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  • |title=Charmed Life (The Chrestomanci) ...vel, [[The Pinhoe Egg by Diana Wynne Jones]] which continues the ''Charmed Life'' story.
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  • ...eft and it does it with remarkable continuity. Cat Chant, a fledgling nine-life enchanter is living in the Chrestomanci castle with the Chrestomanci family ...an posses and there is a particular focus on life-affirming, pantheistic, "life force'" ability which is as much about understanding and communicating with
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  • ...els such as [[Charmed Life (The Chrestomanci) by Diana Wynne Jones|Charmed Life]] and [[Enchanted Glass by Diana Wynne-Jones|Enchanted Glass]].
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  • |title=The Man With A Charmed Life and his part in saving the planet from WWIII |sort=Man With A Charmed Life and his part in saving the planet from WWIII
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  • ...like to try [[Charmed Life (The Chrestomanci) by Diana Wynne Jones|Charmed Life]] by [[:Category:Diana Wynne Jones|Diana Wynne Jones]].
    3 KB (606 words) - 09:34, 17 April 2018
  • ...oks such as [[Charmed Life (The Chrestomanci) by Diana Wynne Jones|Charmed Life]]. Another classic fantasy novel for teenagers about a young boy growing up
    3 KB (594 words) - 16:27, 1 September 2020
  • ...in saving the planet from WWIII by Graham Fulbright|The Man With A Charmed Life and his part in saving the planet from WWIII]]. We also enjoyed [[The Milan
    4 KB (678 words) - 11:09, 26 September 2020
  • ...ure fans is [[Charmed Life (The Chrestomanci) by Diana Wynne Jones|Charmed Life by Diana Wynne Jones]].
    4 KB (662 words) - 11:54, 6 April 2018
  • ...oks such as [[Charmed Life (The Chrestomanci) by Diana Wynne Jones|Charmed Life]]. Another classic fantasy novel for teenagers about a young boy growing up
    4 KB (626 words) - 12:41, 23 March 2018
  • ...y=We thought that [[The Flip-flop Club: Charmed Summer by Ellen Richardson|Charmed Summer]] was the 'charming' start to what looked like an exciting new serie We thought that [[The Flip-flop Club: Charmed Summer by Ellen Richardson|Charmed Summer]] was the 'charming' start to what looked like an exciting new serie
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  • ...to define and distinguish them by their scents brings them more vividly to life than pages of description could. ...start with [[Charmed Life (The Chrestomanci) by Diana Wynne Jones|Charmed Life]], which is a real classic of its kind.
    4 KB (735 words) - 10:27, 14 March 2018
  • ...Somehow Diana Wynne Jones creates a whole host of characters who bounce to life in your mind, and I wanted to know more...who were they? What were these w ...antasy try: [[Charmed Life (The Chrestomanci) by Diana Wynne Jones|Charmed Life]] also by Diana Wynne Jones.
    5 KB (783 words) - 12:31, 21 April 2018
  • ...Colfer and [[Charmed Life (The Chrestomanci) by Diana Wynne Jones|Charmed Life]] by Diana Wynne Jones]].
    4 KB (701 words) - 09:56, 17 April 2018
  • ...d. But with the entrance of Aidan Cain, an orphan, into his house and his life the mysteries deepen. The two are drawn to each other, however, and slowly ...Game]] and [[Charmed Life (The Chrestomanci) by Diana Wynne Jones|Charmed Life]].
    5 KB (798 words) - 12:12, 20 April 2018
  • ...e travel is [[Charmed Life (The Chrestomanci) by Diana Wynne Jones|Charmed Life]], while early [[Harry Potter books]] are pitched at similar audience.
    5 KB (769 words) - 11:25, 14 March 2018
  • ...t she knows it was life-changing. With her daughter still fighting for her life in a room down the corridor, Ava has a lot to contend with as she tries to
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  • ...t amateur sleuth Penny, the twelve year old orphan who has a secret double life as the nation’s best-selling author of popular fiction. Think of her as a ...urs earnestly praying to become more like. I was charmed by her, and I was charmed by this book. I love the period Edge has chosen, and found his tongue-in-ch
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  • ...omplete. When a chance encounter at a wedding brings a new woman into this life, he begins to hope that he has found everything he really needs. ...rge of major political change, and instability is everywhere. But as Sam's life becomes more chaotic, his own insecurities are swept away by his all-consum
    3 KB (572 words) - 14:23, 10 August 2020
  • |summary=A languid, stumbling waltz through the last weeks of Noel Coward's life. I read ''Firefly'' wanting to be charmed. Sat at home, wishing I was in Jamaica, idly humming 'Mad Dogs and English
    3 KB (463 words) - 09:52, 11 August 2020
  • |title=Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian Nights ...eherazade, a frame narrator who uses the power of stories to fight for her life.
    5 KB (875 words) - 16:46, 27 August 2020
  • |title=Life! Death! Prizes! |summary=Billy's mum dies, but Billy's going to be ok. His life isn't as tragic as those in the supermarket magazines and he's still got hi
    4 KB (688 words) - 12:01, 23 February 2018
  • ...ugh repetition. Still, anyone in the target age range of 7-10s who is not charmed by the gently wacky, larky weirdness of this world, is best not thought abo ...e, and we can fall easily into a book that brings their singular nature to life so joyously.
    3 KB (500 words) - 13:12, 19 April 2018
  • ...a moving and sometimes funny account of a man searching for meaning in his life. ...gambler, avoiding attachment, responsibility and commitment throughout his life.
    5 KB (842 words) - 09:43, 21 August 2020
  • |summary=Vicki Myron could never have guessed how life was going to change one cold winter morning when she walked into the librar ...true story of a cat called Dewey. His beginnings were very humble and his life could quite probably have been quite short if it had not been for a fortuit
    4 KB (705 words) - 12:28, 21 March 2018
  • ...at the world around her with new eyes. Is this really what she wants from life? More importantly, is this really all that she is? As she begins to experim ...she tries to decide who she wants to be, and what she wants to do with her life.
    5 KB (909 words) - 12:48, 27 August 2020
  • ...ens a bizarre, terrifying-looking creature named Pet, who somehow comes to life and declares that it is here to hunt the monster. Though Jam tries to conv ...ng relationship builds between Pet and Jam, and I found myself alternately charmed by Pet, and horrified. The style of the writing also hovers between seemin
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  • ...going to have a child and she's happy about it. We get a peep at Megan's life pre-pregnancy. She's a successful journalist sent to trouble spots around ...all fell a little flat. I sort of guessed the ending as far as Meg's love life was concerned and it was all just a little too twee for me.
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  • ...men in England, makes for a very entertaining read with its background of life on both sides of the English Channel, especially with its glimpses of Paris Born in 1812, Yolande's early life was an unpromising one. Yet she had the mixed blessing of being born to a
    5 KB (761 words) - 10:33, 26 September 2020
  • You might also enjoy reading [[Charmed Life (The Chrestomanci) by Diana Wynne Jones]]
    3 KB (485 words) - 08:04, 15 August 2020
  • ...e man, but even more about her own colourful but ultimately painful family life in New York. It becomes a rich account of how Erica comes to terms with the 'To live forever or die in the attempt' was the essential glory in life and living that is at the heart of John Yossarian in [[Catch 22 by Joseph H
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  • ...he ranks in a misogynist institution and achieves any goal she is set. Her life is one of adventure set against a post-imperial backdrop. Anyone who enjoys ...igated her way through the then alien Soviet Russia. Hers is an incredible life, one that brings the nail-biting and seat teetering that we expect from a s
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  • ...even more difficult. But worst of all is the mother-shaped hole in Milo's life - she's not there and her things aren't there because Milo's father got rid ...ed with kindness and charm and wry humour, ''Milo and the Restart Button'' charmed me to both laughter and a tear or two. Your heart bleeds for Milo, who fill
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  • ...ee are educated alongside great friend and wordsmith Henry. It's a charmed life in the Frankenstein chateau in the Genevese republic. ...or, Elizabeth and Henry can find a way to recreate the forbidden Elixir of Life, it seems as though Konrad will die...
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  • ...l - a charmed life. She had a good job, no financial worries and her love life? A bit hit and miss, shall we say. But was she bothered? Hard to tell wi ...rs from two different vantage points, if you like. The deceased Rebecca's life is picked over mercilessly by the police detectives as part of their job.
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  • ...ff by a shotgun, whom she found on the local beach, intervened to give her life some meaning. For a while, she was a suspect, but that (and her wig) was n ...is would annoy me, but this time I was, although I hesitate to admit it, ''charmed''.
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  • ...and much more besides. Wonderfully researched, Jean Findlay brings back to life a charming, talented and tragic man. ...ilfully retells the life of an intriguing man – and one whom I was utterly charmed by.
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  • Ben Lawrence has a charmed life it would seem. There’s the highly successful and lucrative career in PR,
    3 KB (540 words) - 08:30, 6 April 2018
  • ...life in a rock band in the 60's, time spent in a nursing home, and finally life in the castle - amongst other, enchanting tales. ...t the negatives I encountered when reading this - as frankly I was far too charmed, engrossed and utterly delighted to encounter any. So many things are rolle
    4 KB (734 words) - 12:09, 21 February 2018
  • ...but something is missing so Erika goes to great lengths to try to make her life complete and meets love, lust and loss along the way.
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  • ...a Wynne Jones. It features Chrestomanci, the magic enforcer from ''Charmed Life'', and dragons you cannot see. Anything by Wynne Jones is always a treat an
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  • ...ctant reader. Buy lots of these as Christmas presents for the kids in your life. You'll be very popular, and help the planet too! ...It is just so packed full of great, interactive ideas for living a better life, that I even passed it onto to my household's resident politician. He agree
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  • ...ve at its centre. Best friends Edda and Beth have shared a rather charmed life in London - up to now. But Beth is moving on, in more ways than one: will ...re they the right ones? Boyfriends and lovers are now a big thing in her life. She's amazed and a bit stunned. What did she do right, she keeps asking
    4 KB (772 words) - 12:43, 4 April 2018
  • ...ng that he is so far the only modern historian to undertake writing such a life. ...favourite sister, Mary, widowed Queen of France. In fact he led a charmed life, for he also managed to survive a certain amount of mismanagement, or perha
    4 KB (717 words) - 08:14, 12 April 2018
  • ...class to London or on their way to catch a flight. The Eight seem to lead charmed lives - but the financial world is changing and there isn't the money aroun ...seems to have her feet on the ground and isn't ''quite'' so wedded to the life of indulgence as the other families. At the other end of the scale you get
    3 KB (583 words) - 12:00, 16 March 2018
  • ...he author he wends his way across Europe while leading a less than charmed life. Everything he touches seems to end in disaster. At any stage the story c ...meet someone who means something to him, for instance the two loves of his life (the courtly Hildegunde and his first love, Katrin) we come away feeling we
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  • ...d she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life's work, the very first encyclopaedia of faeries. Whilst she is brilliant a ...o Shadow is. Wendell is an engaging character, and I found myself equally charmed and infuriated by him, much as Emily is too. The mystery around why he is
    5 KB (767 words) - 00:54, 2 April 2024
  • They shouldn't miss Diana Wynne Jones's superb [[Charmed Life (The Chrestomanci) by Diana Wynne Jones|Chrestomanci series]]. [[The Amazin
    3 KB (514 words) - 09:43, 25 August 2020
  • Olivia Taylor-Jones has a charmed life. Her family is rich, her fiance perfect and though she has some questions a
    4 KB (578 words) - 15:30, 1 September 2020
  • ...ite this they kept up a brisk and lively conversation about all aspects of life, from the late 1940s until his death at the beginning of the 60s. And as a ...And with the density of her letters, really getting under the skin of her life, we see everything about her through her singular and welcome eyes.
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  • |summary=The Christmas carol ''The Twelve Days of Christmas'' is brought to life in this charming and amusing story of love, marriage and families. A treat ...th a partridge and a small pear tree in a red pot Annaple is delighted and charmed. However Francis confides in the children that as a wealthy merchant he is
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