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- ...Bookbag and any news from the site. We promise never to pass your details on to anyone else. In fact... we won't even tell each other. == August's News from Bookbag Towers ==5 KB (892 words) - 22:12, 29 January 2024
- |title=Beth Bottery Talks To Bookbag About Scottish Book Trust ...ogramme for 2012-13. You can find further information future online events on our website as it becomes available [http://www.scottishbooktrust.com/child4 KB (614 words) - 13:33, 3 March 2018
- ...r "virtual shelves". We've found that better - and usually more positive - reviews are forthcoming this way. If nobody from our panel has asked to review your ...are sent at your own risk. Once sent the book becomes the property of The Bookbag.4 KB (827 words) - 16:39, 17 January 2021
- ..., '''Soul Catcher'' is a pacy, dramatic, thought-provoking and intelligent read. ...el C. White as he is also known), ''Soul Catcher'' has received very mixed reviews. According to the majority it's a 'love-it-or-hate-it' kind of book.4 KB (697 words) - 11:53, 19 March 2018
- ...Bookbag and any news from the site. We promise never to pass your details on to anyone else. In fact... we won't even tell each other. == March's News from Bookbag Towers ==5 KB (878 words) - 16:30, 10 August 2020
- ...on't have an 'angle'. We're not looking to force feed you the latest books on the shelves. We're not tied to a particular genre. We're not interested in ...ssess them for what they are, not what they would like them to be. If word on the publishing street leads us to expect a book to be good and we are disap3 KB (587 words) - 12:00, 16 May 2018
- Book reviews are a crucial tool for the reading community — it’s via these that opin ...impression, I’ve got a few tips that might help. As an avid reader of book reviews, I’ve noticed that the ones that stay with me usually follow these three4 KB (736 words) - 12:38, 3 November 2021
- ...Bookbag and any news from the site. We promise never to pass your details on to anyone else. In fact... we won't even tell each other. == May's News from Bookbag Towers ==6 KB (1,024 words) - 16:38, 10 August 2020
- ...ticism and journalism, including travel writing, reviews and other writing on film and several pieces about Zadie Smith's family, and especially her fath ...rteen, and how it challenged her ideas of what good writing was. The essay on Middlemarch by George Eliot also made me want to dig out my copy. Other wri4 KB (624 words) - 13:14, 6 March 2018
- The investigation into the thefts of farm machinery has been going on for months and it's getting DI Tim Yates down: he can't see where to go nex ...ndalone: there's enough information to bring you up-to-date on what's gone on before but not so much that established readers are going to wonder why the3 KB (543 words) - 09:30, 5 October 2020
- ...Bookbag and any news from the site. We promise never to pass your details on to anyone else. In fact... we won't even tell each other. == May's News from Bookbag Towers ==7 KB (1,168 words) - 16:37, 10 August 2020
- |summary=A collection of essays, reviews and other short pieces (but only three poems) presented in a broadly autobi ...n=0571167055|title=Serious Concerns}} and her humorous poems tempted me to read some of the more serious content. I was smitten. Over the years I've foll3 KB (603 words) - 10:50, 26 February 2018
- ...than reading ''Perfumes'' would be to read it while sampling the scents it reviews, but even without the olfactory component, ''Perfumes'' is a delight: Turin The bulk of the book is made up of alphabetically listed reviews of scents: from 5th Avenue to Z Zegma, there are around two thousand scents6 KB (946 words) - 15:53, 26 September 2020
- ...Bookbag and any news from the site. We promise never to pass your details on to anyone else. In fact... we won't even tell each other. == October's News from Bookbag Towers ==4 KB (716 words) - 10:22, 8 November 2014
- ...Bookbag and any news from the site. We promise never to pass your details on to anyone else. In fact... we won't even tell each other. == April's News from Bookbag Towers ==5 KB (846 words) - 15:58, 10 August 2020
- ...Bookbag and any news from the site. We promise never to pass your details on to anyone else. In fact... we won't even tell each other. == July's News from Bookbag Towers ==6 KB (1,051 words) - 14:12, 22 August 2020
- ...creating havoc with the weather. A fast-paced fantasy-detective-chick lit read set in the near future with enough meat about climate change to set me thin ...pings of tongue-in-cheek humour and small portions of magic made it a good read for fantasy sceptics like me.4 KB (706 words) - 12:55, 13 March 2018
- ...ecommended but - be warned - you're almost certainly going to go back and read the three earlier books in the serries. ...resident of the town - will go to any lengths to hide its deadly secrets. On Pan Night, which follows the apple harvest, the town is effectively closed4 KB (655 words) - 15:43, 30 March 2024
- ...I'm afraid to say it was a big disappointment. Although Bookbag's previous reviews of his work hadn't been gushing, they had some positives. I was looking har ...The references feel shoe-horned in: characters say 'JPEG' when real people on the internet would simply say 'picture' or 'photo'. Admittedly that's withi3 KB (415 words) - 13:49, 5 March 2018
- |title=Don't Read This Book! ...nd enough to be [[Don't Read This Interview with Jill Lewis|interviewed by Bookbag]].5 KB (929 words) - 12:52, 11 October 2020
- |title=The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Elizabeth Speller * '''Bookbag: When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, who do you see?'''5 KB (940 words) - 11:19, 25 June 2011
- |title=How to be Well Read: A guide to 500 great novels and a handful of literary curiosities ...which I would have to read to ensure that I could think of myself as well read? No - I was going to find something far more useful and interesting.4 KB (721 words) - 12:47, 28 February 2018
- ...Bookbag and any news from the site. We promise never to pass your details on to anyone else. In fact... we won't even tell each other. == February's News from Bookbag Towers ==5 KB (889 words) - 16:23, 10 August 2020
- ...et's call it [http://www.thebookbag.co.uk The Bookbag]. In the early days Bookbag was for fun: it was rather like Everest. We did it because it ''could'' be ...we decided on MediaWiki but you can find out more about the thinking [[Why Bookbag Uses A Wiki|here]]. Only this time it wasn't me who built the site - it wa6 KB (1,077 words) - 12:24, 28 February 2018
- Still, the pressure of doing justice to a great read pales before the anxiety that runs up your spine when you have to review a ...yourself just yet! Undecided readers deserve a wide range of perspectives on whether this book is worth picking up — including yours. As long as you k6 KB (1,070 words) - 21:14, 27 December 2019
- |title=Give Me Everything You Have: On Being Stalked ...calls her Nasreen. He offered help over and above the course but Nasreen read a personal interest into this - which wasn't in any way reciprocated. An e3 KB (518 words) - 11:01, 7 April 2018
- ...ry beginning that there's a tragedy about to happen. On a January evening on a very crowded platform 3 of Waterloo Underground station a man falls under ...e is. She makes ''one'' mistake and she doesn't just pay for it, she goes on paying for it until she really doesn't know where to turn. She'd love to c4 KB (693 words) - 14:26, 19 November 2021
- ...rticularly as it's about Barbie Meek. To say that the two girls don't get on at all well is a bit of an understatement. Suzi wouldn't actually do anyth ...g (and lack of text justification) means that it's easy to keep your place on the page.3 KB (561 words) - 09:17, 15 June 2019
- ...thread to express themselves and through that to connect with others both on a personal and political level. Knauer is primarily an artist and craftsma ...or sleep. Hours later I was still lost in the book. It was fascinating to read the profiles and then to look at the images of their work through the lense3 KB (490 words) - 15:58, 14 September 2019
- |summary=Fast pace, twisty and very compelling. A good read. ...as secure as the inmates would have hoped and Mason is injured in a riot. On his way to hospital he's broken free by armed men and an offer is made to h3 KB (511 words) - 16:44, 11 August 2020
- ...ough to be [[The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Mark Stevenson|interviewed by Bookbag]]. ...ter Mark Stevenson, a stand up comic slash scientist. It's perhaps not the most familiar of combinations, but take the best bits of each and the result is4 KB (641 words) - 11:33, 4 September 2022
- ...ary=The sequel to [[Marsha's Deal by Laura Solomon|Marsha's Deal]] is best read in the order in which the books were written, but is another example of Lau ...no small-scale operation, either - the devil has set up a training complex on earth, complete with an elevator to Hell.3 KB (560 words) - 10:49, 19 July 2018
- ...Bookbag and any news from the site. We promise never to pass your details on to anyone else. In fact... we won't even tell each other. == July's News from Bookbag Towers ==5 KB (911 words) - 14:12, 22 August 2020
- ...dner|Never Tell]], but it can be read as a standalone and makes for a good read. ...were experienced in this type of rather gruesome work but they also called on the services of Keith Edgar, a computer analyst, and Flora Dane who brought4 KB (685 words) - 09:01, 12 August 2020
- ...Bookbag and any news from the site. We promise never to pass your details on to anyone else. In fact... we won't even tell each other. == October's News from Bookbag Towers ==8 KB (1,474 words) - 15:20, 22 August 2020
- ...What the title does not indicate is that the majority of the book focuses on the fiction and short story market. ...the Cheltenham Literature Festival, Adèle Ramet is well qualified to write on the subject.4 KB (588 words) - 11:15, 11 April 2018
- |title=The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Laura Lam * '''Bookbag: When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, who do you see?'''7 KB (1,277 words) - 17:24, 14 January 2013
- ...ng alcoholic - a fact known by everybody except Simon. He's concentrating on wanting another child to complete his family. His wife, Daisy, isn't worri ...ve got to rearrange all your thinking. I didn't know what really happened on that fateful night until the final page.3 KB (582 words) - 13:56, 21 October 2021
- ...sees Ridpath investigating a death at an Immigrant Removal Centre. A good read. ...s suicide. Her throat was cut, there was a lot of blood and the knife was on the floor at the side of the bed, She was due to be deported that day. Bu3 KB (568 words) - 12:48, 16 March 2020
- ...r Christmas any time soon and bikes cost a lot of money, which didn't grow on trees. His sister Lottie had a solution: Frank could help her with her pap ...g (and lack of text justification) means that it's easy to keep your place on the page.3 KB (504 words) - 12:46, 20 September 2020
- ...seems to be doing well, until two girls disappear, with suspicion falling on him. Decades earlier, Leon is left to run his family’s cake shop as his f ...rest in it for longer than 10 minutes or so at a time. For a comparison, I read [[We, the Drowned by Carsten Jensen|We, The Drowned]], which weighs in at w3 KB (530 words) - 12:59, 23 March 2018
- <!--'''Can You Write Book Reviews?''' ...o know what the reviewer thinks about the book and not just what's written on the back cover. People who can write in a knowledgeable but conversational4 KB (725 words) - 16:24, 18 August 2019
- ...little graphic (I'm a bit of a wuss, you know) but it was otherwise a good read. ...before Bart realises that he's alone, trapped in a shipping container and on his way to France, where his fate has already been decided.4 KB (606 words) - 07:46, 12 August 2020
- ...Bookbag and any news from the site. We promise never to pass your details on to anyone else. In fact... we won't even tell each other. == April's News from Bookbag Towers ==5 KB (938 words) - 16:03, 10 August 2020
- |title=Faulks on Fiction ...V series, but as a stand alone book, it is more one to be dipped into than read cover to cover.6 KB (1,100 words) - 10:54, 24 March 2018
- |summary=Penultimate instalment of this wonderful and original series. Bookbag is as addicted as ever. Blade is finished, but his enemy is just getting st ...t let him go. Blade is coming to the edge of his resources and he can't go on for much longer. He has done all he can to expose uber-villain Hawk - rescu3 KB (514 words) - 15:49, 8 March 2018
- ...is in actuality, a pleasant but incredibly light and schmaltzy plot-driven read. ...e other pejorative. Um... hello. Welcome to snobbish, jealous, mean-minded Bookbag. We didn't like ''The Kite Runner'', Khaled Hosseini's first book, and we d4 KB (677 words) - 09:00, 11 August 2020
- |title=The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Stefan Bachmann ...year Stefan gave us some [[:Category:Reviewed by Stefan Bachmann|wonderful reviews]]. We're not surprised that he has a deal with a major publisher but we ar7 KB (1,284 words) - 14:20, 8 November 2012
- |title=The Interview: Bookbag Talks To K S Turner |summary=Bookbag thinks that Kate Turner's [[Before the Gods (Chronicles of Fate and Choice)9 KB (1,572 words) - 16:45, 21 December 2009
