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  • Category:John List
    [[Category:Authors|List, John]]
    1 member (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 15:51, 1 September 2020
  • Category:Uri Gneezy and John List
    [[Category:Authors|List, John]]
    1 member (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 17:14, 5 March 2014
  • Category:Reviewed by Donna Wells
    ...y:Charles Dickens|Charles Dickens]]. You should be warned though that this list changes all the time.
    6 members (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 17:44, 29 September 2010
  • The Lock-Up by John Banville
    |author=John Banville |summary=It's not my favourite Quirke and Strafford novel but it's John Banville, so the writing is exquisite and the plot skillfully handled.
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  • A Day That Changed History: The Assassination of John F Kennedy by Tracey Kelly
    |title=A Day That Changed History: The Assassination of John F Kennedy |sort=Day That Changed History: The Assassination of John F Kennedy
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  • The Popes: A History by John Julius Norwich
    |author=John Julius Norwich ...[[:Category:John Julius Norwich|John Julius Norwich]] (or Rt Hon/Viscount John Julius Norwich, to give him his full title) doesn't write the sort of histo
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  • Rumbelow's Dance by John Yeoman and Quentin Blake
    |author=John Yeoman and Quentin Blake ...em for him even though it is a long way. After his mother gives him a long list of very precise directions, he sets off. Although it is a very hot day, he
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  • Dinosaur Detective's Search-and-Find Rescue Mission by Sophie Guerrive
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...n with hidden depths, and as a result the finding of several things on the list (or otherwise) generally creates a suitable vocal noise as a result.
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  • How to Read a Novelist: Conversations with Writers by John Freeman
    |author=John Freeman ...er there are certain people whom I hold in high regard and one of these is John Freeman. Not yet forty he has an enviable record as an editor to some of t
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  • Soonchild by Russell Hoban
    |summary=Sixteen-Face John attempts to retrieve the World Songs so his Soonchild can be born. Funny, s ...ife, No Problem, is pregnant, and their Soonchild is refusing to come out. John must go on a dream journey to rescue the World Songs if Soonchild is ever t
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  • Books that Changed the World: The 50 Most Influential Books in Human History by Andrew Taylor
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...t USA. Some books are followed to this day, others seem woefully ignored (John Stuart Mill's ''On Liberty''). These, then, are titles that have changed e
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  • The Why Axis: Hidden Motives and the Undiscovered Economics of Everyday Life by Uri Gneezy and John List
    |author=Uri Gneezy and John List ...te people to change their behaviour? An invigorating account of Gneezy and List’s ground-breaking research in behavioral economics, aka making the world
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  • Eugene by John G Smith
    |author=John G Smith ...company chairman and then independent consultant. It's only recently that John has moved on to publishing his writing, starting with ''Poems About'' befor
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  • Goodnight Already by Jory John and Benji Davies
    |author=Jory John and Benji Davies If you list all of my favourite things you may be surprised what one of my top choices
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  • The Return of Captain John Emmett by Elizabeth Speller
    |title=The Return of Captain John Emmett |sort= Return of Captain John Emmett
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  • The Last Hundred Days by Patrick McGuinness
    ...f Ceausescu's Romania, this first person narrative is one part [[:Category:John le Carre|Le Carré]], one part [[:Category:Bill Bryson|Bill Bryson]] and on ...e a work of fiction. It reads more like a cocktail of one part [[:Category:John le Carre|Le Carré]], one part one of those accounts by British journalists
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  • Brahma Dreaming: Legends from Hindu Mythology by John Jackson and Daniela Jaglenka Terrazzini
    |author=John Jackson and Daniela Jaglenka Terrazzini ...a rich, deep vein of stories about the Trimurti and ''Brahma Dreaming'' is John Jackson's re-imagining of these all-encompassing, interdependent tales.
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  • 50 People Who Buggered Up Britain by Quentin Letts
    |reviewer= John Van der Kiste ...ago, I suspect that the author might have been at the top of some people's list of culprits for using that naughty b-word. Good grief, man, you can't poss
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  • The Assassination of JFK Minute by Minute by Jonathan Mayo
    President John F Kennedy had been warned about going to Dallas - he himself referred to i ...ook to which UK readers will relate, including as it does references to DJ John Peel who, on the basis that he was a reporter from the ''Liverpool Echo'',
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  • Parkland by Vincent Bugliosi
    ...ning fifty years. ''Four Days in November: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy'' was published in June 2008 and is - as the title suggests - re ...as it was obvious that the man could not be saved. That man was President John F Kennedy and he had been shot as he rode in a motorcade through Dealey Pla
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  • The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
    |author=John Green John Green is a magnificent writer. His ability to capture atmosphere, time and
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  • The Loveday Conspiracy by Kate Tremayne
    ...outside. Then you open the book and it's only when you idly glance at the list of the author's earlier books that you realise that you've made your entry ...ice before killing himself – and now his cousin Tristan has the house. St John's twin, Adam, vows that he will punish the man responsible. Amelia has bee
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  • Twinkle Twinkle Chocolate Bar by John Foster
    |author=John Foster John Foster has done a marvellous job of collating this poetry anthology. Seeing
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  • For the Love of Letters: The Joy of Slow Communication by John O'Connell
    |author=John O'Connell |website=http://shortbooks.co.uk/author/john-oconnell
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  • The Scandalous Duchess by Anne O'Brien
    ...revolving around them. Can we resist such a guilty pleasure? I couldn't: John had me at prithee! (No, you're right, he doesn't actually say that.) ...dangerous move. As John and Katherine fall in love and Katherine becomes John's mistress they endanger more than their hearts; their attraction provides
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  • Painting Snails by Stephen John Hartley
    |author=Stephen John Hartley ...as the late, great John Peel: we have our own [[Margrave of the Marshes by John Peel and Sheila Ravenscroft|tribute]] to him.
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  • The Stolen Queen by Lisa Hilton
    ...o don't like their history adjusted. For the rest of us this tale of King John's second wife Isabelle of Angouleme complete with a left field-ish, mischie ...ngland's King Richard the Lionheart all changes. Isabelle will marry King John instead – a totally different prospect for all concerned. This is a matc
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  • Crooked: Honest Criminality by Bronwen John
    |author=Bronwen John ...- and then I was caught up in the story and it wasn't necessary. Bronwen John does a great job with her characters: I'll quibble very slightly and say th
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  • Whizz Bang Orang-Utan by John Foster
    |author=John Foster ...kle Twinkle Chocolate Bar by John Foster|a companion book also compiled by John Foster]]. It's still worth a look.
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  • Sod That!: 103 Things Not To Do Before You Die by Sam Jordison
    |reviewer= John Lloyd ...on a full fortnight tour of Iceland. But closer to home, were I to have a list, there would be many things left on it – I've been nowhere near Bath, or
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  • The Witness by James Jauncey
    ...nian, John determines to return the boy to what's left of his family. What John doesn't realise is that Ninian himself is inextricably linked to the rebel ...parents' marriage. Without the words to articulate his grief or his guilt, John has thrown himself into stewardship of the land with his gamekeeper father
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  • Bad Science by Ben Goldacre
    ...el by John Sutherland|How to Read a Novel]] by [[:Category:John Sutherland|John Sutherland]] do the same for maths and reading as ''Bad Science'' does for {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Non-Fiction Books To Make You Think}}
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  • Prince of Darkness by Sharon Penman
    ...e Queen's Man'' series and now finds himself working for his enemy, Prince John. Bringing to mind the work of people like Shirley McKay and VM Whitworth, ...), bringing with it somewhat of a dilemma for Justin. As much as he hates John, de Quincy realises that getting to the bottom of the plot is in the intere
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  • A Boy and a Bear in a Boat by Dave Shelton
    [[Noah Barleywater Runs Away by John Boyne]] is another slightly surreal fable that is an absolute joy to read. {{toptentext|list=Guardian Children's Fiction Prize 2012}}
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  • When Will There Be Good News? by Kate Atkinson
    ...a similarly riveting read and has high literary values (Benjamin Black is John Banville, Booker Prize Winner for his novel ''The Sea''). Detective fiction {{toptentext|list=Richard and Judy Shortlist 2009}}
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  • The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Peerless Peer by Philip Jose Farmer
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...is day and age, would be objecting at all. As for the other titles in the list I can't as yet tell, but would be eager to try, and am now expecting a very
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  • How to Climb Mont Blanc in a Skirt: A Handbook for the Lady Adventurer by Mick Conefrey
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...ive them a gold star if they can name a single female entrant to history's list. Hence this book, for while some mountains have been topped by a lady firs
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  • The Wolf in Winter (Charlie Parker Thriller) by John Connolly
    |author=John Connolly This is the 12th novel in the Irish thriller writer [[:Category:John Connolly|John Connolly's]] Charlie Parker series (or 13th if you want to count the novell
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  • 1,234 QI Facts to Leave You Speechless by John Lloyd, John Mitchinson and James Harkin
    |author=John Lloyd, John Mitchinson and James Harkin |reviewer=John Lloyd
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  • Dying to Know You by Aidan Chambers
    When Fiorella gives Karl a list of questions and asks him to write down his views on aspects of love, Karl ...ter, then you could make a sea change in terms of topic and choose [[WE by John Dickinson]], a wonderful sci-fi epic.
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  • The Carbon Diaries 2015 by Saci Lloyd
    ...s anyone understand Crit Thinking homework? Will Mum and Dad split up? The list goes on. {{toptentext|list=Costa Book Awards 2008}}
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  • Sixes and Sevens by John Yeoman and Quentin Blake
    |author=John Yeoman and Quentin Blake ...|Julia Donaldson's Tyrannosaurus Drip]] being quite far at the top of that list though possibly not topped by [[The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson|The Gruffal
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  • Summertime by J M Coetzee
    ...ed by a fictional biographer on the years when the deceased semi-fictional John Coetzee was finding his feet as a writer. Too clever by half, perhaps, but ...hat a young English biographer is working on a book about the late writer, John Coetzee. The dust jacket also has a photograph of Coetzee that seems to hav
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  • Hope: a Tragedy by Shalom Auslander
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...He's moved to a rural location, and found houses like his are on the hit-list of an arsonist, but his new home has an even more unusual secret...
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  • Jeff Lynne: The Electric Light Orchestra - Before and After by John Van der Kiste
    |author=John Van der Kiste ...gory:John Van der Kiste|historical biographies]]. The book has a complete list of personnel, a discography and Van der Kiste's bibliography gives plenty o
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  • Christine Falls by Benjamin Black
    ...a new crime series from Benjamin Black, better known as Man Booker winner John Banville, is set in nineteen-fifties Dublin. It's pacey, atmospheric and to ...rstly, its author, Benjamin Black, is actually the 2005 Man Booker winner, John Banville. Moving from genre to genre isn't unknown in the literary world, b
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  • Bird by Crystal Chan
    ''Grandpa stopped speaking the day he killed my brother, John.'' ...she can really talk to, who really understands the way her mind works. But John isn't everything he says he is. And his arrival is about to change Jewel's
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  • Betrayal by Adriaan van Dis
    ...eene's work as well as the more recent novels of [[:Category:John le Carre|John le Carre]] as Adriaan evokes the world of the ageing loner revisiting his p ...is novel isn't going to appear on the South Africa Tourist Board's reading list, but that's not a drawback. The authenticity leaps from the narrative as w
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  • Do You Think You're Clever?: The Oxbridge Questions by John Farndon
    |author=John Farndon |reviewer=John Lloyd
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  • Dillinger's Wild Ride: The Year That Made America's Public Enemy Number One by Elliott J Gorn
    |summary= A serious look at the lfe and crimes of John Dillinger and his place in the American heart. Cautiously recommended for John Dillinger was born and brought up in Indiana. His childhood was no better
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  • A Little Piece of England: A tale of self-sufficiency by John Jackson
    |author=John Jackson ...Grandchildren]] ''and'' [[Brahma Dreaming: Legends from Hindu Mythology by John Jackson and Daniela Jaglenka Terrazzini|Brahma Dreaming: Legends from Hindu
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  • Sandrine by Thomas H Cook
    ...this is different and, for me, better (and I speak as one who loves a good John Grisham). There are some common elements: we don't know whether we believe {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Crime Novels 0f 2013}}
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  • Darkness, Darkness: Resnick's Last Case by John Harvey
    |author=John Harvey ...that this is Resnick's last case. My press release tells me that this is John Harvey's last book. Both have gone out at the top of their game: this is a
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  • Cold in Hand by John Harvey
    |author=John Harvey With 'Last Rites' I was sure that John Harvey had published his last Resnick novel so it came as something of a su
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  • The Trip to Echo Spring: Why Writers Drink by Olivia Laing
    |reviewer=John Van der Kiste ...F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, John Berryman, John Cheever, and Raymond Carver. Taking her title from a character in Williams
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  • Eats, Shoots & Leaves: Why, Commas Really Do Make a Difference! by Lynne Truss
    ...Truss has an uphill struggle. Punctuation has never been top on a child's list of priorities. I've seen the text messages my son sends to his friends. The ...d is struggling with punctuation at school should put it straight on their list. Every school library should have a dozen copies on its shelves. It would m
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  • A Beatles Miscellany: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the Beatles but Were Afraid to Ask by John Van der Kiste
    |author=John Van der Kiste ...e little facts which are so hard to track down and this is where historian John Van der Kiste comes into his own: he's a man with an eye for detail and the
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  • A Walk-on Part: Diaries 1994 - 1999 by Chris Mullin
    ...Elvis Presley and Princess Diana, but I'd add another person to the list: John Smith. I remember sitting in my office and a colleague coming in to tell m ...llayed. It takes just a little time to get into its stride – the death of John Smith isn't the vehicle for Mullin's trademark humour – and we were a lit
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  • How to be Well Read: A guide to 500 great novels and a handful of literary curiosities by John Sutherland
    |author=John Sutherland ...and a handful of literary curiosities. Was I going to find that ultimate list of books which I would have to read to ensure that I could think of myself
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  • G Engleheart Pinxit 1805: A year in the life of George Engleheart by John Webley
    |author=John Webley |reviewer= John Van der Kiste
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  • Armed Madhouse by Greg Palast
    ...occupies a style ground somewhere between Michael Moore (fewer jokes) and John Pilger (more jokes) in this lucid, readable and convincing denouncement of ...occupies a style ground somewhere between Michael Moore (fewer jokes) and John Pilger (more jokes) in this lucid, readable and convincing denouncement of
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  • The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B by Teresa Toten
    Fifteen year old Adam has a list. He needs to get better, grow taller and marry the love of his life, Robyn. ...ct for fans of John Green and Rainbow Rowell; well I completely missed the John Green boat, but I’m so happy I’ve caught the Teresa Toten one. The Unli
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  • The 100 Best Novels in Translation by Boyd Tonkin
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...at we have in our hands. But all that said, do we really need one of those list books about the subject? I got given a book the other year detailing 1001 p
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  • Rose Kennedy: The Life and Times of a Political Matriarch by Barbara A Perry
    It's about fifty years since the assassination of President John F Kennedy and it was he (and particularly his death) who brought the Kenned She was born in 1890, the daughter of John Francis Fitzgerald - otherwise known as ''Honey Fitz'', sometime mayor of B
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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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  • The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Elizabeth Speller
    ...eturn of Captain John Emmett]] for the [[Richard and Judy's Summer Reading List 2011|Richard and Judy Summer Book Club]] had on you?''' ...n by Elizabeth Speller|The Strange Fate of Kitty Easton]], was a sequel to John Emmett until I looked on Amazon a few minutes ago. Is this going to be a lo
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  • Finding Wonder by Lauren St John
    |author=Lauren St John ...extra treat if riding a horse bareback on the beach is top of your bucket list of things to do!
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  • The Quickening Maze by Adam Foulds
    ...Based on true events, this is a reworking of a time that the nature poet, John Clare, spent in a mental institution. The Tennyson brothers also figure lar ...thought the idea of reconstructing the tormented years of the nature poet, John Clare, would provide some intriguing insights into this troubled figure. At
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  • At the Water's Edge: A Walk in the Wild by John Lister-Kaye
    |author=John Lister-Kaye |summary=Renowned naturalist John Lister-Kaye shares his thoughts on nature conservation and his encounters w
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  • Divorced, Beheaded, Died...: The History of Britain's Kings and Queens in Bite-Sized Chunks by Kevin Flude
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...in their own right, meaning this is nothing as bread-and-butter as just a list of the kings from the Normans up. It could have been more readable in that
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  • Darwin: A Life in Science by John Gribbin and Michael White
    |author= John Gribbin and Michael White {{toptentext|list=List Of Books To Celebrate Charles Darwin's 200th Anniversary}}
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  • The Self-sufficientish Bible by Andy Hamilton and Dave Hamilton
    Anyone interested in this way of living will be familiar with the works of John Seymour. His earlier books were very much written for people who wanted to {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Green Books for Eco-Warriors}}
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  • How Kirsty Jenkins Stole the Elephant by Elen Caldecott
    ...'t having any of it. Kirsty's too young and, in any case, he has a waiting list and Kirsty's name isn't on it. So Kirsty, aided by her half-brother and sis ...[[Someday Angeline by Louis Sachar]] and [[The White Giraffe by Lauren St John]].
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  • Rise of the Slippery Sea Monster (Adventures of the Steampunk Pirates) by Gareth P Jones
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...with their say about what happens to it. Oh, and you can now add to that list a huge sea monster, that is capable of cutting its way through a perfectly
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  • Somewhere Towards the End by Diana Athill
    |reviewer= John Van der Kiste {{toptentext|list=Costa Book Awards 2008}}
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  • Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle
    ...the Booker Prize, the bestseller lists contained [[:Category:John Grisham|John Grisham]], Sue Townsend and Jeffrey Archer. ...of Irish adolescence, Peter Murphy's [[John the Revelator by Peter Murphy|John the Revelator]] is another good read. Our reviewer also found another Book
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  • Did We Meet on Grub Street? by Emma Tennant, Hilary Bailey and David Elliott
    ...ts boom years. Some of the stories about writers such as John Osbourne and John Mortimer undeniably amount to little more than gossip, but this adds to the ...publishing) is a lack of organisation of its contents. There is no chapter list, no index and very few chapter headings within the narrative. This means th
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  • In My Sky at Twilight by Gaby Morgan (editor)
    ...by Morgan, the Editorial Director of the Macmillan Children's Books Poetry list. Morgan is responsible for other well known children's poetry collections s ...lso includes a nice range of more modern poets such as Carol Ann Duffy and John Betjeman. It is the kind of book that you will find yourself wanting to rea
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  • November 2015 Newsletter
    ...nds a trivia book, [[1,234 QI Facts to Leave You Speechless by John Lloyd, John Mitchinson and James Harkin]]. It's official – Belorussian sausage contai John also has a recommendation for younger readers. In [[Warren the 13th and the
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  • Driving Mad: Maniacs, Morons and the Advanced Motorist's Club by Graham Fulbright
    I passed my driving test when John F Kennedy was in the White House and I've recently had to reapply for my dr ...side it's useful to know that they're taking a yoga break. There's even a list of preferred accessories, including combat extras. I'm tempted by the Ben
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  • Bookbag's Christmas Gift Recommendations 2013
    ...t and read we recommend [[Brahma Dreaming: Legends from Hindu Mythology by John Jackson and Daniela Jaglenka Terrazzini]] - we can imagine children passing ...asy Books of 2013]]. If you're looking for Science Fiction, [[Conquest by John Connolly and Jennifer Ridyard]] impressed and we're very keen on [[Bitter S
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  • The Kennedy Assassination: 24 Hours After by Steven M Gillon
    {{toptentext|list=Bookbag's Christmas Gift Recommendations 2009}} {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Books on President John F Kennedy}}
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  • The Riddle of the Labyrinth by Margalit Fox
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...of early writing and what they mean for the brain. [[The Rosetta Stone by John Ray]] is a closer look at another archaic language and its rediscovery.
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  • The Personal History of Rachel DuPree by Ann Weisgarber
    Do you remember reading ''The Red Pony'' at school? If you shed tears at John Steinbeck's short masterpiece, be sure to find time for this story of rural ...n the fight for survival. Only the very young ones have a rag doll apiece. John and Mary, the older two, work full time, and like Jody in ''The Red Pony'',
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  • October 2017 Newsletter
    ...nd and his wonderful messages about openness and inclusivity. But the 2018 list isn't universally popular. Many children's authors, among them Bookbag favo ...brother has kept hidden. As questions are asked and secrets unravel, maybe John isn't the only one with a dark side. This is a dark and thrilling debut nov
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  • On My Way: Norfolk Coastal Walks by John Hurst
    |author=John Hurst |publisher=John Hurst
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  • The Vienna Woods Killer: A Writer's Double Life by John Leake
    |author=John Leake ...more like a good crime novel and it's not until you look at the notes and list of sources that you realise that this is all dreadful fact.
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  • Pirates Magnified: With a 3x Magnifying Glass by David Long and Harry Bloom
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...-written paragraphs concerning the subject, and everything on your to-find list has a little detail about it, too, so you can learn about letters of marque
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  • Chop Chop by Simon Wroe
    ...then we think that you might also enjoy anything by [[:Category:John Niven|John Niven]]. You could also check out the competition for the [[Costa Book Awa {{toptentext|list=Costa Book Awards 2014}}
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  • Pugh's New Year's Resolutions by Jonathan Pugh
    |reviewer=John Lloyd [[Stuff Brits Like by Fraser McAlpine]] is still high up on our list of gift books that make us laugh at (and think about) stereotypes year roun
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  • Skinner's Festival by Quintin Jardine
    ...self wishing that they'd just get on with it - a sort of literary shopping-list syndrome. ...n Rankin's Inspector John Rebus novels in chronological order|Ian Rankin's John Rebus novels]].
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  • November 2009 Newsletter
    ...s for great books for every type of reader you can think of. Check out the list [[Bookbag's Christmas Gift Recommendations 2009|here]]. ...websites make as they get closed down. Our other, slightly more reserved, John loved [[Jazz by Gary Giddins and Scott Deveaux]], a full history of jazz fr
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  • Stuff Every Dad Should Know by Brett Cohen
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...ppies, a selection of books for sharing (as if [[:Category:For Sharing|OUR list]] was not the be-all and end-all), and more emotional considerations as the
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  • Close to Holmes: A Look at the Connections Between Historical London, Sherlock Holmes and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle by Alistair Duncan
    |reviewer= John Van der Kiste ...gton, Victoria and others, and the rich tapestry thus revealed even brings John Netley (a cabbie with Jack the Ripper associations) and wife-murderer Dr Cr
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  • Highest Mountain, Deepest Ocean by Kate Baker, Zanna Davidson and Page Tsou
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...shelf, although I don't imagine it in too many household settings. I like list books – and while not everything here is 'the top ten of this or that' we
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  • July 2011 Newsletter
    ...looking at their history. The chance to [[The Interview: Bookbag Talks To John Dickie|chat to him]] was an offer we couldn't refuse, and In [[Bipolar Pare ...ohn Emmett]] has been selected for the [[Richard and Judy's Summer Reading List 2011|Richard and Judy Summer Book Club]] this year.
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  • Delta Blues by Ted Gioia
    |reviewer= John Van der Kiste ...the folk song collectors, promoters and producers, such as Alan Lomax and John Hammond, without whom the blues would never have reached such a wide audien
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  • Potty, Fartwell and Knob by Russell Ash
    ...Knob'' does lack Liff's comic genius. After all, it is little more than a list, albeit one enlivened by authorial comment and the clever arrangement of th {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Funniest Books}}
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  • The Escape by Adam Thirlwell
    ...ke's Rabbit and Philip Roth's Portnoy, none of whom feature on Thirlwell's list. Thirlwell's writing isn't derivative as such, but the overriding sense was
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  • November 2011 Newsletter
    ...quite boracic. Take a [[Christmas Gift Recommendations 2011|look]] at our list if you're in need of ideas. We've also updated our [[Amazon Kindle|review]] Continuing the World War I theme and in non-fiction, John (VdK John, this time) was impressed by [[The Beauty and the Sorrow: An intimate histo
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  • Annabel Pitcher Talks To Bookbag About Her New Year Resolutions
    Pen and paper in hand over breakfast the next morning, I made a long list of resolutions. Being a target-driven person, this is something I enjoy doi ...A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness]] was another. [[The Fault in Our Stars by John Green]] was yet one more.
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  • To Defy A King by Elizabeth Chadwick
    |summary=Set in the reign of the tyrannical King John, we follow the fortunes of two of the most powerful Baron families in the l ...hn, through their half brother Longespee, son of the family matriarch, and John’s father. Banished from Court, and forced to leave her son there, Ida mar
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  • What's For Dinner, Mr Gum? by Andy Stanton
    |reviewer= John Lloyd {{toptentext|list=Bookbag's Christmas Gift Recommendations 2009}}
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  • The Madness of July by James Naughtie
    ...ed, Machiavellian and well-plotted, his debut thriller mixes a [[:Category:John le Carre|le Carre-type]] panache with a dash of ''House of Cards''. ...tes and is manipulated in a style reminiscent of [[:Category:John le Carre|John le Carre's]] best. The era helps a lot too.
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  • Angel Fire by Chris Blythe and Steven Parkhouse
    |reviewer=John Lloyd John Dury and his partner Zee are businessmen you would find it hard to like. H
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  • The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
    ...She devours it all, from Nancy Mitford, through Thomas Hardy, Jean Genet, John Betjeman and well, just about everyone. {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Books To Read In One Sitting}}
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  • Even Dogs in the Wild by Ian Rankin
    ...an Clarke has been seconded to the enquiry and she calls on her old friend John Rebus, kicking his heels in retirement, when Big Ger Cafferty narrowly esca [[Ian Rankin's Inspector John Rebus novels in chronological order]]
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  • The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing by Richard Dawkins
    ...looking for something more topical, try [[What is Your Dangerous Idea? by John Brockman]], but if you're looking for the accessible (if rather chattily st {{toptentext|list=List Of Books To Celebrate Charles Darwin's 200th Anniversary}}
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  • When Dragons Are Dreaming by James Mayhew and Lindsey Gardiner
    ...t with a gentle comic twist in the tail. [[It Was Bedtime In The Jungle by John Butler]] has glorious illustrations and a sedate, traditional pace to it, w {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Picture Books For Overcoming Bedtime Woes}}
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  • Coraline by Neil Gaiman
    {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Books for Young Readers That Feature a Passage Between Worlds}} {{toptentext|list=Bookbag's Easter Eggs}}
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  • In Glorious Technicolor: A Century of Film and How it has Shaped Us by Francine Stock
    |reviewer=John Van der Kiste ...assistant taking a pinch of snuff and sneezing. (Not top of the must-see list, I hear you say). One year later saw the birth of special effects, devised
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  • Traitor's Field by Robert Wilton
    ...d brutality that tears Britain in half, former lawyer Cromwell's spymaster John Thurloe is the man charged with the task. ...Category:Philippa Gregory|Philippa Gregory]] and [[:Category:John le Carre|John Le Carre]]. On second thoughts scratch that. Robert Wilton writes like Ro
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  • A Lovely Way to Burn (Plague Times Trilogy 1) by Louise Welsh
    |publisher=John Murray Thank you, John Murray, for providing us with a copy for review. We have a review of the [
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  • Capital by John Lanchester
    |author=John Lanchester With a gentle nod to the great commentator of London life of the past, John Lanchester sets his wonderfully entertaining state of the nation book aroun
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  • The Good, the Bad and the Smug by Tom Holt
    ...n the plethora of jocularity. In terms of humour identification he's more John-Fillimore-esque than Pratchett. For instance ''Elven Quest'' springs happi ...Tom Holt before now. It's an error I will make up for as my e-reader wish list is now unashamedly dozens of novels longer.
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  • I Wish I'd Been There: Twenty Historians Revisit Key Moments in History by Byron Hollinshead and Theodore K Rabb (editors)
    ...ys from twenty historians, including Tom Holland, John Julius Norwich and John Keegan, is based on the question, ''What is the moment in history that you {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Books For Slightly Geeky People}}
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  • The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science by Andrea Wulf
    |publisher=John Murray ...ge Marsh and John Muir. I finished the book a great deal wiser and with a list of points to follow up with further reading.
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  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (150th Anniversary Edition with Dame Vivienne Westwood) by Lewis Carroll
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...most people – will of course be reading them on their unbirthday, but the list does include the current recipient of that honour, ''Alice's Adventures in
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  • The Cambridge Companion to Rudyard Kipling by Howard J Booth (editor)
    John McBratney, Cleveland<br> ...ither of those things, it should make it to the top of your Christmas wish list.
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  • Would You Believe...Vatican City is a country?! by Richard Platt
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...n of crime some of them have had to much notoriety. I liked very much the list of old names tentatively given the skyscraper phenomenon, such as sky-batte
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  • February 2009 Newsletter
    ...nd between a man and a wild dog - beautifully told with no sentimentality. John thinks you should read [[Brodeck's Report by Philippe Claudel]], a slightly ...celebrations - Ruth thinks you should read [[Darwin: A Life in Science by John Gribbin and Michael White]], a straightforward account of Darwin's life, ha
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  • The Ghosts of Heaven by Marcus Sedgwick
    ...nt Mariner. And for some hardish sci-fi, you don't get better than [[WE by John Dickinson]]. {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Teen Books of 2014}}
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  • Genesis by Bernard Beckett
    |reviewer= John Lloyd {{toptentext|list=Bookbag's Christmas Gift Recommendations 2009}}
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  • The Rosetta Stone by John Ray
    |author=John Ray John Ray's previous book ''Reflections of Osiris: Lives from Ancient Egypt'' pro
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  • Iggy Peck's Big Project Book for Amazing Architects by Andrea Beaty and David Roberts
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...on to Iggy and his interest, we get the same safety warnings and equipment list as we had in this book's sister volume, and then we're off, jumping in righ
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  • A View from the Foothills by Chris Mullin
    ...'' than after I finished his own [[Prezza: My Story: Pulling No Punches by John Prescott|autobiography]]. Similarly he was far from agreeing with Tony Bla ...r if government really mattered to him but you'll be left in no doubt that John Prescott completely lacked management skills despite being a consummate pol
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  • Sonnets, Bonnets and Bennetts: A Literary Quiz Book by James Walton
    |reviewer= John Lloyd ...nd while having only as much of a personality as a list of questions and a list of answers could have, did the job perfectly.
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  • It Could Have Been Yours: The enlightened person's guide to the year's most desirable things by Jolyon Fenwick and Marcus Husselby
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...such things will continue. Hollywood has more to offer, for one, and the list of odd artifacts that pass hands will never shrink. As regards buying this
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  • October 2008 Newsletter
    ...l of twists and turns. The writing is excellent and characterisation good. John thinks you should look at [[The Museum of Doctor Moses by Joyce Carol Oates In non-fiction, John was mightily impressed by [[History Without the Boring Bits by Ian Crofton]
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  • Philip Ardagh's Book of Howlers, Blunders and Random Mistakery by Philip Ardagh
    |reviewer= John Lloyd ...ed Germany into making a mistake. There's a frustrated relative, smashing John Barbiroli's violin in annoyance, with no inkling he would become the first
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  • Richard and Judy's Summer Reading List 2011
    '''Richard and Judy's Summer Reading List 2011''' ...ed and strong-willed, for example. Still young she's managed to acquire a list as long as her arm of her 'hates' in the world - fish, English teachers and
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  • The Toucan Brothers by Tor Freeman
    ...me again, and I've already added another of this author's books to my wish list for Amazon. [[Who's On First? by John Martz, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello]]
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  • Let Me Off at the Top!: My Classy Life and Other Musings by Ron Burgundy
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...is schoolmates having names slightly too similar to the ''Star Wars'' cast list, and Mexicans, but dammit it's mostly a well-sustained joke. The voice of
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  • The End of the Party: The Rise and Fall of New Labour by Andrew Rawnsley
    ...ly sanitised as time goes on) in [[Prezza: My Story: Pulling No Punches by John Prescott]]. ...Hundred Years of Political Rivalry from Pitt and Fox to Blair and Brown by John Campbell]].
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  • March 2008 Newsletter
    ...Kiki Strike]] by [[:Category:Kirsten Miller|Kirsten Miller]]. [[John Lloyd|John]] loved [[The Summoning by E.E. Richardson|The Summoning]] by [[:Category:E ...bookbag.co.uk email us] and we'll see that you're deleted from the mailing list.)
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  • The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson
    ...ally count diplomacy as one of his gifts, Wanda the kindly US agent... the list goes on.
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  • Victoria: A Life by A N Wilson
    |reviewer=John Van der Kiste ...losing her reason, the employer and devoted friend of her Highland servant John Brown and later the controversial Indian Abdul Karim (‘the Munshi’). M
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  • The Red Fairy Book (Hesperus Fairytale Books) by Andrew Lang
    ...nd Jan Pienkowski]] and [[Brahma Dreaming: Legends from Hindu Mythology by John Jackson and Daniela Jaglenka Terrazzini]]. You might also enjoy [[The Pepp {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Books for Confident Readers 2013}}
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  • Cursed Moon: Prospero's War: Book Two by Jaye Wells
    ...g for her feelings on being blackmailed by her former lover/society pillar John Volos. (Yes, read the first book first!) All we can do is watch vicarious ...e await Book 3. Not only are we surprised by Kate's ultimate discoveries, John Volos' may not be all he appears… or is he? Whatever the resulting revel
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  • April 2015 Newsletter
    ...plenty to discuss with John Kemp when he [[The Interview: Bookbag Talks To John Kemp|called round]] for a chat. It's an illuminating discussion. ...bookbag.co.uk email us] and we'll see that you're deleted from the mailing list.)
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  • Shakespeare on Toast by Ben Crystal
    ...s perfectly accessible to a modern reader and even providing a very useful list of 'false friends'. ...John Sutherland]] or [[Sir Henry Neville Was Shakespeare: The Evidence by John Casson and William D Rubinstein]].
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  • The Way To The Zoo by John Burningham
    |author=John Burningham {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Books For Sharing 2014}}
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  • January 2009 Newsletter
    ...e a gem. John heartily recommends it. Sue's raving about [[Cold in Hand by John Harvey]]. After a decade away Resnick returns in a gripping, atmospheric st ...mon Mann's outlandish coup attempt in Equatorial Guinea. For science fans, John recommends [[Darwin's Sacred Cause: Race, Slavery and the Quest for Human O
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  • The Wreck of the SS London by Simon Wills
    |reviewer= John Van der Kiste ...there. Thanks largely to the few fortunate survivors, notably Able Seaman John King, what happened gradually became known to the wider world. In those day
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  • The Wrong End of the Dog (Grubtown Tales) by Philip Ardagh
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...young in at the deep end with a lot of nonsense and asexual names, so the list of who's who at the end might be rather well-used. I could be slammed as a
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  • The Great War: The People's Story by Isobel Charman
    |reviewer=John Van der Kiste ...g Evans, suffrage group organiser Kate Parrye Frye and her actor boyfriend John Collins, writer and vegetarian pioneer Hallie (Harriet) Miles and her husba
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  • March 2014 Newsletter
    ...astic authors were included this year. There's Robert Muchamore, Lauren St John, David Melling. There's even a Horrible History in there. All these books c ...count as important, and each gets a six-page essay. Loving him some irony, John is calling it 50 Shades of Essential Literature – not necessarily books t
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  • The Interview: Bookbag Talks To John Righten
    |title=The Interview: Bookbag Talks To John Righten ...good. She had a list of questions to ask author [[:Category:John Righten|John Righten]] when he popped in to chat to us.
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  • English Gothic: Classic Horror Cinema 1897-2015 by Jonathan Rigby
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...lings as and when appropriate. And whereas there are already copious film list books, where we go A-Zombie through a select few titles in self-contained f
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  • The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books (British Library Crime Classics) by Martin Edwards
    It would have been simple - but not very effective - to list the books in chronological order and tell us a bit about them, but we learn ...rth of the Golden Age''. ''Trent's Last Case'' has been on my 'must read' list for far too long as this was one of the first books with a more complex plo
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  • The Slither Sisters: Tales from Lovecraft Middle School by Charles Gilman
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...raight to a cliff-hanger reveal, so the third is already on my mental wish-list with the book reviewing gods.
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  • How To Fossilise Your Hamster by Mick O'Hare
    ...u might also enjoy [[QI: The Book of General Ignorance]] by John Lloyd and John Mitchinson. {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Books For Slightly Geeky People}}
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  • Return to Ribblestrop by Andy Mulligan
    |reviewer=John Lloyd {{toptentext|list=Guardian Children's Fiction Prize 2011}}
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  • February 2013 Newsletter
    In non-fiction, John recommends [[The Divorce of Henry VIII: The Untold Story by Catherine Fletc ...r and the Town of Haverfordwest by Patricia Watkins|The Wayward Gentleman: John Theophilus Potter and the Town of Haverfordwest]] and she was delighted whe
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  • A History of the World in Numbers by Emma Marriott
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...layman would have expected from such a book, when we get the world's first list of 7 Wonders. This does mean we can gain many trivial details the regular
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  • People of the Day 3: The Rich and Famous Caricatured by Peter Wynter Bee and Lucy Clapham
    ...potted biography and you have a winner. Oh – and you'd better add to the list of plusses the fact that production values are high, with glossy paper and So, who's in the 2008 book then? Well, I'm not going to give you a list because that would spoil the surprises when you buy the book, but I don't m
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  • The Primary Objective by Martin Venning
    ...at looks unlikely to yield results Peace International maintains a call-on list of field operatives, ex-military, medics, scientists or anyone else with a ...who else but the master of the craft [[A Delicate Truth by John le Carre|John Le Carré]].
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  • Annus Horribilis: A Chronicle of Comic Mishaps by Sam Jordison
    |reviewer=John Lloyd |publisher=John Murray
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  • Join the Club: How Peer Pressure Can Transform the World by Tina Rosenberg
    ...ves and the Undiscovered Economics of Everyday Life by Uri Gneezy and John List]].
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  • January 2011 Newsletter
    ...y odd but we promise that you'll like them. We were delighted to interview John about his humorous stories. Richard Denning's [[Tomorrow's Guardian by Rich ...bookbag.co.uk email us] and we'll see that you're deleted from the mailing list.)
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  • Skios by Michael Frayn
    ...ten the superb farce play ''Noises Off'' as well as the screenplay for the John Cleese vehicle, ''Clockwise''. The question remains as to whether the farce ...ctations are unfairly raised by the book's inclusion on this year's Booker list. It's not Frayn's fault that he is nominated but it's far from his best lit
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  • QI: The Book of General Ignorance by John Lloyd and John Mitchinson
    |author=John Lloyd and John Mitchinson {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Books For Slightly Geeky People}}
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  • December 2008 Newsletter
    ...king for something more meaty over the Christmas holidays should listen to John, who loved [[Novel 11, Book 18 by Dag Solstad]], a petite modernist novel i ...ers nearly every aspect of the city's life - from glaciers to The Gherkin. John heartily recommends [[On the Origin of Species: The Illustrated Edition by
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  • The New Rulers Of The World by John Pilger
    |author=John Pilger John Pilger is an unreconstructed leftie. He is probably one of the few people l
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  • The Fraternity of the Estranged: The Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908 by Brian Anderson
    ...ty appeared. They were written by two homosexual men: Edward Carpenter and John Addington Symonds, as well as the heterosexual Havelock Ellis. Exploring th John Addington Symonds was born in 1840. Several homosexual relationships filled
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  • A Journey to Nowhere: Among the Lands and History of Courland by Jean-Paul Kauffmann
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...The Dogs of Riga by Henning Mankell]] is about it. [[:Category:Travel|Our list of travel books]] had not yet reached this corner of the world either.
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  • Confidentially Yours by Charles Williams
    ...ch to do there. For recreation, hunting probably came top of the list and John 'Duke' Warren went for an early morning duck shoot before going to work. W
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  • Pitch Black by Alex Gray
    ...during the match, decisions that led directly to Kelvin's defeat, and the list of suspects include not only the whole of the Kelvin FC playing and backroo ...n Chairman, Patrick (Big Pat) Kennedy seems to be next on the killer's hit list. The climax of the novel then becomes a race against time – can Lorimer a
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  • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon
    ...l|Roald Dahl]]. John Elder Robison's autobiography [[Look Me In The Eye by John Elder Robison|Look Me In The Eye]] is also well worth reading. You might a {{toptentext|list=Most Read Reviews On Bookbag}}
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  • June 2008 Newsletter
    ...of nuclear war than it had ever been before - or since. On a lighter note, John loved [[Ronnie by Ronnie Wood]], a memoir by the hellraising guitarist and ...adventures of gap year-er Rowan and her unexpected adventures in the USA. John thinks you should read [[Titanic 2020: Cannibal City by Colin Bateman]]. He
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  • The First Atlantic Liner: Brunel's Great Western Steamship by Helen Doe
    |reviewer= John Van der Kiste ...ary the vessel was for its time is illustrated by a comment from passenger John Jay Smith, who noted how it would have astonished the navigators of only th
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  • My Book of Stories: Write Your Own Adventures by Deborah Patterson
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...ell, here's the job to do a prequel to ''Treasure Island'' concerning Long John Silver's parrot's back-story, here's where we complete Mowgli's school jour
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  • The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
    ...hen we think that you might also enjoy [[The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne]]. We also have a review of Galloway's [[The Confabulist by Steven Ga {{toptentext|list=Richard and Judy Shortlist 2009}}
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  • The Rough Guide to Graphic Novels by Danny Fingeroth
    |reviewer=John Lloyd Of course, turning up at your local library with or without a list inspired by this volume will still bewilder the novitiate. In my experienc
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  • Dearest Rose by Rowan Coleman
    ...Frasier McCleod, an art dealer who had been trying to trace Rose's father, John Jacobs,who happened to be a very exciting artist. Although she couldn't hel {{toptentext|list=Romantic Novel of the Year 2013}}
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  • Eating the Big Fish: How Challenger Brands Can Compete Against Brand Leaders by Adam Morgan
    |publisher= John Wiley and Sons ...sh approach and proceeding to ''clear definition of core challenges''. The list of possible challenges that a Challenger can make is one of the most inspir
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  • The Reapers by John Connolly
    |author=John Connolly ...el Connelly and his Harry Bosch character for some time, the chance to try John Connolly was one worth taking, especially as I'd heard good things about hi
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  • The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments by George Johnson
    ...we can recommend [[100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know by John D Barrow]]. You might appreciate [[How to Save the World with Salad Dressi {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Books For Slightly Geeky People}}
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  • Star Wars Art of Colouring The Force Awakens by Lucasfilm
    |reviewer=John Lloyd {{toptentext|list=Our Top 10 Colouring Books for Lockdown}}
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  • Cold Cream: My Early Life and Other Mistakes by Ferdinand Mount
    |reviewer=John Van der Kiste ...avid Cornwell, his German teacher who later became the spy thriller writer John le Carré, make interesting reading, though one has to wade through much to
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  • The Popularity Papers by Amy Ignatow
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...an extended trip throughout book two, they set out those wishes with a set list of things they want to do - be more artistic, be more successful... You ca
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  • Glitter and Glue by Kelly Corrigan
    ...ude [[The Year We Disappeared: A Father-Daughter Memoir by Cylin Busby and John Busby]] and [[Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Coming Home by {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Autobiographies 2014}}
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  • The Grim Company by Luke Scull
    ...[Seven Kings: Books of the Shaper: Volume 2 by John R Fultz|Seven Kings by John R Fultz]]. We also have a review of [[Dead Man's Steel (Grim Company) by Lu {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Fantasy Books of 2013}}
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  • November 2010 Newsletter
    ...things to buy. Well, Bookbag's no different. We have produced our very own list of Christmas - there, we said it - purchase suggestions. Sorry! But we thin ...rite [[Top Ten Teen Books of 2010|teen books]] of the year. It's a diverse list, ranging from hard sci-fi through apocalyptic and historical fantasy right
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  • My Village: Rhymes from Around the World by Danielle Wright (editor) and Mique Moriuchi (illustrator)
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...at of all the kinds of books that have ability to surprise, high up on the list are poetry books. You can generally see the style, idea or genre of a nove
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  • The World's Worst Children by David Walliams and Tony Ross
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...ls ten copies or a million I'll look for the more esoteric titles on their list – the essays not the novels, the short stories that get ignored and not t
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  • February 2016 Newsletter
    ...ooks/what-to-read/david-bowie-the-man-who-loved-books/ top 100 books]. The list is as eclectic as you'd expect and inspirational, too. In non-fiction, John recommends [[The Lost Tudor Princess: A Life of Margaret Douglas, Countess
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  • Free Radicals by Michael Brooks
    ...ce books and adds a freshness to proceedings. At times, it can read like a list of anecdotes, but more often than not, it's cohesive and flows appropriatel ...have heard before - William Shockley's involvement in Walter Brattain and John Bardeen's 1956 Nobel Prize, for example. However, ''Free Radicals'' treads
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  • Flat Earth News: An Award-winning Reporter Exposes Falsehood, Distortion and Propaganda in the Global Media by Nick Davies
    ...and the title of the source, but with no date information) and there is no list of sources, no footnotes, no bibliography, no endnotes. This is a big issue For some serious investigative reporting, look to [[:Category:John Pilger|John Pilger's]] work.
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  • How to Research Local History by Pamela Brooks
    |reviewer= John Van der Kiste Appendices list useful websites for local history and useful reference works. Other useful
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  • My Magical Oasis: Art Therapy Colouring Book for Creative Minds by Eglantine de la Fontaine et al
    |reviewer=John Lloyd {{toptentext|list=Our Top 10 Colouring Books for Lockdown}}
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  • August 2017 Newsletter
    ...ence. It is, first and foremost, a game, and one that was much better than John remembers first time around. It's nice to see it given a re-release by Scho ...ings you [[Threads: The Delicate Life of John Craske by Julia Blackburn]]. John Craske was a fisherman, from a family of fishermen, who became too ill to g
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  • Pirates Of Barbary: Corsairs, Conquests and Captivity in the 17th-Century Mediterranean by Adrian Tinniswood
    ...drian Tinnisworth looks at these corsairs – focusing on Englishmen such as John Ward, who became so renowned that plays about him and Dutchman Simon Dansek ...ries I'm going to take to the sea!) Tinnisworth also provides an excellent list of sources and a comprehensive bibliography.
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  • Writing for Magazines by Adele Ramet
    |reviewer= John Van der Kiste ..., which is something not made clear unless you actually study the contents list before deciding whether to purchase the book.
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  • 1815: Regency Britain in the Year of Waterloo by Stephen Bates
    |reviewer=John Van der Kiste ..., writing ‘Emma’; Humphrey Davy was patenting his miners’ safety lamp, and John Nash was contributing towards the makeover of London by designing Regent St
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  • Natalie and Romaine by Diana Souhami
    |reviewer=John Van der Kiste ...e and life'. An aloof soul, she made a brief marriage with the homosexual John Ellingham Brooks but left him within a year.
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  • The Interview: Bookbag Talks To SJ Griffin
    SJG: I would take ''A Confederacy of Dunces'' by John Kennedy Toole which is my favourite book, but I suspect if I had that I'd b ...rd, Haruki Murakami, Mary McCarthy, for example. Now I think about it, the list is endless. JG Ballard, Margaret Attwood, Daishell Hammett, George Orwell,
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  • Prezza: My Story: Pulling No Punches by John Prescott
    |author= John Prescott John Prescott polarises opinion. It seems that people either love or loathe him
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  • The Bluffer's Guide to Etiquette (Bluffer's Guides) by William Hanson
    ...t the originals of the handshake, and slightly embarrassed when I read the list of words which you should not use. Dinner parties are covered in some deta ...e presence of royalty. You'll probably chuckle about the improbability of John Humphrys getting a knighthood - or even a luncheon invitation to the Palace
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  • August 2010 Newsletter
    ...sorted by category]]. If it's themes you're looking for, try our extensive list of [[:Category:Lists|top tens]]. The highest rated reviews by genre are the In non-fiction, John loved [[We Die Alone by David Howarth]], a superlative real-life story, of
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  • The Fourteenth Day: JFK and the Aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis by David G Coleman
    {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Books on President John F Kennedy}}
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  • Big Nate: Laugh-O-Rama (Big Nate Activity Book 4) by Lincoln Peirce
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...f gross-out moments, embarrassing things, parental demands and your bucket list of parental rewards. It's all peppered with images of Nate and the gang, m
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  • You, Me and Thing: The Great Expanding Guinea Pig and Beware of the Snowblobs! by Karen McCombie
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...he way a lot of them are lost in the middle of the spread, but the design, list-making tic and all-round narrative exuberance are great for the intended re
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  • The Eighties: One Day, One Decade by Dylan Jones
    |reviewer=John Van der Kiste ...s I generally do. Over more than 400 pages, it rapidly became a very long list. I’ll just choose a few at random: all the artists at Wembley being frie
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  • Mr Gum and the Secret Hideout by Andy Stanton
    |reviewer=John Lloyd {{toptentext|list=Guardian Children's Fiction Prize 2011}}
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  • Pentti and Deathgirl by Emma Rendel
    |reviewer= John Lloyd ...om our small-but perfectly formed [[:Category:Graphic Novels|graphic novel list]], but cannot say I will be going past the ugliness to find the appeal bene
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  • The Reckoning by Yrsa Sigurdardottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...also quite brilliant thriller construction – despite the relatively small list of suspects, the cases are well worth sticking with for the duration; the p
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  • Love from Paddington by Michael Bond
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...Michael Bond's Original Paddington Bear Books in Chronological Order|check-list]].
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  • The Making of Home by Judith Flanders
    |reviewer=John Van der Kiste ...ight also enjoy [[A Little Piece of England: A tale of self-sufficiency by John Jackson]].
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  • A Marker to Measure Drift by Alexander Maksik
    |publisher=John Murray {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Crime Novels 0f 2013}}
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  • The Lady and the Generals: Aung San Suu Kyi and Burma's Struggle for Freedom by Peter Popham
    |reviewer=John Ewbank {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Autobiographies and Biographies 2016}}
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  • Omens by Kelley Armstrong
    ...t ''Omens'' is the better book. You might enjoy [[Help for the Haunted by John Searles]]. {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Fantasy Books of 2013}}
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  • The Dragons of Ordinary Farm by Tad Williams and Deborah Beale
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...o 12, there should - and certainly could - be more of an early hook than a list of odd people, quirky facts about the farm and its buildings, and a few nic
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  • A History of Modern Britain by Andrew Marr
    |reviewer=John Van der Kiste ...nstance, how different would the last few years have been if Labour leader John Smith had not suddenly died in 1994?
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  • The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Dan Abnett
    |reviewer=John Lloyd And now I sound like John Wayne.
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  • Tight-Lipped by David Barrie
    |publisher=John Law Media {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Crime Novels of 2014}}
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  • The Sorcerer's Mirror by Adrian Howard
    |reviewer=John Lloyd {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Books for Young Readers That Feature a Passage Between Worlds}}
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  • Kings of Albion by Julian Rathbone
    ...e themselves inside an attic room, trying to escape Sir John Clifford, Sir John, as his axe breaks through the door, steals Jack Nicholson's line from The ..., from eager childhood reading of adventure stories written by people like John Masters and Rider Haggard. I know a little bit about the history of leftist
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  • Nathan Fox: Dangerous Times by L Brittney
    Partnered with his hero and fearless spy John Pearce, Nathan must be trained in the defensive arts by England's very best {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Retellings of Myths, Legends and Fairy Tales}}
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  • The Last Girlfriend on Earth by Simon Rich
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...ll left a whole host of great writing completely unreferenced – there is a list of the 'guest appearances' I could have quoted as well that equally shows u
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  • October 2010 Newsletter
    ...English writer of his time. The reading of ''My Boy Jack'', about his son John, killed at the age of one month over eighteen, and recorded in the room whe In non-fiction, John's gone for [[You Never Give Me Your Money: The Battle for the Soul of the B
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  • One More Bite (Jaz Parks) by Jennifer Rardin
    |reviewer= John Lloyd {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Books About Vampires}}
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  • The Swimmer by Roma Tearne
    ...e can recommend [[Death of a Murderer by Rupert Thomson]] and [[The Dig by John Preston]]. {{toptentext|list=Orange Prize 2011}}
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  • Noggin by John Corey Whaley
    |author=John Corey Whaley {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Teen Books of 2014}}
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  • Wishful Thinking by Ali Sparkes
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...wish for. He doesn't really seriously wish for anything, but a diverting list of things he'd like – a better complexion, a better chance with the schoo
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  • Oxford School Dictionary of Word Origins (2009) by John Ayto
    |author=John Ayto ...trophe's? Who cares? - doesn't rock at all. The further we go on with this list, the less we remember the first item on it. Words rock. And the most sexifu
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  • The Beast of Grubbers Nubbin (Stitch Head) by Guy Bass and Pete Williamson
    |reviewer=John Lloyd And the story isn't shoddy, either. OK, the cast list if you like is a little too small for the big reveal to be up to much, but
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  • Darwin's Sacred Cause: Race, Slavery and the Quest for Human Origins by Adrian Desmond and James Moore
    |reviewer= John Lloyd {{toptentext|list=List Of Books To Celebrate Charles Darwin's 200th Anniversary}}
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  • The Mermaid's Scream (Wesley Peterson) by Kate Ellis
    ...with the man who ran a travelling puppet show. We'll follow the story of John Lipton's courtship through excerpts from his journal. ...e book if you have some knowledge of what's gone on before. You'll find a list of the books in chronological order [[Kate Ellis's D I Wesley Peterson Nove
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  • It Happened In Venice by Molly Hopkins
    ...corporate tours. It was clear that as readers we were supposed to warm to John, and I did, so it was odd that Evie didn’t seem to see in him quite what ...to critiquing. I mostly really enjoyed reading it when I wasn’t trying to list what was good or lacking, and just got lost in the story without paying too
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  • Alice on Deadlines by Shiro Ihara
    |reviewer=John Lloyd {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Beach Reads For Teens}}
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  • The Great Fire of London: 350th Anniversary of the Great Fire of 1666 by Emma Adams and James Weston Lewis
    |reviewer=John Lloyd {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Children's Non-Fiction Books of 2016}}
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  • The Last Card by Kolton Lee
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...makes my blood run cold, if you want to be dramatic. And if the character list and plot is not realistic, then again - I just don't want to know.
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  • Celeste Three is Missing by Chris Calder
    Greg's fixer Jack Smith shares a main supporting role with pilot John Sturgess. Each will serve Greg's purposes, one of them without coercion. ...d stuff over your thrills, [[Dark Corners by Ruth Rendell]] is high on the list.
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  • Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days by Jeff Kinney
    |reviewer= John Lloyd {{toptentext|list=Bookbag's Christmas Gift Recommendations 2009}}
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  • Spellbound by Beauty: Alfred Hitchcock and His Leading Ladies by Donald Spoto
    |reviewer= John Van der Kiste Most of his leading ladies, a long list of actresses from Jessie Matthews and Madeleine Carroll to Doris Day and Gr
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  • Rogerson's Book of Numbers: The culture of numbers from 1001 Nights to the Seven Wonders of the World by Barnaby Rogerson
    |reviewer=John Lloyd |summary=A list of all the significant numbers and details, and what they mean – with a s
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  • Manfred The Baddie by John Fardell
    |author= John Fardell |website=http://www.scottishbooktrust.com/contacts/john-fardell
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  • My Life by David Jason
    |reviewer=John Van der Kiste ...don in February 1940 during the early years of the Second World War, David John White once had a brief career as an electrician. Fortunately for the world
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  • Raised from the Ground by Jose Saramago
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...scendants here and there. It's a book that could do with a family tree or list of dramatis personae but carries its population through a very poetically-d
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  • February 2017 Newsletter
    ...ll-1984-sales-surge-kellyanne-conway-alternative-facts Amazon's bestseller list]. Alternative facts are not facts. And thank you, George Orwell, for warnin In non-fiction, John thinks you might enjoy [[In the Midnight Hour: The Life & Soul of Wilson Pi
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  • Criminal Enterprise by Owen Laukkanen
    The work of Laukkanen continues to echo that of John Sandford, but there is no shame in following a master of the genre. This i {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Crime Novels of 2014}}
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  • The Weirdo Years 1981-'91 by R Crumb
    |reviewer=John Lloyd Still, for a new spin on the tale of a man getting sucked in by TV, a list of sexual case histories – including several of the author's own – and
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  • Captured by Neil Cross
    |reviewer= John Lloyd ...ng him just as he's barely turning forty. As a result he compiles a short list of rights to wrong, and people to create closure with. One, his ex-wife, m
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  • Kill the Boy Band by Goldy Moldavsky
    |reviewer=John Lloyd {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Teens Books of 2016}}
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  • April 2014 Newsletter
    In fiction, John thinks you should read [[Look Who's Back by Timur Vermes]]. A very misguide ...Sue recommends [[A Little Piece of England: A tale of self-sufficiency by John Jackson]], a warts-and-all look at what it's like to run a smallholding and
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  • Star Wars Where's the Wookiee? 2 Search and Find Activity Book by Katrina Pallant and Ulises Farinas
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...me of which may or may not be present, dammit. You also get a quick check-list of other characters, but let me blunt about this right from the start, YOU
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  • The Luminous Life of Lilly Aphrodite by Beatrice Colin
    |publisher= John Murray Publishers Ltd {{toptentext|list=Richard and Judy Shortlist 2009}}
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  • Elizabeth's Women: The Hidden Story of the Virgin Queen by Tracy Borman
    |reviewer= John Van der Kiste {{toptentext|list=Bookbag's Christmas Gift Recommendations 2009}}
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  • The Red Notebook by Antoine Laurain, Emily Boyce (translator) and Jane Aitken (translator)
    |reviewer=John Lloyd {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Literary Fiction Books of 2015}}
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  • Howl: A Graphic Novel by Allen Ginsberg
    |reviewer=John Lloyd For those who don't know Howl, it's almost a list poem in four parts. By far the longest, the first, itemises an inordinate
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  • Wasp-Waisted by David Barrie
    |publisher= John Law Media {{toptentext|list=Bookbag's Christmas Gift Recommendations 2009}}
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  • Touching Distance by Rebecca Abrams
    ...t Clair, which touches on some of the same themes, or [[Death In Hellfire (John Rawlings Mystery) by Deryn Lake]], a historical crime novel with a medical {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Historical Fiction Books}}
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  • The Tiger that Isn't by Michael Blastland and Andrew Dilnot
    ...ype of book then we think that you'd also enjoy [[How to Read a Novel]] by John Sutherland. {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Books For Slightly Geeky People}}
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  • The Library of Unrequited Love by Sophie Divry
    |reviewer=John Lloyd {{toptentext|list=Top Ten General Fiction Books of 2013}}
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  • The Body Under the Bridge by Nick Louth
    DI John Perry found that his private life was collapsing around him. His wife open If you'd like to read the books in order, you'll find a chronological list [[Nick Louth's DCI Craig Gillard Novels in Chronological Order|here]]. For
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  • Bird in a Cage by Frederic Dard and David Bellos (translator)
    |reviewer=John Lloyd {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Crime Novels 2016}}
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  • August 2015 Newsletter
    In non-fiction, John thoroughly enjoyed [[Mythology: An Illustrated Journey Into Our Imagined Wo ...what can happen and it really is rather glorious. You are all down on the list for this highly entertaining and silly bop around the fruit bowl.
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  • The Second World War in 100 Facts by Clive Pearson
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...ping with the basic-essays-and-nought-else plan, there is no index, and no list of sources, so the entry, say, on Hitler's medication, needs a pinch of sal
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  • Dragon Shield by Charlie Fletcher
    ...brilliant story featuring Chingachgook from ''Last of the Mohicans'', Long John Silver from ''Treasure Island'' and Alan Breck from ''Kidnapped''. We also {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Books for Confident Readers 2014}}
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  • The Bolter by Frances Osborne
    |reviewer=John Van der Kiste {{toptentext|list=Richard and Judy Shortlist 2009}}
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  • Small Crimes by Dave Zeltserman
    |reviewer=John Lloyd With everyone on the cast list at least dodgy – there are no heroes or heroines here – the moral maze
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  • All at Sea: One Man. One Bathtub. One Very Bad Idea: Conquering the Channel in a Piece of Plumbing by Tim Fitzhigham
    |reviewer= John Lloyd {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Books For Your Boyfriend}}
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  • Anna and the Swallow Man by Gavriel Savit
    ...suggestions for ''more like this'' are [[The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne]] and [[The Book Thief by Markus Zusak]]. But you might also want to {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Books for Confident Readers 2016}}
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  • Greatest Magical Stories by Michael Morpurgo (editor)
    |reviewer=John Lloyd That mien comes a lot from the artwork, and I won't list everyone's names, I'll just say something semi-coherent like ''Wow!'' and l
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  • Notes From An Exhibition by Patrick Gale
    |reviewer=John Lloyd {{toptentext|list=Richard and Judy Shortlist 2008}}
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  • The Summoning by E.E. Richardson
    |reviewer=John Lloyd {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Books For Children Who Love To Be Scared Silly}}
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  • Something Nasty in the Slushpile by Sammy Looker
    ...literary agent then you should read this book as it's a pretty exhaustive list of all the things which you really shouldn't do if you're hoping to be a tr ...rchants of Culture: The Publishing Business in the Twenty-First Century by John B Thompson]] should tell you all that you need to know (and probably a bit
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  • Nigella Bites by Nigella Lawson
    ...er and then a stentorian voice would say "... and here is the recipe". The list of ingredients would appear on the screen and there would be complete silen ...This seemed fine. No one was turning over from the boredom of staring at a list of ingredients staring at them and the Radio Times got some free advertisin
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  • A Natural History of Dragons: A Memoir by Lady Trent by Marie Brennan
    |reviewer=John Lloyd {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Fantasy Novels of 2014}}
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  • What is Your Dangerous Idea? by John Brockman
    |author=John Brockman ...hemselves. Humble they ain't. The Edge is a leading online forum headed by John Brockman and each year Mr Brockman asks its contributors a question. This y
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  • Grace Williams Says it Loud by Emma Henderson
    ...hundreds and thousands. Boiled eggs and Marmite fingers. Soldiers, said John. Chicken and eggs. There were millions of eggs in Mother's ovaries, he sa {{toptentext|list=Orange Prize 2011}}
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  • You Were Never Really Here by Jonathan Ames
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...es the reader in a dark and grim place, he moves on to the next job on his list – rescuing the daughter of a Senator. But are that holy lack of wake and
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  • London: The Illustrated History by Cathy Ross and John Clark
    |author= Cathy Ross and John Clark {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Books About London}}
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  • January 2010 Newsletter
    ...g women struggling against the ties of circumstance in troubled Sri Lanka. John lapped up [[Brodeck's Report by Philippe Claudel]] - a brilliantly absorbin ...tough lives in tough neighbourhoods at tough economic times - and [[WE by John Dickinson]] - a classy sci-fi thriller about free will, individuality, coll
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  • American Adulterer by Jed Mercurio
    {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Books on President John F Kennedy}}
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  • Perfumes: The A - Z Guide by Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez
    ...e History of Science by John D Barrow]], [[What is Your Dangerous Idea? by John Brockman]] and [[Barbarian in the Garden by Zbigniew Herbert|Herbert's essa {{toptentext|list=Bookbag's Christmas Gift Recommendations 2009}}
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  • Cosima Unfortunate Steals a Star by Laura Noakes
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...forces some of the score of girls inside to be anonymous to keep the cast-list and our concentrations focused; the way an interloper's true identity is se
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  • The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Alex Woolf
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...en King's ''The Long Walk'', Fleming's Bond novels, and science fiction by John Wyndham, Frederick Pohl, Philip K Dick and Isaac Asimov. I loved all these
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  • A Fall from Grace by Robert Barnard
    ...d writers of crime fiction Robert Barnard would be near the top along with John Harvey. His writing style is direct and uncomplicated with never a word wa
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  • May 2015 Newsletter
    ...of Gus and Hazel in John Green’s life-changing [[The Fault in Our Stars by John Green|The Fault in Our Stars]]. Night of Infinities is a a UK and Ireland w ...bookbag.co.uk email us] and we'll see that you're deleted from the mailing list.)
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  • Writing Lines by Tony Stuart
    ...ather sympathetic and sad character at times. If you enjoyed ''Stoner'' by John Williams, and fancy a book that at times seems like a spoof of that, ''Writ {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Self-Published Books 2016}}
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  • April 2016 Newsletter
    ...Aubrey was one of the earliest biographers, although his [[Brief Lives by John Aubrey|Brief Lives]] remained unpublished for more than a century after his ...bookbag.co.uk email us] and we'll see that you're deleted from the mailing list.)
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  • WE by John Dickinson
    |author=John Dickinson {{toptentext|list=Bookbag's Christmas Gift Recommendations 2010}}
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  • The Cornish Guest House (Tremarnock) by Emma Burstall
    ...than and Annie. Over by the fire, Tony was holding court with Felipe, Tom, John Lambert and Audrey's aged mum, while Barbara and her son Aiden were busy se ...to the storyline. At one point, Liz even has a flashback and gives a long list of the characters in the previous book. It was all very frustrating.
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  • Acts of Love by Talulah Riley
    Bernadette St John presents herself as the very face of contemporary feminine independence. Sh {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Women's Fiction Books of 2016}}
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  • National Trust: Go Wild in the Woods by Goldie Hawk and Rachael Saunders
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...a beaver amongst other species, some common trees identified, and a check-list of animal tracks and droppings for our own domestic safaris. And, in case
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  • The Assassination of the Archduke: Sarajevo 1914 and the Murder That Changed the World by Greg King and Sue Woolmans
    |reviewer=John Van der Kiste ...ppen. Potiorek, the governor-general of Bosnia, was at the head of a long list of guilty men. On the other hand, the suspicion remains that the Archduke
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  • We Die Alone by David Howarth
    |reviewer=John Lloyd {{toptentext|list=Bookbag's Christmas Gift Recommendations 2010}}
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  • How to Write your Best Story Ever! by Christopher Edge
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ..., romance – you get the gist. The USP of these chapters is the vocabulary list, presented each time as a neck-twisting spider's web full of inspiration, b
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  • Clean: An Unsanitised History of Washing by Katherine Ashenburg
    The book is full of interesting facts and anecdotes, but it is not a mere list of these, as Ashenburg discusses the issues of personal hygiene and cleansi ...of seawater bathing were also extolled at this time. In a sermon in 1791, John Wesley, who championed cold bathing, proclaimed ''cleanliness is next to go
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  • Travels With My Sketchbook by Michael Foreman
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...completed his official, formal studies, and it would appear – huge credits list regardless – that he's never stopped moving since, as this book takes us
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  • The Eddie Dickens Trilogy by Philip Ardagh
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...gned to be too odd for instant summary, and they succeed in that. I could list the bizarre things Maud and Jack get up to til the (hollow) cows came home.
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  • Fuzz McFlops by Eve Furnari and Alison Entrekin (translator)
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...me about. But instead we get poem, telegram, letter, recipe, aide memoire list, fantasy tale, and a lot more. The extended appendix goes through them all
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  • The Mapmaker's Monsters: Beware the Buffalogre! by Rob Stevens
    |reviewer=John Lloyd {{toptentext|list=Waterstone's Children's Book Prize 2009}}
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  • Life On The Refrigerator Door by Alice Kuipers
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...busy to include proper one-to-one contact, but what draws our female cast list apart are on the pleasant side of trivial – C is busy with baby-sitting a
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  • Star Wars: Galactic Atlas by Emil Fortune and Tim McDonagh
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...st decades. Breaking the whole thing down into smaller sections, we get a list itemising every key planet, followed by large format double-page spreads cr
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  • The Virtuous Saint by Johan Minto
    ...oag when they meet at the graduation ceremony. In pursuit of them is Dean John Graham, who will stop at nothing to get hold of Marcus Hoag's notebook. He ...l-drawn. If I've one quibble about the characters it's the inclusion of a List of Characters at the beginning of the book – assiduous reader that I am I
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  • Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan
    ...but much less dark and considerably more accessible. [[The Fatal Child by John Dickinson]] might also appeal. Otherwise, they should simply re-read ''Tend {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Book Recommendations From Twitterers}}
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  • Bookshelf (Object Lessons) by Lydia Pyne
    |reviewer=John Lloyd {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Non-Fiction Books of 2016}}
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  • Tiger-Lily Gold (The Silk Sisters) by Fiona Dunbar
    |reviewer= John Lloyd ...d Rexco's methods - from mesmerising implants, to artificial islands for E-list celebs to survive together - are out of some science fictional dystopia. T
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  • The Digital Plague by Jeff Somers
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...t the sci-fi reader put this volume, if not the weaker series opener, on a list marked 'well worth investigation'.
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  • Longbourn by Jo Baker
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...it has a rich vocabulary, sometimes being too archaic for even my Scrabble List Dictionary, but it reads crisp and fresh on the page, while at the same tim
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  • Phil Daniels: Class Actor by Phil Daniels
    |reviewer=John Van der Kiste ...e last twenty years or so, Phil Daniels would undoubtedly come high on the list. Born in Islington in 1958 and raised in Kings Cross, he was a graduate of
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  • Graphic Classics, Volume 17: Science Fiction Classics by H. G. Wells, Jules Verne, Arthur Conan Doyle
    |reviewer= John Lloyd None of the artists' names were known to me - they're not exactly on the A-list in the comix world, and I'm not sure this has evidence that they ever would
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  • Auntie Poldi and the Fruits of the Lord by Mario Giordano
    |publisher= John Murray ...e mafia. No one is above suspicion, she even places herself on the suspect list, and trouble follows as she leaps into action without thinking, leaving the
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  • Not In Your Lifetime: The Assassination of JFK by Anthony Summers
    {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Books on President John F Kennedy}}
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  • Mutiny on the Bounty by John Boyne
    |author=John Boyne |reviewer=John Lloyd
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  • Body Count by Shaun Hutson
    |reviewer= John Lloyd ...of logic and truth about it. Even when slashing his way through his cast-list of what some might think as unlikely and/or right-wing characters, Hutson n
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  • January 2012 Newsletter
    ...ured a new crime novel for a while but this month Sue found [[Good Bait by John Harvey]] - a journey through those parts of the criminal underworld which y ...bookbag.co.uk email us] and we'll see that you're deleted from the mailing list.)
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  • Anna Amalia, Grand Duchess: Patron of Goethe and Schiller by Frances A Gerard
    |reviewer=John Van der Kiste ...t contains very detailed headings under each chapter title in the contents list, while 32 pages of plates contain a generous 57 black and white illustratio
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  • Detective Nosegoode and the Music Box Mystery (Detective Nosegoode 1) by Marian Orlon, Jerzy Flisak and Eliza Marciniak (translator)
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...made for a great mystery book – is still met, even with such a small cast-list of characters. They will like the fantasy of the talking dog, and if they'
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  • Labyrinth by Theo Guignard
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...ot various things, once you've done your route-finding. It's only a short list every time, but it can add minutes to your task before you can turn the pag
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  • The Chamber of Shadows by Justin Richards
    |reviewer=John Lloyd |summary=A great list of gothic scenarios meshing into a very interesting book, which offers grea
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  • Abiding Evil by Alison Buck
    |reviewer=John Lloyd Certainly not on anyone's list of suspects is loner, forest dweller Jon, who was abandoned to a life of so
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  • The Dark Lady by Akala
    ...ed robbery brings Henry to the notice of a nobleman and his friend, Doctor John Dee, there's another impossible choice to make. To take the wealth, comfort Akala has a short list of further reading suggestions at the end of ''The Dark Lady''. Among them
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  • July 2015 Newsletter
    ...an/Greek impasse. Ani and the author had [[The Interview: Bookbag Talks To John Piper|a super chat about it all]] when he called by. ...bookbag.co.uk email us] and we'll see that you're deleted from the mailing list.)
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  • Brain Twisters: The Science of Thinking and Feeling by Clive Gifford and Professor Anil Seth
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...gage with different parts of it for balance, catching a ball, memorising a list of moves in controlling a video game character, or understanding things ran
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  • The Shadow King: The Bizarre Afterlife of King Tut's Mummy by Jo Marchant
    ...l Truth Behind Ancient Egypt by Robert Temple]] and [[The Rosetta Stone by John Ray]] {{toptentext|list=Top Ten History Books of 2013}}
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  • Coconut Chaos by Diana Souhami
    ...rigue you as they do me, we definitely recommend [[Mutiny on the Bounty by John Boyne]]. {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Historical Fiction Books of 2013}}
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  • Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks
    |reviewer= John Van der Kiste {{toptentext|list=Independent Booksellers' Prize 2009}}
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  • The Raft by Arabella Edge
    |reviewer=John Lloyd {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Historical Fiction Books}}
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  • January 2014 Newsletter
    In non-fiction, John has a book for history buffs. [[Archduke Franz Ferdinand Lives!: A World wi ...od out for us. Take a look at our [[Top Ten Self-Published Books 2013|2013 list]]. You might be surprised at the quality of what you find.
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  • The Prince Who Would Be King: The Life and Death of Henry Stuart by Sarah Fraser
    |reviewer= John Van der Kiste ...on of a monarch who did not live long enough to succeed to the throne. The list also included Arthur (son of Henry VII) and Albert Victor (Edward VII). Of
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  • Jinks & O'Hare Funfair Repair by Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyre
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...ork to be done – but the way Emily throws herself into solving the drastic list of problems is typical of young, thoughtful, enterprising girls everywhere.
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  • Monster Makers: Stinkermite by Ali Sparkes
    |reviewer=John Lloyd {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Books For Children Who Think That Farts Are Funny}}
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  • This Land is Your Land by Woody Guthrie and Kathy Jakobsen
    ...famous folk musician, Woody Guthrie. I love Woody Guthrie; to me he's the John Steinbeck of music. He spent a lot of time hitching across the states, sing {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Books With Gorgeous Illustrations}}
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  • November 2012 Newsletter
    ...their age or interests. We hope you find great gifts for everyone on your list - literary or not - and that you receive some great gifts yourself. And we In fiction, John recommends [[The Cleaner of Chartres by Salley Vickers]]. Agnes is a myster
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  • January 2015 Newsletter
    ...in Winter (Charlie Parker Thriller) by John Connolly|The Wolf in Winter by John Connolly]], the twelfth and latest in the Charlie Parker series. Prosperous In non-fiction, John loved [[MOD: From Bebop to Britpop, Britain's Biggest Youth Movement by Ric
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  • Measle and the Slitherghoul by Ian Ogilvy
    |reviewer=John Lloyd {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Books For Children Who Think That Farts Are Funny}}
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  • Hitler's Secret by Rory Clements
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...m of piece-meal flashbacks. All of which allows us to watch Wilde and his list of colleagues, employers and other companions, on their dramatic chase-like
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  • Where my Heart Used to Beat by Sebastian Faulks
    ...ce on the island of Mr Pereira brings to mind the mystery and confusion of John Fowles ''The Magus'', later revelations about the nature of both Alexander {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Literary Fiction Books of 2015}}
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  • Laura Marlin Mysteries: Dead Man's Cove by Lauren St John
    |author=Lauren St John ..., so having an uncle who trusts her to be sensible, rather than lay down a list of rules, seems ideal. But Uncle Calvin and his house are shrouded in secre
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  • Unfaithfully Yours by Nigel Williams
    |reviewer=John Lloyd When Nigel Williams first really burst on to the best-seller list, a couple of decades ago, it was with a book set in Wimbledon that really q
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  • Delete This at Your Peril: One Man's Fearless Exchanges with the Internet Spammers by Bob Servant
    ...Theplank, he is a late-middle-aged working-class eccentric in the vein of John Shuttleworth. {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Funniest Books}}
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  • The Sheltering Tree by Fiona Taylor
    ...the house or looking after her three younger siblings. Her elder brother, John works on Mr Northover's farm and ''he'' escapes the domestic chores! She's {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Self-Published Books 2020}}
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  • Brodeck's Report by Philippe Claudel
    |reviewer= John Lloyd {{toptentext|list=Top Ten War Novels}}
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  • The Master of Bruges by Terence Morgan
    |reviewer= John Lloyd {{toptentext|list=Bookbag's Christmas Gift Recommendations 2010}}
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  • The Rule of Claw by John Brindley
    |author=John Brindley {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Dystopian Books For Children}}
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  • Satellite by Nick Lake
    ...ality, gender expression, finding love, coming-of-age, climate change, the list seems almost endless. And it's seamless; nothing shoe-horned in. ...ing at how humans are affected by living in space in the wonderful [[WE by John Dickinson]]. Slightly younger readers wanting to read about science and spa
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  • Dear Fatty by Dawn French
    |reviewer= John Van der Kiste ...ing an ironically topical one begging her not to get divorced. As for the list of 30 things for which she should apologise for having done on the premises
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  • The Red Ribbon by Lucy Adlington
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...Morris Gleitzman]] series, so make sure all the above are on your to-read list. Also, this author has previously gone under [[:Category:LJ Adlington|just
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  • Edward IV: Glorious Son of York by Jeffrey James
    |reviewer= John Van der Kiste ...e charms of Elizabeth Woodville, the widow of a Lancastrian supporter, Sir John Grey, but also taking her as his Queen. In doing so he antagonised his kin
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  • Man at the Helm by Nina Stibbe
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...days spent in the village, with a gathering spread of pets and a middling list of potential new step-fathers. Once again this is underscored by the only
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  • The Girl With All the Gifts by M R Carey
    |reviewer=John Lloyd {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Fantasy Novels of 2014}}
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  • Dinosaurium (Welcome to the Museum) by Lily Murray and Chris Wormell
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...nd word title would suggest, entirely as a museum. So much so the credits list the makers as 'curators', the chapters are 'galleries' and so on. The book
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  • The Artist, The Philosopher and The Warrior by Paul Strathern
    |reviewer= John Van der Kiste ...oluted tale. The author has helpfully added maps of Italy, a timeline and list of dramatis personae, but I suspect that anyone who does not have a thoroug
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  • Shadow of the Titanic by Andrew Wilson
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...anity in the tale, and reminds us of the survivors who get crossed off the list of the victims. Here are people who definitely were most affected by the c
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  • Stone Cold by David Baldacci
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...irst appears. So what's he doing killing someone whose name is on a mental list of a few others with secret agent skill?
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  • March 2010 Newsletter
    For the little ones, we all bowed to John's choice: [[The Quest of the Warrior Sheep by Christopher Russell and Chris ...bookbag.co.uk email us] and we'll see that you're deleted from the mailing list.)
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  • Ancient Egypt in 30 Seconds: 30 Awesome Topics for Pharaoh Fanatics Explained in Half a Minute (Children's 30 Second) by Cath Senker and Melvyn Evans
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...or an activity (make your own boat from drinking straws, devise your wish-list for the afterlife, that sort of thing). The right hand side then is down t
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  • Wilkie Collins by Peter Ackroyd
    |reviewer=John Van der Kiste ...mple, he was extremely prolific. On the page before the bibliography, the list of ‘major works’ given numbers only fifteen, yet by the time he died in
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  • Beautiful Creatures: Beautiful Darkness by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
    ...ulled towards her Dark cousin Ridley and a new boy in town, the mysterious John Breed. While the first novel was more of a romance, this is an adventure st {{toptentext|list=Bookbag's Christmas Gift Recommendations 2010}}
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  • The Naming of the Dead by Ian Rankin
    ...e officer seems to be relatively unemployed and that's Detective Inspector John Rebus. His bosses wish that he'd retire: he doesn't know what he'd do with ...a list of the Rebus novels in chronological order [[Ian Rankin's Inspector John Rebus novels in chronological order|here]].
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  • Teenage Revolution: Growing Up in the 80s by Alan Davies
    |reviewer=John Van der Kiste ...ns on motor racing, Arsenal and the world cup at some speed – likewise his list of Top 10 fish from the early 70s. (His excuse for the inclusion of same
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  • The Court of the Air by Stephen Hunt
    |reviewer=John Lloyd It's not just the dense writing style used - I could list aspects of the inventive world that are featured even for just one mention
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  • Bitten to Death (Jaz Parks) by Jennifer Rardin
    |reviewer= John Lloyd {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Books About Vampires}}
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  • Dark Echo by F G Cottam
    ...end that you immediately rush out and buy – but a suitable addition to the list if you're packing for a holiday on the high seas. ...n the perils of life under sail try John Boyne's [[Mutiny on the Bounty by John Boyne|Mutiny on the Bounty]]. We also have a review of [[The Waiting Room b
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  • People of the Day 4: The Rich and Famous Caricatured by Peter Wynter Bee and Lucy Clapham
    ...or religion but there's one man for whom I make an exception and that's Dr John Sentamu, the Archbishop of York. He was born in Uganda and initially studi {{toptentext|list=Bookbag's Christmas Gift Recommendations 2009}}
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  • The Best of Adam Sharp by Graeme Simsion
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...It seems to be a bizarre fantasy, some heightened ticking-off from a wish-list, and I never believed it for one minute. Separate to its existence alone,
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  • Flanimals: The Day of the Bletchling by Ricky Gervais
    |reviewer=John Lloyd {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Quirky Kids' Books}}
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  • The Shambling Guide to New York City (The Shambling Guides) by Mur Lafferty
    ...coterie to be polite. Vampires, werewolves, demons, sprites, zombies… the list goes on as all alternative life is there, both in and out of the office. S ...ophisticated, dry humoured vampire, Phil and the wickedly naughty incubus, John. Granny Good Mae is a great puzzle that keeps us guessing for a while befo
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  • Alpha by Bessora, Barroux and Sarah Ardizzone (translator)
    |reviewer=John Lloyd |publisher=The Bucket List
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  • Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain
    ...s, sport, celebrity and movies, and some might add Middle East war to this list. The boys are like fish out of water in their celebrity at home and the PR ...very recommended for fans of character-driven books is [[In One Person by John Irving]], although quite what the boys of Bravo company would make of Irvin
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  • The Midnight Watch by David Dyer
    ...ding events. Why? Within a day or two of the disaster American journalist John Steadman is sent to cover the Titanic's sinking but the story of the Califo {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Historical Fiction Books of 2016}}
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  • The X-Files Origins: Devil's Advocate by Jonathan Maberry
    |reviewer=John Lloyd Dana Scully can be added to the list of teenaged people upset by their family moving home in those key years. H
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  • Demo: v. 1 by Brian Wood and Becky Cloonan
    |reviewer= John Lloyd This is practically foremost now in my list of 'graphic novels for people who don't like graphic novels'. It's lovely
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  • You and I by Padgett Powell
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...e Mood by Padgett Powell|The Interrogative Mood]] was designed purely as a list of questions. Some were of dubious grammatical correctness, but mostly by
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  • Marooned in the Arctic by Peggy Caravantes
    |reviewer=John Lloyd {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Autobiographies and Biographies 2016}}
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  • The Six Wives & Many Mistresses of Henry VIII: The Women's Stories by Amy Licence
    |reviewer= John Van der Kiste ...lount and Mary Boleyn, the sister of Anne, are the two best-known, but the list extends beyond that. Research reveals that during the early years, there we
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  • The Mystery of the Three Orchids by Augusto de Angelis and Jill Foulston (translator)
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...ngage with the story, either, with its daftly made-up names, its tiny cast list, and its lack of fully appropriating the fashion setting. Without casting
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  • Life on Another Planet by Will Eisner
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...l from an alien planet, near Barnard's Star. The simple message is just a list of prime numbers, but it kick-starts an awful lot of goings on. Spies from
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  • Beowulf by Michael Morpurgo
    ...s Land is Your Land]]. You might also like to take a look at [[Grendel by John Gardner]] and [[Storm Weaver by Matt Griffin]]. {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Retellings of Myths, Legends and Fairy Tales}}
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  • Oscar's Lion by Adam Baron and Benji Davies
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...f this. Yes, being temporarily parentless is always on a youngster's wish-list, and the lion is a cool replacement. But again, is he? His seize-the-day,
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  • The Beauty of Her Age: A Tale of Sex, Scandal and Money in Victorian England by Jenifer Roberts
    |reviewer= John Van der Kiste {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Autobiographies and Biographies 2016}}
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  • Sure Fire by Jack Higgins
    ...om then on, their world becomes a much more dangerous place. It seems that John Chance is some kind of spy, and the twins are now implicated. They can't tr ...are growing out of children's books but aren't quite ready for the Booker list. I certainly read a number of his offerings at that age. I thought they wer
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  • The Battle of the Sun by Jeanette Winterson
    ...all of London into a city of gold - and happily, for once, his name is not John Dee. But, like Dee, the magus is an alchemist. He lacks just one thing to b {{toptentext|list=Bookbag's Christmas Gift Recommendations 2009}}
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  • If You're Reading This, It's Too Late by Pseudonymous Bosch
    |reviewer= John Lloyd {{toptentext|list=Bookbag's Easter Eggs}}
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  • Is This Bottle Corked? The Secret Life of Wine by Kathleen Burk and Michael Bywater
    |reviewer= John Lloyd {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Books For Your Mother}}
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  • Bedlam: London and Its Mad by Catharine Arnold
    |reviewer= John Van der Kiste {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Books About London}}
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  • Munich: The Man Who Said No! by David Laws
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...way to prove to the world a new discovery is of interest, seems to have a list of attendants nobody actually pieced together, allowing all and sundry to t
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  • The Devil's Right Hand (Dante Valentine Novel) by Lilith Saintcrow
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...out this volume, and it soon becomes clear that the four demons on her hit-list will not face the expected closure by the end. I have to say that my appeti
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  • The World of Norm: 9: May Still Be Charged by Jonathan Meres
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...up his phone bill online, and it's rather long. As long as Norm's entire list of woes, perhaps – and therefore is just one more thing that's a burden.
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  • Gothic! by Deborah Noyes
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...w very poor ones I can't see anyone loving, but no-one to add to my mental list of teenage writer favourites.
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  • Too Close to the Edge by Pascal Garnier and Emily Boyce (translator)
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...e fits it very well. Again, not a fault. His thrillers have a small cast list of characters, trapped somehow in a small community, cut off by weather, se
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  • Kill Fee by Owen Laukkanen
    ...and mouse dynamic that has only been bettered by the master of the style – John Sandford. {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Crime Novels of 2015}}
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  • The Bloodstone Bird by Inbali Iserles
    |reviewer=John Lloyd {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Books for Young Readers That Feature a Passage Between Worlds}}
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  • Elvis Has Left the Building: The Day the King Died by Dylan Jones
    |reviewer=John Van der Kiste ...s, was bottled for his pains and had to be rescued by a visibly distressed John Peel.
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  • If You Liked School, You'll Love Work by Irvine Welsh
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...rd drug use is on the fifth page, and sex soon joins it. But I cannot just list what we can predict from this book and hope to get away with it, so here's
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  • August 2016 Newsletter
    ...eries they're calling ''Originals''. YA is nothing new, you know. And this list brings back some of the old favourites, which are as fresh and as challengi In non-fiction, John recommends [[The A-Z of Victorian Crime by Neil R A Bell, Trevor N Bond, Ka
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  • For My Sins by Alex Nye
    ...shes words and sentiments with people like Protestant purist and adversary John Knox. Yet we also witness her vulnerability, examples being when her love ...how historical fiction should be done. Definitely on my re-read annually list!
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  • Madame Bovary of the Suburbs by Sophie Divry and Alison Anderson (translator)
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...as regards the motions of her driving feet, with her errands itemised in a list of directions for them. But we then get two whole pages telling us what th
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  • Sherlock: His Last Bow by Arthur Conan Doyle
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...the theft of state secrets. It also suffers from having too small a cast-list – it's so much more successful as a look at the deductive mastery than a
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  • Play The Shape Game by Anthony Browne
    ...Wise|Greg Wise's]] ''Picass-O-Rhino'' had me laughing my head off. A full list of the contributors is at the end of this review. [[Category:John Hegley]]
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  • May 2013 Newsletter
    ...eur in Russia and Turkey during and immediately after the First World War. John had never come across the story of Frederick Bruce Thomas, 'the Black Russi ...bookbag.co.uk email us] and we'll see that you're deleted from the mailing list.)
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  • Star Wars Millennium Falcon Book and Mega Model by Katrina Pallant and Neal Manning
    |reviewer=John Lloyd Yes, this joins the growing list of models Egmont have provided for us to both read about and then create.
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  • The Dreamer by Will Eisner
    |reviewer=John Lloyd {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Books With Gorgeous Illustrations}}
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  • January 2016 Newsletter
    ...sicians, David Bowie. Bowie was a voracious reader and The Telegraph has a list of the great man's 100 "must read" books [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/cultur In non-fiction, John thinks you should look at [[Mr and Mrs Disraeli: A Strange Romance by Daisy
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  • The Mystery of Princess Louise: Queen Victoria's Rebellious Daughter by Lucinda Hawksley
    |reviewer=John Van der Kiste ...scandal to touch the life of Princess Louise. At the age of 23 she married John Campbell, Marquis of Lorne. Coming from an impeccable Scottish family, he m
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  • The Loxleys and Confederation by Mark Zuehlke and Claude St Aubin
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...their southern neighbours – European occupancy being slowly turned into a list of states as we know them now, slowly spreading into the heart of the conti
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  • The Adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle by Russell Miller
    |reviewer=John Van der Kiste {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Biographies and Autobiographies}}
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  • Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison
    |reviewer= John Lloyd ...o see this won a Nebula Award upon initial publication. My old copy has a list of recommended reading (now-impossible-to-find titles such as ''The Challen
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  • One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Krushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War by Michael Dobbs
    {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Books on President John F Kennedy}}
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  • Avril Lavigne's Make 5 Wishes by Avril Lavigne
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...his story are well worth the exploration, and should be on everyone's wish-list.
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  • The Runaway Troll by Matt Haig
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...he off, and sustains it with different approaches to narrative style – the list, the authorial interruption and so on. But I couldn't help feeling that as
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  • The Expo Files: Articles by the Crusading Journalist by Stieg Larsson
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...different kind, we have our [[Top Ten Books For The Defenders Of Reason]] list to peruse. For a discussion of some kind of extremism, you might like [[Po
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  • The Seventh Well by Fred Wander
    |reviewer=John Lloyd {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Tube Reads}}
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  • Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey
    ...r indeed talent. Tilbot also dispatches his servant, an older British man, John Larrit, known to everyone as Parrot, to act as Oliver's secretary, servant, {{toptentext|list=Man Booker Prize 2010}}
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  • Friends and Traitors by Helen Peters
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...people are horrid here, and I would even include snootsome Sidney in that list of people who lacked my empathy. In making the upper class so evil, and Na
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  • Prince Arthur: The Tudor King Who Never Was by Sean Cunningham
    |reviewer= John Van der Kiste {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Autobiographies and Biographies 2016}}
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  • The Hacienda: How Not To Run A Club by Peter Hook
    |reviewer=John Van der Kiste ...carries the narrative through, even if there are pages when the continual list of debacles, mishaps and sheer bungling starts to become a little wearing.
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  • The Scholl Case by Anja Reich-Osang and Imogen Taylor (translator)
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...that very minute, even breaking off from vital meetings to have a shopping list dictated to him. She was dictatorial to friends and strangers alike. He w
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  • The Monsters We Deserve by Marcus Sedgwick
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...(well, the kind that is also mad, and dangerous to know), a spooky reading list and a few chance topics of discussion all led a young woman to start writin
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  • Talk to the Hand by Lynne Truss
    ...conference to see delegates give their loudest cheer for the film clip of John Prescott punching a protester. On the other hand the word 'sorry' has been {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Tube Reads}}
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  • Death Makes A Prophet by John Bude
    |author=John Bude Either way, I defy any reader not to be coming up with their own cast list for the screen adaptation as they read.
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  • The Thingummy by Danny Danziger and Mark McCrum
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...wear, but when we get a token vintage picture of a shoe, right beneath the list of shoe parts, it's a wasted opportunity not to turn it into a fully labell
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  • The Crying Tree by Naseem Rakha
    ...lroy]] but ''The Crying Tree'' is far superior. You might also try [[W by John Banks]]. {{toptentext|list=Bookbag's Christmas Gift Recommendations 2009}}
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  • Bertie: A Life of Edward VII by Jane Ridley
    |reviewer=John Van der Kiste ...it appears that he was quite intelligent, and but for the impatient tutor John Dalton in whom his parents had placed such blind confidence, he would have
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  • January 2017 Newsletter
    ...most art lovers. That seemingly happy circumstance happened to bookseller John Snare at a sale in 1845 and is the centrepiece to Cumming's book. Part hist For younger readers, John was mightily impressed by [[Me and Mister P by Maria Farrer and Daniel Riel
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  • The Industrial Revolution (Campfire Graphic Novels) by Lewis Helfand and Naresh Kumar
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...nd the script allows for such variation because it isn't in the end just a list of achievements. Here indeed are the dutifully diligent, doing their bit f
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  • Rabbits by Terry Miles
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...in the way of his games' players. This is a world where obscure album set-list misprints lead to clues about paintings lead to, well, a Siberian power pla
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  • Sex, Lies and Vampires by Katie MacAlister
    |reviewer= John Lloyd {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Books About Vampires}}
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  • Barefaced Lies and Boogie-Woogie Boasts by Jools Holland
    |reviewer= John Van der Kiste {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Books For Your Boyfriend}}
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  • The Ultimate DVD Easter Egg Guide: How to Access the Hidden Extras on Your DVD by Jo Berry
    |reviewer= John Lloyd ...nion by Jeff Evans]] already. We're sure you'd like to browse through our list of [[Newest Entertainment Reviews]] too.
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  • Keep the Home Fires Burning: War at Home, 1915 by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
    ...seful. There are also other benefits to the job, seeing more of local vet John Courcy for instance, although their relationship is purely professional… ...being true to her standards. Actually they're beyond standards; they're a list of criteria that include the future prospects for any prospective Mr Ethel.
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  • A Summer of Drowning by John Burnside
    |author=John Burnside {{toptentext|list=Costa Prize 2011}}
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  • Once Bitten, Twice Shy by Jennifer Rardin
    |reviewer=John Lloyd {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Books About Vampires}}
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  • Mrs Mohr Goes Missing by Maryla Szymiczkova and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...imsy, as I almost was, each chapter is given an ''in which…'' paragraph to list the contents, and these are archly 'droll'. Which makes one think this is
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  • August 2008 Newsletter
    ...hen uses their body parts for transplant. It's wonderful, wonderful stuff. John remains as impressed as ever by our favourite child criminal mastermind. He ...bookbag.co.uk email us] and we'll see that you're deleted from the mailing list.)
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  • Lost Voices from the Titanic: The Definitive Oral History by Nick Barratt
    |reviewer=John Van der Kiste ...of the book before we reach the maiden voyage, breakdown of the passenger list and the setting sail from Southampton on 10 April 1912. Disaster was narro
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  • Holy Island: A DCI Ryan Mystery by L J Ross
    ...n the fantasy fiction definition) that turns Lindisfarne into a windswept, John-Nettles-less version of Midsomer, but in a more compelling way. {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Self-Published Books 2015}}
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  • Murder at Deviation Junction by Andrew Martin
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...er is very much a thriller adventure, and by no means a whodunit. The cast list is so short there seems no scope for major shocks, and the nation-crossing
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  • Iron Kissed (Mercy Thompson) by Patricia Briggs
    |reviewer= John Lloyd ...ised feel has if anything been lost in favour of the drama here. The cast list is not too huge for you to not guess the bad guys, but there is still a nic
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  • The Chemistry of Tears by Peter Carey
    ...nly a fool would suggest that he won't again feature on this year's Booker list, but for me, the I was drawn more to the quality of the writing than to the ...de tables this year are [[Absolution by Patrick Flanery]] and [[Capital by John Lanchester]], but there will doubtless be some surprises in store!
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  • Top Ten Books About London
    ...er in its own right. Bookbag selected its very own top ten London books: a list as diverse and idiosyncratic as the city itself. There is history and crime |author=Cathy Ross and John Clark
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  • Different for Boys by Patrick Ness and Tea Bendix
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...ake from this book is the amount of redacting done. The first page is the list, the activities that surely aren't that unhealthy for the teenagers of the
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  • The Tiger's Egg (Wednesday's Tales) by Jon Berkeley
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...the word to some extent, as a good friend has had the follow-up on a wish list for me, so with thanks to her I can read on. And this time I feel sure I ca
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  • 1415: Henry V's Year of Glory by Ian Mortimer
    |reviewer= John Van der Kiste {{toptentext|list=Bookbag's Christmas Gift Recommendations 2009}}
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  • Words and Pictures: Writers, Artists and a Peculiarly British Tradition by Jenny Uglow
    ...rators. He made sketches showing what he wanted and carefully checked that John Tenniel carried out his wishes. (Tenniel berates him as a ''conceited old D {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Books About Language}}
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  • Tudor: The Family Story by Leanda de Lisle
    |reviewer=John Van der Kiste .... Their elder son Edmund later married Margaret Beaufort, a descendant of John of Gaunt, one of King Edward III’s several sons, and it was the only chil
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  • July 2008 Newsletter
    ...for further reading or for someone who is tired of geek speak and jargon. John brings his thoughts on [[The Fears of Henry IV: The Life of England's Self- ...bookbag.co.uk email us] and we'll see that you're deleted from the mailing list.)
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  • Dyed Souls by Gary Santorella
    |reviewer=John Lloyd {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Self-Published Books 2018}}
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  • On the Origin of Species: The Illustrated Edition by Charles Darwin and David Quammen (Author and Editor)
    |reviewer= John Lloyd {{toptentext|list=List Of Books To Celebrate Charles Darwin's 200th Anniversary}}
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  • Blood Bound (Mercy Thompson) by Patricia Briggs
    |reviewer= John Lloyd {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Books About Vampires}}
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  • Then We Came To The End by Joshua Ferris
    |reviewer=John Lloyd {{toptentext|list=Richard and Judy Shortlist 2008}}
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  • List Of Books To Celebrate Charles Darwin's 200th Anniversary
    |author=John Gribbin and Michael White [[Category:Popular Science|*List Of Books To Celebrate Charles Darwin's 200th Anniversary]]
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  • November 2013 Newsletter
    In non-fiction, John recommends [[Magic Words: The Extraordinary Life of Alan Moore by Lance Par For teens, John was mightily impressed by [[Close Your Pretty Eyes by Sally Nicholls]]. A p
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  • April 2009 Newsletter
    In fiction, John was transported by [[The Missing by Tim Gautreaux]], in which a young, Amer ...bookbag.co.uk email us] and we'll see that you're deleted from the mailing list.)
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  • The Last Town on Earth by Thomas Mullen
    |reviewer=John Lloyd {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Historical Fiction Books}}
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  • History Without the Boring Bits by Ian Crofton
    |reviewer= John Lloyd {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Books For Your Father}}
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  • Christmas Gift Recommendations 2008
    ...think that you should be able to find something for everyone on your gift list. |author=John Harvey
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  • The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle over a Forbidden Book by Peter Finn and Petra Couvee
    |reviewer=John Lloyd {{toptentext|list=Top Ten History Books 2015}}
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  • Bookbag's Christmas Gift Recommendations 2015
    |author=John Lloyd, John Mitchinson and James Harkin ...re are fewer women on corporate boards in America than there are men named John.''<br>
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  • Monsters of Men (Chaos Walking) by Patrick Ness
    ...reading suggestion that won't be anti-climactic. I shall settle on [[WE by John Dickinson]], a classy sci-fi thriller about free will, individuality, colle {{toptentext|list=Carnegie Medal 2011}}
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  • Fallen Angel by Kevin Lewis
    ...up there on your reading list, then you will certainly enjoy [[Falling by John Connor]], both for its 'lickety' storyline and its procedural brilliance.
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  • The Golden Age of Censorship by Paul Hoffman
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...s in and around their closeted work life, Paul Hoffman would be top of the list. He seems in an ideal position to fictionalise his times at the BBFC in cre
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  • An Account of the Decline of the Great Auk, According to One Who Saw It by Jessie Greengrass
    ...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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  • Krysia: A Polish Girl's Stolen Childhood During World War II by Krystyna Mihulka and Krystyna Poray Goddu
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...pertise something new. There was me, looking to tick off Kazakhstan on my list of weird countries I've been to – I would have no idea victims of WWII we
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  • Elizabeth's Rival: The Tumultuous Tale of Lettice Knollys, Countess of Leicester by Nicola Tallis
    |reviewer= John Van der Kiste ...las, Countess of Lennox by Alison Weir]] is also well worth adding to your list.
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  • The Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davies
    |reviewer=John Lloyd {{toptentext|list=Richard and Judy Shortlist 2008}}
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  • Girl in a Green Gown: The History and Mystery of the Arnolfini Portrait by Carola Hicks
    |reviewer=John Van der Kiste ...tions during wartime (it was believed to be near the top of Hitler’s wants list), it has been on display there ever since, being moved to the new Sainsbury
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  • Birdy by William Wharton
    {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Books For Your Auntie}} {{toptentext|list=Top Ten War Novels}}
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  • Faraday: 3 (Tesla Evolution) by Mark Lingane
    ...g one of the most dangerous foes with him, they'd reconsider the passenger list? ...Lingane|Book 2]]. If you're already a fan, we also recommend [[Noggin by John Corey Whaley]].
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  • Not Untrue and Not Unkind by Ed O'Loughlin
    |reviewer= John Lloyd {{toptentext|list=Man Booker Prize 2009}}
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  • To Save a People by Alex Kershaw
    |reviewer=John Van der Kiste ...found this book extremely enlightening. Ever since the film 'Schindler's List', the name of Oskar Schindler has been synonymous with a similar mission.
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  • Novel 11, Book 18 by Dag Solstad
    |reviewer= John Lloyd {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Books Not Originally Written In English}}
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  • Charles Laughton: A Difficult Actor by Simon Callow
    |reviewer=John Van der Kiste The book is supplemented with a full filmography, list of theatre performances, and even a discography of 78 rpm discs and LPs. O
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  • Academy Street by Mary Costello
    ...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 {{toptentext|list=Costa Book Awards 2014}}
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  • The Art of Neil Gaiman by Hayley Campbell
    |reviewer=John Lloyd {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Biographies 2014}}
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  • After You'd Gone by Maggie O'Farrell
    ...th men. The three women - Elspeth, Ann and Alice - dominate the novel, but John, Alice's lover and Ben, her father, are less rounded. As a study of loss an {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Books For Your Auntie}}
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  • March 2016 Newsletter
    In non-fiction, John thought very highly of [[Ray Davies: A Complicated Life by Johnny Rogan ]]. For the littler ones, John recommends [[My Book of Stories: Write Your Own Adventures by Deborah Patte
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  • Far to Go by Alison Pick
    ...ales of children, look no further than [[The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne]]. You might also enjoy [[Between Gods by Alison Pick]]. {{toptentext|list=Man Booker Prize 2011}}
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  • The Post-Birthday World by Lionel Shriver
    |reviewer=John Lloyd {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Tube Reads}}
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  • If You Don't Know Me by Now: A Memoir of Love, Secrets and Lies in Wolverhampton by Sathnam Sanghera
    |reviewer=John Lloyd {{toptentext|list=Costa Book Awards 2008}}
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  • Dirty Magic: Prospero's War: Book One by Jaye Wells
    ...wonderfully ''Men in Black'' snitch and the deliciously morally ambiguous John Volos. (I should say nothing but. ok - nothing.) {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Fantasy Novels of 2014}}
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  • Circulation: William Harvey's Revolutionary Idea by Thomas Wright
    ...ishman in the natural sciences, I recommend [[Darwin: A Life in Science by John Gribbin and Michael White]]. {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Autobiographies and Biographies of 2013}}
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  • Singing to the Dead by Caro Ramsay
    The cast list, too, seemed excessive and the large number of characters was further compl ...'t hit your reading radar then take a look at his [[Ian Rankin's Inspector John Rebus novels in chronological order|Rebus]] novels. For an alternative voic
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  • Memphis Underground by Stewart Home
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...he welcome we get to the Orkneys is unusual too - a ridiculous descriptive list of the streets and their directions, linking junctions and housing, followe
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  • Red Love: The Story of an East German Family by Maxim Leo
    |reviewer=John Lloyd {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Autobiographies and Biographies of 2013}}
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  • A Few Words For The Dead by Guy Adams
    ...rcastic, funny and... well... British. Think love child of James Bond and John Steed with a huge dose of G Adams esquire originality thrown in for fun. {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Thrillers of 2015}}
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  • 1916: A Global History by Keith Jeffery
    |reviewer= John Van der Kiste {{toptentext|list=Top Ten History Books 2015}}
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  • From Dictatorship to Democracy by Gene Sharp
    ...engaged in a non-violent anti-dictatorship struggle and a long but sparse list of specific techniques of waging such a struggle. ...sting) [[Armed Madhouse by Greg Palast]], [[The New Rulers Of The World by John Pilger]], [[Interventions by Noam Chomsky]] or even [[Homage to Catalonia b
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  • The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England by Ian Mortimer
    |reviewer=John Van der Kiste {{toptentext|list=Top Ten History Books of 2013}}
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  • In the Footsteps of the Six Wives of Henry VIII: The visitor's companion to the palaces, castles & houses associated with Henry VIII's iconic queens by S Morris and N Grueninger
    |reviewer= John Van der Kiste In the process they have also researched a formidable list of relevant locations. From her native Spain, they follow Katherine to Ludl
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  • September 2008 Newsletter
    ...art educational tool, it's the best book of its type around at the moment. John loved [[Oscar's Books by Thomas Wright]]; a biography with a difference, ex ...bookbag.co.uk email us] and we'll see that you're deleted from the mailing list.)
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  • Sylvia Pankhurst: The Rebellious Suffragette by Shirley Harrison
    |reviewer=John Van der Kiste ...lifelong pacifist, devout anti-fascist campaigner, high on Hitler’s arrest list should he invade England, and supporter of the cause of Ethiopia against It
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  • The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer
    ...eriod that I would highly recommend is [[The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne]]. For more detail about this period in history you could try [[The M {{toptentext|list=Orange Prize 2011}}
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  • Witches: James I and the English Witch Hunts by Tracy Borman
    |reviewer=John Van der Kiste {{toptentext|list=Top Ten History Books of 2014}}
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  • Operation Big: The Race to Stop Hitler's A-Bomb by Colin Brown
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...i Party? Well, a Nazi Party with nuclear arms would be pretty high on the list. It seems the stuff of pure fantasy, but I'm not so sure. A lot of the pe
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  • November 2016 Newsletter
    ...tmas gifts, try [[1,342 QI Facts To Leave You Flabbergasted by John Lloyd, John Mitchinson, James Harkin and Anne Miller]]. It's one more entrant in the be ...bookbag.co.uk email us] and we'll see that you're deleted from the mailing list.)
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  • Schott's Almanac 2008 by Ben Schott
    |reviewer=John Lloyd ...think you're up to scratch on the 2007 Big Brother evictees, compare your list with Schott's. And now that the world and his internet knows the 2007 BBC S
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  • The Black Russian by Vladimir Alexandrov
    |reviewer=John Van der Kiste {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Autobiographies and Biographies of 2013}}
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  • Retribution Falls by Chris Wooding
    |reviewer= John Lloyd {{toptentext|list=Bookbag's Christmas Gift Recommendations 2009}}
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  • The Humiliations of Welton Blake by Alex Wheatle
    |reviewer=John Lloyd What we have is a list of woes, and the complaints swing from the minutiae of his school life to t
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  • February 2012 Newsletter
    In non-fiction, John recommends [[Shapely Ankle Preferr'd: A History of the Lonely Hearts Advert ...bookbag.co.uk email us] and we'll see that you're deleted from the mailing list.)
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  • The King is Dead by Suzannah Lipscomb
    |reviewer= John Van der Kiste ...ption of King Henry's will as it exists in the National Archives at Kew, a list of the executors and regency council who he had named in the document, and
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  • May 2012 Newsletter
    In fiction, John suggests the ambiguous [[HHhH by Laurent Binet]]. A history book, coloured In non-fiction, John has chosen a welcome paperback edition of [[This is Not the End of the Book
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  • Aurore by Graham Hurley
    ...ery British and caricatured spymaster, the sardonic SS officer and so the list goes on. Where the novel starts to win us round is with Hurley's brilliant ...subversives I'd look to [[Churchill's Rogue: Volume 1 (Rogues Trilogy) by John Righten]].
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  • Noah's Compass by Anne Tyler
    Until this summer, Liam has hung on to his rented apartment in the John Hopkins University neighbourhood of Baltimore. Now he accepts the necessity I adore Anne Tyler… I’m putting this on my birthday list.
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  • Magic Words: The Extraordinary Life of Alan Moore by Lance Parkin
    |reviewer=John Lloyd {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Autobiographies and Biographies of 2013}}
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