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  • [[Category:Author|MacDonald-Ross, Phyll]] [[Category:Author|Roberts, I D]]
    1 member (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 18:22, 2 September 2015
  • [[Category:Author|Rosen, Michael]] [[Category:Author|Ross, Tony]]
    1 member (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 15:27, 21 January 2014
  • [[Category:Author|Usher, Sam]]
    7 members (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 10:07, 8 March 2017
  • [[Category:Author|Stashower, Daniel]]
    1 member (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 12:43, 24 April 2012
  • [[Category:Author|Clements, Rory]]
    4 members (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 10:37, 15 May 2011
  • [[category:Author|Goldblatt, David]]
    1 member (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 10:28, 12 July 2016
  • [[category:Author|Young, Selina]]
    2 members (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 10:31, 12 July 2016
  • [[Category:Author|Churchwell, Sarah]]
    1 member (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 09:53, 4 January 2015
  • [[category:Author|Jonsson, Ulrika]]
    1 member (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 12:55, 1 September 2011
  • [[Category:Author|Patrick, Den]]
    3 members (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 14:18, 19 March 2014
  • [[Category:Author|Chadwick, Sara]]
    1 member (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 12:51, 7 February 2020
  • [[category:Author|Acton, Johnny]]
    1 member (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 10:28, 12 July 2016
  • [[Category:Author|Green, Matthew]]
    2 members (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 07:20, 18 February 2012
  • [[Category:Author|Fletcher, John]]
    1 member (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 13:08, 29 August 2020
  • [[Category:Author|Huddleston, Tom]]
    1 member (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 10:27, 8 September 2013
  • [[Category:Author|Jubber, Nicholas]]
    1 member (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 17:09, 1 March 2010
  • [[Category:Author|Kolczynski, Adam]]
    1 member (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 17:03, 4 November 2010
  • [[Category:Author|Abbot, Judi]]
    4 members (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 10:06, 12 July 2016
  • [[Category:Author|Ogawa, Yoko]]
    3 members (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 17:18, 13 March 2010
  • [[Category:Author|Bartlett, Rosamund]]
    1 member (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 12:59, 11 November 2010
  • [[category:Author|Simons.Jake Wallis]]
    1 member (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 18:40, 1 February 2011
  • [[Category:Author|Moers, Walter]]
    2 members (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 16:53, 24 October 2009
  • [[Category:Author|Hammett, Dashiell]]
    1 member (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 21:12, 18 November 2012
  • [[Category:Author|Barnett, Mac]]
    5 members (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 12:26, 28 May 2017
  • [[Category:Author|Keilty, Derek]]
    4 members (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 16:02, 23 January 2011
  • [[Category:Author|Powell, Margaret]]
    2 members (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 11:30, 20 March 2011
  • [[Category:Author|Donaghy, Sandy]]
    2 members (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 11:26, 21 October 2010
  • [[Category:Author|Strachan, Bernadette]]
    1 member (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 12:20, 6 November 2010
  • [[category:Author|Pollen, Bella]]
    1 member (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 17:12, 7 June 2011
  • [[Category:Author|Garnier, Pascal]]
    4 members (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 10:47, 24 May 2017
  • [[Category:Author|Wilson, Ada]]
    1 member (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 07:41, 18 February 2012
  • [[Category:Author|Dilger, Mike]]
    1 member (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 10:16, 23 November 2012
  • [[Category:Author|Miller, Geoffrey]]
    1 member (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 17:22, 26 July 2010
  • [[Category:Author|Fulton, Julie]]
    5 members (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 10:57, 27 April 2016
  • [[Category:Author|Backderf, Derf]]
    2 members (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 12:45, 6 December 2011
  • [[Category:Author|Spalding, Linda]]
    1 member (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 13:53, 30 October 2013
  • [[Category:Author|Suarez, Daniel]]
    4 members (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 18:37, 7 February 2010
  • [[Category:Author|Haslam, Nicky]]
    1 member (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 16:41, 4 November 2010
  • [[category:Author|Acton, Sara]]
    2 members (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 10:29, 12 July 2016
  • [[Category:Author|Parker, Dorothy]]
    1 member (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 09:42, 15 February 2011
  • [[Category:Author|Scott, Jeff]]
    2 members (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 10:31, 12 July 2016
  • [[Category:Author|Davies, Benji]]
    8 members (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 14:40, 1 September 2016
  • [[Category:Author|Sif, Birgitta]]
    1 member (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 11:02, 30 May 2017
  • [[Category:Author|Oppenheimer, Paul]]
    1 member (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 11:47, 6 November 2011
  • [[Category:Author|Tolstoy, Leo]]
    1 member (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 17:48, 5 February 2016
  • [[Category:Author|Adams, Rachael]]
    1 member (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 10:32, 12 July 2016
  • [[Category:Author|Davies, Graham]]
    1 member (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 16:20, 2 October 2010
  • [[Category:Author|Clark, George Makana]]
    1 member (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 14:00, 20 March 2011
  • [[Category:Author|Schmitt, Eric-Emmanuel]]
    1 member (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 08:51, 11 January 2012
  • [[category:Author|Njoku-Latty, Chima]]
    0 members (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 14:13, 18 June 2011
  • [[Category:Author|Chesterton, G K]]
    3 members (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 11:27, 1 May 2016
  • [[Category:Author|Fraser's Autographs]]
    1 member (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 13:40, 4 February 2010
  • [[category:Author|Eng, Tan Twan]]
    1 member (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 17:43, 27 February 2012
  • [[Category:Author|Clark, Mary Higgins]]
    7 members (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 12:44, 16 December 2016
  • Reviews sorted by author
    11,444 members (11,443 subcategories, 0 files) - 14:43, 1 January 2013
  • [[Category:Author|Rio, Tania del]]
    2 members (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 16:52, 26 January 2017
  • [[Category:Author|Chadwick, David]]
    2 members (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 13:25, 7 July 2023
  • Crime author best known for the Inspector Rebus series.
    18 members (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 17:03, 24 October 2009
  • David Rose, author of [[They Call Me Naughty Lola by David Rose (Writer of Humour)|They Call M David Rose, author of [[Posthumous Stories by David Rose (writer of short stories)|Posthumous
    1 member (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 15:16, 25 November 2013
  • David Rose, author of [[They Call Me Naughty Lola by David Rose (Writer of Humour)|They Call M David Rose, author of [[Posthumous Stories by David Rose (writer of short stories)|Posthumous
    1 member (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 14:59, 25 November 2013
  • |author=Patrick Ness |author=Meg Rosoff
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  • ...ster degree in Nutritional Science from the University of Connecticut. The author had her nutrition internship at Children's Hospital, Los Angeles, and at UC ...r books, she uses a style of writing that is simple and direct. She is the author of "A Food Guide to Lowering Blood Pressure: 6 Simple Steps" and "A Food Gu
    1 member (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 15:10, 2 August 2017
  • [[Category:Authors|Quammen (Author and Editor), David]]
    1 member (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 17:03, 24 October 2009
  • '''Books are sorted alphabetically by author'''<!-- <amazonuk></amazonuk> <!-- --> ''When requesting books it helps if you give the title '''and''' the author's name''.
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  • [[The Land of Stories: An Author's Odyssey by Chris Colfer|An Author's Odyssey]] (2016)
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  • Tony Stuart is the author and editor of ''Writing Lines''. He lives in Kent, London, England.
    1 member (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 16:32, 15 October 2016
  • Renowned for her genre-mixing prowess, this captivating author expertly crafts empowering narratives that exude strength, love, and celebr
    1 member (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 12:31, 19 October 2023
  • The author has previously written two books as [[:Category:Jem Vanston|JEM VANSTON]] c As well as writing books, the author also writes songs, including COME ON WALES, by Little Red Dragons, a charit
    2 members (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 10:13, 9 November 2016
  • The author has previously written two books as Jem Vanston called A CAT CALLED DOG (20 As well as writing books, the author also writes songs, including COME ON WALES, by Little Red Dragons, a charit
    3 members (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 14:54, 6 August 2020
  • [[Category:Author|Smith, Ritchie Valentine]] ...once on the BBC ‘New Talent’ programme, once a college lecturer, he is the author of three 90s thrillers, 'Fortune', 'Winning' and 'Risk', and remains of mem
    3 members (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 11:28, 1 September 2016
  • |author=Vladimir Alexandrov |author=Kristine Barnett
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  • If you're looking for this author's books for children, he's [[:Category:Darren Shan|here]].
    1 member (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 17:03, 24 October 2009
  • If you're looking for this author's books for adults, he's [[:Category:D B Shan|here]].
    23 members (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 17:03, 24 October 2009
  • |author= Amos Oz ...are simply stories created in the mind of the Author. We are told that the Author writes as a way of overcoming a fear of physical contact, a way to get to k
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  • Michael Foreman is both an author and an illustrator for other authors.
    27 members (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 16:52, 24 October 2009
  • If you're looking for Teen or Young Adult books by this author you'll find them under [[:Category:lili St Crow|Lili St Crow]]
    5 members (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 17:04, 24 October 2009
  • ...from Hull University. He currently lives in Sutton, Surrey. He is also the author of Kingdom Come.
    1 member (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 08:24, 20 December 2017
  • |author=Nick Lake |author=Margo Lanagan
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  • ...a mixture of future classics and lighter books - in alphabetical order by author. |author=Sophia Bennett
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  • Greg Hickey is the author of the dystopian fiction novel ''{{amazonurl|isbn=B06XXNRYLG|title=Our Drie
    1 member (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 10:03, 9 February 2019
  • ...story is like a song where the words sing from the page as intended by the author, no matter who the reader is. ...ld that his books are brilliant, being told that he is a child's favourite author, or best of all, reading to over 100 wide-eyed, silently enthralled childre
    5 members (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 19:13, 10 September 2019
  • [[image:Anthony Cookson (author).jpg|left]] The author has seen the positive roles played by migrants from the Caribbean and other
    1 member (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 08:43, 2 January 2019
  • |author=Bernard Beckett |author=Sally Gardner
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  • '''About the Author:''' William Frank, an author of eight books of poetry and one charming little novel, ([[The Grave Listen
    1 member (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 07:44, 4 June 2023
  • |author=Anthony Trevelyan ...the ordinary, ''Claudia'' is an impressive sophomore novel from a skilled author
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  • |author=Frank Cottrell Boyce |author=Aidan Chambers
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  • |author=Liam Klenk ...ntly educates on the subject of gender dysphoria, and, above all else, the author's attitude and nature shine throughout, making this a hopeful and mood enha
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  • |author=Laurie Halse Anderson |author=Philip Reeve
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  • |author=Christopher de Bellaigue |author=Jung Chang
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  • |author=John Grisham John Grisham is not an author I have previously read. I understand that his novels are primarily legal or
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  • |author=Sebastian Barry |author=Sadie Jones
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  • |author= Laura Solomon ...in ''Dying Matters'', the narrator is named 'Laura', the same name as the author, and I think this is a piece of non-fiction memoir which would come under t
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  • |author=Elizabeth Fremantle |author=Elisabeth Gifford
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  • |author=Scarlett Thomas ...creates the author's thoughts in your own mind. So are you not reading the author's mind? Isn't that telepathy?
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  • |author=John Irving ...ctive characters, such as Six Pack Pam, and the other unusual women in the author's life, and the bittersweet tragi-comic sensibility that runs throughout, a
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  • |author=Philippa Gregory |author=Kate Clanchy
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  • |author=Sarah Lyall |author=Bill Bryson
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  • |author=Chris Higgins |author=Shiro Ihara
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  • ...s this year - and here's a selection of the best, in alphabetical order by author: |author=Ben Aaronovitch
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  • |author=Paul Dowswell |author=Neil Gaiman
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  • |author=Linzi Glass |author=Margaret Mahy
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  • |author=John Dickinson |author=Robert Williams
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  • |author= Melanie Watt ...ad of the initially intended story we had a tale of a struggle between the author and the animal.
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  • |author=Clive Barker |author=George R R Martin
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  • |author=Emily Gravett |author=Nick Butterworth
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  • |author= Lorin Morgan-Richards ...gods offered this for me to review. Everything here has been done by the author - the binding, in veggie-friendly 'leather', the artwork, the decision to l
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  • ...me is the first in a trilogy, a fascinating historical biography about the author's great-great-grandmother, [[Sarah Valentine, No Great Expectations Part 1
    1 member (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 09:27, 4 October 2020
  • |author=Michelle Harrison |author=Ceci Jenkinson
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  • |author= Ronan Smith ...or, more usually, simply ''the Rams''. You'll find it unnerving that the author speaks of his other self in the third person - and that's before we get to
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  • |author=Kate Atkinson |author=Leonid Borodin
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  • |author=Neal Shusterman |author=Patrick Ness
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  • |author= Morris Gleitzman ...s review, that you would be hard pushed to confuse this book with the same author's [[Once by Morris Gleitzman|Holocaust stories]], but as it begins with an
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  • |author=Sebastian Barry |author=Tom Rob Smith
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  • |author=Hilary Mantel |author=A S Byatt
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  • |author=Khaled Hosseini |author=Danny Scheinmann
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  • |author=Howard Jacobson |author=Peter Carey
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  • |author=Tadg Farrington |author=Michael Marr
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  • ...Born in southeastern Turkey, he has lived in Sweden since the 1980s. He is author of The Labyrinth of the Jinns, At the Church, Mother's Breasts, and Tonight
    1 member (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 15:52, 28 August 2017
  • |author=Erlend Loe ...this book with [[Doppler by Erlend Loe|the previous one]] I read from this author, as they have very different audiences. But both have a warm heart, brevit
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  • |author=Jami Attenberg |author=Suzanne Bugler
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  • |author= Erica James ...ut down but I certainly wouldn't be adverse to reading another by the same author either.
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  • You may be looking for the [[:Category:Jill Murphy|author of the same name]] who wrote the [[The Worst Witch to the Rescue|Worst Witc
    1,575 members (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 12:45, 6 December 2017
  • |author=Alexandra Christo ...yed reading it a lot, the story was fast paced and I liked the balance the author created between the familiar fairy tale and a new take. That being said, th
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  • |author=Stephenie Meyer |author=Richard Matheson
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  • |author=Magda Szubanski ...pportive father who just happened to be an assassin during the war, to the author's childhood as an immigrant in Australia, coming to terms with her sexualit
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  • |author=John Freeman ...And then it's on to the conversation with the author, occasionally in the author's home but more usually in the publisher or editor's office or a hotel. Bu
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  • |author=Dyan Sheldon |author=Mary Hogan
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  • |author=Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg ...set up – who doesn’t love it when a team member is called ''Brains''? The author enlivens the characters in unusual and refreshing ways; for example, Anna-G
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  • |author=Patricia Watkins |summary=A lightly-fictionalised telling of the story of the author's great-great-great grandfather, but don't worry this story deserves to be
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  • |author=J R R Tolkien ...ritten by a famous name as a private exercise for their children, with the author's own illustrations. It would feature a title character, with a typical Ed
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  • |author=Robert Temple ...ions that existed alongside each other in different parts of Egypt. If the author is correct in all of his assertions then it would certainly
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  • |author=Caroline Jayne Church |author=Mara Bergman and Nick Maland
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  • AJ Lewis is the pen name of a translator and author of fiction born and educated in New England who left the United States as a
    2 members (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 10:03, 13 July 2023
  • Joss Langford is an engineer, scientist, author and proven business leader. He has published academic papers, created award Joss is co-author of ''Data to Life'' exploring the integration of digital technologies into
    1 member (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 14:50, 20 February 2018
  • |author=Margaret Muir ...cret assignment to the Southern Ocean. The story moves at a good pace. The author never dawdles on one scene for too long or gets bogged down. There were a f
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  • |author=Maurice Sendak |author=Judith Kerr
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  • |author=Ed Vere |author=Emily Gravett
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  • |author=Marcus Sedgwick |author=Daniel Waters
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  • ...to perfection. We've seen one of her reports and it was impressive. The author said that Cressida raised some vitally important points. ...d worldwide community to write in good company. Founded by a Booker-listed author, with one-to-one coaching with bestselling authors, feedback from publishin
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  • |author=Dorothy Dunnett |author=Julian Rathbone
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  • |author=Josh Lacey ...ircumstances, but still an adventure worth a look for the 9+ audience this author brings with him.
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  • |author=Ross Armstrong ...various goings on through her. Yet there is a slight distance between the author and the narrator, which, whilst in some cases would be a bad thing, works w
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  • |author=Kerstin Ekman |author=Graeme Sims
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  • |author= Andrew Davidson Journeying through his own particular Hell, the author encounters the enigmatic Marianne, who claims they were lovers many centuri
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  • |author=Tom Hodgkinson |author=Marshall Karp
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  • |author=P K Munroe ''Warning: well-known smartass author''
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  • |author= Nicola Sly ...cases from Bristol in her [[Bristol Murders by Nicola Sly|last book]], the author now does the same for largely rural yet not always idyllic Dorset. Twenty
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  • |author=Stevie Davies |author=Maggie O'Farrell
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  • |author=Tera Lynn Childs ...acters and a frustrating ending make this one hard to recommend. Given the author's excellent track record I'll be hoping book 2 is more satisfying.
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  • |author=Bobbie Darbyshire ...ng place there is the monthly book group meeting where this month romantic author Marjorie MacPherson is the guest speaker. Each character has their own part
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  • |author=Judy Heminsley |author=India Knight
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  • |author=Greg Gutfeld |author=Jim White
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  • |author=Jim Dodge |author=Richard Brautigan
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  • |author=Chuck Palahniuk |summary=Not quite the author's best, but putting a young, outspoken girl in hell and seeing what becomes
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  • |author=Chris Manby |author=Jill Mansell
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  • |author=Per Olov Enquist and Deborah Bragan-Turner (translator) ...autumn of his life, as does the man involved here. But being a well-known author, and being beholden to silence, can he really put his thoughts on paper? I
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  • |author=Lindsey Fraser ...influential, but through the unique position in the book industry that the author of this biography has, she is able to convey just how much Harry Potter sha
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  • |author=Adrian Tinniswood ...ere ready to plunder the cargo of ships. In this truly captivating account author Adrian Tinnisworth looks at these corsairs – focusing on Englishmen such
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  • |author= Susan Hill ...little memoir which serves the dual purpose of showing the reader what the author likes to read (and why), and also giving a few ideas of what we, the reader
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  • |author=Julian Barnes |author=Carol Birch
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  • ...hat his given name is real, we do not know where he lives, or his age. The author himself freely admits that he has ''issues'' distinguishing between fact an
    1 member (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 14:53, 20 August 2014
  • |author=Jose Saramago, J Borges, Nick Caistor (translator) and Lucia Caistor (trans ...Danielewski novel, despite and because of "House of Leaves". Still, this author, with his grasp of fable, in a short volume for children? I wouldn't be di
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  • |author=Daren King |author=Jill Lewis and Deborah Allwright
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  • |author=Alex Garland |author=Nicky Pellegrino
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  • |author=Jennifer Bohnet ...e book to check that my memory wasn't playing tricks. It wasn't. It's an author's job to get the story out – but it's the proof-reader or copy editor's j
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  • |author= David Vann ...thirteen and it's difficult not to draw conclusions from the fact that the author's father was James Vann and Roy's father was Jim Fenn.
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  • |author=Peter Gill ...Peter Gill takes 50 pages or so to look into the story of the book and the author and another 250 to find occurrences of 42 in the worlds of sport, crime, sc
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  • ...orly designed book cover, on the other hand, indicates to readers that the author does not care about the book, and that is not recommended. As a result, it ...is widely used by authors and is one of the most common. In this case, the author decides to create one unique design concept for the book cover and stick wi
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  • |author=Juan Jose Saer ...might look a little fusty with the press quote on the back, talking of the author's preoccupations, Borges and Cortazar (who he?), but this book can be read
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  • ...mail.com let me have details] of the books (including the title '''and the author's name''') which you feel you would enjoy and would like to review, in orde '''Books are sorted alphabetically by author''' <!-- <amazonuk></amazonuk> <!-- -->
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  • |author=Wes Stuart ...ing a vivid contrast from the wide eyed innocence of Sam, and allowing the author to blend his science fiction themes with some strong moments of horror.
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  • |author=Alex Butterworth ...Whether it's France, Russia, Switzerland, England or even America that the author is talking about he's clearly hugely
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  • |author=Tommy Wieringa |author=Giles Kristian
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  • |author=Brian Moses |summary=A new and selected collection from an author with a bright eye for a witty verse, as well as a more thoughtful thread.
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  • |author= Paula McGrath ...h's novel where I had that pleasant feeling of discovering a new, exciting author who was going to take me in a multitude of different directions. This feeli
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  • |author=Tania Hershman ...Such would appear to be the case here. The last time I read one of this author's collections, with [[The White Road by Tania Hershman|The White Road]], th
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  • |author=Angela Carter ...d with a revealing introduction by Salman Rushdie, who was a friend of the author.
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  • |author=German Sadulaev |summary=This book is about a passionate and proud Chechen (the author) even although the genre is fiction. The ravages of a war-torn people are
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  • |author=Shel Silverstein ...'t have to read it in a laconic, lazy American accent, as suggested by the author's derivation, but it might not hurt.
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  • |author= Laura Thompson On the face of it, one might ask whether an author who wrote book after book had time to do much else which is worthy of recog
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  • |author=Keren David ...eartstopping at times - but it has its own serious issues to raise, as the author skewers our attitudes to celebrity, friendship, sex, and gambling. As alway
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  • |author=Michael Harvey ...the rest, it fails to live up to the potential and the praise given to the author's first novel.
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  • |author=Emily Critchley ...I was intrigued by the plot, liked the design of the book, and thought the author's work sounded interesting. From the outset it all looked incredibly promis
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  • |title=The Land of Stories: An Author's Odyssey |sort=Land of Stories: An Author's Odyssey
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  • |author= Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow The author has worked hard to make this book readable, accessible and thorough in its
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  • |author=Gabe Riggs |summary= Raw emotion is matched by raw talent in this excellent debut from author Gabe Riggs. A memoir of survival, of trans youth and of strength, it's imme
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  • |author=Helen Dunmore ...in driving the story forward. This isn't an altogether bad thing when that author is someone of Dunmore's calibre, but I never felt caught up with Isabel's p
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  • |author= Billy Hopkins |summary= A lightly-fictionalised biography of the author's father brings to life the inner-city Manchester of the late nineteenth an
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  • When you first imagine becoming an author, the idea that you'll earn two dollars for every copy sold sounds terrific! But how is it any better as a self-published author?
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  • |author=Richard Harland |summary=Award-winning steampunk author Richard Harland has played with an intriguing concept and produced an atmos
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  • ...s an inspirational motivational speaker, trainer, well-being Master Coach, author, and television broadcaster. She draws upon her experiences to empower othe
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  • |author=Clive Gifford ...red in the several years its 90-day mission finally ran for. And with the author's intelligent design it's an easy thing to accept the paragraphs about spac
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  • |author=Dr Seuss ...n for magazines, a new collection may just work. Even for as eccentric an author as Dr Seuss.
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  • ...under of LTS International, a forestry consulting company, and is also the author of the textbook Making Forest Policy Work.
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  • |author=T H White |author=C S Lewis
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  • |author=Karen Joy Fowler |summary=An unfortunate introduction to a renowned author, or a surprise left-field pick of works by a major best-selling name, or a
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  • |author=Tania Hershman Much has been made of the author prodding at the world of science in inspiration for her stories here. I th
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  • |author=Dr Seuss ...Should I Get by Dr Seuss|What Pet Should I Get]] as neither represent the author's best work. We would like to have found [[How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
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  • |author=Elaine Everest The author was a former 'Woolworths Girl' herself, so the story is full of authentic t
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  • |author=Yrsa Sigurdardottir and Victoria Cribb (translator) ...get the sense this is just one case, one story, whereas the others of this author's I've read try their damnedest to interweave different narratives – or a
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  • |author=Donald Ray Pollock ...Knockemstiff by Donald Ray Pollock|book]] of that name, but as this is the author's first novel that must have been short stories. Anyway, it's a place you
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  • |author=Chuck Palahniuk ...tory bastardised yet again by Hollywood. But this again seems easy for an author such as this. Only at the halfway point is it we see the ultimate balance
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  • ...U), or to see the experiences that shaped everyone's favourite children's author. These are our favourite biographies. Why not [mailto:sue@thebookbag.co.uk |author=Peter Godwin
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  • |author=Andrew Cartmel ...ater on in the book. Perhaps Cordelia is just a work in progress, and the author is still finding his feet with her too.
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  • |author=Chris Womersley ...n strongly considered, but that's never on show; vocab, tricksiness or the author's bravura are never shoved down our throats.
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  • |author= Robin Cook ...a surprise. It doesn't signify anything much, though it does point-up the author's lack of engagement in any real human-interest angle.
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  • |author=Anne Morddel ...Cross by Anne Morddel]]. The inspiration for the book came about when the author worked as a librarian at a school in the state of Paranã in Brazil. In tr
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  • |author=Grady Hendrix ...ludicrous, no cover art too appalling, no evil too despicable. Now horror author Grady Hendrix risks his soul and his sanity (not to mention the reader's!)
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  • |author=John Banks ...fly, all have compelling stories to tell. They're a strange group, but the author ensures that they're engaging - allowing the reader to swiftly form empathi
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  • |author=Clare Morrall Clare Morrall is a Birmingham based author and music teacher - known for novels such as ''Astonishing Splashes of Colo
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  • |author=William Steig ...suggest, and a real craft behind the story, which engages throughout. The author's own illustrations are appealing, meaning the whole package is a great way
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  • |author=Angie Stanton |summary=Enjoyable time-travel romance with a root in the author's real family history. Nicely told with a mystery to fathom.
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  • |author=Patrick Humphries ...new here. Even the quotes given by Waits (mostly to people other than the author) are continually recycled. It lacks the style and wit of its subject. When
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  • |author=Josh Lacey ...edutainment style. They may serve to delay some reveals, but just as the author's Grk books under his other name of [[:Category:Joshua Doder|Joshua Doder]]
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  • |author=James Forrester ...' in doublet and hose. To begin with 'James Forrester' is the pen name of author and historian [[:Category:Ian Mortimer|Ian Mortimer]], one of our foremost
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  • |author=Daniel Polansky ...eating the intricate world in which these characters live, and it's to the author's credit that this doesn't become dull. The characters are well depicted an
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  • |author=Ben Okri ...erately crafted, giving the reader the feeling that they need to crack the author's code. It is full of paradoxes as well as poignant ideas that almost every
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  • |author=Jean Ure ...l sure that nothing can go wrong but when they finally meet the celebrated author Megan has an uneasy feeling that all is not as it seems. Should she have li
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  • |author=Marco North ...rom succinct and laconic to wistful and musing, turning on a sixpence. And author Marco North, who has the most wonderful turn of phrase, starts as he means
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  • |author= Francesca Simon ...actly expect our heroine to be a cheery little soul, would you? Unlike the author's other stories based on Norse legends, which manage to find light-hearted
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  • |author=Asa Jones Normally, when I read a book with such a variety of themes I wonder if the author had really made up his mind what he was aiming for and threw everything int
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  • |author=Kiran Millwood Hargrave ...s a brilliant second novel which carries the same magic and emotion as the author's debut.
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  • |author=Gervase Phinn ...n or enjoys the funny things that they often say. I certainly enjoyed the author's style and will be seeking out his previous books for more stories.
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  • |author= Margot Berwin ...ave never really wanted to change that fact, but though I didn't share the author's fascination initially, by the end of the book I was hooked.
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  • |author=Woody Guthrie and Kathy Jakobsen |author=Rick Bragg
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  • |author=Gemma Merino ...really well, and I feel like I'm going to be looking out for anything this author does in the future because I enjoyed this one so much.
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  • |author=Susie Day ...r friend Dot, she'll be by herself. But now that her mum is a best selling author, things are changing, and Pea and her sisters Clover and Tinkerbell will ha
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  • |author=Laura Solomon |summary=A welcome reissue of a book written when the author was twenty one. It's not an easy read: you'll need to concentrate to follo
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  • |author=Chris Bohjalian ...d myself longing to read the next : I'm a recent convert to this wonderful author but have every intention of reading all his work - numbering nine to date.
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  • |author=T J Armstrong ...fantasy with a modern day twist, its ingredients include something of the author in its inclusion of music and languages.
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  • |author=Tom Grass |website=http://www.lbabooks.com/author/tom-grass/
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  • |author=Claire North ...Touch'', and ''The Sudden Appearance of Hope''. North is a hugely creative author – her ideas are always startlingly original, and feature gripping, twisti
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  • |author=Jesse Bullington |summary=After a lapse with his sophomore attempt, this is a return to this author's bizarre, ribald pseudo-fantasy adventures.
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  • |author=Anthony Marson ...n. It was good to know - for once - that I was on the same footing as the author and we could explore together.
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  • |author=Howard Andrew Jones ...a bit more blood). The result of this grown up eastern nostalgia won the author a place on the prestigious Barnes and Noble list for Best Fantasy Releases
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  • ...riting for his book ''What is the Point of Being a Christian?'' He was the author of the Archbishop of Canterbury's 2009 Lent Book ''Why Go to Church?'' He l
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  • |author=Duff Hart-Davis ...n adventure and the works of WE Johns is this is all completely true, with author Duff Hart-Davis taking over the writing of the book from Johnson's second i
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  • |author=Vasily Grossman ...oviet experiment, this travel journalism has a very personal touch from an author you may well feel like reading more of.
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  • |author=Anthony James ...his major published works, occupying about two-thirds of the book. In the author's words, it is intended as a personal view of Bronowski as a philosopher.
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  • |author=Rachel Joyce |summary=The second novel from the author who brought us the wonderful [[The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rac
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  • |author= Jen Black ...aider/Viking's fiancee. Whilst in itself an intriguing scenario, sadly the author labours the point at great length, with everything being referred back to '
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  • |author= Geraldine McCaughrean and David Wyatt |summary= An abridged version of the author's sanctioned sequel to the original ''Peter Pan'' will delight children of
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  • |author=Alex Pavesi ...rough the stories for any inconsistencies and find out something about the author for publicity purposes.
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  • ...and on to author in my thirties. To be fair I have always wanted to be an author, but as with a lot of things, life gets in the way. ...ttp://www.goodreads.com/akhill Goodreads], [http://www.facebook.com/akhill.author Facebook] and [https://twitter.com/hill_ak Twitter]
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  • |author= Keith Watson ...port Hansard] at the time to get the feeling that all was not being told. Author Keith Watson was one of the soldiers in the barn.
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  • |author=Giles Paley-Phillips and Liz Pichon [[The Fearsome Beastie by Giles Paley-Phillips|The Fearsome Beastie]] is the author's earlier, award-winning work. Check it out!
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  • Graeme K Talboys is the author of [[Stealing Into Winter: being the first adventure from the chronicles of
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  • |author=B A Paris ...g is wild and absorbing, and the ending hugely satisfying much like in the author's previous hit [[Behind Closed Doors by B A Paris|Behind Closed Doors]]
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  • |author=Dave Angell There are huge gaps in this, huge problems with what the author was trying to achieve and huge issues with who the intended audience for th
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  • Annette Mark is the pen name for a husband and wife author team. Annette, a caterer by profession, was born in a small German village.
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  • |author=Emily Gravett More rabbit fun can be found in the author's earlier work, [[The Rabbit Problem by Emily Gravett|The Rabbit Problem]]
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  • |author=Kate Mayfield ...ndertaker in a small, segregated town in the American South. She is the co-author of two additional non-fiction books, and is a graduate of both Western Kent
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  • |author=Clare Clark ...ll Light of the Sun'', with the three lead characters of the book allowing author Clark to explore different aspects of this glamourous, dirty, exciting, dan
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  • |author= Benedict Rogers ...wees to tell their untold stories and make their cries for help heard. The author's expertise shines bright throughout the material covered: a brief history
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  • |author=Phillip Lewis ...ppropriateness or pacing. No such problems here though – one can sense the author's careful hand on this book, guiding the words and phrases into forms and s
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  • |author=Miha Mazzini ...hat's mostly because of the bullet-point long paragraphs and concision the author's foreword provides a very individual excuse for. I dare say it's also qui
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  • |author=Arthur Plotnik ...this book. I would go so far as to say that you are a frigorifically cool author.
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  • |author=Geert Mak ...enough for the comparisons to spring up as Mak began to retrace the older author's steps. Fifty years is a long time, and a lot has changed, some things goo
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  • ...tration from Oxford Brookes University and prior to becoming a bestselling author was an award-winning restauranteur. He began his career writing film screen
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  • |author=Katherine Longshore ...sses that she took some liberties with events for the sake of story in her Author's Note, but otherwise the evocation of the Tudor age is compelling and deta
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  • |author=David Laws |summary=There are once again old school flavours to this author's thrillers. It will date quicker than those Millennium Bug warning leafle
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  • |author= Sophie Cooke |summary= The second novel from award winning author Sophie Cooke examines the events of one short, claustrophobic summer in the
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  • |author=Mo Willems ...positive, but because it's uninspired and mushy. I had a feeling that the author enjoyed doing the monsters and screeching kid a lot, and then, after Leonar
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  • |author=Geraldo Valerio ...nstances amongst books for the young where the titular ''My'' is still the author's, and not the reader's. It's not truly ''my'' book of birds, unless my na
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  • |author=Michael Morpurgo and Shoo Rayner ...rm series that there seems to be a wee bit of confusion on the part of the author in terms of continuity and this continues here. I suspect that the editors
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  • |author=Johan Minto ...aldry, history and even semaphore, which dates back to ancient times. The author's research was obviously thorough and a love of some of our great religious
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  • He is the author of [[The Creative Writer for the Creative Newspaper by Terence J Fry|The Cr
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  • |author=Cathy Hopkins ...l character and strong friendships, this is another winner from a fabulous author.
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  • |author=Gamelyn Chase ...reading a book by French author Roger Peyrefitte, ''Special Friendships'', author Gamelyn Chase found himself admiring the strong prose and interesting setti
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  • |author=Roman Dirge ...stantial enough to make you love them, but at least will remind you of the author's macabre sense of life.
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  • |author=Dinah Jefferies ...again, despite having been told that she is missing and presumed dead. The author cleverly alternates the two stories, which creates a refreshing contrast as
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  • |author=Paula Daly ...ternal person, so it wasn't the title. I didn't recognise the name of the author. It was a recommendation from [[:Category:Elizabeth Haynes|Elizabeth Hayne
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  • The author, Mary Biles, did a fantastic job with this book. It's quite easy to read an Author: Marry Jane Team
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  • |author=Etgar Keret |summary=A good collection of stories from Israel, if you gel with the author's open-endedness and sense of humour.
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  • |author=Pasi Ilmari Jaaskelainen ...s who were hand selected and mentored from childhood by Finland’s greatest author (Laura White) to become literary icons in their own right. There weere alwa
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  • |author=Jeffrey Dunn ...You long for them all to come together... and eventually, they do. And the author's deep, intimate understanding of the Olympic Peninsula ties them all toget
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  • |author=Chris Colfer ...nd of Stories: An Author's Odyssey by Chris Colfer|The Land of Stories: An Author's Odyssey]] left us dangling on an almighty cliffhanger, as well as leaving
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  • |author=Cornelius Medvei This is a big novel, disguised as a small book, about love. Even with the author's arch humour there is nothing crude suggested in the relationship between
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  • |author=Ross Welford ...the making, with this sophomore effort really proving the benefits of this author's talents.
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  • |author=Luke Williams ...British Empire where sounds echo through time. An original story by a new author.
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  • |author=John Mullan ...r reading it does require concentration. Nonetheless it does seem that the author has pulled off a first, for nobody else appears to have attempted a work of
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  • ...solicitors, Mishcon de Reya, and a polymath. He is not only an established author but a lawyer, a businessman, and a political and constitutional campaigner,
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  • |author= Juan-Tomas Avila Laurel ...ila Laurel, one of Equatorial Guinea's best-known dissident writers, is an author who deserves to be read the world over. With The Gurugu Pledge, he's captur
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  • |author=T K Williams-Nelson ...creative individuals who have a story to tell become our role models. The author sets great store by the careful management of money: every penny counts fro
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  • |author=Frederic Dard and Louise Rogers Lalaurie (translator) ...riller writer's consummate ease in making things escalate, and the general author's ability with character to make us like Jean-Marie, even considering how s
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  • |author=Gemma Merino ...o a wonderful story, the illustrations are really exceptional as well. The author/illustrator has a real gift for capturing emotion in the expression of the
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  • |author=Oliver Jeffers |summary=A beautifully illustrated book by prize-winning author Oliver Jeffers, this is a quirky but thought provoking read about ownership
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  • |author=Frederic Beigbeder and Frank Wynne (translator) ...that's the extent of my mid-life crisis, I guess I have to be happy. Our author here doesn't use that exact phrase, but he might be said to be living one.
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  • |author=Stephan Santiago |summary=The author shares ways in which to ensure an effective soul journey in language that t
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  • |author=Kari Hotakainen and Owen F Witesman (translator) ...agrees only after a fee increase and so their regular meetings begin. The author gets a story and Salme unloads her past and present onto this stranger. Me
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  • |author=John Gordon ...g a long book does in only a fraction of the words, and though it takes an author of the highest calibre to pull off a feat like that, John Gordon manages wo
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  • |author=Chris Womersley ...book much effusive praise, and certainly nothing like what I felt for the author's last book, [[Bereft by Chris Womersley|Bereft]]. Having read both his no
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  • |title=Letters to the Midwife: Correspondence with the author of ''Call the Midwife'' |author=Jennifer Worth
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  • Steven Ramirez is the author of the acclaimed horror thriller series ''Tell Me When I’m Dead''. A form
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  • |author=Lun Zhang, Adrien Gombeaud, Ameziane and Edward Gauvin (translator) ...agree with the foreword, that this is not an autobiography, neither of its author nor his ''fictional twin''. But it's by no means a worthy, wordy backgroun
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  • |author=Jennifer Gray ...and mite guns. I would suggest that is why [[:Category:Jennifer Gray|the author]] has chosen to highlight character, so that the birds all respond in their
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  • Terry John Barto is an award winning author of Gollywood, Here I Come, Nickerbacher, The Funniest Dragon and most recen
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  • |author=Denis O'Connor ...ks at Owl Cottage' is the story of four pedigree Maine Coon cats which the author and his wife acquired after moving back to a cottage where they had previou
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  • |author=Ted Chiang ...iang includes his short stories first, and then afterwards he includes his author's story notes. This was fascinating. Personally, I chose to read the book a
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  • |author=Frank English ...wo brothers go through some uncomfortable and frightening experiences. The author clearly has a vivid imagination, and he has created some memorable characte
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  • |author= Sophie Duffy I felt that the novel might have been more interesting if the author had chosen to portray it from more than one character's viewpoint – parti
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  • |author=A S Byatt ...minism, Fabianism and anarchism, it is highly readable and accessible. The author's stance is that this was a unique time for children in the UK, freed from
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  • |author= Justin Cartwright ...d his children have to get on with life. Sounds simple and boring, but the author's skill makes this a rare insightful and unputdownable story about human na
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  • |author=Kim Staflund |summary=A wide-ranging look at the issues which a self-publishing author needs to consider in a compact and readable volume. Kim Staflund popped int
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  • |author=Alice Sebold ...y. A brutal, harrowing glimpse into a traumatic, life-shaping event in the author's past.
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  • |author=Maile Meloy ...uthor to get away with what she makes the children undergo. I did see the author speed through the bit where camera crews descend on a remote location to re
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  • |author= Katherine May ...ehow blend with Violet's voice, as I did like the concept. It was like the author was making an appearance, a welcome if a little clumsy addition.
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  • |author=Matt Dickinson ...brought to existence by the actions of each individual character, and the author does a great job of conveying them.
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  • |author=Philippe Claudel and Euan Cameron It's clearly a sign of a great author, then. You can forgive the simplicity of what has gone before, ignore the
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  • |author=Helen Phillips ...ey're not specifically genre works – they're just further examples of this author's unsettling look at the bizarre elements of life.
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  • |author=Haley Tanner ...th a young boy and then later when he is an older teenager, and I felt the author managed to make him grow up convincingly - he still felt like the same pers
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  • |author= George Dawes Green ...r to be, but a lot more besides. In trying to leap such a high hurdle the author does knock his knees a little, but this does read well.
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  • |author= James Fitzsimmons I had many reasons to laud this author's debut, [[Journey to Mailcann by James Fitzsimmons|Journey to Mailcann]] -
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  • |author=Diane Messidoro ...se this really made me wonder about her as a character. In fairness to the author, I should mention that the ending to this subplot is obviously meant to mak
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  • |author=Walter Moers |summary=A further example of this author's singular, stylish, alternative fantasy, as a young creature signs his lif
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  • |author=Diccon Bewes ...per country for us to likewise fall in love with. Still, all power to the author's elbow, as regardless of any other journalism he has produced from explori
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  • |author=Sue Welfare ...way that alternate chapters switched between the present and the past. The author cleverly reveals things that occurred in the past that the reader knows wil
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  • |author= Tracy Borman ...nd the faults are painted just as vividly as the virtues. Add to that the author's vivid portrayal of the colourful Elizabethan court, its splendours and it
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  • |author=Melissa Hill ...dd a sprinkling of romance for the girls in the form of a charming English author and a lovelorn handyman, and the result is an uplifting tale to warm the he
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  • ...specialises in writing and speaking about enterprise. As an award winning author he has written several books which span both fiction and non-fiction genres ...and writing partner of 25 years, Clare Francis. Leonora Soculitherz is the author credited with writing ‘Stripping for Freedom’, which is now in its’ s
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  • |author=Adriaan Verheul ...ng tale packed full of fateful decisions and terrible consequences, Due to author Adriaan Verheul’s past as a UN Peacekeeper, ''A Clean Death'' has roots i
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  • |author=Christopher Golden ...lightest shred of belief in ghosts or the supernatural, so it takes a good author to allow me to suspend my disbelief and immerse myself in the story. I don'
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  • |author=Kate Costelloe ...ting style and I love the four characters who form the Breakfast Club. The author did a great job of fleshing them all out well - although Billie, as the cen
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  • |author=Jackie Morris We seriously enjoyed the author's more recent [[Song of the Golden Hare by Jackie Morris|Song of the Golden
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  • |author=Rosemary Aitken ...nwall around the turn of the 20th century, written by Rosemary Aitken - an author I had not previously come across.
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  • |author=Miri Flower ...y days and dark evenings, heralding the inevitable cry of: ''I'm bored!''. Author and craft-blogger Miri Flower (fantastic name!) comes to the rescue of hara
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  • |author=Chris Columbus and Ned Vizzini ...pooky Kristoff House, a strange place once occupied by a disturbed fantasy author. Soon after they move in, they realise that their arrival has set terrible
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  • |author=Edward Hogan Adult author Edward Hogan makes his teen debut here with a real chiller. Capturing the c
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  • |author=Martin Kohan ...he times and narrators, despite a great deal of unattributed dialogue. The author's natural writing style also means that each story feels like a window into
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  • |author=David F Ross ...nny Garvey ends up being a pretty beautiful story. I'll be diving into the author's other books after this.
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  • |author=Cath Weeks ...ess, it reaches much further than that, and it was interesting to read the author's inspiration for the story and her personal experience as a parent.
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  • |author=Tony Bayliss ...note tells the reader that this book ''was inspired by the suicide of the author's son.''
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  • ...sing – and surviving and thriving in your late twenties. Simon is also the author of two non-fiction titles, The Better Mousetrap and Digital State.
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  • |author=Frances Osborne ...f her peers with their useless lives, and part of me was fascinated by the author's portrayal of the age. In some ways, it is almost like P.G. Wodehouse but
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  • |author=Nils Schou |summary= A struggling author tries to come to grips with his depression through corresponding with J. D.
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  • |author=Roger Stevens ...poems, written by the author but also some written by other poets, and the author uses them to show children about the different sorts of poetry, various rhy
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  • |author=Jane Vass ...nce and inevitably something will have to give. In the light of this the author rightly concludes that it's now more important than ever to keep a close ey
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  • |author=Joanna Arman ...dy of the Mercians', was the daughter and eldest child of King Alfred. The author does her a service in pointing out that her life and career were in some re
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  • |author=Cat Clarke ...reality - it could easily have become melodramatic in the hands of another author, but never does here. There’s a good supporting cast – it’s hard to s
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  • |author=Philippa Gregory ...g my nails, and a couple of others not far behind. As you'd expect from an author as widely praised as Gregory, she brings the time period to life vividly, a
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  • |author=Eleanor O'Reilly Author Eleanor O'Reilly is a teacher of English and Classical studies, who has jus
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  • |author=Leo Zeilig Author Leo Zeilig has a pretty impressive sounding day job. He's a senior sociolo
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  • |author=Erinna Mettler |summary=In ''Fifteen Minutes'' author Erinna Mettler presents the reader with 22 clever tales about fame and our
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  • Every author daydreams about how their precious story will finally look on the shelf, th And that’s the thing you see, it’s not just about the author and publisher back-slapping each other over another glorious cover. The boo
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  • |author=Ray Fawkes and Vince Locke ...ary=A very pertinent and timely horror piece that is so different from the author's self-created titles as to be untrue.
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  • |author=Eleanor Catton ...plex novel that works beautifully and is even more impressive as it is the author's first novel.
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  • |author=Julia Stagg ...ead about an inn in the Pyrenees taken over by a young English couple. The author lives in the Pyrenees and definitely knows what she's talking about.
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  • |author=Clara Kramer ...work, despite the tragic events she described. It may be churlish, as the author has certainly survived the hardest of times, but I longed for Anne Frank's
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  • |author=Mayim Bialik ...rs and healthy eating, and what it means to be vegetarian or vegan (as the author is) for example.
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  • |author=Olga Levancuka ...hat ''he'' wanted to do. Then I found myself chatting to Olga Levancucka, author of ''How To Be Selfish'' - but she seemed like one of the most unselfish pe
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  • |author= Susan Ostler The author, Sue, has been dubbed the ''Queen of Love'' and ''the UK's top relationship
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  • |author=Ian Caldwell As you read, you feel safe in the author's hands. Unlike many that enter the secretive world of the Catholic Church,
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  • |author=Helena Close Author Helena Close has created a memorable, if not necessarily likeable, heroine
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  • |author=M J Tjia ...ough the eyes of both Heloise and her assistant Amah Li Leen, allowing the author to play with the reader's view of the narrator somewhat and introducing an
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  • |author=Catherine Burns Catherine Burns is a Manchester-born author. Having worked as a bond trader in London before studying at the Moscow Ins
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  • |author=Iris Murdoch, Avril Horner and Anne Rowe ...ry few where a warm wit isn't on display. Travelling through life with the author, one can't help but fall in love with Murdoch. She's a compelling and capti
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  • |author= Philippe Auclair ...lks about Cantona getting bored with football but it almost seems like the author's bored with writing about Eric winning more Premier League titles and just
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  • |author=Chioma Okereke ...here in Africa, it has all the exotica of that country accompanied by the author's lilting and gentle narrative.
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  • Here at Bookbag we're big fans of Cliff McNish. But he's not just a great author, he's a generous one too and he's happy to '''give''' everybody the gift of
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  • |author=Liz Nugent ...work. It particularly shouldn't work when the book is written by a debut author and it needs to build to a stunning climax - but ''Unravelling Oliver'' doe
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  • |author=Kevin Brooks ...may well be for a slightly younger audience than usual for Brooks, but the author's trademark qualities still come through. There are no black-and-white, tid
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  • |author=Michael Morpurgo ...that an adult won’t have read before, or at least seen on screen, but the author makes the age old tales such as the archery contest, Little John’s introd
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  • |author=Ian McEwan |summary=Very different from the author's previous works, taking a comic look at the serious and topical issue of g
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  • |author=Lemony Snicket and Matthew Forsythe |summary=An off-the-wall story for young children by author Lemony Snicket with truly wonderful illustrations by Matt Forsythe. Adults
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  • |author=Laura Beatty ...acceptance resonating extremely well. Luckily, for both the reader and the author, Lady Brilliana Harley was a real life figure, and one who frequently wrote
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  • |author=Adrian Mourby The debate is never-ending about how much of the author's life we can find in their pages, and what bearing every circumstance of t
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  • |author=Martin Brown ...s coming from the mouths of the animals. At the beginning of the book, the author declares that all 'popular' animals are banned, with a disgruntled gorilla
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  • |author=David Melling David Melling is a well-regarded and recognised author and illustrator of picture books, and this recent offering from the Knight
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  • |author=Pascal Garnier and Melanie Florence (translator) ...elcome book for me to receive, having read almost all, if not more, of the author's translated works.
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  • |author= Galaxy Craze ...y and Eden's parents' relationship more thoroughly. It's a tribute to the author that it didn't feel like a sequel; there were no dull flashbacks, no irrel
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  • |author=Cathy Brett ...o look at that I'd have loved to give it pride of place on my bookshelves. Author Cathy Brett has illustrated it herself and the characters she's drawn are u
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  • |author=Helen Simpson This was a belated reunion for me, having been introduced to the author's snappy short story collections courtesy the very first one while at uni.
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  • |author=Danielle Joseph ...beach read. I’m certainly looking forward to reading more by this talented author.
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  • |author=Lesley Glaister ...rst ten per cent of this book, shows us we are in the hands of a confident author, and one with a brave and interesting story to tell us.
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  • |author= Karen Perry ...loved it although perhaps that's not surprising as apparently all three of author Karen Perry's previous books have been bestsellers.
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  • |author=Neil Griffiths and Vicki Leigh ...ll as a quiz which is useful to keep little ones quiet for a while and the author has a lovely, warm reading voice. As a grown up the book didn't especially
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  • |author=Cora Harrison Once again, the author returns us to the tight knit community of the Burren, in 16th century Irela
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  • |author=Michael Hughes Under the name Michael Colgan, the author has been an actor for many years - with an impressive CV, it's clear he's t
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  • |author=Lauren St John ...John|Dead Man's Cove]], here at The Bookbag we really like Elen Caldecott, author of [[How Ali Ferguson Saved Houdini by Elen Caldecott|How Ali Ferguson Save
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  • |author=John Van der Kiste ...t what went before, but I found it easier to 'place' Alfred because of the author's ''forward'' links to the Mountbatten family and to Winston Churchill. Th
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  • |author=John Burnside ...ntimacy of Waking Up In Toytown and the way it brings the reader in on the author's personal journey. It has piqued my interest in his other work and I will
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  • |author=Giulio Leoni and Shaun Whiteside ...emed it in part. It could be that subsequent novels in the series sees the author get more into stride with this novel idea - it certainly has promise. But t
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  • |author=Mandi Kujawa and Claude St Aubin It seems to have started as a vocal piece for the author's musical shows, but even if the artwork is a later addition it doesn't suf
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  • |author=Temple Grandin and Richard Panek ...Grandin is a lady of many labels: professor of animal science, bestselling author, consultant, activist, engineer, public speaker and subject of an award-win
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  • |author=Jenny Nimmo Nimmo has been a favourite author of mine for many, many years, since I first read the Magician Trilogy, and
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  • |author=Johanna Handley ...or, the 'whodunnit' element, intense paranoia and plot twists aplenty. The author toys with her readers, creating a certain impression of each character befo
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  • |author= David James ...times you might wonder if the misogynism of the characters belongs to the author; I hope not.
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  • |author= Amy Krouse Rosenthal ...pages have an opportunity to text a message once read and connect with the author and/or other readers. I didn't take part in these, but found them an inter
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  • |author=Terry Brooks |summary=An unremarkable volume of fantasy from an author patching two long-standing sagas together with an unfortunate mix of medioc
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  • |author=Barbara Kingsolver ...he book, which is well researched in addition to being based partly on the author's childhood experiences living in Africa. Does it reveal the truth about th
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  • |author=Martin Davidson |summary=A great combination of Nazi history with the autobiography of the author's grandfather's time in the SS - although certainly geared more towards the
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  • |author=Susie Steiner ...boring marriage to Max and her love of all things electrical. I wanted the author to provide more details about these characters, their relationships with on
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  • |author=Yrsa Sigurdardottir and Victoria Cribb (translator) I've stuck to this author's stand-alone dramas before tackling this series as it gets translated to E
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  • |author=Frances Wood ...n who was buried with 7,000 life-size terracotta warriors for company. The author, Frances Wood, is head of the Chinese Department at the British Library and
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  • |author=Christopher Pike Christopher Pike was hardly the only author to be churning out young adult horror novels at an impressive rate in the l
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  • |author=Dr Seuss ...h a bizarre land. The book takes you on a trip into the imagination of an author who was never shy of the bizarre. You will sail high into the sky in a hot
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  • |author=Gregory Mcdonald ...Gregory Mcdonald. Surely two books that centre on kidnapping by the same author would be similar enough to be placed together? Think again.
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  • |author=Mitchell Symons ...we have ''spitting images''. I do know now, but with these pages and this author I really thought I was going to keep the book as a goldmine of similar thin
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  • |author=Meg Clothier ...added a note which confirms which bits are actually history and which are author's conjecture, plus information as to where she 'fiddled' the time line for
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  • |author=Gregg Olsen ...eenagers, but combine the fact that they have a father who is a true-crime author, with the mysterious supernatural abilities they share, the twins are more
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  • |author=Cathy Cassidy ...cket Money Puffins for older readers are a little heavy on previews of the author's other books, but here it's restricted to just half a dozen pages at the e
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  • |author=Ryan David Jahn ...ed at the lack of innovation compared with the previous two books, but the author's world remains gloriously dark and he retains an almost cinematic ear for
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  • |author=Anthony Browne ..., this was my first encounter with Willy. I’m not sure whether it was ever author Anthony Browne’s explicit intention that Willy should be more than an ent
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  • |author=John D Barrow ...ing to work so hard to. The fact that it's so readable is testament to the author's ability to take near unintelligible physics and translate it in to not ea
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  • |author=Melissa Wareham ...m Talks To Bookbag About How She Became An Accidental Author|an accidental author]].
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  • |author= Jane Elson ...ly story about friendship and illness. The events are loosely based on the author's own childhood, which lends a ring of real authenticity. Beautifully writt
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  • |author=Jnr Rademeyer You've got to admire an author who takes a group of kids and none of the leading characters - Jason, Rosie
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  • |author=Chrissie Keighery ...aracter who never lapses into caricature as she could have done in another author's hands. The changing relationship between Demi, her mother, and her older
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  • |author=Joshua Davidson ...et children using their own imagination. The story itself mirrors what the author is trying to achieve in real life; the power of the imagination makes every
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  • |author=Elizabeth McCracken ...to review this collection of short stories with no prior knowledge of the author's work – often the best way to do it, though I am aware that McCracken's
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  • |author= E A Sunden ...sky cover and dark opening there is quite a colourful little fantasy. The author has turned her hand to writing having graduated in health promotion, and th
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  • |author=Jenny Colgan ...experience, an excellent time to read. I don't read in the bath - and the author's description of books drying out on radiators conjured up a depressing ima
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  • |author=Judd Winick ...ng to work out just how many movies, books and stories have 'inspired' the author along the way, but this is an endearing rather than alienating quality of t
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  • |author= Howard J Booth (editor) ...is still the youngest ever Nobel literature laureate. He was a prolific author and at the turn of the century up to the first World War an immensely popul
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  • |author=Ngugi wa Thiong'o of Ngugi wa Thiong'o’s Dreams in a Time of War memories of the author’s often difficult childhood are presented as a tale of triumph and empowe
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  • |author= Janice Galloway ...still gives off the same feel – a raw invasion. Although mainly prose, the author experiments with many genres - one being scriptwriting. Directions are thou
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  • |author=Nina Stibbe ...m in anyone gifting this book for Christmas – and oh look, here's the very author in these pages saying exactly the same thing. There's nice.
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  • |author=S V Berlin ...mary= A sister returns home for her mother's funeral in the debut novel of author S V Berlin and old family secrets and arguments are brought to life with a
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  • |author=John Green ''The Author's Cut 10th Anniversary Edition'''
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  • |author=Jessie Hartland ...ime. The meteor eventually begins its journey to earth, and once again the author has kept only to the known facts. Once it enters the earth's atmosphere, th
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  • |author=Mark Stevenson The author wangled himself interviews with some of the eminent minds out there, a numb
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  • |author=Dr Seuss A brand new book, from an author unfortunately dead?<br>
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  • |author=Ali Sparkes ...adventure – but I think this is the start of another fine series from this author, and, especially if you know boys of a similar age and persuasion to Jack a
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  • |author=Manu Joseph Before then I could see why this author is being lauded, and I'll do what those cheating blurb-writers do and cherr
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  • |author=Sherrilyn Kenyon ...m that thought here with the choice of language, which reads like an adult author's idea of what teens want to read rather than someone confident in writing
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  • |author=Linda Gillard ...obviously reluctant to comply. When they arrived at Creake Hall, home of author Rae Holbrook and her daughters, Gwen sensed a change in Alfie, a lack of wa
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  • |author=John Searancke ...War Two. It's written on the basis of - and including - letters from the author's father to his wife. Recommended. John Searancke popped into Bookbag Tower
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  • |author=Sue Grafton ...like to read a little bit more about Kinsey, and learn a little about the author's life too.
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  • |author= Leigh Russell |summary=A debut author to watch for the future gives us a serial killer who's murdering young wome
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  • |author=Geoffrey Arnold ...the introduction, this series isn't fiction, but a real story told to the author by the telepathic twins at the heart of it...) was rather hard for a cynic
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  • |author=Sue Pickford This is the author's first picture book, and whilst the text itself isn't always as humorous a
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  • |author=Alice Thompson |summary=Burnt Island is the creepy tale of an author hoping to use a remote island for inspiration but either succumbing to madn
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  • |author=Gavin Francis As with all the best travelogues, a lot of this author's 'journey' is internal. It is of course eminently richer than the empty u
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  • |author=Simon Wills ...in to Australia in 1866 with the loss of over 250 passengers and crew. The author's research into every aspect, from the company history specifications of th
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  • |author=Meg McLaren ...n the Deep Dark Woods by Jennifer Gray]]. With this audience in mind, the author's own [[Life is Magic by Meg McLaren|Life is Magic]] has received great acc
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  • |author=Antonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator) |summary=Last time this French author revisited Conrad and Buchan, here he took me to an alternative world, where
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  • |author=Xavier Leret ...has taken from real life for this book. The boy is something based on the author's own religious upbringing, the girl clearly a case study in an extremity t
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  • |author=Douglas Rushkoff The author of this book was mugged outside his apartment one Christmas Eve. He posted
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  • |author=Tomas Gonzalez ''In the Beginning Was the Sea'' is the first novel written by Colombian author Tomas Gonzalez. It was written over 30 years ago but the work has only just
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  • |author=Yangzom Brauen and Katy Darbyshire (translator) Kunsang Wangmo, the author's grandmother, might have been the youngest nun in Tibet. Her story is a s
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  • |author=Paul Bress I'd like to thank the author for sending a copy to the Bookbag.
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  • |author= Malcolm Walton Despite the author's claim that the book is set out in the format of a novel, it very much fee
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  • |author=Malcolm Fawbert ...we're looking forward to hearing what happens next. I'd like to thank the author for sending a copy to Bookbag.
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  • ...ork of the intensity of Redemptor Domus there's really nowhere else for an author to go!
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  • |author=Meg Rosoff ...outstanding novel. It's gripping from the very start; what more could the author want from her first book?
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  • |author=Emily Winslow |summary=Deceptively complex, intriguing and very readable - an author to watch. Definitely recommended.
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  • |author= M C Beaton ...be honest, I'm getting a little bored of it now and would much prefer the author focussed on the story rather than Agatha's love life.
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  • |author=Anthony Horowitz |summary=A republication of retellings of renowned legends by a reliable author.
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  • |author=Margaret Forster ...em or loathe them, the houses we live in have a way of defining our lives. Author Margaret Forster decided to take this idea a stage further when writing her
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  • |author=Susan Hill ...it’s the detectives which earn her a living (she is also a well respected author within the detective genre, and rightly so) because I can’t help but feel
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  • |author=Donal Ryan ...ntly and it's a masterpiece of construction. A good read and definitely an author to watch.
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  • |author=Holly Smale ...much, so it was a really pleasant surprise to pick up something by a debut author and immediately find myself smiling. Harriet herself is a brilliant main ch
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  • |author=Julian Sedgwick ...e (if that's a word) riverscape, we feel a greater engagement not with the author's research but with fun.
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  • |author=Abi Silver ...detective story has thrown me so much and I have to take my hat off to the author.
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  • |author=Brian Keaney This is one of those fantasy titles whose success relies on the author's control of his disparate elements. Certainly, that is what will divide t
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  • |author=Beth Raymer ...g with brutal honesty the world of high-stakes gambling experienced by the author at first hand. She's packed more into her life so far than most people cou
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  • |author=Johnny Ringwood ...ed by the householders with whom they were to live. Unfortunately for the author, he was left until last and then sent back the next day! The heartache of
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  • |author= Marlene Wagman-Geller ...iscover the stories you don't know behind the stories you may well, as the author delves into the detail behind ''Fifty Great Dedications''.
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  • |author=Robert Crompton |summary=''Bunderlin'' author Robert Crompton, introduces us to a young couple fighting a European form o
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  • |author=Richard Conniff ...es on hummingbirds, wild dogs and lemurs (which just goes to show that the author isn't stuck on insects in his own American backyard). My favourite piece, t
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  • |author=Gillian Flynn ...r as that goes), and the cleverness of the plot is once again part of this author's metier. Thus this piece is definitely part of her oeuvre, and is certain
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  • |author= Colin Fantham ...ciation, definition or example. Let me give you one of the examples which author Colin Fantham shows:
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  • |author=John Keegan ...g to be a lot more focused on the tactics used during the battles, and the author's excellent command of the way that the geography of the nation affected th
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  • |author=Gavin James ...You'll have to search to find out, but it was inspired by the life of the author's mother-in-law, although this is far more than the retelling of a family s
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  • |author=Kenneth Oppel ...ossil hunts. Two more different books coming in quick succession from one author it would be hard to find.
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  • |author=Sarah Burton ...passing over my head, especially on page 63), and a naff ending where the author's opinions replace the jokes, but on the whole this is definitely more hit
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  • |author=Karin Fossum ...hat doesn't exist, a twist that never comes, a cleverness that defeats the author.
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