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• The Why Axis: Hidden Motives and the Undiscovered Economics of Everyday Life by Uri Gneezy and John List
  |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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• Category:John List
  [[Category:Authors|List, John]]
  1 member (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 15:51, 1 September 2020
• Category:Uri Gneezy and John List
  [[Category:Authors|List, John]]
  1 member (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 17:14, 5 March 2014
• Category:Reviewed by Donna Wells
  ...y:Charles Dickens|Charles Dickens]]. You should be warned though that this list changes all the time.
  6 members (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 17:44, 29 September 2010
• The Lock-Up by John Banville
  |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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• A Day That Changed History: The Assassination of John F Kennedy by Tracey Kelly
  |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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• The Popes: A History by John Julius Norwich
  |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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• Rumbelow's Dance by John Yeoman and Quentin Blake
  |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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• Dinosaur Detective's Search-and-Find Rescue Mission by Sophie Guerrive
  |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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• How to Read a Novelist: Conversations with Writers by John Freeman
  |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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• Soonchild by Russell Hoban
  |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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• Books that Changed the World: The 50 Most Influential Books in Human History by Andrew Taylor
  |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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• The Why Axis: Hidden Motives and the Undiscovered Economics of Everyday Life by Uri Gneezy and John List
  |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
  5 KB (831 words) - 10:37, 27 February 2018
• Eugene by John G Smith
  |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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• Goodnight Already by Jory John and Benji Davies
  |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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• The Return of Captain John Emmett by Elizabeth Speller
  |title=The Return of Captain John Emmett |sort= Return of Captain John Emmett
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• The Last Hundred Days by Patrick McGuinness
  ...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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• Brahma Dreaming: Legends from Hindu Mythology by John Jackson and Daniela Jaglenka Terrazzini
  |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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• 50 People Who Buggered Up Britain by Quentin Letts
  |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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• The Assassination of JFK Minute by Minute by Jonathan Mayo
  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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• Parkland by Vincent Bugliosi
  ...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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• The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
  |author=John Green John Green is a magnificent writer. His ability to capture atmosphere, time and
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• The Loveday Conspiracy by Kate Tremayne
  ...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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• Twinkle Twinkle Chocolate Bar by John Foster
  |author=John Foster John Foster has done a marvellous job of collating this poetry anthology. Seeing
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• For the Love of Letters: The Joy of Slow Communication by John O'Connell
  |author=John O'Connell |website=http://shortbooks.co.uk/author/john-oconnell
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• The Scandalous Duchess by Anne O'Brien
  ...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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• Painting Snails by Stephen John Hartley
  |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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• The Stolen Queen by Lisa Hilton
  ...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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• Crooked: Honest Criminality by Bronwen John
  |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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• Whizz Bang Orang-Utan by John Foster
  |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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• Sod That!: 103 Things Not To Do Before You Die by Sam Jordison
  |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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• The Witness by James Jauncey
  ...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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• Bad Science by Ben Goldacre
  ...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 {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Non-Fiction Books To Make You Think}}
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• Prince of Darkness by Sharon Penman
  ...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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• A Boy and a Bear in a Boat by Dave Shelton
  [[Noah Barleywater Runs Away by John Boyne]] is another slightly surreal fable that is an absolute joy to read. {{toptentext|list=Guardian Children's Fiction Prize 2012}}
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• When Will There Be Good News? by Kate Atkinson
  ...a similarly riveting read and has high literary values (Benjamin Black is John Banville, Booker Prize Winner for his novel ''The Sea''). Detective fiction {{toptentext|list=Richard and Judy Shortlist 2009}}
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• The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Peerless Peer by Philip Jose Farmer
  |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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• How to Climb Mont Blanc in a Skirt: A Handbook for the Lady Adventurer by Mick Conefrey
  |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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• The Wolf in Winter (Charlie Parker Thriller) by John Connolly
  |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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• 1,234 QI Facts to Leave You Speechless by John Lloyd, John Mitchinson and James Harkin
  |author=John Lloyd, John Mitchinson and James Harkin |reviewer=John Lloyd
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• Dying to Know You by Aidan Chambers
  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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• The Carbon Diaries 2015 by Saci Lloyd
  ...s anyone understand Crit Thinking homework? Will Mum and Dad split up? The list goes on. {{toptentext|list=Costa Book Awards 2008}}
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• Sixes and Sevens by John Yeoman and Quentin Blake
  |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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• Summertime by J M Coetzee
  ...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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• Hope: a Tragedy by Shalom Auslander
  |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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• Jeff Lynne: The Electric Light Orchestra - Before and After by John Van der Kiste
  |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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• Christine Falls by Benjamin Black
  ...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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• Bird by Crystal Chan
  ''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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• Betrayal by Adriaan van Dis
  ...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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• Do You Think You're Clever?: The Oxbridge Questions by John Farndon
  |author=John Farndon |reviewer=John Lloyd
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• Dillinger's Wild Ride: The Year That Made America's Public Enemy Number One by Elliott J Gorn
  |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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