our schools. His experience as a classroom teacher and le ...t have asked, ''Cui bono'', to whose benefit? Professor Mortimore outlines the positive alternatives suggested by international comparisons especially wit
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• The Great Big Book of Families by Mary Hoffman and Ros Asquith
  |title=The Great Big Book of Families |sort=Great Big Book of Families, The
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• Molly Fox's Birthday by Deirdre Madden
  ...exploration needed by each of the friends to understand their own place in the world. Full of wise nuggets; an absorbing read which will please lovers of ...on, sure-footed, delicate and subtly questioning how we see ourselves and how we connect with others.
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• Pattern (Scavenger Trilogy) by K J Parker
  |summary=''Pattern'' stands head-and-shoulders above the present fantasy scene, and is well worth picking up if you've already read ...reasingly nightmarish situations. Now, in K.J. Parker's latest offering in the Scavenger trilogy, ''Pattern'', he's being offered a new start in a childho
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• Unleashed 2: Mind Over Matter by Ali Sparkes
  |title=Unleashed 2: Mind Over Matter |summary=Some of Ms Sparkes's typically great writing, but the place this has in a huge ten-book undertaking means this is definitely not
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• Splinter the Silence by Val McDermid
  |title=Splinter the Silence ...omen to suicide. A rational plot, but one that somehow doesn’t live up to the premis’s potential. Neither dark nor deep enough.
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• Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder
  ...the genocide in Rwanda. As thought-provoking as it is horrifying, it shows the strength of individuals when faced with suffering. ...man who has fled from the genocide and civil war in Burundi (just south of the equator in East Central Africa, bordering Rwanda). He escapes to New York,
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• Proust Was a Neuroscientist by Jonah Lehrer
  |summary=A unique examination on how the intuitive creations of novelists, painters and poets have anticipated intri ...termed the ''Two Cultures''. He wishes to accord respect to the truths and the intuitive discoveries, especially of modernist writers and painters.
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• Free Kick (Football Academy) by Tom Palmer
  |summary=More of the same for boys who prefer footie to reading. The series isn't losing focus or strength and this is one time when rinse and r ''James has a difficult choice to make - will he remain onside or kick the ball into touch for good?''
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• The Accidental Prime Minister by Tom McLaughlin
  |title=The Accidental Prime Minister ...ntertaining aspects which sadly falls short of the considerable promise of the superb title and original idea.
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• Bathtime for Little Rabbit by Jorg Muhle
  ...lp Little Bunny have a proper wash in this lovely board book that asks you the reader to help out at every stage. ...so will prevent them touching anything wet. A book that teaches a toddler how bathtime is meant to be may just help your nightly routine, but also greatl
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• Bird by Crystal Chan
  ...And Jewel feels very alone. Simultaneously sad and lovely, this is one of the best middle grade books we have read in a long time. '''Shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2016: Younger Fiction'''
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• Dead To You by Lisa McMann
  ...ving on the streets, Ethan remembers nothing about his life at home before the abduction. ...the abduction, has no clue what’s going on, not yet having been told about the missing older brother she’d never met. As personalities collide it’s cl
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• Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith
  ...amusing variant on the vampire novel, but one too far removed for fans of the genre to fall in love with. ...things – hiding in plain sight, as the older ones can bear sunlight, with the help of darkened glasses. It might just come down to one eager young man t
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• Maxwell's Chain by M J Trow
  ...e else dies? This is a fun book, well-written, although the plot stretches the imagination too far at times. ...'t have an alibi. Can Maxwell and his partner, DS Jacquie Carpenter, solve the mystery before more people die? And will Henry Hall let him investigate in
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• The Fortunes of Grace Hammer by Sara Stockbridge
  |title=The Fortunes of Grace Hammer ...e of London. The reader is taken on a journey of love and revenge through the eyes of enigmatic Grace Hammer, one of its residents.
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• The Sunlight on the Garden: A Family in Love, War and Madness by Elizabeth Speller
  |title=The Sunlight on the Garden: A Family in Love, War and Madness |sort=Sunlight on the Garden
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• The Moon Spun Round: W. B. Yeats for Children by W B Yeats, Noreen Doody and Shona Shirley Macdonald
  |title=The Moon Spun Round: W. B. Yeats for Children ...never thought of as being responsible for such a volume. And therein lies the problem.
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• NW by Zadie Smith
  ...brought up on a poor council estate in NW London try to make their way in the world - can they overcome their backgrounds or will is always drag them bac ...control of their destiny and ability to rise out of their upbringing, and how chance encounters can bring you back to your past with a bump.
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• Unless by Carol Shields
  ...one of her daughter has dropped out and is now begging on a street corner. The book is well-written and is recommended by Bookbag. ...it interesting and original in style... but didn't feel very involved with the characters.
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• New Pompeii by Daniel Godfrey
  |summary=If you pull a city of Ancient Romans through to the 21st century, there's going to be trouble, but if you get Daniel Godfrey to ...opportunity to turn down. Anyway, that's what he tells himself to combat the repercussions of saying no.
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• A Dark And Twisted Tide by Sharon Bolton
  ...nt of suspense and more red herrings than have any right to be swimming in the Thames. ...Lacey had fought hard against whatever traumas lie in her past to get into the police force, and harder still to get into plain clothes. A couple of year
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• The First Wife by Erica Spindler
  |title=The First Wife ...erly delighted that my initial eagerness to read this one was sustained to the very last page.
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• The Perfect Stranger by P J Kavanagh
  |title=The Perfect Stranger ...early years with his family, to Butlins, the Korean war and his world with the love of his life. I couldn't put it down.
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• Conversations Across America: A Father and Son, Alzheimer's, and 300 Conversations Along the TransAmerica Bike Trail that Capture the Soul of America by Kari Loya
  ...er's, and 300 Conversations Along the TransAmerica Bike Trail that Capture the Soul of America ...er's, and 300 Conversations Along the TransAmerica Bike Trail that Capture the Soul of America
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• How to Speak Spook (and Stay Alive) by Ally Kennen
  |title=How to Speak Spook (and Stay Alive) ...ts and wrap-around shades take you away to experiment on you. (And if it's the wall thing, girls will assume you're spying on them when they get changed f
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• Lost and Found by Jacqueline Sheehan
  ...d of the bond between a dog and a human which will leave you unable to put the book down. Highly recommended. ...sland off the coast of Maine where she took a job as an animal warden. On the basis that you don't have to say that you're a widow until you're ready, sh
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• Across the Pond by Terry Eagleton
  |title=Across the Pond |summary=A look at life on both sides of the pond, this pits Brits against Yanks with interesting results.
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• The Story of Britain by Patrick Dillon and P J Lynch
  |title=The Story of Britain ...1066 onwards which will enchant younger readers but also offer older ones the chance to refresh their memories.
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• The Blue Notebook by James A Levine
  |title=The Blue Notebook |summary=The fictional diary of 15-year-old Butuk, sold by her family in rural India int
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• Quieter than Killing (D I Marnie Rome 4) by Sarah Hilary
  ...he pleasure of reading one of the great police procedural series around at the moment? ...ransacked and every indication was that it had been done by someone (or on the order of someone) who knew her. Normally Commander Welland would have been
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• Artemis by Philip Palmer
  ...endless. Every time I open one of his novels, I wonder when he will find the limits of his inventiveness and it's never that time. ''Artemis'' is no ex ...ounds quite simple put like this, but Palmer's strength has always been in the detail with which he fleshes out a relatively simple idea and he's certainl
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• Kipper's Beach Ball by Mick Inkpen
  |summary= Fun at the beach until the weather intervenes. A typical British summer, then! ...ime at the beach for Kipper and Tiger in this magical book about living in the moment because it might be over before you know it.
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• The End of the Day by Claire North
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• 15 Days Without a Head by Dave Cousins
  '''Longlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2013''' ...of the hope that his mother will return. But even if she does return, just how much longer can he keep their dysfunctional family together?
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• Cashel Byron's Profession by George Bernard Shaw
  ...written some of his characters, stating that: '...he has not in his nonage the satisfaction of knowing that his guesses at life are true.' Despite the initial negative reaction to the story, it was eventually published in serial form in a socialist magazine a
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• The Watch by Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya
  |title=The Watch ...ound them in Afghanistan, showing us what happens before the results reach the news.
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• Look Me In The Eye by John Elder Robison
  |title=Look Me In The Eye ...h, yes - and he built those legendary fire-breathing guitars for KISS too. The book is highly recommended.
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• MetaWars: The Fight for the Future by Jeff Norton
  |title=MetaWars: The Fight for the Future |summary=Forgive the slightly derivative elements to this adventure, and let the action and energy sink in - it provides a powerfully creative ride.
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• Mirrorstorm (Mirrorscape) by Mike Wilks
  ...slow opening, but I wouldn't be surprised if you felt a little cheated by the ending. ..., they must now plunge back in to thwart an attempt at world domination by the corrupt House of Spirits.
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• Scenes From Provincial Life by J M Coetzee
  ...he socially awkward, alienated John Coetzee of the book really the same as the author, only he will know. ...of this compilation is the change in style and focus of the third book in the series.
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• The Lost Child by Suzanne McCourt
  |title=The Lost Child ...girl. We may smile at her child-like misunderstandings but we pick up on the well-observed, underlying problems that she misses. It may be a bit of a s
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• Going Dutch by Katie Fforde
  ...ter some rather traumatic events in their lives. As if that isn't enough - the barge has to go to Holland. Recommended as a good holiday read. ...d was rather surprised when Jo wasn't understanding when he explained that the new woman looked just like Jo did when she was younger.
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• Slinging the Bling (Diary of a Chav) by Grace Dent
  |title=Slinging the Bling (Diary of a Chav) |summary=The diary of 16 year old Shiraz, this is a dubiously worded book with a surpris
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• Merchants of Culture: The Publishing Business in the Twenty-First Century by John B Thompson
  |title=Merchants of Culture: The Publishing Business in the Twenty-First Century ...brary or bookshop), the influences which have brought it to that state and the outlook. This might sound rather dry but, trust me, it's not. It wasn't a
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To David Windle
  |title=The Interview: Bookbag Talks To David Windle ...indle]] Jill wants a potato superhero. There was a lot to talk about when the author popped into Bookbag Towers.
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• The Doomsday Machine: Another Astounding Adventure of Horatio Lyle by Catherine Webb
  |title=The Doomsday Machine: Another Astounding Adventure of Horatio Lyle ...ting and rollicking little adventure. Not the clearest of introductions to the series imaginable, but recommended for at least a look.
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• The Last Life of Lori Mills by Max Boucherat
  |title=The Last Life of Lori Mills ...inds her constructed reality hit by a malevolent spirit from the depths of the servers. Crafted? You will find it so. "Mine!" you'll declare, too, as t
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• Madame Bovary of the Suburbs by Sophie Divry and Alison Anderson (translator)
  |title=Madame Bovary of the Suburbs |summary=A perfect evocation of domestic monotony – with all the good and the bad that reading about such things can entail.
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• The Dark-Blue Winter Overcoat and other stories from the North by Sjon Hodgkinson and Ten Hodgkinson (editors)
  |title=The Dark-Blue Winter Overcoat and other stories from the North |sort=Dark-Blue Winter Overcoat and other stories from the North
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• To Kill For (The Killing Machine) by Phillip Hunter
  |title=To Kill For (The Killing Machine) ...ritish-Para Joe is back after ''To Die For'' with revenge more than on his mind. A gritty London gangland story that's a bit formulaic in places but packe
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• The Goddess and the Thief by Essie Fox
  |title=The Goddess and the Thief |sort=Goddess and the Thief
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• The Tar Man by Linda Buckley-Archer
  |title=The Tar Man |summary=The second volume in a trilogy, this is a glorious and sumptuous mix of histori
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• Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen
  ...y his own admission, but enough to generate a deeper understanding of both the man and his work. ...project like this, the writer has made one promise, to show the reader his mind.'' ''In these pages, I've tried to do this.''
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• The Interrogative Mood by Padgett Powell
  |title=The Interrogative Mood ...be a novel, but without any preconditions. How far he succeeds is down to the individual reader. But I thought I'd give it a go.
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• You Can Be Thin: The Ultimate Programme to End Dieting... Forever by Marisa Peer
  |title= You Can Be Thin: The Ultimate Programme to End Dieting... Forever ...instead making you think differently about food and yourself. And yes, it works.
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Stephen Mark Norman
  |title=The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Stephen Mark Norman ...ed that there was more to the book than met the eye and we couldn't refuse the opportunity to ask him a few questions.
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• Butterfly Shell by Maureen White
  |summary= A warm story, written in the first- person, about secrets, a special shell and a special young girl. An |publisher=The O'Brien Press
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• Damaged Goods by June Hampson
  ...obsession - can she escape, can she survive? One may not necessarily imply the other. ...ved not only taking on his killer, the gangster Roy Kemp - but doing it on the Krays' manor. Somehow, she got away with it and life is settling down.
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• Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality by Manjit Kumar
  |title= Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality ...dge, while presenting intimate and insightful portraits of people who made the science. Highly recommended.
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• That Night by Chevy Stevens
  ...conversation with her parents since she went to a coffee shop or walked on the beach. Sent down when she was still a teenager, she’s been incarcerated f ...cause Toni wasn't the one who murdered Nicole. She's done the time but not the crime, and while she wants to keep her head down and do anything to stay ou
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• A Drop of Chinese Blood by James Church
  ...Mongolia, North and South Korea. Expect to be kept in the dark as much as the characters are with regard to plot development. ...rea, so he undoubtedly knows his subject. His previous books have featured the North Korean Inspector O, and while he gets another outing here, this time
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• Under Fishbone Clouds by Sam Meekings
  ...ollows them through their lives to find out what keeps them going, despite the pressures that modern Chinese politics are causing. ...iticised for their bourgeois past and forced to work in different parts of the country?
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• Art in the Blood: A Sherlock Holmes Adventure by Bonnie MacBird
  |title=Art in the Blood: A Sherlock Holmes Adventure ...concerning a prized stolen statue, child slavery, and murder – but who is the culprit behind it all?
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• Nowhere Ending Sky by Marlen Haushofer
  ...g up in 1920s and 30s Austria. A charming story with more lurking beneath the surface for those who like to delve. ...Austria and Germany of the 1920s makes way for the Austria and Germany of the 1930s.
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• Quarry's Choice by Max Allan Collins
  ...ng a killing. Join him in a wonderful pulp fiction adventure that has all the guns, gals and gambling that an assassin could wish for. ...stay a little longer. Is it the blackmail, the attractive young women, or the sense of revenge?
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• Lovers' Hollow by Orna Ross
  ...akes you right through to the nineteen-nineties and will have you glued to the page. It's highly recommended here at Bookbag Towers. ...des to stay on in Ireland rather than return to her home in San Francisco. The story is not just about what Jo discovers of her family history, but what s
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• Ogadinma Or, Everything Will Be All Right by Ukamaka Olisakwe
  ...on turns abusive and Ogadinma must finally find a way to free herself from the patriarchal bonds to whom society has shackled her. |publisher= The Indigo Press
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• Creep by Jennifer Hillier
  ...ks little is happening before dropping the clutch and accelerating towards the finish. ...and [[No Escape by N J Cooper]]. This, allied with Jennifer Hillier using the same title as my favourite Radiohead song, put me in an anticipatory mood f
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• There Is No Such Thing As A Free Press by Mick Hume
  |summary=It's deliberately intended to start a discussion about the press - and is a brilliant antidote to over-indulgence in Leveson. You ''r ...headlines when other less important news had? I needed to know more about the press. I particularly needed to know if increased regulation - which seems
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• Sea Monsters: The Lore and Legacy of Olaus Magnus's Marine Map by Joseph Nigg
  |title=Sea Monsters: The Lore and Legacy of Olaus Magnus's Marine Map ...creator, Olaus Magnus, followed it up years later with a commentary of all the sea creatures he drew on it, but Magnus has waited centuries for this delic
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• The Listener by Tove Jansson
  |title=The Listener |sort=Listener, The
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• The Garnett Girls by Georgina Moore
  |title=The Garnett Girls ...which gripped me from the first page. It's an exhilarating exploration of the meaning of 'home' and 'family'. Highly recommended.
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• Winter Storms by Elin Hilderbrand
  |summary= A wonderful, comforting book that takes the convoluted lives of many members of a family and combines them to beautiful ...s life can be, there are some ties that will always bind you. In this case the tie is called Bart, and whatever else is happening, if he returns then ever
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• Wild Oats by Michael Edwards
  ...be developing a will of their own. It's an unusual approach but one that works well and is strangely enjoyable. Definitely recommended. ...as charmed, admiring of the way in which it was done and rather sorry when the book ended.
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• The Princess and the Christmas Rescue by Caryl Hart and Sarah Warburton
  |title=The Princess and the Christmas Rescue |sort=Princess and the Christmas Rescue
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• Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian Nights by Marina Warner
  |title=Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian Nights ...A blockbuster of an academic text that is sure to become the authority on the subject.
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Antony Wootten Again
  |title=The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Antony Wootten Again ...he Grubby Feather Gang]] Sue couldn't get the characters out of her mind. The book had given her a lot to think about and she had quite a few questions f
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• Escape from Bubbleworld by Keith Skene
  ...aining book which while not pulling any punches, still manages to generate the feeling that there is a way forward. ...e’s writing has two attributes which I can almost guarantee will keep even the non-scientific reading.
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• The Green Road by Anne Enright
  |title=The Green Road ...erlinked short stories, but because the author is Anne Enright, that makes the book something rather special. Highly recommended.
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• Andy Bates: Modern Twists on Classic Dishes by Andy Bates
  ...y=Gorgeous flavoursome food, but it's for the experienced cook rather than the novice. ...es has a classical background (working in a Michelin starred restaurant by the time he was seventeen and time in France to hone his skills) but his busine
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• Give Me The Child by Mel McGrath
  |title=Give Me The Child |summary= A five star thriller, this will keep you on the edge of your toes trying to work out who is good, who is bad, and who is ou
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• Finders Keepers by Belinda Bauer
  |summary=The third of Belinda Bauer's excellent Exmoor-set crime books. Can be read as a ...initially more concerned with how his new hair transplant is taking until the crimes escalate to a full scale serial abduction case.
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• Halting State by Charles Stross
  ...eal to everyone – a very specific sense of humour is required – along with the ability to accept you won’t necessarily understand a fair chunk of what y ...u discover 300 pages later the setting’s sole purpose might just be to get the Leith police joke to work.
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• Cutting For Stone by Abraham Verghese
  ...vel resists any neat summing up: it's more than a medical drama, more than the story of twin brothers, and very highly recommended indeed. ...hijackings and even war. Yet within the walls of Missing every day brings the normal complications in life – rickets, fistula, starvation, love.
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To C G Metts
  |title=The Interview: Bookbag Talks To C G Metts |summary=Rebecca thought that there was a a fun ''Sex and the City'' or ''Ya-Ya Sisterhood'' vibe to [[Waltzing in Vienna by C G Metts|Wa
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• The Spire by Richard North Patterson
  |title= The Spire ...y telling that will have you devouring the pages to find out how the story works out. With two crimes to solve and a love story to boot, this is an engaging
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• Eating Myself by Candida Crewe
  ...essed life, this book delves deeper to try to discover the triggers behind the author's disturbing obsession with what passes her lips. ...n a thriving industry. '' Eating Myself'' is a book which jumps right into the middle of these topics with a look at one particular writer's own bizarre r
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• The Messenger Bird by Ruth Eastham
  |title=The Messenger Bird ...But the hours are ticking by, there are people determined to stop him, and the clues he encounters lead to mysteries kept hidden since World War Two.
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• The Original Ginny Moon by Benjamin Ludwig
  |summary= Emotional, gripping and honest, ''The Original Ginny Moon'' is one of a kind. ...turn frustrated, infuriated, and perplexed. As Gloria returns to her life, the reader follows Ginny on a journey filled with danger and discovery, in her
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• Beautiful Chaos by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
  |summary=Stunning third entry into what is arguably the best current ongoing teen series. Beautifully written with world-building t ...mming up how terrible things are is to note that Mrs Lincoln may be one of the good guys now…
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• What the Nanny Saw by Fiona Neill
  |title=What the Nanny Saw ...to bust as the credit crunch hits and the family are directly effected by the fall of Lehman Brothers. An easy, fun read, with plenty of seriousness thr
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