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[[Category:Authors|List, John]]
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...y:Charles Dickens|Charles Dickens]]. You should be warned though that this list changes all the time.
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|author=John Banville
|summary=It's not my favourite Quirke and Strafford novel but it's John Banville, so the writing is exquisite and the plot skillfully handled.
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|title=A Day That Changed History: The Assassination of John F Kennedy
|sort=Day That Changed History: The Assassination of John F Kennedy
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|author=John Julius Norwich
...[[:Category:John Julius Norwich|John Julius Norwich]] (or Rt Hon/Viscount John Julius Norwich, to give him his full title) doesn't write the sort of histo
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|author=John Yeoman and Quentin Blake
...em for him even though it is a long way. After his mother gives him a long list of very precise directions, he sets off. Although it is a very hot day, he
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|reviewer=John Lloyd
...n with hidden depths, and as a result the finding of several things on the list (or otherwise) generally creates a suitable vocal noise as a result.
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|author=John Freeman
...er there are certain people whom I hold in high regard and one of these is John Freeman. Not yet forty he has an enviable record as an editor to some of t
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|summary=Sixteen-Face John attempts to retrieve the World Songs so his Soonchild can be born. Funny, s
...ife, No Problem, is pregnant, and their Soonchild is refusing to come out. John must go on a dream journey to rescue the World Songs if Soonchild is ever t
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|reviewer=John Lloyd
...t USA. Some books are followed to this day, others seem woefully ignored (John Stuart Mill's ''On Liberty''). These, then, are titles that have changed e
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|author=Uri Gneezy and John List
...te people to change their behaviour? An invigorating account of Gneezy and List’s ground-breaking research in behavioral economics, aka making the world
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|author=John G Smith
...company chairman and then independent consultant. It's only recently that John has moved on to publishing his writing, starting with ''Poems About'' befor
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|author=Jory John and Benji Davies
If you list all of my favourite things you may be surprised what one of my top choices
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|title=The Return of Captain John Emmett
|sort= Return of Captain John Emmett
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...f Ceausescu's Romania, this first person narrative is one part [[:Category:John le Carre|Le Carré]], one part [[:Category:Bill Bryson|Bill Bryson]] and on
...e a work of fiction. It reads more like a cocktail of one part [[:Category:John le Carre|Le Carré]], one part one of those accounts by British journalists
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|author=John Jackson and Daniela Jaglenka Terrazzini
...a rich, deep vein of stories about the Trimurti and ''Brahma Dreaming'' is John Jackson's re-imagining of these all-encompassing, interdependent tales.
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|reviewer= John Van der Kiste
...ago, I suspect that the author might have been at the top of some people's list of culprits for using that naughty b-word. Good grief, man, you can't poss
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President John F Kennedy had been warned about going to Dallas - he himself referred to i
...ook to which UK readers will relate, including as it does references to DJ John Peel who, on the basis that he was a reporter from the ''Liverpool Echo'',
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...ning fifty years. ''Four Days in November: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy'' was published in June 2008 and is - as the title suggests - re
...as it was obvious that the man could not be saved. That man was President John F Kennedy and he had been shot as he rode in a motorcade through Dealey Pla
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|author=John Green
John Green is a magnificent writer. His ability to capture atmosphere, time and
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...outside. Then you open the book and it's only when you idly glance at the list of the author's earlier books that you realise that you've made your entry
...ice before killing himself – and now his cousin Tristan has the house. St John's twin, Adam, vows that he will punish the man responsible. Amelia has bee
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|author=John Foster
John Foster has done a marvellous job of collating this poetry anthology. Seeing
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|author=John O'Connell
|website=http://shortbooks.co.uk/author/john-oconnell
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...revolving around them. Can we resist such a guilty pleasure? I couldn't: John had me at prithee! (No, you're right, he doesn't actually say that.)
...dangerous move. As John and Katherine fall in love and Katherine becomes John's mistress they endanger more than their hearts; their attraction provides
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|author=Stephen John Hartley
...as the late, great John Peel: we have our own [[Margrave of the Marshes by John Peel and Sheila Ravenscroft|tribute]] to him.
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...o don't like their history adjusted. For the rest of us this tale of King John's second wife Isabelle of Angouleme complete with a left field-ish, mischie
...ngland's King Richard the Lionheart all changes. Isabelle will marry King John instead – a totally different prospect for all concerned. This is a matc
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|author=Bronwen John
...- and then I was caught up in the story and it wasn't necessary. Bronwen John does a great job with her characters: I'll quibble very slightly and say th
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|author=John Foster
...kle Twinkle Chocolate Bar by John Foster|a companion book also compiled by John Foster]]. It's still worth a look.
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|reviewer= John Lloyd
...on a full fortnight tour of Iceland. But closer to home, were I to have a list, there would be many things left on it – I've been nowhere near Bath, or
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...nian, John determines to return the boy to what's left of his family. What John doesn't realise is that Ninian himself is inextricably linked to the rebel
...parents' marriage. Without the words to articulate his grief or his guilt, John has thrown himself into stewardship of the land with his gamekeeper father
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...el by John Sutherland|How to Read a Novel]] by [[:Category:John Sutherland|John Sutherland]] do the same for maths and reading as ''Bad Science'' does for
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...e Queen's Man'' series and now finds himself working for his enemy, Prince John. Bringing to mind the work of people like Shirley McKay and VM Whitworth,
...), bringing with it somewhat of a dilemma for Justin. As much as he hates John, de Quincy realises that getting to the bottom of the plot is in the intere
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[[Noah Barleywater Runs Away by John Boyne]] is another slightly surreal fable that is an absolute joy to read.
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...a similarly riveting read and has high literary values (Benjamin Black is John Banville, Booker Prize Winner for his novel ''The Sea''). Detective fiction
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|reviewer=John Lloyd
...is day and age, would be objecting at all. As for the other titles in the list I can't as yet tell, but would be eager to try, and am now expecting a very
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|reviewer=John Lloyd
...ive them a gold star if they can name a single female entrant to history's list. Hence this book, for while some mountains have been topped by a lady firs
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|author=John Connolly
This is the 12th novel in the Irish thriller writer [[:Category:John Connolly|John Connolly's]] Charlie Parker series (or 13th if you want to count the novell
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|author=John Lloyd, John Mitchinson and James Harkin
|reviewer=John Lloyd
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When Fiorella gives Karl a list of questions and asks him to write down his views on aspects of love, Karl
...ter, then you could make a sea change in terms of topic and choose [[WE by John Dickinson]], a wonderful sci-fi epic.
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...s anyone understand Crit Thinking homework? Will Mum and Dad split up? The list goes on.
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|author=John Yeoman and Quentin Blake
...|Julia Donaldson's Tyrannosaurus Drip]] being quite far at the top of that list though possibly not topped by [[The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson|The Gruffal
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...ed by a fictional biographer on the years when the deceased semi-fictional John Coetzee was finding his feet as a writer. Too clever by half, perhaps, but
...hat a young English biographer is working on a book about the late writer, John Coetzee. The dust jacket also has a photograph of Coetzee that seems to hav
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|reviewer=John Lloyd
...He's moved to a rural location, and found houses like his are on the hit-list of an arsonist, but his new home has an even more unusual secret...
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|author=John Van der Kiste
...gory:John Van der Kiste|historical biographies]]. The book has a complete list of personnel, a discography and Van der Kiste's bibliography gives plenty o
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...a new crime series from Benjamin Black, better known as Man Booker winner John Banville, is set in nineteen-fifties Dublin. It's pacey, atmospheric and to
...rstly, its author, Benjamin Black, is actually the 2005 Man Booker winner, John Banville. Moving from genre to genre isn't unknown in the literary world, b
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''Grandpa stopped speaking the day he killed my brother, John.''
...she can really talk to, who really understands the way her mind works. But John isn't everything he says he is. And his arrival is about to change Jewel's
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...eene's work as well as the more recent novels of [[:Category:John le Carre|John le Carre]] as Adriaan evokes the world of the ageing loner revisiting his p
...is novel isn't going to appear on the South Africa Tourist Board's reading list, but that's not a drawback. The authenticity leaps from the narrative as w
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|author=John Farndon
|reviewer=John Lloyd
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|summary= A serious look at the lfe and crimes of John Dillinger and his place in the American heart. Cautiously recommended for
John Dillinger was born and brought up in Indiana. His childhood was no better
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|author=John Jackson
...Grandchildren]] ''and'' [[Brahma Dreaming: Legends from Hindu Mythology by John Jackson and Daniela Jaglenka Terrazzini|Brahma Dreaming: Legends from Hindu
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...this is different and, for me, better (and I speak as one who loves a good John Grisham). There are some common elements: we don't know whether we believe
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|author=John Harvey
...that this is Resnick's last case. My press release tells me that this is John Harvey's last book. Both have gone out at the top of their game: this is a
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|author=John Harvey
With 'Last Rites' I was sure that John Harvey had published his last Resnick novel so it came as something of a su
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|reviewer=John Van der Kiste
...F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, John Berryman, John Cheever, and Raymond Carver. Taking her title from a character in Williams
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...Truss has an uphill struggle. Punctuation has never been top on a child's list of priorities. I've seen the text messages my son sends to his friends. The
...d is struggling with punctuation at school should put it straight on their list. Every school library should have a dozen copies on its shelves. It would m
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|author=John Van der Kiste
...e little facts which are so hard to track down and this is where historian John Van der Kiste comes into his own: he's a man with an eye for detail and the
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...Elvis Presley and Princess Diana, but I'd add another person to the list: John Smith. I remember sitting in my office and a colleague coming in to tell m
...llayed. It takes just a little time to get into its stride – the death of John Smith isn't the vehicle for Mullin's trademark humour – and we were a lit
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|author=John Sutherland
...and a handful of literary curiosities. Was I going to find that ultimate list of books which I would have to read to ensure that I could think of myself
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|author=John Webley
|reviewer= John Van der Kiste
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...occupies a style ground somewhere between Michael Moore (fewer jokes) and John Pilger (more jokes) in this lucid, readable and convincing denouncement of
...occupies a style ground somewhere between Michael Moore (fewer jokes) and John Pilger (more jokes) in this lucid, readable and convincing denouncement of
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Fifteen year old Adam has a list. He needs to get better, grow taller and marry the love of his life, Robyn.
...ct for fans of John Green and Rainbow Rowell; well I completely missed the John Green boat, but I’m so happy I’ve caught the Teresa Toten one. The Unli
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|reviewer=John Lloyd
...at we have in our hands. But all that said, do we really need one of those list books about the subject? I got given a book the other year detailing 1001 p
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It's about fifty years since the assassination of President John F Kennedy and it was he (and particularly his death) who brought the Kenned
She was born in 1890, the daughter of John Francis Fitzgerald - otherwise known as ''Honey Fitz'', sometime mayor of B
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|author=John Joseph Adams (editor)
...linked by the genre of the weird west, which is defined by its elasticity. John Joseph Adams' helpful introduction outlines the main features of the weird
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...eturn of Captain John Emmett]] for the [[Richard and Judy's Summer Reading List 2011|Richard and Judy Summer Book Club]] had on you?'''
...n by Elizabeth Speller|The Strange Fate of Kitty Easton]], was a sequel to John Emmett until I looked on Amazon a few minutes ago. Is this going to be a lo
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|author=Lauren St John
...extra treat if riding a horse bareback on the beach is top of your bucket list of things to do!
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...Based on true events, this is a reworking of a time that the nature poet, John Clare, spent in a mental institution. The Tennyson brothers also figure lar
...thought the idea of reconstructing the tormented years of the nature poet, John Clare, would provide some intriguing insights into this troubled figure. At
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|author=John Lister-Kaye
|summary=Renowned naturalist John Lister-Kaye shares his thoughts on nature conservation and his encounters w
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|reviewer=John Lloyd
...in their own right, meaning this is nothing as bread-and-butter as just a list of the kings from the Normans up. It could have been more readable in that
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|author= John Gribbin and Michael White
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Anyone interested in this way of living will be familiar with the works of John Seymour. His earlier books were very much written for people who wanted to
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...'t having any of it. Kirsty's too young and, in any case, he has a waiting list and Kirsty's name isn't on it. So Kirsty, aided by her half-brother and sis
...[[Someday Angeline by Louis Sachar]] and [[The White Giraffe by Lauren St John]].
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|reviewer=John Lloyd
...with their say about what happens to it. Oh, and you can now add to that list a huge sea monster, that is capable of cutting its way through a perfectly
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|reviewer= John Van der Kiste
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...the Booker Prize, the bestseller lists contained [[:Category:John Grisham|John Grisham]], Sue Townsend and Jeffrey Archer.
...of Irish adolescence, Peter Murphy's [[John the Revelator by Peter Murphy|John the Revelator]] is another good read. Our reviewer also found another Book
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...ts boom years. Some of the stories about writers such as John Osbourne and John Mortimer undeniably amount to little more than gossip, but this adds to the
...publishing) is a lack of organisation of its contents. There is no chapter list, no index and very few chapter headings within the narrative. This means th
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...by Morgan, the Editorial Director of the Macmillan Children's Books Poetry list. Morgan is responsible for other well known children's poetry collections s
...lso includes a nice range of more modern poets such as Carol Ann Duffy and John Betjeman. It is the kind of book that you will find yourself wanting to rea
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...nds a trivia book, [[1,234 QI Facts to Leave You Speechless by John Lloyd, John Mitchinson and James Harkin]]. It's official – Belorussian sausage contai
John also has a recommendation for younger readers. In [[Warren the 13th and the
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I passed my driving test when John F Kennedy was in the White House and I've recently had to reapply for my dr
...side it's useful to know that they're taking a yoga break. There's even a list of preferred accessories, including combat extras. I'm tempted by the Ben
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...t and read we recommend [[Brahma Dreaming: Legends from Hindu Mythology by John Jackson and Daniela Jaglenka Terrazzini]] - we can imagine children passing
...asy Books of 2013]]. If you're looking for Science Fiction, [[Conquest by John Connolly and Jennifer Ridyard]] impressed and we're very keen on [[Bitter S
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|reviewer=John Lloyd
...of early writing and what they mean for the brain. [[The Rosetta Stone by John Ray]] is a closer look at another archaic language and its rediscovery.
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Do you remember reading ''The Red Pony'' at school? If you shed tears at John Steinbeck's short masterpiece, be sure to find time for this story of rural
...n the fight for survival. Only the very young ones have a rag doll apiece. John and Mary, the older two, work full time, and like Jody in ''The Red Pony'',
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...nd and his wonderful messages about openness and inclusivity. But the 2018 list isn't universally popular. Many children's authors, among them Bookbag favo
...brother has kept hidden. As questions are asked and secrets unravel, maybe John isn't the only one with a dark side. This is a dark and thrilling debut nov
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|author=John Hurst
|publisher=John Hurst
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|author=John Leake
...more like a good crime novel and it's not until you look at the notes and list of sources that you realise that this is all dreadful fact.
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|reviewer=John Lloyd
...-written paragraphs concerning the subject, and everything on your to-find list has a little detail about it, too, so you can learn about letters of marque
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...then we think that you might also enjoy anything by [[:Category:John Niven|John Niven]]. You could also check out the competition for the [[Costa Book Awa
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|reviewer=John Lloyd
[[Stuff Brits Like by Fraser McAlpine]] is still high up on our list of gift books that make us laugh at (and think about) stereotypes year roun
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...self wishing that they'd just get on with it - a sort of literary shopping-list syndrome.
...n Rankin's Inspector John Rebus novels in chronological order|Ian Rankin's John Rebus novels]].
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...s for great books for every type of reader you can think of. Check out the list [[Bookbag's Christmas Gift Recommendations 2009|here]].
...websites make as they get closed down. Our other, slightly more reserved, John loved [[Jazz by Gary Giddins and Scott Deveaux]], a full history of jazz fr
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|reviewer=John Lloyd
...ppies, a selection of books for sharing (as if [[:Category:For Sharing|OUR list]] was not the be-all and end-all), and more emotional considerations as the
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|reviewer= John Van der Kiste
...gton, Victoria and others, and the rich tapestry thus revealed even brings John Netley (a cabbie with Jack the Ripper associations) and wife-murderer Dr Cr
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|reviewer=John Lloyd
...shelf, although I don't imagine it in too many household settings. I like list books – and while not everything here is 'the top ten of this or that' we
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...looking at their history. The chance to [[The Interview: Bookbag Talks To John Dickie|chat to him]] was an offer we couldn't refuse, and In [[Bipolar Pare
...ohn Emmett]] has been selected for the [[Richard and Judy's Summer Reading List 2011|Richard and Judy Summer Book Club]] this year.
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|reviewer= John Van der Kiste
...the folk song collectors, promoters and producers, such as Alan Lomax and John Hammond, without whom the blues would never have reached such a wide audien
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...Knob'' does lack Liff's comic genius. After all, it is little more than a list, albeit one enlivened by authorial comment and the clever arrangement of th
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...ke's Rabbit and Philip Roth's Portnoy, none of whom feature on Thirlwell's list. Thirlwell's writing isn't derivative as such, but the overriding sense was
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...quite boracic. Take a [[Christmas Gift Recommendations 2011|look]] at our list if you're in need of ideas. We've also updated our [[Amazon Kindle|review]]
Continuing the World War I theme and in non-fiction, John (VdK John, this time) was impressed by [[The Beauty and the Sorrow: An intimate histo
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Pen and paper in hand over breakfast the next morning, I made a long list of resolutions. Being a target-driven person, this is something I enjoy doi
...A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness]] was another. [[The Fault in Our Stars by John Green]] was yet one more.
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|summary=Set in the reign of the tyrannical King John, we follow the fortunes of two of the most powerful Baron families in the l
...hn, through their half brother Longespee, son of the family matriarch, and John’s father. Banished from Court, and forced to leave her son there, Ida mar
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|reviewer= John Lloyd
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...ed, Machiavellian and well-plotted, his debut thriller mixes a [[:Category:John le Carre|le Carre-type]] panache with a dash of ''House of Cards''.
...tes and is manipulated in a style reminiscent of [[:Category:John le Carre|John le Carre's]] best. The era helps a lot too.
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|reviewer=John Lloyd
John Dury and his partner Zee are businessmen you would find it hard to like. H
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...She devours it all, from Nancy Mitford, through Thomas Hardy, Jean Genet, John Betjeman and well, just about everyone.
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...an Clarke has been seconded to the enquiry and she calls on her old friend John Rebus, kicking his heels in retirement, when Big Ger Cafferty narrowly esca
[[Ian Rankin's Inspector John Rebus novels in chronological order]]
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...looking for something more topical, try [[What is Your Dangerous Idea? by John Brockman]], but if you're looking for the accessible (if rather chattily st
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...t with a gentle comic twist in the tail. [[It Was Bedtime In The Jungle by John Butler]] has glorious illustrations and a sedate, traditional pace to it, w
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|reviewer=John Van der Kiste
...assistant taking a pinch of snuff and sneezing. (Not top of the must-see list, I hear you say). One year later saw the birth of special effects, devised
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...d brutality that tears Britain in half, former lawyer Cromwell's spymaster John Thurloe is the man charged with the task.
...Category:Philippa Gregory|Philippa Gregory]] and [[:Category:John le Carre|John Le Carre]]. On second thoughts scratch that. Robert Wilton writes like Ro
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|publisher=John Murray
Thank you, John Murray, for providing us with a copy for review. We have a review of the [
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|author=John Lanchester
With a gentle nod to the great commentator of London life of the past, John Lanchester sets his wonderfully entertaining state of the nation book aroun
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...n the plethora of jocularity. In terms of humour identification he's more John-Fillimore-esque than Pratchett. For instance ''Elven Quest'' springs happi
...Tom Holt before now. It's an error I will make up for as my e-reader wish list is now unashamedly dozens of novels longer.
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...ys from twenty historians, including Tom Holland, John Julius Norwich and John Keegan, is based on the question, ''What is the moment in history that you
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|publisher=John Murray
...ge Marsh and John Muir. I finished the book a great deal wiser and with a list of points to follow up with further reading.
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|reviewer=John Lloyd
...most people – will of course be reading them on their unbirthday, but the list does include the current recipient of that honour, ''Alice's Adventures in
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John McBratney, Cleveland<br>
...ither of those things, it should make it to the top of your Christmas wish list.
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...n of crime some of them have had to much notoriety. I liked very much the list of old names tentatively given the skyscraper phenomenon, such as sky-batte
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...nd between a man and a wild dog - beautifully told with no sentimentality. John thinks you should read [[Brodeck's Report by Philippe Claudel]], a slightly
...celebrations - Ruth thinks you should read [[Darwin: A Life in Science by John Gribbin and Michael White]], a straightforward account of Darwin's life, ha
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...nt Mariner. And for some hardish sci-fi, you don't get better than [[WE by John Dickinson]].
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|author=John Ray
John Ray's previous book ''Reflections of Osiris: Lives from Ancient Egypt'' pro
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...on to Iggy and his interest, we get the same safety warnings and equipment list as we had in this book's sister volume, and then we're off, jumping in righ
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...'' than after I finished his own [[Prezza: My Story: Pulling No Punches by John Prescott|autobiography]]. Similarly he was far from agreeing with Tony Bla
...r if government really mattered to him but you'll be left in no doubt that John Prescott completely lacked management skills despite being a consummate pol
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...nd while having only as much of a personality as a list of questions and a list of answers could have, did the job perfectly.
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...such things will continue. Hollywood has more to offer, for one, and the list of odd artifacts that pass hands will never shrink. As regards buying this
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...l of twists and turns. The writing is excellent and characterisation good. John thinks you should look at [[The Museum of Doctor Moses by Joyce Carol Oates
In non-fiction, John was mightily impressed by [[History Without the Boring Bits by Ian Crofton]
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...ed Germany into making a mistake. There's a frustrated relative, smashing John Barbiroli's violin in annoyance, with no inkling he would become the first
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...ed and strong-willed, for example. Still young she's managed to acquire a list as long as her arm of her 'hates' in the world - fish, English teachers and
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...me again, and I've already added another of this author's books to my wish list for Amazon.
[[Who's On First? by John Martz, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello]]
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...is schoolmates having names slightly too similar to the ''Star Wars'' cast list, and Mexicans, but dammit it's mostly a well-sustained joke. The voice of
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...ly sanitised as time goes on) in [[Prezza: My Story: Pulling No Punches by John Prescott]].
...Hundred Years of Political Rivalry from Pitt and Fox to Blair and Brown by John Campbell]].
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...Kiki Strike]] by [[:Category:Kirsten Miller|Kirsten Miller]]. [[John Lloyd|John]] loved [[The Summoning by E.E. Richardson|The Summoning]] by [[:Category:E
...bookbag.co.uk email us] and we'll see that you're deleted from the mailing list.)
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...ally count diplomacy as one of his gifts, Wanda the kindly US agent... the list goes on.
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...losing her reason, the employer and devoted friend of her Highland servant John Brown and later the controversial Indian Abdul Karim (‘the Munshi’). M
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...nd Jan Pienkowski]] and [[Brahma Dreaming: Legends from Hindu Mythology by John Jackson and Daniela Jaglenka Terrazzini]]. You might also enjoy [[The Pepp
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...g for her feelings on being blackmailed by her former lover/society pillar John Volos. (Yes, read the first book first!) All we can do is watch vicarious
...e await Book 3. Not only are we surprised by Kate's ultimate discoveries, John Volos' may not be all he appears… or is he? Whatever the resulting revel
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...plenty to discuss with John Kemp when he [[The Interview: Bookbag Talks To John Kemp|called round]] for a chat. It's an illuminating discussion.
...bookbag.co.uk email us] and we'll see that you're deleted from the mailing list.)
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...s perfectly accessible to a modern reader and even providing a very useful list of 'false friends'.
...John Sutherland]] or [[Sir Henry Neville Was Shakespeare: The Evidence by John Casson and William D Rubinstein]].
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...e a gem. John heartily recommends it. Sue's raving about [[Cold in Hand by John Harvey]]. After a decade away Resnick returns in a gripping, atmospheric st
...mon Mann's outlandish coup attempt in Equatorial Guinea. For science fans, John recommends [[Darwin's Sacred Cause: Race, Slavery and the Quest for Human O
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...there. Thanks largely to the few fortunate survivors, notably Able Seaman John King, what happened gradually became known to the wider world. In those day
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...young in at the deep end with a lot of nonsense and asexual names, so the list of who's who at the end might be rather well-used. I could be slammed as a
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...g Evans, suffrage group organiser Kate Parrye Frye and her actor boyfriend John Collins, writer and vegetarian pioneer Hallie (Harriet) Miles and her husba
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...astic authors were included this year. There's Robert Muchamore, Lauren St John, David Melling. There's even a Horrible History in there. All these books c
...count as important, and each gets a six-page essay. Loving him some irony, John is calling it 50 Shades of Essential Literature – not necessarily books t
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...good. She had a list of questions to ask author [[:Category:John Righten|John Righten]] when he popped in to chat to us.
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...lings as and when appropriate. And whereas there are already copious film list books, where we go A-Zombie through a select few titles in self-contained f
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It would have been simple - but not very effective - to list the books in chronological order and tell us a bit about them, but we learn
...rth of the Golden Age''. ''Trent's Last Case'' has been on my 'must read' list for far too long as this was one of the first books with a more complex plo
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...raight to a cliff-hanger reveal, so the third is already on my mental wish-list with the book reviewing gods.
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...u might also enjoy [[QI: The Book of General Ignorance]] by John Lloyd and John Mitchinson.
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In non-fiction, John recommends [[The Divorce of Henry VIII: The Untold Story by Catherine Fletc
...r and the Town of Haverfordwest by Patricia Watkins|The Wayward Gentleman: John Theophilus Potter and the Town of Haverfordwest]] and she was delighted whe
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...layman would have expected from such a book, when we get the world's first list of 7 Wonders. This does mean we can gain many trivial details the regular
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...potted biography and you have a winner. Oh – and you'd better add to the list of plusses the fact that production values are high, with glossy paper and
So, who's in the 2008 book then? Well, I'm not going to give you a list because that would spoil the surprises when you buy the book, but I don't m
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...at looks unlikely to yield results Peace International maintains a call-on list of field operatives, ex-military, medics, scientists or anyone else with a
...who else but the master of the craft [[A Delicate Truth by John le Carre|John Le Carré]].
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...ves and the Undiscovered Economics of Everyday Life by Uri Gneezy and John List]].
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...y odd but we promise that you'll like them. We were delighted to interview John about his humorous stories. Richard Denning's [[Tomorrow's Guardian by Rich
...bookbag.co.uk email us] and we'll see that you're deleted from the mailing list.)
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...ten the superb farce play ''Noises Off'' as well as the screenplay for the John Cleese vehicle, ''Clockwise''. The question remains as to whether the farce
...ctations are unfairly raised by the book's inclusion on this year's Booker list. It's not Frayn's fault that he is nominated but it's far from his best lit
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...king for something more meaty over the Christmas holidays should listen to John, who loved [[Novel 11, Book 18 by Dag Solstad]], a petite modernist novel i
...ers nearly every aspect of the city's life - from glaciers to The Gherkin. John heartily recommends [[On the Origin of Species: The Illustrated Edition by
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John Pilger is an unreconstructed leftie. He is probably one of the few people l
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...ty appeared. They were written by two homosexual men: Edward Carpenter and John Addington Symonds, as well as the heterosexual Havelock Ellis. Exploring th
John Addington Symonds was born in 1840. Several homosexual relationships filled
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...The Dogs of Riga by Henning Mankell]] is about it. [[:Category:Travel|Our list of travel books]] had not yet reached this corner of the world either.
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...ch to do there. For recreation, hunting probably came top of the list and John 'Duke' Warren went for an early morning duck shoot before going to work. W
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...during the match, decisions that led directly to Kelvin's defeat, and the list of suspects include not only the whole of the Kelvin FC playing and backroo
...n Chairman, Patrick (Big Pat) Kennedy seems to be next on the killer's hit list. The climax of the novel then becomes a race against time – can Lorimer a
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...l|Roald Dahl]]. John Elder Robison's autobiography [[Look Me In The Eye by John Elder Robison|Look Me In The Eye]] is also well worth reading. You might a
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...of nuclear war than it had ever been before - or since. On a lighter note, John loved [[Ronnie by Ronnie Wood]], a memoir by the hellraising guitarist and
...adventures of gap year-er Rowan and her unexpected adventures in the USA. John thinks you should read [[Titanic 2020: Cannibal City by Colin Bateman]]. He
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...ary the vessel was for its time is illustrated by a comment from passenger John Jay Smith, who noted how it would have astonished the navigators of only th
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...ell, here's the job to do a prequel to ''Treasure Island'' concerning Long John Silver's parrot's back-story, here's where we complete Mowgli's school jour
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...hen we think that you might also enjoy [[The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne]]. We also have a review of Galloway's [[The Confabulist by Steven Ga
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Of course, turning up at your local library with or without a list inspired by this volume will still bewilder the novitiate. In my experienc
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...Frasier McCleod, an art dealer who had been trying to trace Rose's father, John Jacobs,who happened to be a very exciting artist. Although she couldn't hel
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...sh approach and proceeding to ''clear definition of core challenges''. The list of possible challenges that a Challenger can make is one of the most inspir
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...el Connelly and his Harry Bosch character for some time, the chance to try John Connolly was one worth taking, especially as I'd heard good things about hi
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...we can recommend [[100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know by John D Barrow]]. You might appreciate [[How to Save the World with Salad Dressi
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...avid Cornwell, his German teacher who later became the spy thriller writer John le Carré, make interesting reading, though one has to wade through much to
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...an extended trip throughout book two, they set out those wishes with a set list of things they want to do - be more artistic, be more successful... You ca
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...ude [[The Year We Disappeared: A Father-Daughter Memoir by Cylin Busby and John Busby]] and [[Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Coming Home by
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...[Seven Kings: Books of the Shaper: Volume 2 by John R Fultz|Seven Kings by John R Fultz]]. We also have a review of [[Dead Man's Steel (Grim Company) by Lu
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...things to buy. Well, Bookbag's no different. We have produced our very own list of Christmas - there, we said it - purchase suggestions. Sorry! But we thin
...rite [[Top Ten Teen Books of 2010|teen books]] of the year. It's a diverse list, ranging from hard sci-fi through apocalyptic and historical fantasy right
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...at of all the kinds of books that have ability to surprise, high up on the list are poetry books. You can generally see the style, idea or genre of a nove
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...ls ten copies or a million I'll look for the more esoteric titles on their list – the essays not the novels, the short stories that get ignored and not t
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...ooks/what-to-read/david-bowie-the-man-who-loved-books/ top 100 books]. The list is as eclectic as you'd expect and inspirational, too.
In non-fiction, John recommends [[The Lost Tudor Princess: A Life of Margaret Douglas, Countess
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...ce books and adds a freshness to proceedings. At times, it can read like a list of anecdotes, but more often than not, it's cohesive and flows appropriatel
...have heard before - William Shockley's involvement in Walter Brattain and John Bardeen's 1956 Nobel Prize, for example. However, ''Free Radicals'' treads
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...and the title of the source, but with no date information) and there is no list of sources, no footnotes, no bibliography, no endnotes. This is a big issue
For some serious investigative reporting, look to [[:Category:John Pilger|John Pilger's]] work.
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Appendices list useful websites for local history and useful reference works. Other useful
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...ence. It is, first and foremost, a game, and one that was much better than John remembers first time around. It's nice to see it given a re-release by Scho
...ings you [[Threads: The Delicate Life of John Craske by Julia Blackburn]]. John Craske was a fisherman, from a family of fishermen, who became too ill to g
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...drian Tinnisworth looks at these corsairs – focusing on Englishmen such as John Ward, who became so renowned that plays about him and Dutchman Simon Dansek
...ries I'm going to take to the sea!) Tinnisworth also provides an excellent list of sources and a comprehensive bibliography.
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..., which is something not made clear unless you actually study the contents list before deciding whether to purchase the book.
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..., writing ‘Emma’; Humphrey Davy was patenting his miners’ safety lamp, and John Nash was contributing towards the makeover of London by designing Regent St
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...e and life'. An aloof soul, she made a brief marriage with the homosexual John Ellingham Brooks but left him within a year.
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SJG: I would take ''A Confederacy of Dunces'' by John Kennedy Toole which is my favourite book, but I suspect if I had that I'd b
...rd, Haruki Murakami, Mary McCarthy, for example. Now I think about it, the list is endless. JG Ballard, Margaret Attwood, Daishell Hammett, George Orwell,
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John Prescott polarises opinion. It seems that people either love or loathe him
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...t the originals of the handshake, and slightly embarrassed when I read the list of words which you should not use. Dinner parties are covered in some deta
...e presence of royalty. You'll probably chuckle about the improbability of John Humphrys getting a knighthood - or even a luncheon invitation to the Palace
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...sorted by category]]. If it's themes you're looking for, try our extensive list of [[:Category:Lists|top tens]]. The highest rated reviews by genre are the
In non-fiction, John loved [[We Die Alone by David Howarth]], a superlative real-life story, of
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...f gross-out moments, embarrassing things, parental demands and your bucket list of parental rewards. It's all peppered with images of Nate and the gang, m
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...he way a lot of them are lost in the middle of the spread, but the design, list-making tic and all-round narrative exuberance are great for the intended re
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...s I generally do. Over more than 400 pages, it rapidly became a very long list. I’ll just choose a few at random: all the artists at Wembley being frie
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...om our small-but perfectly formed [[:Category:Graphic Novels|graphic novel list]], but cannot say I will be going past the ugliness to find the appeal bene
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...also quite brilliant thriller construction – despite the relatively small list of suspects, the cases are well worth sticking with for the duration; the p
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...Michael Bond's Original Paddington Bear Books in Chronological Order|check-list]].
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...ight also enjoy [[A Little Piece of England: A tale of self-sufficiency by John Jackson]].
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...t ''Omens'' is the better book. You might enjoy [[Help for the Haunted by John Searles]].
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...o 12, there should - and certainly could - be more of an early hook than a list of odd people, quirky facts about the farm and its buildings, and a few nic
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...nstance, how different would the last few years have been if Labour leader John Smith had not suddenly died in 1994?
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And now I sound like John Wayne.
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...e themselves inside an attic room, trying to escape Sir John Clifford, Sir John, as his axe breaks through the door, steals Jack Nicholson's line from The
..., from eager childhood reading of adventure stories written by people like John Masters and Rider Haggard. I know a little bit about the history of leftist
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Partnered with his hero and fearless spy John Pearce, Nathan must be trained in the defensive arts by England's very best
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...ll left a whole host of great writing completely unreferenced – there is a list of the 'guest appearances' I could have quoted as well that equally shows u
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...English writer of his time. The reading of ''My Boy Jack'', about his son John, killed at the age of one month over eighteen, and recorded in the room whe
In non-fiction, John's gone for [[You Never Give Me Your Money: The Battle for the Soul of the B
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...e can recommend [[Death of a Murderer by Rupert Thomson]] and [[The Dig by John Preston]].
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...wish for. He doesn't really seriously wish for anything, but a diverting list of things he'd like – a better complexion, a better chance with the schoo
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...trophe's? Who cares? - doesn't rock at all. The further we go on with this list, the less we remember the first item on it. Words rock. And the most sexifu
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And the story isn't shoddy, either. OK, the cast list if you like is a little too small for the big reveal to be up to much, but
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...with the man who ran a travelling puppet show. We'll follow the story of John Lipton's courtship through excerpts from his journal.
...e book if you have some knowledge of what's gone on before. You'll find a list of the books in chronological order [[Kate Ellis's D I Wesley Peterson Nove
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...corporate tours. It was clear that as readers we were supposed to warm to John, and I did, so it was odd that Evie didn’t seem to see in him quite what
...to critiquing. I mostly really enjoyed reading it when I wasn’t trying to list what was good or lacking, and just got lost in the story without paying too
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...makes my blood run cold, if you want to be dramatic. And if the character list and plot is not realistic, then again - I just don't want to know.
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Greg's fixer Jack Smith shares a main supporting role with pilot John Sturgess. Each will serve Greg's purposes, one of them without coercion.
...d stuff over your thrills, [[Dark Corners by Ruth Rendell]] is high on the list.
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Most of his leading ladies, a long list of actresses from Jessie Matthews and Madeleine Carroll to Doris Day and Gr
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|summary=A list of all the significant numbers and details, and what they mean – with a s
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...don in February 1940 during the early years of the Second World War, David John White once had a brief career as an electrician. Fortunately for the world
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...scendants here and there. It's a book that could do with a family tree or list of dramatis personae but carries its population through a very poetically-d
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...ll-1984-sales-surge-kellyanne-conway-alternative-facts Amazon's bestseller list]. Alternative facts are not facts. And thank you, George Orwell, for warnin
In non-fiction, John thinks you might enjoy [[In the Midnight Hour: The Life & Soul of Wilson Pi
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The work of Laukkanen continues to echo that of John Sandford, but there is no shame in following a master of the genre. This i
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Still, for a new spin on the tale of a man getting sucked in by TV, a list of sexual case histories – including several of the author's own – and
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...ng him just as he's barely turning forty. As a result he compiles a short list of rights to wrong, and people to create closure with. One, his ex-wife, m
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In fiction, John thinks you should read [[Look Who's Back by Timur Vermes]]. A very misguide
...Sue recommends [[A Little Piece of England: A tale of self-sufficiency by John Jackson]], a warts-and-all look at what it's like to run a smallholding and
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...me of which may or may not be present, dammit. You also get a quick check-list of other characters, but let me blunt about this right from the start, YOU
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