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  • Category:John Foster
    [[Category:Authors|Foster, John]]
    5 members (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 17:04, 24 October 2009
  • Whizz Bang Orang-Utan by John Foster
    |author=John Foster ...winkle Chocolate Bar by John Foster|a companion book also compiled by John Foster]]. It's still worth a look.
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  • Bubble Boy by Stewart Foster
    |author=Stewart Foster ...014 when his first novel – an adult story [[We Used to Be Kings by Stewart Foster|We Used to Be Kings]] – was being launched. Every word is perfectly craft
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  • See You Later, Escalator by John Foster
    |author=John Foster |website=http://www.oup.co.uk/oxed/children/poetry/foster/
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  • Twinkle Twinkle Chocolate Bar by John Foster
    |author=John Foster John Foster has done a marvellous job of collating this poetry anthology. Seeing just h
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  • A To Z - The Best Children's Poetry From Agard To Zephaniah by Michael Rosen
    Michael Rosen has picked the best modern children's poetry, from John Agard through to Benjamin Zephaniah. It stemmed from Rosen performing in sc ...e in Trevor Harvey's ''The Painting Lesson'', the powerful reality of John Foster's ''The Immigration Trap'', the evocative storytelling in Allan Ahlberg's '
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  • The Instructions by Adam Levin
    ...oming of age novel narrated by a ten year old Zionist. May appeal to David Foster Wallace fans, but this reviewer found it over-written and repetitive. ...over-written in a way that Foster Wallace doesn't. However, ardent fans of Foster Wallace may find this more to their liking. I'm more of a fan of the 'Owen
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  • Crooked: Honest Criminality by Bronwen John
    |author=Bronwen John ...of the country. In the course of bringing this about, Luke Gaines, Ash's foster father, lost his life.
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  • Alcatraz versus the Evil Librarians by Brandon Sanderson
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...in his short accident-prone life. Expecting to just be farmed out to more foster parents, instead he is the subject of a battle between an armed man and a s
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  • You Tell Me! by Roger McGough, Michael Rosen and Korky Paul (illustrator)
    |reviewer=John Lloyd [[See You Later, Escalator by John Foster]] is a wider and better compilation, in our eyes.
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  • Laura Marlin Mysteries: Dead Man's Cove by Lauren St John
    |author=Lauren St John Laura has been in foster care since she was born, but Social Services have recently discovered that
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  • The World At Our Feet by Paul Cookson
    [[Category:John Cooper Clarke]] [[Category:John Foster]]
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  • Dead Man's Hand by John Joseph Adams (editor)
    |author=John Joseph Adams (editor) ...linked by the genre of the weird west, which is defined by its elasticity. John Joseph Adams' helpful introduction outlines the main features of the weird
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  • Laura Marlin Mysteries: Kentucky Thriller by Lauren St John
    |author=Lauren St John ...can be a lot of fun, and the ''Laura Merlin Mystery'' series by Lauren St John is a prime example of the genre. In this, the third book about mystery-lovi
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  • The Comet's Child by John Ward
    |author= John Ward ...past rather than the future. In this first book of a series, the author, John Ward, is concentrating on setting up a cracking good story: the philosophic
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  • A Time to Tell Lies by Alan Kennedy
    |reviewer=Rebecca Foster ...l-written World War II-era spy story compares favourably with the works of John le Carré and Kate Atkinson.
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  • City of Screams by John Brindley
    |author=John Brindley ...th Gabriel and his friends incarcerated, it's up to Phoenix and her rodent foster sister, Totally, to save ASP Island.
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  • Winter: A Book for the Season by Felicity Trotman (editor)
    |reviewer=Rebecca Foster ...wide range of celebrated poets, from William Shakespeare and John Keats to John Clare and William Wordsworth. I particularly liked a more recent contributi
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  • Noisy Poems by Debi Gliori
    ...with books about poetry recently. [[Twinkle Twinkle Chocolate Bar by John Foster]] is a slightly longer, but equally wonderful, set of quirky poems. [[A Kic
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  • James Dean: Rebel Life by John Howlett
    |author=John Howlett |reviewer= John Van der Kiste
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  • Hollywood Frame by Frame: Behind the Scenes: Cinema's Unseen Contact Sheets by Karina Longworth
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...ng Judy Garland ''A Star is Born'', a deleted scene with a blow-up doll in John Carpenter's ''The Thing'').
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  • Newest Children's Rhymes and Verse Reviews
    |author=John Foster ...nthology here at Bookbag, we've enjoyed two previous collections from John Foster. ''See You Later, Escalator'' continues in the same vein, with poems from t
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  • The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley by Hannah Tinti
    |reviewer=Rebecca Foster ...small-town New England atmosphere and high-octane action scenes. Imagine a John Irving novel getting the Hollywood shoot-'em-up treatment and you'll have s
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  • Higglety Pigglety Pop! And Other First Poems by Harry Horse
    ...with books about poetry recently. [[Twinkle Twinkle Chocolate Bar by John Foster]] is a slightly longer, but equally wonderful, set of quirky poems. [[A Kic
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  • The Great Unexpected by Sharon Creech
    Naomi lives with her foster parents, Nula and Joe. She is afraid of dogs - one of her arms is useless a You might also enjoy [[Noah Barleywater Runs Away by John Boyne]]. It features a naive central character trying to understand adult i
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  • Laura Marlin Mysteries: Kidnap in the Caribbean by Lauren St John
    |author=Lauren St John ...erosity have not been eroded by the experiences she endured in a series of foster homes, and on the one occasion she is tempted to be mean to someone, Tariq
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  • Star Wars The Force Awakens Novel by Michael Kogge
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...young readers to use to engage with what they'd just seen. The Alan Dean Foster adaptation of the script was for adults – it was a lot longer and more wo
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  • Alan M Turing: Centenary Edition by Sara Turing
    ...ten by Turing's mother and included a memoir written by his older brother, John. I'm rarely impressed by biographies written by [[No Ordinary Man by Domin ...vinced that Alan's homosexuality was down to the time they both spent with foster parents whilst their mother and father were in India and borderline offensi
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  • Eye Classics: Nevermore - A Graphic Novel Anthology of Edgar Allan Poe's Short Stories by Edgar Allan Poe, Various, Dan Whitehead (Editor)
    |reviewer= John Lloyd ...ic and thrilling when it comes to fiction. Someone who lost his birth and foster mother both to tuberculosis before he was ever twenty. Someone who had mos
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  • Frances and Bernard by Carlene Bauer
    |reviewer=Rebecca Foster ...meet at a writers' colony in the summer of 1957. Frances senses traces of John Donne in Bernard's spiritual poetry and Bernard loves Frances's biting sati
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  • A World Elsewhere by Wayne Johnston
    |reviewer=Rebecca Foster ...ish Druken is a great hulk of a man who lumbers through his hometown of St John's, Newfoundland. Although he thinks of himself as a writer, he has never wr
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  • The Spirit Photographer by Jon Michael Varese
    |reviewer=Rebecca Foster Further reading suggestions: [[The American Civil War by John Keegan]] and [[Sherlock Holmes - The Spirit Box by George Mann]].
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  • Close Your Pretty Eyes by Sally Nicholls
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...f her own making. She is living a life of endless switching from a set of foster parents, to would-be adoptive parents, to care homes. Whenever she fetches
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  • Mother of Eden by Chris Beckett
    |reviewer=Rebecca Foster ...matriarch and patriarch of a new race of primitive humans. A young leader, John Redlantern, rose up within the group, determined to free his people from th
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  • In Fidelity by Jack Wilson
    |reviewer=Rebecca Foster ...when a once-strong connection has faded over time. Strongly reminiscent of John Updike in Part One, this is the male view of adultery.
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  • Sophie and the Sibyl: A Victorian Romance by Patricia Duncker
    |reviewer=Rebecca Foster ''Sophie and the Sibyl'', consciously modelled on John Fowles's ''The French Lieutenant's Woman'', is a postmodern blending of his
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  • Rainbow Dust: Three Centuries of Delight in British Butterflies by Peter Marren
    |reviewer=Rebecca Foster ...in art or in literature. Chapter 4, 'Gatekeepers', focuses on the work of John Fowles and Vladimir Nabokov. Fowles's ''The Collector'' is a creepy novel a
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  • Daughter of the Flames by Zoe Marriott
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...or characterisation to come into the story – the gentle presence of Zira’s foster mother, and the other women, girls and men around her as she ages – she i
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  • The Optickal Illusion: A very eighteenth-century scandal by Rachel Halliburton
    |reviewer=Rebecca Foster ...n weaves in figures like Joshua Reynolds, Henry Fuseli, Joseph Johnson and John Opie. We also get glimpses of wider contemporary history in France and Irel
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  • The Last Town on Earth by Thomas Mullen
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...ovel. It raises moral questions about the pair of guards, and for Philip's foster father, who founded Commonwealth around the mill. It's one of those plots w
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  • An Account of the Decline of the Great Auk, According to One Who Saw It by Jessie Greengrass
    |reviewer=Rebecca Foster ...roduced and is one of the first offerings from JM Originals, a new list by John Murray – their motto is 'New Writing from Britain's Oldest Publisher.' Yo
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  • Academy Street by Mary Costello
    |reviewer=Rebecca Foster ...f her simple life. As with ''Nora Webster'', I was continually reminded of John Williams's rediscovered classic, ''Stoner'', a novel of smallness and failu
    5 KB (826 words) - 14:14, 28 February 2018
  • The Good Guy by Susan Beale
    |reviewer=Rebecca Foster |publisher=John Murray
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  • Girls Who Lie by Eva Bjorg Aegisdottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...nted that she could now live permanently with the couple who had given her foster care before her mother had asked for the girl back, and a couple of delight
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  • The Gap of Time by Jeanette Winterson
    |reviewer=Rebecca Foster Further reading suggestion: [[Capital by John Lanchester]] similarly captures the mood of London after the financial cris
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  • Clever Girl by Tessa Hadley
    |reviewer=Rebecca Foster ...discrete chapters. But if there is one book this reminds me most of, it is John Williams's ''Stoner'', the American campus novel (originally published in 1
    5 KB (893 words) - 14:54, 23 March 2018
  • The Night Flower by Sarah Stovell
    |reviewer=Rebecca Foster ...d all the way through to the core.' When Miriam falls in love with his son John, she too becomes entrapped in the cycle of iniquity and retribution that su
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  • Jonathan Franzen: The Comedy of Rage by Philip Weinstein
    ...needy of her son. The suicide of a close friend and literary rival, David Foster Wallace was later to add to Franzen's sense of alienation. ...o explicitly say it, Franzen was publicly analysing his writing, almost as John Clare put it in lines-also taken by T.S.Eliot, ''the self-consumer of my wo
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  • The Last Pilot by Benjamin Johncock
    |reviewer=Rebecca Foster ...est pilot who rubs shoulders with historical figures like Chuck Yeager and John Glenn in the quest to break the sound barrier and conquer space.
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  • The Cauliflower® by Nicola Barker
    |reviewer=Rebecca Foster ...uism you might also try [[Brahma Dreaming: Legends from Hindu Mythology by John Jackson and Daniela Jaglenka Terrazzini]].
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  • The Devonshires: The Story of a Family and a Nation by Roy Hattersley
    |reviewer=John Van der Kiste ...tly enjoyed a ménage à trois with her husband and his lover Lady Elizabeth Foster, though he stops short on speculating on the precise nature of their relati
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  • The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Hugo Driscoll
    ...Fitzgerald, ''The Catcher in the Rye'' by J.D. Salinger and ''Stoner'' by John Williams. All three had a massive influence on me, mainly because the char As for the desert island book? That's easy. ''The Alchemist''. It's helped foster a resilience in me when it's come to pushing forth with an idea and turning
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  • The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Michael Dhillon
    ...t Grayson was probably more akin to George W Bush, with an undercurrent of John F Kennedy's extramarital affairs, and Homer Simpson. Tristan Jarry was insp ...e best book I can recall reading in recent years is Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace - the quality of writing throughout left me in awe. He death so you
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  • Top Ten Self-Published Books 2021
    |author=Bronwen John ...t of the country. In the course of bringing this about, Luke Gaines, Ash's foster father, lost his life.
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  • Newest Short Stories Reviews
    ...people. After changing hands on various occasions he came to the yard of John Kempton. H (or Foinavon) was entered in the Grand National and considered ...vil ends. He's out to prey on their fears and weaknesses and as with many foster children, their self-esteem is very fragile. This is no small-scale operat
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