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  • |title=Charmed Life (The Chrestomanci) ...vel, [[The Pinhoe Egg by Diana Wynne Jones]] which continues the ''Charmed Life'' story.
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  • ...eft and it does it with remarkable continuity. Cat Chant, a fledgling nine-life enchanter is living in the Chrestomanci castle with the Chrestomanci family ...an posses and there is a particular focus on life-affirming, pantheistic, "life force'" ability which is as much about understanding and communicating with
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  • ...els such as [[Charmed Life (The Chrestomanci) by Diana Wynne Jones|Charmed Life]] and [[Enchanted Glass by Diana Wynne-Jones|Enchanted Glass]].
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  • |title=The Man With A Charmed Life and his part in saving the planet from WWIII |sort=Man With A Charmed Life and his part in saving the planet from WWIII
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  • ...like to try [[Charmed Life (The Chrestomanci) by Diana Wynne Jones|Charmed Life]] by [[:Category:Diana Wynne Jones|Diana Wynne Jones]].
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  • ...oks such as [[Charmed Life (The Chrestomanci) by Diana Wynne Jones|Charmed Life]]. Another classic fantasy novel for teenagers about a young boy growing up
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  • ...in saving the planet from WWIII by Graham Fulbright|The Man With A Charmed Life and his part in saving the planet from WWIII]]. We also enjoyed [[The Milan
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  • ...ure fans is [[Charmed Life (The Chrestomanci) by Diana Wynne Jones|Charmed Life by Diana Wynne Jones]].
    4 KB (662 words) - 11:54, 6 April 2018
  • ...oks such as [[Charmed Life (The Chrestomanci) by Diana Wynne Jones|Charmed Life]]. Another classic fantasy novel for teenagers about a young boy growing up
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  • ...y=We thought that [[The Flip-flop Club: Charmed Summer by Ellen Richardson|Charmed Summer]] was the 'charming' start to what looked like an exciting new serie We thought that [[The Flip-flop Club: Charmed Summer by Ellen Richardson|Charmed Summer]] was the 'charming' start to what looked like an exciting new serie
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  • ...to define and distinguish them by their scents brings them more vividly to life than pages of description could. ...start with [[Charmed Life (The Chrestomanci) by Diana Wynne Jones|Charmed Life]], which is a real classic of its kind.
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  • ...Somehow Diana Wynne Jones creates a whole host of characters who bounce to life in your mind, and I wanted to know more...who were they? What were these w ...antasy try: [[Charmed Life (The Chrestomanci) by Diana Wynne Jones|Charmed Life]] also by Diana Wynne Jones.
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  • ...Colfer and [[Charmed Life (The Chrestomanci) by Diana Wynne Jones|Charmed Life]] by Diana Wynne Jones]].
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  • ...d. But with the entrance of Aidan Cain, an orphan, into his house and his life the mysteries deepen. The two are drawn to each other, however, and slowly ...Game]] and [[Charmed Life (The Chrestomanci) by Diana Wynne Jones|Charmed Life]].
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  • ...e travel is [[Charmed Life (The Chrestomanci) by Diana Wynne Jones|Charmed Life]], while early [[Harry Potter books]] are pitched at similar audience.
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  • ...t she knows it was life-changing. With her daughter still fighting for her life in a room down the corridor, Ava has a lot to contend with as she tries to
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  • ...t amateur sleuth Penny, the twelve year old orphan who has a secret double life as the nation’s best-selling author of popular fiction. Think of her as a ...urs earnestly praying to become more like. I was charmed by her, and I was charmed by this book. I love the period Edge has chosen, and found his tongue-in-ch
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  • ...omplete. When a chance encounter at a wedding brings a new woman into this life, he begins to hope that he has found everything he really needs. ...rge of major political change, and instability is everywhere. But as Sam's life becomes more chaotic, his own insecurities are swept away by his all-consum
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  • |summary=A languid, stumbling waltz through the last weeks of Noel Coward's life. I read ''Firefly'' wanting to be charmed. Sat at home, wishing I was in Jamaica, idly humming 'Mad Dogs and English
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  • |title=Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian Nights ...eherazade, a frame narrator who uses the power of stories to fight for her life.
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  • |title=Life! Death! Prizes! |summary=Billy's mum dies, but Billy's going to be ok. His life isn't as tragic as those in the supermarket magazines and he's still got hi
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  • ...ugh repetition. Still, anyone in the target age range of 7-10s who is not charmed by the gently wacky, larky weirdness of this world, is best not thought abo ...e, and we can fall easily into a book that brings their singular nature to life so joyously.
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  • ...a moving and sometimes funny account of a man searching for meaning in his life. ...gambler, avoiding attachment, responsibility and commitment throughout his life.
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  • |summary=Vicki Myron could never have guessed how life was going to change one cold winter morning when she walked into the librar ...true story of a cat called Dewey. His beginnings were very humble and his life could quite probably have been quite short if it had not been for a fortuit
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  • ...at the world around her with new eyes. Is this really what she wants from life? More importantly, is this really all that she is? As she begins to experim ...she tries to decide who she wants to be, and what she wants to do with her life.
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  • ...ens a bizarre, terrifying-looking creature named Pet, who somehow comes to life and declares that it is here to hunt the monster. Though Jam tries to conv ...ng relationship builds between Pet and Jam, and I found myself alternately charmed by Pet, and horrified. The style of the writing also hovers between seemin
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  • ...going to have a child and she's happy about it. We get a peep at Megan's life pre-pregnancy. She's a successful journalist sent to trouble spots around ...all fell a little flat. I sort of guessed the ending as far as Meg's love life was concerned and it was all just a little too twee for me.
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  • ...men in England, makes for a very entertaining read with its background of life on both sides of the English Channel, especially with its glimpses of Paris Born in 1812, Yolande's early life was an unpromising one. Yet she had the mixed blessing of being born to a
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  • You might also enjoy reading [[Charmed Life (The Chrestomanci) by Diana Wynne Jones]]
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  • ...e man, but even more about her own colourful but ultimately painful family life in New York. It becomes a rich account of how Erica comes to terms with the 'To live forever or die in the attempt' was the essential glory in life and living that is at the heart of John Yossarian in [[Catch 22 by Joseph H
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  • ...he ranks in a misogynist institution and achieves any goal she is set. Her life is one of adventure set against a post-imperial backdrop. Anyone who enjoys ...igated her way through the then alien Soviet Russia. Hers is an incredible life, one that brings the nail-biting and seat teetering that we expect from a s
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  • ...even more difficult. But worst of all is the mother-shaped hole in Milo's life - she's not there and her things aren't there because Milo's father got rid ...ed with kindness and charm and wry humour, ''Milo and the Restart Button'' charmed me to both laughter and a tear or two. Your heart bleeds for Milo, who fill
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  • ...ee are educated alongside great friend and wordsmith Henry. It's a charmed life in the Frankenstein chateau in the Genevese republic. ...or, Elizabeth and Henry can find a way to recreate the forbidden Elixir of Life, it seems as though Konrad will die...
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  • ...l - a charmed life. She had a good job, no financial worries and her love life? A bit hit and miss, shall we say. But was she bothered? Hard to tell wi ...rs from two different vantage points, if you like. The deceased Rebecca's life is picked over mercilessly by the police detectives as part of their job.
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  • ...ff by a shotgun, whom she found on the local beach, intervened to give her life some meaning. For a while, she was a suspect, but that (and her wig) was n ...is would annoy me, but this time I was, although I hesitate to admit it, ''charmed''.
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  • ...and much more besides. Wonderfully researched, Jean Findlay brings back to life a charming, talented and tragic man. ...ilfully retells the life of an intriguing man – and one whom I was utterly charmed by.
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  • Ben Lawrence has a charmed life it would seem. There’s the highly successful and lucrative career in PR,
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  • ...life in a rock band in the 60's, time spent in a nursing home, and finally life in the castle - amongst other, enchanting tales. ...t the negatives I encountered when reading this - as frankly I was far too charmed, engrossed and utterly delighted to encounter any. So many things are rolle
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  • ...but something is missing so Erika goes to great lengths to try to make her life complete and meets love, lust and loss along the way.
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  • ...a Wynne Jones. It features Chrestomanci, the magic enforcer from ''Charmed Life'', and dragons you cannot see. Anything by Wynne Jones is always a treat an
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  • ...ctant reader. Buy lots of these as Christmas presents for the kids in your life. You'll be very popular, and help the planet too! ...It is just so packed full of great, interactive ideas for living a better life, that I even passed it onto to my household's resident politician. He agree
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  • ...ve at its centre. Best friends Edda and Beth have shared a rather charmed life in London - up to now. But Beth is moving on, in more ways than one: will ...re they the right ones? Boyfriends and lovers are now a big thing in her life. She's amazed and a bit stunned. What did she do right, she keeps asking
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  • ...ng that he is so far the only modern historian to undertake writing such a life. ...favourite sister, Mary, widowed Queen of France. In fact he led a charmed life, for he also managed to survive a certain amount of mismanagement, or perha
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  • ...class to London or on their way to catch a flight. The Eight seem to lead charmed lives - but the financial world is changing and there isn't the money aroun ...seems to have her feet on the ground and isn't ''quite'' so wedded to the life of indulgence as the other families. At the other end of the scale you get
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  • ...he author he wends his way across Europe while leading a less than charmed life. Everything he touches seems to end in disaster. At any stage the story c ...meet someone who means something to him, for instance the two loves of his life (the courtly Hildegunde and his first love, Katrin) we come away feeling we
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  • ...d she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life's work, the very first encyclopaedia of faeries. Whilst she is brilliant a ...o Shadow is. Wendell is an engaging character, and I found myself equally charmed and infuriated by him, much as Emily is too. The mystery around why he is
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  • They shouldn't miss Diana Wynne Jones's superb [[Charmed Life (The Chrestomanci) by Diana Wynne Jones|Chrestomanci series]]. [[The Amazin
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  • Olivia Taylor-Jones has a charmed life. Her family is rich, her fiance perfect and though she has some questions a
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  • ...ite this they kept up a brisk and lively conversation about all aspects of life, from the late 1940s until his death at the beginning of the 60s. And as a ...And with the density of her letters, really getting under the skin of her life, we see everything about her through her singular and welcome eyes.
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  • |summary=The Christmas carol ''The Twelve Days of Christmas'' is brought to life in this charming and amusing story of love, marriage and families. A treat ...th a partridge and a small pear tree in a red pot Annaple is delighted and charmed. However Francis confides in the children that as a wealthy merchant he is
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  • ...contact - her very own sugar-daddy, possibly. He, in turn, seems utterly charmed by the young Katya. The arrangement seems to suit them both. But things s ...youth. Marcus envies Katya. Katya is young and healthy and has her whole life ahead of her. She's hard-up. She envies Mr Kidder his wealth. The strang
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  • ...vered very nicely. The writing brings us flashback (perhaps to [[My Happy Life by Rose Lagercrantz and Eva Eriksson|an earlier volume]] in this series) to
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  • ...apland with Paavo. Paavo and Maija readily accept but their newly adopted life isn't easy and their surroundings in the shadow of an inhospitable mountain ...iscovery) these are the people we walk alongside and by whom we're totally charmed.
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  • |title=Frank Sinatra: An Extraordinary Life |summary= A very full life and times of the American singer and his career, which weathered many chang
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  • ...ll ever find, but it is certainly an entertaining, racy gallop through the life of its subject. ...sts Clarke, who tells us that ‘Dirty Bertie’ learned all the essentials in life from the Gallic nation across the Channel which he loved so passionately.
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  • |summary= A thoroughly researched and very readable account of the early life of Princess Elizabeth, from her childhood and the death of King Henry VIII ...s Queen's amply demonstrated. His second daughter Elizabeth led a charmed life and went on to reign as Queen for over forty years, but she too had some na
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  • ...to explore their own judgements and beliefs, to challenge the notion that life is black and white and people are right or wrong. This complex state of gre ...was filled with admiration at the ingenious plot twists and turns and was charmed and entranced by the succinct and satisfying conclusion. If you like your m
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  • ...o stand on the shore of the island he’s dreamed about and drawn his entire life – but in the main ''Desolation Island'' is a novel about ideas. Oliver Gr ...ions. Just go with the flow of what Ortega has written and let yourself be charmed by it.
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  • ...s, you'll love [[The Worst Witch to the Rescue by Jill Murphy]]. [[Charmed Life (The Chrestomanci) by Diana Wynne Jones]] is also super. Don't forget to al
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  • ...post- Harry Potter reissues of the wonderful Diana Wynne Jones' [[Charmed Life (The Chrestomanci) by Diana Wynne Jones|Chrestomanci novels]]. I feel that
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  • ...ction of children in his Dorm, the only one not to have suffered a loss of life. But things are about to change – new inmates arrive to bulk up the numb ..., is one thing, although the completely real way Pinborough evokes teenage life and strife, even in such a rarefied setting, is equally remarkable.
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  • ...happens. The usually sensible, straight-laced, cautious Paul is completely charmed by this enigmatic and charismatic older boy. Before he knows it, Paul has p ...normal (aside from his dormant supernatural abilities, obviously) and his life is completely normal too. He has immediately recognisable problems and imme
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  • ...purred on to greater things and for a while led an extraordinarily charmed life, contented at home and a much-admired Prime Minister, beloved by the public ...y into the narrative, as are some interesting facets of family and married life. An interesting comparison is made between the unions of the Disraelis and
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  • ...left-field pick of works by a major best-selling name, or a delight to the charmed completist – you choose. Unfortunately, for me it was option A. For short stories with science in them - as well as copious sections of real life - you can't best [[The White Road by Tania Hershman]].
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  • |title=Charmed Life (The Chrestomanci)
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  • ...both end the evening on a less-than-satisfactory note. Liz returns to her life with her soon-to-be-fiance and Morgan goes off to war. ...e in the form of the written word, it works well. It's charming and I was charmed. The letters themselves - and there are many to savour - are a delight. J
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  • ...ifling routine, but most of all away from Brother Thomas and his beatings. Charmed by songs of the crusades, Wolf yearns for glory and glamour. He'd like noth ...oo, sees a chance in the elf; a chance to do something worthwhile with her life...
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  • ...try. Firstbrook's research goes as far back in time to encapsulate tribal life in Kenya, culminating in the current Obama - who just happens to be the Pre ..., I'm sure, millions of others, I've read ''The Audacity Of Hope'' and was charmed and blown away in almost equal measure, so I was keen to get started on thi
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  • |summary= We have two stories in one here, of an old writer's life with words and love, and a young translator's awakening and discoveries. B It is the fun elements of the fiction that charmed me most – above and beyond the comedy there is the way characters from Ma
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  • ...ed immortality hit her she must decide what to do. Zaifyr, the mysterious charmed man, has some ideas but then so do the sinister Keepers which doesn't help ...variety) he begins as a total unknown but through some snippets of a past life and a clever literary device (which I won't spoil) we gradually think we're
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  • ...true-life stories that illustrate to those fortunate enough to have had a charmed childhood how it feels to live in constant fear of your parents.
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  • ...humour. Even the best people don't escape unscathed: Giles spends half his life, it seems, having his head bandaged, and Xander splits his time between fal ...e Moon'', the young people of Sunnydale, Xander and Willow among them, are charmed by carnival folk into assisting them in raising the dead – and a particul
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  • ...ne Jones]] with her great fictional enchanter Chrestomanci (in his Charmed Life incarnation), [[:Category:Hilary Mantel|Hilary Mantel]] with her version of ...lightly surprised it's being marketed as YA since it covers Henry's entire life and could see it appealing to adults as well. When you were writing it, did
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  • ...r naively believed that my readers would come from many different walks of life. ...was younger and I think it's stood the test of time. Next up is ''Charmed Life'' by Diana Wynn Jones, which I’m looking forward to.
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  • ...ey will only turn male if they get a fright within their first 48 hours of life. It is for this reason that zoos with a high female bear population often e ...t blend to fantastic effect in this very successful debut novel. Robin was charmed by the beautifully poetic and courageous [[The Patience Stone by Atiq Rahim
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  • ..., look where it's got Lauren now, a successful businesswoman with a golden life style in London to suit. Kat plunges into a total makeover of her physical Don't ever forget it or be charmed into thinking you're special, because they're putting on an act too, and yo
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  • ''Instructions for living a life.''<br> ...ping no-one will mind if you're respectful. I also know that I'm as often charmed by graffiti and street art as I am annoyed by it. And I especially know,
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