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• Chancey by Gigi Amateau
  |summary= A delightful story in the tradition of ''Black Beauty'' but which leaves the reader on a positive note. Definitely recommended pa ...but when Chancey was born she was bitterly disappointed for instead of the black Appaloosa with white marking Chancey was born albino. It was only his stri
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• Hollywood Beauty: Vintage Secrets by Laura Slater
  |title=Hollywood Beauty: Vintage Secrets |sort=Hollywood Beauty: Vintage Secrets
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• Dog by Daniel Pennac
  ...rhood as she possibly can. And then... there's an accident. The last thing Black Nose says to Dog is ''If you go to the town, watch out for the cars. Dodge, ...as an instruction. He knows he'll never be happy living on the tip without Black Nose and so he sets off in search of the town and a mistress to train. But
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• Born To Run by Michael Morpurgo
  |summary=A lovely Black Beauty-style story about a racing greyhound's travels through life. Lots of kind a ''Born to Run'' is an updated version of Black Beauty, replacing horses with dogs. It's just as heart-rending in places, but it's
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• Category:L J Ross
  ...te the first draft of Holy Island, having been inspired by the atmospheric beauty of the real island of Lindisfarne, a place she knew well from childhood. Fo ...riends and family, dancing to 80's music (singing, badly...), watching old black-and-white movies, drinking coffee and eating cake.
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• Forest Gate by Peter Akinti
  ...ut never, ever forgets that love can save us all. It sounds trite, but the beauty of this book is that it isn't trite, and it's true. Peter Akinti was kind e ...deeply affecting novel about contemporary life in Britain. Moulding urban, black and refugee experience and dealing unflinchingly with suicide, it hurts to
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• Pinocchio by Winshluss
  ...images of nightmarish content, which took it upon themselves to break into black and white, or sepia. The prologue might have a character forcing his cat t ...ach who wants to write cult novels, and the seven dwarves' use of Sleeping Beauty is definitely not for the family audience. I can't begin to say how far fr
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Numba Pinkerton
  ...s. When Numba, author of [[The No Black Project by Numba Pinkerton|The No Black Project]] popped into Bookbag Towers, Sue had lots of questions she wanted ...s. When Numba, author of [[The No Black Project by Numba Pinkerton|The No Black Project]] popped into Bookbag Towers, Sue had lots of questions she wanted
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• Harvest by Jim Crace
  '''Winner: James Tait Black Prize 2014''' ...new visitors. As he shows around Mr Quill, and as Mr Quill gazes upon the beauty of nature, Walter reflects:
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• The Shoe Queen by Anna Davies
  |summary=A well-researched story about a society beauty obsessed by shoes - and a shoemaker. Nineteen-twenties Paris is brought to |publisher=Black Swan
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To S B Charles
  |summary=Jill thought that [[Gliding With Black Swans by S B Charles]] was a roller coaster of a thriller and she couldn't Jill thought that [[Gliding With Black Swans by S B Charles]] was a roller coaster of a thriller and she couldn't
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Louisa Reid
  ...y impressed by Louisa Reid's debut novel [[Black Heart Blue by Louisa Reid|Black Heart Blue]] and we had lots of questions we wanted to ask her. ...y impressed by Louisa Reid's debut novel [[Black Heart Blue by Louisa Reid|Black Heart Blue]] and we had lots of questions we wanted to ask her.
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• The Woman Before Me by Ruth Dugdall
  ...by the fact that Rose is no beauty. And even although we all know that ''beauty is only skin deep'' it doesn't help Rose one bit. The whole boyfriend/soci ...ormation which is always a page-turner. A deft touch is Rose's constant ''black book entry'' which gives us the inner thoughts and workings of Rose's mind.
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• Dolly by Susan Hill
  ...to be in the territory of [[The Woman in Black by Susan Hill|The Woman in Black]], but worry not – this new short genre novel is a very different beast. ...young madam, who has inherited the same good fortune, wilful attitude and beauty as her mother. He is here as a semi-permanent resident, being an orphan, s
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• The Visitors Book by Sophie Hannah
  ...se like some of her novels and I didn't find myself gasping over the sheer beauty of her writing like I might with some of her poems. But where she excels he ...r, years later, like, say, [[The Woman in Black by Susan Hill|The Woman in Black]] or Daphne du Maurier's ''Don't Look Now''.
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• Dancing Paws of Magic by Maria McArdle
  ...ing Beauty''. Here everything seems to be going just purr-fectly until the Black Treacle Farm Gang – including Gang Leader Bruiser Bumfluff – appear to ...fall in love with the characters in these pictures. They look wonderful in black and white but, to appreciate their true magnificence, I'd definitely recomm
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• Dear Hound by Jill Murphy
  ...y Deerhounds have the grey hair on their ears stripped back to the velvety-black under fur, but only one of Alfie's ears has been stripped, because, well, i ...hael Morpurgo's [[Born To Run by Michael Morpurgo|reworking]] of the Black Beauty story.
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• The Daylight Gate by Jeanette Winterson
  ...e beginning to question Alice's attitudes, choice of company - and ageless beauty. This, then, is the based-on-truth story of how Alice Nutter got to be one ...be, so brilliantly has Winterson followed the Hammer tradition. Here are black masses, dark spells, heaving bosoms and evil not as some tremendous CGI eff
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• Just Look At Me Now by Nell Dixon
  |publisher=Little Black Dress ...nd frizzy hair she has transformed herself into Tia Carpenter, the stylish Beauty editor at ''Platinum'' magazine. She has always kept her previous life secr
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• The Dirty South by Alex Wheatle
  ...y=Crisp, clean writing with wit and humour tempers this story of the urban black experience in Britain. It's not angry, but it makes some angry points. For ...riend and dealing partner Noel. Outwardly, Noel is the stereotypical urban black youth. He's dirt poor, from a single parent family. His mother hits him. He
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• Paris by Maarten vande Wiele
  ...ian starlets, it is certainly worth a decent perusal. Hope was a juvenile beauty queen, and could now work in fashion were it not for scars due to a car cra ...ly captured by the model on the front cover, a be-bereted doll in a Little Black Dress, with the Eiffel Tower on the front, which has its skeletal arched le
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• Fantasy - CD-Rom and Book by Christy Shaffer
  Some of the designs are in colour and some in black and white. So perhaps another idea for using some of these designs is maybe Obviously, as this is a book of images it is hard for me to describe the beauty and the enchantment that emanates from so many of the pictures. I can only
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• Dragons and Wizards - CD-Rom and Book by Marty Noble
  Some of the designs are in colour and some in black and white. So perhaps another idea for using some of these designs is maybe Obviously, as this is a book of images it is hard for me to describe the beauty and the enchantment that emanates from so many of the pictures. I can only
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• Bloodheir by Brian Ruckley
  ...the battle isn't even nearly over. Encouraged by previous successes, the Black Road are pushing for further gains and they are being assisted by the rogue This isn't entirely welcomed, even amongst the Black Road, as many of them see Aeglyss as a half-breed and not a true follower o
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• Rags and Bones by Melissa Marr and Tim Pratt (Editors)
  ...man|Neil Gaiman]] gives us something truly special here, as his ''Sleeping Beauty''-inspired fantasy ''The Sleeper and The Spindle'' took my breath away. It' ...vampire tale than her recent novel [[The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black|The Coldest Girl in Coldtown]], while a trio of authors I've somehow never
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• Counting Lions by Katie Cotton and Stephen Walton
  |summary=A beautiful book of black and white drawings of wild animals as a counting book will stun adults and ...ost seem unnecessary as we can see all that we need of the unique form and beauty of each creature. But there are words too.
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• Cut on the Bias by Stephanie Tillotson
  ...ntity, yes, from a battered wife's nondescript black leggings in ''Back to Black,'' to a film star's cast-off finery landing in a traditional community in B ...itates a young man's discovery of his sexuality. Lindsay Ashford's little beauty is packed with insights.
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• The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo and Bagram Ibatoulline
  The story put me in mind of ''Black Beauty'' and Michael Morpurgo's [[Born To Run by Michael Morpurgo|recent reworking ...his skill at portraiture but in ''Edward Tulane'' the illustrations are in black and white but they're no less stunning. There's a picture of a dog attacki
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• Dust to Dust (Steven Dunbar) by Ken McClure
  ...st. He's a promising and well-though of academic and his pet subject is - Black Death. Intrigue is high on the agenda right from the beginning. Motram is ...the oldest college in Oxford.'' Apparently the foundation stone pre-dates Black Death. Deft touch. A lot of the action takes place at Dryburgh Abbey in t
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• The Thrift Book: Live Well and Spend Less by India Knight
  ...start with this book is to say what it isn't. Frugality might be the new black but there's no suggestion in this book that you should be living less than ...ous about cooking good food from scratch. You might also find [[Hollywood Beauty: Vintage Secrets by Laura Slater]] interesting.
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• Psy-Q: You know your IQ - now test your psychological intelligence by Ben Ambridge
  ...ed me. For example, there is a page where the reader is invited to scan 50 black and white images before turning the page and trying to recall some of the i The beauty of the book is that its content just has to be shared. You will find yourse
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• Walking Home by Simon Armitage
  ...r his country, the Way, and the people he meets. (Along with some stunning black and white photographs of various points on his journey!) ...e landscape he walks through are wonderful, and he definitely captures the beauty of the route in both words and pictures.
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• Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays by Zadie Smith
  ...known as the author of three novels: White Teeth, The Autograph Man and On Beauty. She now teaches Creative Writing at Columbia University in New York. This ...want to read. Smith's piece is a very personal response about reading as a black woman; she describes her reluctance to read the book when her mum gave her
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• Tommy Sullivan is a Freak by Meg Cabot
  ...she takes part in a beauty pageant in the book – and I love stories about beauty pageants, even if they do have dubious names like ''Quahog Princess''.
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• The Good Mayor by Andrew Nicoll
  |publisher= Black and White Publishing ...s beloved wife Agathe that she questioned her own existence, let alone her beauty. How was she to know that the good Mayor pined for her on the other side
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• The Queen's Secret by Victoria Lamb
  ...Knollys, wife of the Earl of Essex, was beside the point. Lucy Morgan, a black entertainer of Moorish descent, was drawn into the midst of this intrigue a ...than one) is the Queen herself and we get a real feel for the queen whose beauty was rapidly fading and who had all the insecurities of a woman who sees her
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• The Phone Box at the End of the World by Laura Imai Messina
  ...e a man installed a telephone box in his garden. ''Inside there is an old black, telephone, disconnected, that carries voices into the wind.'' It is a real ...cean. That isn't explained in the book, to me, it is a refusal to let the beauty of nature be lost to its cruelty.
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• A State of Fear: Britain After a Dirty Bomb by Joseph Clyde
  ...d an American gentleman. They are soon joined by Kingman, a young male of black Caribbean descent. It seems to be a regular United Nations in the salon. As
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• The Trees by Ali Shaw
  ...journey will take them to the heart of the forest, to a place of terrible beauty and violence, to the dark heart of nature and the darkness inside themselve ...e beauty in the violence, and lightening it with compelling characters and black humour. All the while, he raises serious questions about our world – not
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• The Enterprise of Death by Jesse Bullington
  ...nsported against their will across the continent. One, an African Moorish beauty is being delivered to the King of Spain as ransom payment, but she and two ...e main protagonists are settled as people and not as devices for inspiring black humour, that I satisfactorily felt positive about things.
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• Warren the 13th and the All-Seeing Eye by Tania del Rio and Wilhelm Staehle
  ...s and accompanies what you're seeing, and it all looks resplendent in just black and white and red. It's all in a Victorian, woodcut-effect style – even ...ildren's book I gloried so much over receiving to review due to smarts and beauty combined was [[Goth Girl: and the Ghost of a Mouse by Chris Riddell]]. We t
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• What If Einstein Was Wrong?: Asking the Big Questions About Physics by Brian Clegg
  ...the attractive format. Science textbooks are rarely described as things of beauty, but this book really is an exception to the rule. Each section has its own ...ed to have some prior knowledge of physics, in order to grasp terms like ''Black holes with hair'', ''Maxwell’s Demon'' and ''Schrodinger’s Cat''. Indee
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• God's Own Country by Ross Raisin
  The story, though, is chilling and gripping, the humour black. Sam is one of the great characters of modern fiction – well-intentioned Raisin captures the moors too, with their wildness and stark beauty. There's antagonism to moorland – it doesn't welcome visitors – and yo
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• Ruby Red by Linzi Glass
  ...lives in 1970s Johannesburg. Her father is a liberal lawyer, representing black people accused under the apartheid system. Her mother owns an art gallery t In Ruby's house, there are no black servants. There are black guests; artists free to pursue their muses free of restriction. But they ar
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• The Beauty and the Sorrow: An intimate history of the first world war by Peter Englund
  |title=The Beauty and the Sorrow: An intimate history of the first world war |sort= Beauty and the Sorrow: An intimate history of the first world war
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• The Girl on the Wall: One Life's Rich Tapestry by Jean Baggott
  ...demic interest. She tells her own story from her wartime childhood in the Black Country through to the noughties. There's stories of a way of life which i ...ns – it's a book which will be enjoyed by all ages for the stories and the beauty of the tapestry.
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• A Place Called Here by Cecelia Ahern
  It was unfortunate for Sandy Shorrt that she had black hair and was over six feet tall. People could never resist the temptation t ...rt of that. Sandy Shorrt is a compelling heroine. She's not a conventional beauty but a real personality. It's easy to see how she came to be as she was, hav
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• Sweep: The Story of a Girl and her Monster by Jonathan Auxier
  ...ecome a modern classic, written with the feel of such classics, as ''Black Beauty,'' ''Oliver Twist,'' and ''The Water Babies''. For a similar, feisty heroin
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• Joe and the Hidden Horseshoe by Victoria Eveleigh
  ...n recommend [[Chancey by Gigi Amateau]] which is in the tradition of Black Beauty but ending on a positive note.
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• Wild Town (RSPB) by Mike Dilger
  |publisher=A & C Black ...ies of bird, amphibian and insect, it's all there in all its diversity and beauty.
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