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  • Category:The Prince's Trust
    [[Category:Authors|Prince's Trust, The]]
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  • A J Smith's The Long War Novels in Chronological Order
    [[The Black Guard (The Long War) by AJ Smith|The Black Guard]] (2013) [[The Dark Blood (The Long War) by AJ Smith|The Dark Blood]] (2014)
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  • The New English Kitchen
    #REDIRECT [[The New English Kitchen by Rose Prince]]
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  • Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince
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  • Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
    #REDIRECT [[Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J K Rowling]]
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  • Charles, The Alternative Prince: An Unauthorised Biography by Edzard Ernst
    |title=Charles, The Alternative Prince: An Unauthorised Biography |summary=An evidence-based examination of Prince Charles' support for alternative medicine. It's readable and very thought-p
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  • Prince Charmless by Jeanne Willis and Tony Ross
    |title=Prince Charmless ...r him in the royal palace decide to leave. This, of course, means that the prince has no choice but to look after himself and there’s nobody else for him t
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  • J K Rowling's Harry Potter Books in Chronological Order
    '''This series is in the ''Times Educational Supplement'' Teachers' Top 100 Books''' [[Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J K Rowling|Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone]] 1997
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  • The Little Mermaid by Laura Barella
    |title=The Little Mermaid |sort= Little Mermaid
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  • To Marry A Prince by Sophie Page
    |title=To Marry A Prince ...well-written and well-researched. Sophie was kind enough to tell us about the [[Research? But it's Only a Romantic Novel! by Sophie Page|research]] she d
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  • Prince William, Maximilian Minsky and Me by Holly-Jane Rahlens
    |title=Prince William, Maximilian Minsky and Me ...onto the basketball team in order to get chance to go to England, and meet Prince William.
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  • Time is Money by T K Williams-Nelson
    ...d neither of those are guaranteed. It is, though, a big step to leap into the world of self-employment. ''Time is Money'' is a self-development tool aim ...businesses which didn't survive simply because they'd failed to appreciate the problems which can arise when moneys receivable are slow to materialise.
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  • Sticky Gum Fun (Prince Jake) by Sue Mongredien and Mark Beech
    |title=Sticky Gum Fun (Prince Jake) ...cally fun book, set in a royal family with a young prankster prince. The ''Prince Jake'' series make for perfect reading for confident readers - they're inte
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  • Success before Start-Up: How to prepare for business, avoid mistakes, succeed by Steve Bridger
    .... ''Success Before Start Up'' is about the thinking, the investigation and the work that you need to do ''before'' you introduce yourself to your first pa ...e set up accountancy businesses when what you want to do is go into one of the building trades.
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  • The Plague by Joanne Dahme
    |title=The Plague ...=Historical adventure set during the time of the Black Death and following the fortunes of fifteen year old Nell whose resemblance to a royal Princess has
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  • Alfred: Queen Victoria's Second Son by John Van der Kiste
    |summary=A well-researched biography of a prince who seems to have been largely overlooked - and over-shadowed by his elder ...m was stillborn) but only one son - 'young Affie' who committed suicide at the age of twenty four.
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  • Seventh Decimate by Stephen Donaldson
    |summary= In this grimdark adventure, a lacklustre Prince goes on a quest to find a powerful magic that will allow him to save his pe ...Prince Bifalt, with any particular ease. Though it is a book about war and the desperate extremes a nation will go to ensure absolute victory against its
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  • The Black Prince by Michael Jones
    |title= The Black Prince |sort=Black Prince
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  • Rapunzel by Simona Sanfilipo
    ...imona Sanfilipo, has the added attraction of many lift-up flaps which make the story even more enjoyable. ...g on and cuts off Rapunzel's hair and banishes her to a lonely desert. The prince searches for her, albeit rather hazily, as he has lost his glasses. Will he
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  • Dungeon of Doom (Prince Jake) by Sue Mongredien and Mark Beech
    |title= Dungeon of Doom (Prince Jake) ...ons one night and has a spooky encounter. This leads to… well I won't give the end away, save to say all ends well, especially for Jake.
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  • The Best of Times by Michael Morpurgo and Emma Chichester Clark
    |title= The Best of Times ...l anyone be able to cure the princess's sadness and in doing so, bring her the best of times?
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  • Cinderella by Sally Gardner
    |summary=A magical and beautifully illustrated retelling of the familiar Cinderella story. ...n my very last year at school before I left for University (surely just on the verge of being too old!) It is a wonderful, magical story and I never get
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  • A Scientist in Wonderland: A Memoir of Searching for Truth and Finding Trouble by Edzard Ernst
    ...Professor at an English university and found himself on the wrong side of Prince Charles. Very readable and highly recommended. ...ntries before settling in Exeter as Professor of Complementary Medicine at the university.
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  • The Castle Corona by Sharon Creech
    |title=The Castle Corona ...others. It has a beautifully simple writing style but the denouement is a little rushed and unsatisfying.
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  • How the Library (Not the Prince) Saved Rapunzel by Wendy Meddour and Rebecca Ashdown
    |title=How the Library (Not the Prince) Saved Rapunzel ...yth? Then this is the book for you! Making librarians everywhere smile a little wider this is a fun fairy tale, re-told.
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  • Walt Disney's Cinderella: Illustrated by Mary Blair (Walt Disney Classics) by Cynthia Ryland and Mary Blair
    ...the classic. Minus the songs, and with the emotion of the romance, it's a little wordy to begin with but well worth it. ...e film was being made, is evidence of just how the look and the emotion of the piece were intended to be.
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  • Prince William: Born to be King: An Intimate Portrait by Penny Junor
    |title=Prince William: Born to be King: An Intimate Portrait ...to be a supporter of Prince Charles in what can be described as the War of the Waleses. Was this ''really'' going to be a book which I would enjoy?
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  • Rapunzel by Bethan Woollvin
    ...r mind the handsome Prince, how about a girl who is smart enough to defeat the wicked witch by herself? Funny and empowering! ...stead we see Rapunzel is smart enough to figure her own way out, defeating the witch, and going on to a successful witch-hunting career.
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  • Business Continuity For Dummies by Stuart Sterling, Brian Duddridge, Andrew Elliott, Michael Conway and Anna Payne
    |summary=It's not an easy read and will require some effort but the framework to enable you to understand what can go wrong with your business ...try and put it out of your mind: why give your nightmares an outing during the day? What you need is a plan - a structured, unthreatening way of looking
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  • Make it Happen: The Prince's Trust Guide to Starting Your Own Business by The Prince's Trust
    |title=Make it Happen: The Prince's Trust Guide to Starting Your Own Business |author=The Prince's Trust
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  • Hilary McKay’s Fairy Tales by Hilary McKay and Sarah Gibb
    ''You can't leave a parcel on the doorstep for long. Not if it's alive.'' ..., lesser known. And of course, McKay brings her own twist to them all with the bedrock of openheartedness overlaid by a slightly tongue-in-cheek sense of
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  • Food Bank Britain by Ray Barron Woolford
    ...behind the growth of food banks in the UK from an activist who speaks from the heart. You ''should'' read this - honestly. ...alk to work as he couldn't afford the fares. That was the inspiration for the [http://www.wecarefoodbanks.co.uk/ We Care Food Bank].
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  • The Diana Chronicles by Tina Brown
    |title=The Diana Chronicles ...worse truth. Tina Brown is unlikely to be invited to Buckingham Palace in the near future.
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  • Research? But it's Only a Romantic Novel! by Sophie Page
    |title=Sophie Page tells us about the research she did for her latest book. ...e of week's work experience, can you? The book gives a real feel for what the life is like so we asked Sophie to tell us how she did it.
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  • The Prince and the Whitechapel Murders by Saul David
    |title=The Prince and the Whitechapel Murders |sort= Prince and the Whitechapel Murders
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  • The Prisoner of Paradise by Romesh Gunesekera
    |title=The Prisoner of Paradise ...and the other a young translator from Ceylon working for an exiled Prince. The story has a slightly old fashioned feel to it.
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  • Winter's Orbit by Everina Maxwell
    ...), it is not hard to see why Maxwell's original version of this story took the no. 1 in spot popularity on that site. ...sed to prevent an interplanetary war – no one expects him to be chosen for the role. Least of all him.
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  • Making a Living: How to Craft Your Business by Sophie Rochester
    ...is book. If you go ahead, everything you need to think about is here. On the other hand, it might persuade you to keep your crafting as a hobby. Highly ..., couldn't it? But where to start? What do I need to think about? Well, the first thing anyone who is considering turning a crafting hobby into a busin
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  • Death in the Baltic: The World War II Sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff by Cathryn J Prince
    |title=Death in the Baltic: The World War II Sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff |author=Cathryn J Prince
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  • To Kill a Kingdom by Alexandra Christo
    ...ng and enjoyable but one that needs another round of amends before hitting the shelves. ...is determined to catch the worst Siren of them all, the one they call the prince's bane, and end this war between sea and land. Meanwhile Lira is hunting El
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  • Best-loved Classics: Rapunzel by Sarah Gibb
    ...ry a joy to read every time my daughter asks. Perfect for princess-loving little girls! ...by The Brothers Grimm. This is a lovely book to share and stays closer to the original story than Disney's 'Tangled' film.
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  • Dirty Bertie: An English King Made in France by Stephen Clarke
    ...to become a passionate Francophile, culminating in his paving the way for the Entente cordiale with England in 1904 ...u will ever find, but it is certainly an entertaining, racy gallop through the life of its subject.
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  • American Royals by Katharine McGee
    ...ok at what the United States would look like if they had a royal family. ''The Crown'' meets ''Gossip Girl''! ...rice's whole life has been building up to her ruling the United States and the time for her reign is imminent.
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  • Winning Without Losing: 66 strategies for succeeding in business while living a happy and balanced life by Martin Bjergegaard and Jordan Milne
    ...prove your work/life balance. Although directed at entrepreneurs a lot of the suggestions are valid for anyone who has ''stuff'' to get through. ...xty six ideas for ways in which you could adjust your working life to make the most of it without ruining everything else.
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  • The Prince Who Would Be King: The Life and Death of Henry Stuart by Sarah Fraser
    |title= The Prince Who Would Be King: The Life and Death of Henry Stuart |sort=Prince Who Would Be King: The Life and Death of Henry Stuart
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  • A Humble Companion by Laurie Graham
    |summary=A lightly-fictionalised look at the life of Princess Sophia, daughter of George III. It's a deceptively easy r ...as actually the daughter of a high-ranking steward in the household of the Prince of Wales, but with only two years difference in age they became life-long f
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  • A Palace Full of Princesses by Sally Gardner
    |summary=A bind-up of four favourite fairy tales for the emerging reader. You might know a princess who would love it. ...but an activity you really look forward to. If children get that idea in the early years at school then they have a pleasure which will stay with them a
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  • Start It Up: Why Running Your Own Business is Easier Than You Think by Luke Johnson
    ...business which you might have been expecting but an inspirational guide to the life of an entrepreneur. ...t to open a restaurant, Mr Plumb, who's been havering about splitting from the builder who employs him and Miss Baker who think that our prosperous villag
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  • Prince Arthur: The Tudor King Who Never Was by Sean Cunningham
    |title=Prince Arthur: The Tudor King Who Never Was ...s almost nothing, but in fact, he has opened a very considerable window on the early Tudor court.
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  • The King's Jockey by Lesley Gray
    |title=The King's Jockey ...tie Jones, who rode the horse which collided with Emily Wilding Davison in the notorious suffragette Derby. A good and thought-provoking read.
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  • The Start-up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career by Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha
    |title=The Start-up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career |sort=Start-up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career
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  • Ruby Rocksparkle: Her Wildly Incredible Adventure by Jean Clemens Loftus
    ...Rocksparkle is a really sweet, Disney-esque fairy tale written with charm. The book itself has been put together very thoughtfully and girly girls from pr ...is fast approaching. Ruby, a vivid, read-headed beauty, dreams of marrying Prince Alano. If only he could ever marry a commoner - but even Ruby knows that co
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  • The Eye of Winter’s Fury by Michael J Ward
    |title=The Eye of Winter’s Fury ...ults, ''The Eye of Winters Fury'' is a hugely exciting and involving book. The game mechanisms may take some getting used to, but you’ll soon be hooked.
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  • Seraphina by Rachel Hartman
    ...cate but subtle worldbuilding and elegant prose - perfect for this reader. The pace is measured, slow even, again perfect for this reader but perhaps frus '''Longlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2013'''
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  • The Countess: The Scandalous Life of Frances Villiers, Countess of Jersey by Tim Clarke
    |title= The Countess: The Scandalous Life of Frances Villiers, Countess of Jersey |sort=Countess: The Scandalous Life of Frances Villiers, Countess of Jersey
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  • Moorehawke Trilogy: The Rebel Prince by Celine Kiernan
    |title=Moorehawke Trilogy: The Rebel Prince ...ehow actually lives up to the insanely high expectations I had of it after the superb first two books. Highest recommendation possible.
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  • Havenfall by Sara Holland
    ...teresting with plenty of room for development, but we'd have liked some of the plot and character set-ups to have been better disguised. ...cause the crime Maddie's mum is languishing on death row for committing is the murder of Maddie's brother...
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  • I Didn't Do It! (Little Princess) by Tony Ross
    |title=I Didn't Do It! (Little Princess) ...ims very loudly, she didn't do it! If she didn't though, who did? And will the culprit ever own up?
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  • Warlord (Wolfblade Trilogy) by Jennifer Fallon
    ...ut Marla has been playing a waiting game for the last twenty years and now the gloves are off. She will have revenge and, if she has her way, it will be c ...mated forces of Hythria win a war? Or will the Wolfblade line fall before the young heir has time to prove his worth?
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  • The Hidden Kingdom by Ian Beck
    |title=The Hidden Kingdom ...he has refused to acknowledge. Only the skill and devotion of a couple of the young peasants he despises can lead him to accept his role in history.
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  • Prince Caspian: The Official Illustrated Movie Companion by Ernie Malik
    |title= Prince Caspian: The Official Illustrated Movie Companion ...ains excellent photography but occasionally descends to the corny and is a little too frothy to be truly satisfying.
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  • Snow White by Sally Gardner
    |summary=A faithful retelling of the well-known story, retold as a chapter book for children just beginning to r ...the resolution to the story, but the dwarfs being the guests of honour at the wedding is a nice touch.
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  • A Royal Affair: George III and His Troublesome Siblings by Stella Tillyard
    |summary= A biography of the relationship between King George III and his scandal-prone brothers and sis ...America, and then his sons, in that order, gave him no end of grief, and the last few years of his life were clouded by madness. It is thus often overl
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  • The Sin Eater's Daughter by Melinda Salisbury
    |title=The Sin Eater's Daughter |sort=Sin Eater's Daughter , The
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  • Goblin Quest by Philip Reeve
    ...id get slightly dropped on the cobblestones) feature in this, the third in the series. ...d on a quest, nothing on earth can stop them – not even the fact that it's the most brain-freezingly, pants-wettingly STUPID thing they could possibly hav
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  • The Prince of Mist by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
    |title=The Prince of Mist |sort= Prince of Mist
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  • Olaf the Viking and the Pig Who Would Be King by Martin Conway
    |title= Olaf the Viking and the Pig Who Would Be King ...easy-reading fantasy around Norse shenanigans. It doesn't try as hard as the prequel to be bawdy and irreverent, and is better for it. Strongly recomme
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  • Mariah Mundi (The Midas Box) by G P Taylor
    |title=Mariah Mundi (The Midas Box) ...llenging for some children, but it repays concentration with a series with the potential to be far, far more rewarding than Rowling's Hardy-Boys-with-wand
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  • The Prince Who Walked with Lions by Elizabeth Laird
    |title=The Prince Who Walked with Lions |sort=Prince Who Walked with Lions
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  • Spells by Emily Gravett
    ...ures as a frog tries to get the right spell to turn himself into a prince. The interaction isn't tacked on, and will delight every young child. ...out putting together the torn bits of paper, so he can turn himself into a prince.
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  • Nocturna by Maya Motayne
    ...er. Before they can fight the darkness around them, they must first defeat the darkness inside themselves. ...try to put their own personal battles behind them and join forces to stop the evil from destroying everything they hold dear.
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  • Surf's Up (Mammoth Academy) by Neal Layton
    ...ms. They're supposed to be making presentations about what they did during the holidays too, but Oscar hasn't done any preparation and, frankly, he can't ...They're expert surfers, which is declared to be particularly radical. And the idea of surfing impresses Oscar no end...
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  • Seven Princes: Books of the Shaper: Volume 1 by John R Fultz
    {{infobox1|title=Seven Princes: Books of the Shaper: Volume 1 |summary=Fantasy for those who like it dark. Prince D’zan, deposed by evil, travels towards his destiny, intricately linked w
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  • The Queen's Orang-Utan by David Walliams and Tony Ross
    |title=The Queen's Orang-Utan ...unny and ever-so-slightly anarchic. Highly recommended - and not just for the kids.
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  • Off the Page by Jodi Picoult and Samantha Van Leer
    |title=Off the Page |summary=A storybook prince tries to navigate love and life in a modern-day high school, but his book h
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  • The Interview: Bookbag Talks To The Queen
    |title=The Interview: Bookbag Talks To The Queen ...but all at Bookbag dropped their Union Jack flags and waved a curtsy when The Queen of Twitter made a royal visit to Bookbag Towers.
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  • Princesses Are Not Perfect by Kate Lum and Sue Hellard
    ...dred chairs to build, the children are going to be awfully disappointed if the princesses' new-found interests aren't successful. ...at they love, and don't have to be great at everything. I was less keen on the implication that they shouldn't try new things, but I'm sure that's me over
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  • The Wide-Awake Princess by E D Baker
    |title=The Wide-Awake Princess |summary=An unusual, fun version of the familiar Sleeping Beauty story - perfect for tweens who aren't quite willin
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  • Truthwitch (The Witchlands Series) by Susan Dennard
    |title=Truthwitch (The Witchlands Series) ...female) has a specific category of gifting. It's fun, it's exciting, it's the first of a series. No downside at all!
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  • The Six Wives & Many Mistresses of Henry VIII: The Women's Stories by Amy Licence
    |title= The Six Wives & Many Mistresses of Henry VIII: The Women's Stories |sort=Six Wives & Many Mistresses of Henry VIII: The Women's Stories
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  • My Husband and I: The Inside Story of 70 Years of the Royal Marriage by Ingrid Seward
    |title=My Husband and I: The Inside Story of 70 Years of the Royal Marriage ...ad. There are no great revelations but numerous insights into the ways of the royal family. A recommended read.
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  • Sons, Servants and Statesmen: The Men in Queen Victoria's Life by John Van der Kiste
    |title= Sons, Servants and Statesmen: The Men in Queen Victoria's Life ...erb introduction to Queen Victoria's reign which looks at the influence of the men in her life. Highly recommended.
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  • Between The Lines by Jodi Picoult and Samantha Van Leer
    |title=Between The Lines |website=http://www.jodipicoult.com/between-the-lines.html
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  • Magical Princess Stories by Margaret Mayo, Geraldine McCaughrean, Rose Impey, Andrew Matthews, Jane Ray, Ian Beck, Angela Barrett, Emma Chichester Clark and Alan Snow
    Most little girls would love a pretty pink book all about princesses, wouldn't they? T ...tional pictures to funny little cartoon-y ones. It helps to differentiate the different writing styles for each story, and makes it a special collection
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  • Sebastian Darke: A Buffalope's Tale by Philip Caveney
    ...Darke, Prince of Fools and father of Sebastian. A whimsical spin-off from the highly popular ''Sebastian Darke'' series. ...: a brilliant thinker and a gifted linguist, he is quickly able to pick up the human tongue. And he is always ready to give his opinion or a piece of advi
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  • Fables: Legends in Exile - Vol 01 by Bill Willingham
    |summary=The start of the wonderful Fables series is, appropriately, fabulous. Breathtaking art and b ...te his deputy Snow White running the show), Bigby Wolf as the Sheriff, and Prince Charming being, well, charming, towards every woman he can, these are chara
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  • Touch of Power: Avry of Kazan Book 1 by Maria V Snyder
    ...ler caught is executed without trial. Avry is offered a stark choice: face the guillotine, or heal a man she hates. ...ately, said prince is the one who spread the idea of the healers' guilt in the first place, and as such he is Avry's sworn enemy.
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  • The Queen Alone (Chronicles of the Tempus) by K A S Quinn
    |title=The Queen Alone (Chronicles of the Tempus) |sort=Queen Alone (Chronicles of the Tempus), The
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  • The Life of Handel by Victor Schoelcher (Author), Anton de Moresco (Editor), James Lowe (Translator)
    |title=The Life of Handel |summary=A newly revised edition of the composer and musician Handel, first published in 1857, based largely on con
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  • Nickerbacher by Terry John Barto
    ...he is in watching comedy on ''The Late Knight Show''. Nickerbacher likes ''The Late Knight Show'' too - in fact, it's his favourite TV show because he wan ...of argy-bargy, the three decide to throw traditional fairy tales roles to the wind, escape to La La Land and see if Nickerbacher has what it takes to mak
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  • Pleasure of a Dark Prince by Kresley Cole
    |title=Pleasure of a Dark Prince ...e (or two!), some cheese and crackers and lovely hunky man – even if he is the main character in a book! I've never read Kresley Cole before but I love f
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  • The Highland Falcon Thief by M G Leonard and Sam Sedgman
    |title=The Highland Falcon Thief ...ws to get to the bottom of the mystery…before the train gets to the end of the line.
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  • The Chronicles of Narnia by C S Lewis
    |title=The Chronicles of Narnia ...Don't miss it and don't let them miss it either. And don't forget to check the back of your wardrobe.
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  • The Betrayal of Natalie Hargrove by Lauren Kate
    |title=The Betrayal of Natalie Hargrove |summary=Rather than the supernatural romance she's become famous for with the [[Fallen by Lauren Kate|Fallen]] series, Lauren Kate's first novel is an en
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  • The Witch of Salt and Storm by Kendall Kulper
    |title=The Witch of Salt and Storm ...winds and helps the whalers on their way. The witch whose charms on which the whole island relies. But Avery's mother, who has rejected magic, came and s
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  • The Boy in a Turban by Joseph Hucknall
    |title=The Boy in a Turban ...with vivid characters, and you'll get a spot of historical education along the way.
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  • Mariah Mundi and the Ghost Diamonds by G P Taylor
    |title=Mariah Mundi and the Ghost Diamonds |summary=More fantastical adventuring from the orphan of the Prince Regent Hotel. Fiendishly complicated plotting but great atmosphere and a ve
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  • The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
    |title=The Song of Achilles ...and a disgraced young prince. In refreshing, modern prose this book makes the subject matter very reader-friendly indeed.
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  • Feast of Souls by Celia Friedman
    |summary=A feast for the horror fan in me, but not quite so satisfying for the fantasy fan in me. It’s still better than many I’ve read, though and i ...antasy more than any other genre these days, my first love has always been the horror genre. So when an author promises me a fantasy novel with a dark tw
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  • Poison Princess by Kresley Cole
    ...characters, good pace and a killer ending that will have you pre-ordering the second instalment. Highly recommended. ...Adding to her problems, a new boy at school is destroying Evie's idea of the perfect relationship with her ideal boyfriend. Jackson is crass and a well
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  • The Orchard Book Of Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales by Martin Waddell and Emma Chichester Clark
    |title=The Orchard Book Of Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales ...ection of classic fairy tales that every child will adore. Staying true to the originals, whilst also bringing a freshness to them, makes this a must-have
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  • My Book of Stories: Write Your Own Fairy Tales by Deborah Patterson
    |summary=Once more this series looks back at what's gone before, while giving the young writer more than enough stepping stones to take their own literary jo |publisher=The British Library Publishing Division
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  • Warrior (Wolfblade Trilogy) by Jennifer Fallon
    ...y of political power and personal tragedy, where the lives of a few affect the fate of a kingdom. ...om her own family, helpless to reach the world outside the city and facing the most terrible betrayal of her life.
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  • Daisy: The Lives and Loves of the Countess of Warwick by Sushila Anand
    |title= Daisy: The Lives and Loves of the Countess of Warwick ...torious promiscuity but also for her conversion to radicalism and work for the early socialist cause, until then almost unheard of in aristocratic circles
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  • King's Cage by Victoria Aveyard
    ...ts better with each instalment, perfect to dive into before the release of the final book! ''He caught me in a prince's trap. And now I'm in a King's cage. But I'm not leaving this place unless
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  • Magic Under Glass by Jaclyn Dolamore
    ...agical fantasy about an exotic trouser girl who falls in love with a fairy prince trapped inside an automaton. Dolamore creates a vivid world in a highly rom ...Lorinar's Sorcerer Council. Parry has an automaton, a curiosity that plays the piano, and he wants Namira's unique voice to accompany it.
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  • The Queen's Knight by Martyn Downer
    |title=The Queen's Knight ...ne, who fought and was wounded in the Crimean War, and later became one of the most trusted confidantes of Queen Victoria and her family.
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  • The Watcher in the Shadows by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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  • Dork Diaries: Once Upon a Dork (Book 8) by Rachel Renee Russell
    ...s peopled by other folk from school, but her hunky friend Brandon is still Prince Charming, and her enemy Mackenzie Hollister is still able to make her life ...he title refers to the one-day only nature of the story as much as it does the typical fantasy world featured.
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  • The Three Wishes by David Melling
    |title=The Three Wishes ...illustrations full of humour and quirky touches, this comes recommended by the Bookbag for older preschoolers.
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  • Kings of Albion by Julian Rathbone
    ...tal travellers in search of a missing kinsman find themselves slap-bang in the middle of earthy (well, muddy), basic England. Kings of Albion has its tong ...ng could have happened in an alternative solar system on the other side of the universe. Nevertheless, I did read around a bit.''
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  • The Twistrose Key by Tone Almhjell
    |title=The Twistrose Key ...t's beautifully written with wonderful characters and a gripping plot. Not the most original story, but we loved it.
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  • The Queen's Man by Rory Clements
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  • The Blinding Knife (Lightbringer 2) by Brent Weeks
    |title=The Blinding Knife (Lightbringer 2) ...and lots of politics and manipulations to keep the reader on their toes to the very last pages. Superb reading.
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  • Treason by Berlie Doherty
    ...or period, written with great verve by an author who really brings to life the setting and characters. ...neously gaining more awareness of the world he lives in and the plights of the working class.
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  • A Good Month For Murder by Del Quentin Wilber
    ...George’s County. Join them in this bleak and over sensationalised look at the senseless murder of so many in a broken part of America. ...lthough it is 'real’. Is there a place to sensationalise actual death for the entertainment of others?
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  • Black Ships Before Troy by Rosemary Sutcliff
    ...he excellent artistic skills of Allan Lee, makes for a lavish retelling of the Iliad. ...ction. Hector, Ajax and Odysseus to name a few; however, none more so than the mighty Achilles himself.
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  • The Last Princess: The Devoted Life of Queen Victoria's Youngest Daughter by Matthew Dennison
    |title=The Last Princess: The Devoted Life of Queen Victoria's Youngest Daughter |summary=A biography of the princess who was widowed early and spent much of her adult life as companio
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  • Frogkisser! by Garth Nix
    ...ies to riff off all that's come before it, but isn't anywhere nearly as on the ball as it needs to be. ...that hugely important demand might be swamped by what is really troubling the world…
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  • A Confusion of Princes by Garth Nix
    |summary=Perhaps not Nix's best, as the plotting is very linear and mediocre, but his creation of an old-fashioned ...ant he is alone except for a very close bodyguard, but - at least he is in the running to become Emperor, and thus almost godlike. But in a world where y
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  • The Secret Lives of Princesses by Philippe Lechermeier and Rebecca Dautremer
    |title=The Secret Lives of Princesses ...s a picture book this is more for tween girls rather than for sharing with little ones.
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  • Max and the Millions by Ross Montgomery
    |title=Max and the Millions |summary=A totally off-the-wall story that combines a fast moving plot with some great characterisatio
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  • The Black Prince of Florence: The Spectacular Life and Treacherous World of Alessandro de' Medici by Catherine Fletcher
    |title= The Black Prince of Florence: The Spectacular Life and Treacherous World of Alessandro de' Medici |sort=Black Prince of Florence: The Spectacular Life and Treacherous World of Alessandro de' Medici
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  • Category:Lesley J Nickell
    ...Anne Neville was the second of five historical novels that she wrote, and the only one of her books that was published before her death. ...Charles II) hid while escaping from the battle of Worcester. They also saw the famous oak tree up which he hid.
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  • Letters To Vicky by Andrew Roberts (Editor)
    |summary=A magnificently-bound and presented single-volume selection of the six volumes of letters between mother and daughter, originally published be ...sts there may have been up to 8,000 altogether. By that time Vicky was in the throes of terminal cancer and followed a few months later. Some of these,
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  • Cavalier Queen by Fiona Mountain
    ...and Charles I. There are three in this marriage right from the start and the untenable situation eventually results in drastic consequences. ...eady to die.'' Words such as threat, scandal, whore and bastards leap off the page and give us a colourful taster of what's to come as Mountain fills in
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  • The Silver Witch (Shadow Chronicles) by Paula Brackston
    |title=The Silver Witch (Shadow Chronicles) ...s trademark supernatural/romance recipe signals another satisfying book in the ''Shadow Chronicles'' series.
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  • Moro East by Sam and Sam Clark
    ...strong on vegetables. There's a strong Eastern Mediterranean influence is the spices and flavourings. Highly recommended. ...rought about by their restaurant of that name in Clerkenwell. ''Casa Moro: The Second Cookbook'' was inspired by their home in Spain, but this latest book
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  • A Little Hatred by Joe Abercrombie
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  • Fire by Kristin Cashore
    ...an to cause her harm, she is made unsure by the strange fog that exists in the man's mind. ...have banded together. Their combined might could be more than a match for the King's Army.
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  • Saxon: The Book of Dreams (Saxon 1) by Tim Severin
    |title=Saxon: The Book of Dreams (Saxon 1) ...off to the court of King Carolus of the Franks. Sigwulf quickly befriends the Kings nephew, Count Hroundland, a powerful and very ambitious man. However,
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  • Make Something Up by Chuck Palahniuk
    |summary=Essential for all fans, long-term and short, addicted or jaded, of the great American shock-merchant. ...Man'-styled festival, in a very clever couple of tales. But many too are the instances where that extra step has been taken.
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  • Lionheart by Stewart Binns
    ...he Lionheart story that increased my knowledge immensely but didn't excite the way I'd have hoped. Richard the First. Richard the Lionheart.
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  • Age of Ash by Daniel Abraham
    ...uilt on hunger. Friends set against friends and our uncertainty as to who the good guys actually are. What's not to love? ...the funeral of a Prince and the coronation of his successor. For a night the Kithamar is un-ruled.
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  • Prince of Darkness by Sharon Penman
    |title=Prince of Darkness ...Bringing to mind the work of people like Shirley McKay and VM Whitworth, the experience is much more pleasurable for us than for poor Justin!
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  • Tirzah and the Prince of Crows by Deborah Kay Davies
    |title=Tirzah and the Prince of Crows ...y; it is also a gentle and lyrical love story to the Welsh countryside and the people who live in it.
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  • The Mystery of Princess Louise: Queen Victoria's Rebellious Daughter by Lucinda Hawksley
    |title=The Mystery of Princess Louise: Queen Victoria's Rebellious Daughter |sort=Mystery of Princess Louise: Queen Victoria's Rebellious Daughter, The
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  • The Calling by Philip Caveney
    |title= The Calling ...if you happen to be visiting this lovely Scottish city, you can go and see the statues for yourself. Be careful, though: they hear every word you say . .
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  • Grace: Her Lives - Her Loves: The startling royal exposé by Robert Lacey
    |title=Grace: Her Lives - Her Loves: The startling royal exposé ...fe. First published in 1994, this volume has a new author's note although the text does not appear to have been updated.
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  • Jacoby's Game by Alison Prince
    |author=Alison Prince ...existential musings, adolescent passions and lost childhoods will attract the adolescent, but may prove too confusing for younger readers.
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  • Fairy Tale Pets by Tracey Corderoy and Jorge Martin
    |publisher=Little Tiger Press ...fortunately something quite different and poor Bob is quite unprepared for the chaos that ensues when his ''pets'' misbehave.
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  • Ten Little Princesses by Mike Brownlow and Simon Rickerty
    |title=Ten Little Princesses ...re much more enticing, like a frog just begging to be kissed or a charming prince (on a skateboard, no less).
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  • The Queen by Richard Brassey
    |title=The Queen ...ad, almost comic-style book about Her Majesty and there's lots in there in the way of fascinating information, some fun facts and (I'll confess!) a few an
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  • The Land of Green Ginger by Noel Langley
    |title=The Land of Green Ginger ...delightfully quaint, old-fashioned piece of pantomime nonsense brought to the pages of a book for sharing. It's tremendously funny. Read it aloud to any
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  • The Queen's Present by Steve Antony
    |title=The Queen's Present |summary= The 3rd adventure for the Queen is a festive one, and it's a treat for winter reading.
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  • The Princess Bride by William Goldman
    |title=The Princess Bride ...y romantic fairy tale that's packed with adventure, comedy and excitement. The additional back-stories of S Morgenstern and a fictional Goldman himself gi
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  • Night on Terror Island by Philip Caveney
    ...cannibals, sabre-toothed tigers and enormous snakes, and he only has until the final credits roll to rescue her... ...ne who works at the cinema. And he talks about stars, films and cinemas of the past as if he had actually been there.
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  • Babar's Guide to Paris by Laurent de Brunhoff
    |summary= A wonderful new story featuring the quintessential elephant family. ...s her father has some wonderful advice for her about what to see and do in the French capital.
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  • Princess for a Day: A Clementine and Mungo Story by Sarah Dyer
    ...lationship between a pair of siblings will make it fun for adults too, and the humour should make it more bearable. ...iry tales to provide one, but when Clementine meets him, she loses some of the enthusiasm for her princess role.
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  • The New English Kitchen by Rose Prince
    |title=The New English Kitchen |author=Rose Prince
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  • The Red Prince (The Long War) by AJ Smith
    |title=The Red Prince (The Long War) |sort=Red Prince (The Long War)
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  • The Seymours of Wolf Hall: A Tudor Family Story by David Loades
    |title=The Seymours of Wolf Hall: A Tudor Family Story ...of whose members briefly played such prominent roles in English affairs in the mid-Tudor period.
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  • The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander
    |title=The Black Cauldron |summary=Excellent second book in the Chronicles of Prydain builds on the first, with stronger characters and a much fresher plot.
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  • Are We There Yet? by David Levithan
    ...se, stream of consciousness, over-styled navel-gazing at its best, this is the kind of intimate yet cool book that will have its teen target audience eati ...They have grown into very different young men. Sixteen year old Elijah is the New Age, crusty type. He's gentle, kind, dreamy and introspective. He beams
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  • Catherine of Aragon: An Intimate Life of Henry VIII's True Wife by Amy Licence
    ...rgiving age, in great detail against the background of the Tudor court and the contemporary European diplomatic background. ...ng the Tudor era who did not meet her end on the scaffold or at the stake. The cliché 'tragic love story' must be a fitting one in her case.
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  • Jane of Lantern Hill by L M Montgomery
    Lucy Maud Montgomery, the Canadian author, is best known for her classic story, ''Anne of Green Gable ...ay with him for the summer. Jane is horrified, doesn't want to go, but in the end it is decided that she must, for fear that her father will be angry if
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  • Bertie: A Life of Edward VII by Jane Ridley
    ...ard VII written for many years, with the aid of full access to papers from the Royal Archives and elsewhere. ...e low expectations of others and poor health he made an excellent King for the last nine years of his life.
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  • Robin Hood Vs the Plague Undead (Mash Ups) by James Black
    |title=Robin Hood Vs the Plague Undead (Mash Ups) ...n Hood 'mash up', worth reading for its novelty value and the gore-fest at the end.
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  • Nelson to the Rescue by Simon Weston
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  • Superfrog! by Michael Foreman
    |summary=A light-hearted superhero romp, with a frog as the star. There are a few nice touches, and this is good, solid picture book fa ...things take a turn for the worse: the Big Boss oversees a crime wave. When the Big Boss' creeps frighten Frank's granny and kidnap some frogspawn she'd be
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  • The Poisoner: The Life and Crimes of Victorian England's Most Notorious Doctor by Stephen Bates
    |title=The Poisoner: The Life and Crimes of Victorian England's Most Notorious Doctor ...t=Poisoner: Life and Crimes of Victorian England's Most Notorious Doctor , The
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  • The Three Pigs by David Wiesner
    |title=The Three Pigs ...n most of them. Have you ever wondered what these stories would be like if the characters could wonder freely from one story to another? Would it just cau
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  • The Twelve Dancing Princesses by Rachel Isadora
    |title=The Twelve Dancing Princesses ...An interesting take on a Brothers Grimm fairy tale. I wasn't familiar with the original tale, and found it somewhat lacking, but Rachel Isadora's beautifu
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  • Henry Tumour by Anthony McGowan
    ...enry Tumour says hello. Hector is a geeky kid with geeky friends. He likes the Justice League, Star Trek, science and girls. But he knows he stands no cha ...school bullies and snogging the school sex symbol, Uma Upshaw, she of the the perfect bra-busters (even her initals, UU, look like bazoomas).
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  • Jack the Ripper by Otto Penzler
    |title= Jack the Ripper ...iction to give a complete overview that answered any questions I had about the Ripper and had me asking new questions that I hadn't thought of before. At
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  • I Want a Boyfriend! by Tony Ross
    ...will turn out to be her soul mate but, as this amusing story demonstrates, the course of true love never runs smoothly. ...he looks after her. Well, on hearing this, the Little Princess declares at the top of her voice:
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  • The Kiss That Missed by David Melling
    |title=The Kiss That Missed The king is in an awful rush, and doesn't even have time to read the prince a bedtime story. He blows him a kiss, but it misses! So, he dispatches his
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  • Six Tudor Queens: Katherine of Aragon, The True Queen: Six Tudor Queens 1 by Alison Weir
    |title=Six Tudor Queens: Katherine of Aragon, The True Queen: Six Tudor Queens 1 ...ce future heirs for the English crown. That's the plan but that's not how the story actually goes, on any level. For Catalina will be more famous as Kat
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  • Rama and the Demon King by Jessica Souhami
    |title=Rama and the Demon King |summary=An elegant retelling of the ancient Hindu folk tale of Lord Rama. A real pleasure to read.
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  • Mr and Mrs Disraeli: A Strange Romance by Daisy Hay
    ...ery successful Prime Minister. This biography paints a vivid portrait of 'the odd couple'. ...him. But this odd couple proved to be well-matched, and not only rose to the pinnacle of Victorian society, but he also became an unexpected yet very su
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  • Grimm's Fairy Tales: Twelve Dancing Princesses by Saviour Pirotta and Cecilia Johansson
    |summary=One of the lesser-known Grimm's Fairy Tales produced with the emerging reader in mind. Recommended both for personal and library use. ...uld inherit the kingdom. But - if after three nights he hadn't discovered the secret, he would lose his head.
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  • Anne of Green Gables by L M Montgomery
    ...eroine for me as a young girl, and she remains one still now that I have a little girl of my own. ...lso, unfortunately, prone to fits of temper (especially if anyone mentions the bain of her life, her red hair!) and she seems to find herself in tricky si
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  • Rapunzel by Jutta Ash
    ...children know and love well. In this retelling by Jutta Ash, the words and the illustrations combine beautifully and will ensure that children will not ti ...ch imprisons her at the top of a tall tower and she can only be reached by the witch climbing up her long golden tresses.
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  • Codename Quicksilver 2: The Tyrant King by Allan Jones
    |title=Codename Quicksilver 2: The Tyrant King |summary=The first major episode in this series has the same propulsion as the opener, but doesn't yet have a must-read plot for its young spy-fan audienc
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  • Queen Elizabeth II: Her Life in Our Times by Sarah Bradford
    ...um-history of Queen Elizabeth II and her reign, published to coincide with the Diamond Jubilee. ...other titles, and probably aimed more at the general reader with an eye on the Diamond Jubilee market.
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  • The Other Half by Charlotte Vassell
    |title=The Other Half ''The room was full of the sort of people ''Tatler'' thinks you should know.''
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  • The Ring and the Crown: A History of Royal Weddings 1066-2011 by Alison Weir, Kate Williams, Sarah Gristwood and Tracy Borman
    |title=The Ring and the Crown: A History of Royal Weddings 1066-2011 |sort= Ring and the Crown: A History of Royal Weddings 1066-2011
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  • Griffin Mage: Law of the Broken Earth by Rachel Neumeier
    |title=Griffin Mage: Law of the Broken Earth ...er suggests the story was designed to be more political and spiritual than the opening delight of human/griffin interaction led us believe. That might or
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  • A Lost Lady of Old Years by John Buchan
    ...g - ye maun ken Scots dialect pure weel if ye hope tae like thes book frae the start. Weel worth reading though, it's sic a guid story. ...st understand Scots dialect really well if you hope to like this book from the start. Well worth reading though, it's such a good story.)
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  • Beauty and the Beast by Katie Haworth and Dinara Mirtalipova
    |title=Beauty and the Beast ...e it suitable for younger readers, the illustrations certainly add more to the story in this beautifully published picture book.
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  • Moi and Marie Antoinette by Lynn Cullen and Amy Young
    ...ded background to the Queen than most text books do and is recommended for the newly confident reader and for sharing with those just reaching that point. ...Marie Antoinette's journey to France, her marriage, life at Versailles and the birth of her daughter Therese. It stops mercifully short of her execution.
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  • Dragonskin Slippers by Jessica Day George
    ...n her unkindly aunt leaves her to a dragon in a faint hope that a eligible prince will rescue her and provide with a suitable marriage. Creel is distraught, ...be ever liberated, or fought as dumb beasts they become under the power of the slippers?
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  • Married Love by Tessa Hadley
    ...l an interesting group of characters I would like to know more about after the end, sometimes from several different viewpoints, and it is hard to pick ou In the title story, a talented student shocks her family by announcing a plan to b
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  • The Shadowed Sun: Dreamblood: Book 2 by N K Jemisin
    |title=The Shadowed Sun: Dreamblood: Book 2 |summary=Excellent conclusion to Jemisin's Dreamblood duology features the epic plot and well-rounded characters her fans have come to expect. Highly
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  • Cinderella's Secret Diary by Faye Hanson
    ...we find out all her private thoughts and feelings as we follow her through the most important months of her life. ...body loves a happy ending and it's wonderful to read Cinderella's words at the end of her diary:
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  • Newcomers' Lives: The Story of Immigrants as Told in Obituaries from The Times by Peter Unwin (editor)
    |title=Newcomers' Lives: The Story of Immigrants as Told in Obituaries from The Times |summary=A selection of 55 obituaries fro 'The Times' of famous people born abroad who settled in Britain, made notable co
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  • Serving Victoria: Life in the Royal Household by Kate Hubbard
    |title=Serving Victoria: Life in the Royal Household ...rating account of life at the court of Queen Victoria, seen mainly through the years of service of six ladies-in-waiting, her chaplain, her secretary and
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  • The Perfect Bear by Gillian Shields
    |title=The Perfect Bear ...ldren, its message about what's important (and what's not) in life tugs at the sentimental heartstrings without becoming sickly. Highly recommended.
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  • Rooms with a View: The Secret Life of Great Hotels by Adrian Mourby
    |title=Rooms with a View: The Secret Life of Great Hotels ...hen northern Africa, India and Asia. Australia, it seems, does not go for the grand.
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  • The Princess Who Had No Kingdom by Ursula Jones and Sarah Gibb
    |title=The Princess Who Had No Kingdom ...the classics. It's fresh and original, but rightly doesn't try to reinvent the genre. Sarah Gibb's illustrations are wonderful too. Recommended.
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  • Nine Words Max by Dan Bar-El and David Huyck
    ...observations he’s keen to share with everyone around him. His brothers, on the other hand, are boys of fewer words, and don’t have much time for Max’s ...ers are thrilled to be left in peace. But… when surprise visitors show up, the brothers quickly realise that Max’s knowledge is vital to help them avoid
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  • Eminent Elizabethans by Piers Brendon
    ...-biographies of four major personalities of our time - Rupert Mudroch, the Prince of Wales, Margaret Thatcher and Mick Jagger ...Victorians', published in 1918, a debunking of four Victorian heroes whom the iconoclast Strachey wished to demonstrate had feet of clay.
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  • Buckle and Squash and the Monstrous Moat-Dragon by Sarah Courtauld
    |title=Buckle and Squash and the Monstrous Moat-Dragon |summary=Very silly, very funny, and what I'm hoping will be the start of a great new series!
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  • The Incredible Crime by Lois Austen-Leigh
    |title=The Incredible Crime ...A murder mystery from the golden age cutting across the Country House and the closed world of academia. A solid plot, but overlaid with a lovely light s
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  • Notebooks of a Middle-School Princess by Meg Cabot
    ...Prince of Genovia, making her...a princess! Not everyone responds well to the news, however, and poor Olivia is soon thrown into a world of jealous bulli ...to a brand new world of decadence and luxury. Olivia struggles to process the bizarre things that are happening to her, as she tries to juggle her new li
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  • Eon: Rise of the Dragoneye by Alison Goodman
    |title=Eon: Rise of the Dragoneye ...urteen year-old Eona. And in this world, women are forbidden from studying the dragon arts. If discovered, it will mean certain death for them both.
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  • Immortal Longings: F.W.H. Myers and the Victorian Search for Life After Death by Trevor Hamilton
    |title= Immortal Longings: F.W.H. Myers and the Victorian Search for Life After Death ...ciety for Psychical Research, heavily involved during the Victorian era in the scientific study of ghosts, mediums and life after death.
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  • Girl on Fire by Tony Parsons
    ...wing breath we immediately jump to catching those responsible. The rest of the book gradually builds a web of intrigue and a virtual soap opera of family ...l aspect of the book was handled; this book is the complete opposite. With the skill of Tom Clancy, information is dripped in about past adventures withou
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  • London (Amazing and Extraordinary Facts) by Stephen Halliday
    |summary=Just a great book, that will delight people who think they know the city, and provide for many a present to distant friends and relatives. ...ondon certainly has a lot going for it as regards weird and wonderful, and the trivial yet fascinating. And, luckily for us, so has this book.
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  • Eight Keys by Suzanne LaFleur
    On moving to middle school, eleven-year-old Elise's life takes a turn for the worse. She's bullied by her cool and popular locker-buddy Amanda, and embar ...st when she doesn't know how she can cope with everything, help arrives in the form of a strange key with her name on it. As she opens a door to find out
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  • The King who Wouldn't Sleep by Debbie Singleton and Holly Swain
    |title=The King who Wouldn't Sleep ...oo far. He refuses to sleep for even one moment until he finds the perfect prince to marry his beautiful daughter. Unfortunately, none of them are perfect an
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  • Burning Your Boats by Angela Carter
    ...faced with a revealing introduction by Salman Rushdie, who was a friend of the author. ...ment to a lost motorist whose journey ends in nightmarish circumstances in the Snow Pavilion.
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  • The Last Wolf by Michael Morpurgo
    |title=The Last Wolf ...thermore, it has endless possibilities for the home educator. It's a super little book and in hardcover, it would make a special gift for any child of your a
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  • Ella Bella Ballerina and Cinderella by James Mayhew
    ...es Mayhew's other books about painters, although that's just the nature of the beast. It's still worth a look. ...s whisked away to the fairy tale, with the prince, fairy godmother and all the magic that every reader knows and loves.
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  • Educating Jack by Jack Sheffield
    |summary=More delightful, heart-warming and funny tales from Ragley on the Forest Village School. It's part of a series but reads well as a standalon ...t ''exactly'' the same time), but it's Jack Sheffield who is going to face the biggest change.
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  • Joe and the Lightning Pony by Victoria Eveleigh
    |title=Joe and the Lightning Pony ...ak link - this is anything but. It's a great story for boys (or girls) in the 8+ age group and there are difficult issues dealt with sensitively. Highly
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  • The Broken Eye (Lightbringer 3) by Brent Weeks
    |title=The Broken Eye (Lightbringer 3) |sort=Broken Eye (Lightbringer 3), The
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  • Reef Rescue (The Secret Mermaid) by Sue Mongredien
    |title= Reef Rescue (The Secret Mermaid) ...book in ''The Secret Mermaid'' series provides another excellent tect for the emerging readier - probably a girl - who likes adventure and magic. Recomm
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  • The Prussian Princesses: The Sisters of Kaiser Wilhelm II by John Van der Kiste
    |title=The Prussian Princesses: The Sisters of Kaiser Wilhelm II |sort= Prussian Princesses: The Sisters of Kaiser Wilhelm II
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  • Fairytale Frankie and the Mermaid Escapade by Greg Gormley and Steven Lenton
    |title=Fairytale Frankie and the Mermaid Escapade |summary=Grab your sunscreen and get to the beach as Frankie and her friends are having a fun time in this vibrant chil
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  • Nut Cracker by David Walser and Jan Pienkowski
    ...e Nutcracker story with exquisite art work. Some is a little delicate but the book will delight any young girl. Recommended. ...come an heirloom but this time there's much less text and more emphasis on the artwork.
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  • Secrets of Tamarind by Nadia Aguiar
    ...ive friend Helix's legacy, and the native magical element ophalla, and put the island to rights. ...o and help it - but how will we get there?" "Well, pretty much in exactly the same way we did last time." "Oh, OK. Bet it's changed when we get there..
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  • Don't Chew the Royal Shoe by Kate Leake
    |title=Don't Chew the Royal Shoe ...t they are all nestled together in the bottom of your wardrobe, but not if the Palace Pooch has anything to say about it. Join Chips and an alternative R
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  • The Kitchen Garden (Britain's Heritage Series) by Caroline Ikin
    |title=The Kitchen Garden (Britain's Heritage Series) |summary=An introduction to the history of the kitchen garden: well written and great illustrations. Recommended.
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  • Amma, Tell Me About Diwali! by Bhakti Mathur
    |summary=A gentle introduction to the festival of Diwali which should be read by children of all faiths. It educ ...rosperity and health to Ganesha, the God of new beginnings and to Lakshmi, the Goddess of wealth. But Klaka was curious: ''Amma'' he said, ''tell me abo
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  • The Satin Dress (Amber's Dressing-up Dreams) by Jenny Oldfield
    |title=The Satin Dress (Amber's Dressing-up Dreams) ...ies of four books for the early reader which tell the story of Cinderella. The plot and characters are good but be warned that if you buy one you will pro
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  • Destiny in the Desert: The Road to El Alamein - the Battle that Turned the Tide by Jonathan Dimbleby
    |title=Destiny in the Desert: The Road to El Alamein - the Battle that Turned the Tide ...ry=The story of the battle that seemed to turn the tide of war written for the generalist reader. Highly recommended.
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  • 3 Things You Never Knew About Ghostwriters
    ...c having only ever heard of them because of the Pierce Brosnan film. Given the awkwardness a lot of people feel toward ghostwriters, it's no surprise that ...hers are credited as co-writers, and others are hidden from us completely. The thing to keep in mind, though, is that they agree to these terms before vol
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  • Eye of the Moon by Dianne Hofmeyr
    |title=Eye of the Moon ...prince of Egypt, trying to get help to return him to his rightful place on the throne of Thebes.
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  • Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J K Rowling
    |title=Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince ...re is still much more to learn by the end of this, the penultimate book in the Harry Potter series.
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  • Sapphique by Catherine Fisher
    ...nd a way to free them, but inside even the Warden is struggling to control the prison, which has developed consciousness and itself dreams of escape. ...? Is the Warden as dark as we had previously thought? Can we feel pity for the deranged computer consciousness?
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  • The Face of God: The Gifford Lectures by Roger Scruton
    |title=The Face of God: The Gifford Lectures |sort=Face of God: The Gifford Lectures
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  • The Masque of the Red Death by Bethany Griffin
    |title=The Masque of the Red Death |sort=Masque of the Red Death
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  • The Covers of My Book Are Too Far Apart (and other grumbles) by Vivian French and Nigel Baines
    |title=The Covers of My Book Are Too Far Apart (and other grumbles) ...''I can't find a book that I like.'' You've probably heard at least one of the grumbles in this book before but have you known how to respond to it? This
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  • The Mourning Emporium by Michelle Lovric
    |title=The Mourning Emporium |sort=Mourning Emporium, The
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  • The New Libearian by Alison Donald and Alex Willmore
    |title=The New Libearian ...discover what is happening in this tour of a magical Library that captures the wonder of all those books housed in one place.
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  • I'm Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen by Sylvie Simmons
    |title=I'm Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen ...eonard Cohen, who was initially a novelist and poet before becoming one of the most highly acclaimed singer-songwriters.
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  • Without a Trace by Lesley Pearse
    |summary= A young woman decides to investigate the dissapearance of a young girl: an ideal holiday read. ...visit Cassie and Petal at their isolated stone cottage on the outskirts of the village.
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  • The Little Mermaid by Metaphrog
    |title=The Little Mermaid |sort=Little Mermaid
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  • Future King by Larry Pontius
    ...army or retired servicemen from a retirement home he goes into battle for the king and his country. A cracking good story. ...w-conspirators kidnap the Royal family to prevent Charles speaking against the EPA.
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  • The King's Blood: Book Two of The Dagger and the Coin by Daniel Abraham
    |title=The King's Blood: Book Two of The Dagger and the Coin |sort=King's Blood: Book Two of The Dagger and the Coin
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  • Goliath by Scott Westerfeld
    |summary=The end of this trilogy that takes Westerfeld's fans to a brilliant alternative ...ate prize - a machined weapon mighty enough to cease the war for good - to the Darwinists...
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  • Girl genius: Agatha H and the Clockwork Princess by Phil Foglio and Kaja Foglio
    |title=Girl genius: Agatha H and the Clockwork Princess |summary=Agatha and her cat Krosp run away to the circus to escape the Baron and his airship fleet.
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  • The Ember Blade by Chris Wooding
    |title=The Ember Blade ...s people, which is currently locked in the most heavily-fortified place in the land. All they have to do now is steal it...
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  • Blood Bonds: The Caravan by Rosanne Licata
    |title=Blood Bonds: The Caravan ...to get lost in their books. Rosanne Licata popped into Bookbag Towers to [[The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Rosanne Licata|chat to us]].
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  • Wereworld: Shadow of the Hawk by Curtis Jobling
    |title=Wereworld: Shadow of the Hawk ...re on the run, spiriting Drew's mother to safety. And Hector, the third of the Council... oh, Hector!
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  • Wasted by Nicola Morgan
    ...a little, she can't know that a time will come when the toss of a coin is the difference between life and death. But we know. We see Jess and Jack from a lofty position. We know the outcomes of their various choices. We can even choose for them...
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  • The Iron Fey: The Iron King by Julie Kagawa
    |title=The Iron Fey: The Iron King |sort= Iron Fey: The Iron King
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  • Moorehawke Trilogy: The Crowded Shadows by Celine Kiernan
    |title=Moorehawke Trilogy: The Crowded Shadows ...he excellent original as the journey of the central trio gets sidetracked; the brilliant character development is paired with some thought provoking point
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  • Alice on Deadlines v.2 by Shiro Ihara
    ...as it can to defy a sober review that to the uninitiated won't sound like the genre's worst-ever flaws writ large. ...f the same, alongside the sheerest, frilliest, sexiest undies, and the way the girl's soul ended up in a skeleton, walking around and sometimes helping ou
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  • Kushiel's Scion by Jacqueline Carey
    ...der. It could be shocking in places if unprepared for the erotic nature of the Kushiel saga. ...o discover who he really is as a human being and to find his true place in the world, when all he has known before was a lie.
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  • Kushiel's Justice (Treason's Heir) by Jacqueline Carey
    ...itical and personal ramifications of their affair, Imriel and Sidonie deny the first precept of Blessed Elua, love as thou wilt, and Imriel keeps his prom His reluctant marriage takes him to Alba and a life among the Cruithne. But dark magic blights his arrival and his love for Sidonie has
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  • Here's To Us by Elin Hilderbrand
    ...ll the children (and all their mothers) have spent many happy summers over the years, albeit not in each others company. ...oad, but we also have ''Intermezzo'' where we scoot into the past and into the lives Deacon had with Laurel, Belinda and Scarlett, how he met them, fell f
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  • In Darkness by Nick Lake
    ...of Haiti through the eyes of a boy in the present, caught in the rubble of the great quake, and a 19th century revolutionary leader. Gritty and real, full '''Shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2013'''
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  • The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Seance for a Vampire by Fred Saberhagen
    |title=The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Seance for a Vampire ...an extremely entertaining adventure and the author captures the voices of the vampire and of Dr Watson perfectly in his dual narration.
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  • A Dublin Fairytale by Nicola Colton
    |summary=With a twist on the Little Red Riding Hood tale, this is an easy-going story, with some lovely drawing |publisher=The O'Brien Press
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  • The Sandfather by Linda Newbery
    |title=The Sandfather ...out a boy searching for some grounding and doing a lot of growing up along the way. Subtle, absorbing, and compelling, it's just what you'd expect from Ne
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  • The Vanishing Man - In Search of Velazquez by Laura Cumming
    |title= The Vanishing Man - In Search of Velazquez ...ntertaining book shows how great art can entrance and enthral but also has the power to destroy reputations, finances and lives.
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  • Sebastian Darke: Prince of Explorers by Philip Caveney
    |title= Sebastian Darke: Prince of Explorers This then is the third chance we have had to meet Sebastian Darke, dodgy jester turned reluc
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  • The Train Set of Terror: A Measle Stubbs Adventure by Ian Ogilvy and Chris Mould
    |title=The Train Set of Terror: A Measle Stubbs Adventure ...g from the taps. The only thing that redeems Basil at all is that he owns the world's best train set, one Measle would love to get to know a lot better.
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  • Astronerds (Frightful Families) by Sue Mongredien and Teresa Murfin
    ...ly of astronauts. It's wonderful for reluctant or newly confident readers. The hero, Buzz Burton, is someone all children will be able to identify with. ...l, but Buzz is annoyed by them. It's space this, space that; he calls them the Astronerds. His birthday party looks like being ruined: they want to have i
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  • Prisoner of Ice and Snow by Ruth Lauren
    ...s under arrest for the attempted assassination of Anatol, Demidova's Crown Prince. Queen Ana is furious and sentences Valor to life imprisonment in Tyur'ma - ... it's not sounding too great for Valor, is it? But the thing is, this is exactly what she had been hoping for and she's even prepa
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  • Fractured by Dani Atkins
    ...ause it’s the first time the whole gang will have been back together since the accident, five years ago. It’s really not a life to hold on to. Surely sh ...out of her own place and time? Or has she really just taken a nasty hit to the head which has left her a bit jumbled?
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  • The Ninth Wave (New Stories from the Mabinogion) by Russell Celyn Jones
    |title=The Ninth Wave (New Stories from the Mabinogion) |sort=Ninth Wave (New Stories from the Mabinogion)
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  • The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria by Daniel Peltz
    |title=The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria ...ding - it's worth the effort. Daniel Peltz popped into Bookbag Towers to [[The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Daniel Peltz|chat to us]].
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  • My Unwilling Witch (The Rumblewick Letters) by Hiawyn Oram
    |title=My Unwilling Witch (The Rumblewick Letters) ...ynamic ilustrations and lots to explore this book is highly recommended by The Bookbag.
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  • A Division of the Light by Christopher Burns
    |title=A Division of the Light |sort=Division of the Light
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  • The Poison Throne: Moorehawke Trilogy by Celine Kiernan
    |title=The Poison Throne: Moorehawke Trilogy ...have readers guessing right the way through – and beyond, as this first in the Moorehawke Trilogy ends on a cliffhanger.
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  • The Stone Circle (Dr Ruth Galloway) by Elly Griffiths
    |title=The Stone Circle (Dr Ruth Galloway) |summary=The eleventh book in the Dr Ruth Galloway series lived up to all my expectations. A superb read whi
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  • Open Very Carefully: A Book with Bite! by Nicola O'Byrne and Nick Bromley
    '''Longlisted for the 2014 CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal''' ...seem to be nurturing artists and writers with an ability to think outside the box, in a children's field already replete with creative talent.
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  • Victoria: A Life by A N Wilson
    |summary=A new biography of the Queen, based partly on previously unseen sources, and providing some fresh ...ill say something new about her? Can the blurb’s claim that this shows us the sovereign ‘as she’s never been seen before’ really be justified? For
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  • Far Rockaway by Charlie Fletcher
    ...stories her grandfather read to her as a child. There, she must atone for the lie she told. Bookbag loved this rollicking adventure story with its compli '''Longlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2013'''
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  • The Thursday Night Letters: A Stamp in the Wrong Hands... by P K Munroe
    |title=The Thursday Night Letters: A Stamp in the Wrong Hands... |sort=Thursday Night Letters: A Stamp in the Wrong Hands...
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  • Top Ten Picture Books For Halloween
    ...umpkins and black cats in abundance, so the littlest ones can join in with the Halloween fun, but there's nothing that'll give them nightmares. Why not [ ...ures as a frog tries to get the right spell to turn himself into a prince. The interaction isn't tacked on, and will delight every young child.
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  • A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer
    |summary=An enjoyable riff on Beauty and the Beast with a fab central character who is not defined by her disability. A ...abduction of young girl and intercedes, only to find herself kidnapped in the girl's place. But even an imaginative girl like Harper couldn't have guesse
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  • 1815: Regency Britain in the Year of Waterloo by Stephen Bates
    |title=1815: Regency Britain in the Year of Waterloo ...he state of the country and its people, the events leading up to Waterloo, the battle itself and its immediate aftermath
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  • Silk by Penny Jordan
    ...in a new trilogy takes a mill-owning family from the nineteen twenties to the nineteen fifties and provides good characters and an interesting plot. It ...fictitious and it's this above all else which firmly grounds the novel in the period.
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  • Machiavelli: A Life Beyond Ideology by Paul Oppenheimer
    ...mary=A vivid and detailed look at the instability of medieval Florence and the man whose name is still a by-word for intrigue. ...tive and noun around 1570, although none of his works were translated into the language for another seventy years or so after that.
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  • My Favourite Fairy Tales by Tony Ross
    ...An interesting selection of fairy tales makes this a little different from the norm, but not all are as satisfying as they could be. Young children in par ...ike ''The Hedley Kow'', ''The Musicians of Bremen'', ''Sweet Porridge'', ''Prince Hyacinth'' and ''Fairy Gifts''.
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  • Victor and the Sun Orb by Amy Nielsen
    |title= Victor and the Sun Orb ...risation is let down by poor proof-reading and unfortunately we can't give the whole-hearted recommendation we would like to have given.
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  • Waterfire Saga: Deep Blue by Jennifer Donnelly
    ...her friend Neela arrives for the occasion, she confesses that she has had the same dream. ...the undersea world from its greatest ever threat: Orfeo's monster, now on the verge of escape from its watery prison.
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  • The Detective's Daughter by Lesley Thomson
    |title=The Detective's Daughter |summary=Invest some time getting into the story and it will repay you handsomely. It's an intriguing idea and very w
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  • Sons of the Blood by Robyn Young
    |title=Sons of the Blood ...- leading him and Jack on paths of intrigue, corruption, mystery and war. The old world is turning. A new world is rising.
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  • Forest Born by Shannon Hale
    ...ecides to leave the forest and join her favourite brother Razo at court in the city. This leads her into a cracking adventure full of magic, betrayal and ...nly succeeds in making it even harder to know her strengths and abilities. The message of this book is that you need to know both your power and your weak
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  • Blood Crime by John Brindley
    ...endously original thriller in which the action largely takes place through the thoughts of a boy in a coma. A short, sharp blend of science and whodunnit, ...eatest battle of his life - rushing through his veins and arteries evading the aggressive bacteria, rousing his body to fight back, and trying to work out
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  • Being by Kevin Brooks
    ...aks loose. On the run from the authorities, Robert hooks up with Eddi Ray, the ex-girlfriend of an old friend's brother. Eddi specialises in producing fal ...press release left me feeling I was in for a Blade Runner reprise and not the Brooks singularity I've come to admire. I really shouldn't be such a Doubti
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  • The Tyrant's Shadow by Antonia Senior
    |title=The Tyrant's Shadow ...three viewpoints showing Cromwell's governmental dilemma vividly alongside the chaos and fear of everyday life.
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  • Greatest Magical Stories by Michael Morpurgo (editor)
    |summary=A wonderful gift, in all senses of the word. ...s jam-packed with quickly-told classic delights, from Norse-based fable to the purest source of pantomime. And everywhere you turn you find something ful
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  • Becoming Queen by Kate Williams
    ...the British royal family from the 'Hanoverian family succession crisis' to the early years of Victoria's reign and motherhood. ...ldren by her first marriage, whose daughter Victoria became the saviour of the royal succession.
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  • A Pocketful of Crows by Joanne M Harris
    ...ght younger readers and adults alike, and hopefully make us all think into the bargain. Beautifully illustrated, totally magical. ...nything from ''Chocolat'' onwards you will know that Harris is mistress of the modern fairy tale. This is no different. It is an utter delight.
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  • Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: Murder Most Royal by S J Bennett
    |title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: Murder Most Royal |summary=It's book three in the series but would read well as a standalone. The plot is a cracker. Highly recommended.
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  • The Year from Jahannam by Shams Uddin
    |title=The Year from Jahannam |summary=The Wright family's blog reveals a hellish - literally - year in which their co
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  • Tainted by Brooke Morgan
    ...America, this debut novel is all about listening to your inner voice - and the sometimes catastrophic results - if you don't. ...ral but there's a definite sense of claustrophobia. Here life is lived in the slow lane where most folks amble along.
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  • Charles Jessold, Considered as a Murderer by Wesley Stace
    ...ch of the humour will pass you by unless you understand the pretensions of the milieu. Hard, unrewarding, work. ...ed me for the power and the polish of this subtle tale of English music in the making, a chiller wrapped in an enigma [New Statesman]''
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  • Moth and Spark by Anne Leonard
    ...mounted within a sword/sorcery/dragon fantasy. Good romance, shame about the fantasy. ...being together extends beyond love – they've been brought together to save the world.
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  • Wolfblade by Jennifer Fallon
    ...slow but ramps up the pace in an enjoyable story that seems predictable at the outset, but soon proves to be anything but. ...ing to be so normal. Another average mediaeval-style fantasy novel. And at the start, that's precisely what it seems to be, a box ticked for just about ev
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  • Wereworld: Rise of the Wolf by Curtis Jobling
    |title=Wereworld: Rise of the Wolf ...Completely and absolutely astounding. Curtis Jobling was kind enough to [[The Interview: Bookbag talks to Curtis Jobling|answer some questions]] for us.
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  • The Artist, The Philosopher and The Warrior by Paul Strathern
    |title= The Artist, The Philosopher and The Warrior ...a, Niccolò Machiavelli, and Leonardo da Vinci, and their combined roles in the history and wars of early 16th century Italy.
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  • Pendragon Legacy: Sword of Light by Katherine Roberts
    ...agon. But then Rhianna, daughter of Arthur and his true heir, emerges from the mists of Avalon '''Longlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2013'''
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  • The Silver Donkey by Sonya Hartnett
    |title=The Silver Donkey |summary=The Silver Donkey is a joy to read and a multi-layered book suitable for readin
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  • Mariah Mundi and the Ship of Fools by G P Taylor
    |title= Mariah Mundi and the Ship of Fools |summary= The practically-perfect conclusion to an excellent series. Rich and cleverly pl
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  • Secret Breakers: The Power of Three by H L Dennis
    |title=Secret Breakers: The Power of Three ...est code on earth. What he doesn't realise is that by doing so, he has put the three children in deadly peril.
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  • Sir William Knighton: The Strange Career of a Regency Physician by Charlotte Frost
    |title=Sir William Knighton: The Strange Career of a Regency Physician ...n contradictory information available. Charlote frost was kind enough to [[The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Charlotte Frost|talk to Bookbag]] about writing
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  • Slug Needs a Hug by Jeanne Willis and Tony Ross
    |summary=A slug seems an unlikely choice as the main character in a story, but he somehow manages to seem endearing! ...ne who dared to come into our house, into the lounge, and who I trod on in the dark one night. Yuck! All of which means that, to be honest, I wasn’t s
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  • People of the Day 4: The Rich and Famous Caricatured by Peter Wynter Bee and Lucy Clapham
    |title= People of the Day 4: The Rich and Famous Caricatured |summary= Honest profiles and striking caricatures of the rich and famous make this a perfect book for yourself or for a gift. What
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  • The Islands of Chaldea by Diana Wynne Jones and Ursula Jones
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  • Cabal by Michael Dibdin
    ...the Vatican. It's well-worth buying as you're likely to come back to it in the future. ...ordinary and he simply wasn't in that book. I began to wonder if I'd read the best of him and it was with some trepidation that I bought "Cabal".
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  • Dork Diaries by Rachel Renee Russell
    ...a new female diarist, that opens up an obvious yet enjoyable franchise for the young female audience. ...found it a bit feeble, and [[Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days by Jeff Kinney|the yellow one]] and found it a bit fabulous, so I couldn't guarantee any femin
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  • Dream Magic by Joshua Khan
    ...and trolls are attacking, yet somehow there's plenty of humour to lighten the daring exploits and death-defying feats of courage. A thoroughly satisfying ...solutely wonderful giant bat he uses to travel round on (when the bat's in the mood to be helpful, that is). Together they make a great team.
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  • The First Third Wish (Little Gems) by Ian Beck
    |title=The First Third Wish (Little Gems) |sort=First Third Wish (Little Gems) , The
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  • Your Father's Room by Michel Deon
    ...easure of book reviewing to read with no prior knowledge or prejudice, all the more so if you discover an absolute gem. ...oubt little Teddy has a privileged, bourgeois existence - I lost track of the various maids and cooks that criss-cross in and out of his memories. But th
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  • The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black
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  • Mera: Tidebreaker by Danielle Paige and Stephen Byrne
    ...for this market. But this evidence suggests a lot of eager consumption of the volumes to come. ...no idea what kind of person she will meet, and how hard it will be to get the job done…
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  • Wonder Woman: Warbringer by Leigh Bardugo, Louise Simonson and Kit Seaton
    ...a Prince, where the young adult audience might have wished for something a little sprightlier. You can't deny its melding of original plot and old myth is d ...her leading performance in a running race, but the survivor she drags from the waters is only going to disturb a lot more...
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  • Arbella Stuart: The Uncrowned Queen by Jill Armitage
    |title= Arbella Stuart: The Uncrowned Queen ...Grey, might have paid the ultimate price. As the author says at the end of the last chapter, hers was a sad story, and her only crime was to have royal bl
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  • Impulse by Dave Bara
    ...ace where a forgotten war looks like reigniting. Join him as he learns on the job and becomes involved in more life-threatening incidents than is good fo ...e is heroics. Cochrane has no choice, the son of an Admiral; he is deemed the best choice to seek out an ancient enemy that has destroyed a starship full
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  • The Final Testimony of Raphael Ignatius Phoenix by Paul Sussman
    |title=The Final Testimony of Raphael Ignatius Phoenix |sort=Final Testimony of Raphael Ignatius Phoenix, The
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  • Every Day, Every Hour by Natasa Dragnic and Liesl Schillinger (translator)
    |summary=The greatest love story ever told, this is a touching and tragic tale of a love ...it is there and is not going to fade away. Dora’s parents move her across the continent, careers develop and flourish, out of nowhere they are enveloped
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  • Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: The Windsor Knot by S J Bennett
    |title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: The Windsor Knot ...e Queen mentally rules out her racing manager, an ex-ambassador to Moscow, the Archbishop of Canterbury and Sir David Attenborough. One couldn't bear to
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  • Finding Violet Park by Jenny Valentine
    ...d emotionally strong, Finding Violet Park is sure to be one of the hits of the year. Don't miss it. ...d his grandmother hatch a plot to rescue her from the cab office. And then the coincidences begin...
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  • The Devil's Right Hand (Dante Valentine Novel) by Lilith Saintcrow
    |title=The Devil's Right Hand (Dante Valentine Novel) ...s of the series. Any other Bookbag user who feels swayed should only start the series with volume one, and not this third book.
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  • Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
    ...Katrina? If the experience of the eponymous Zeitoun is anything to go by, the answer is very. ...o weightier matters, most notably Guantanamo Bay and the war on terror and the Bush administration's response to Hurricane Katrina.
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  • Handel: The Man and His Music by Jonathan Keates
    |title= Handel: The Man and His Music ...Germany though he spent most of his life in England, best remembered for 'The Messiah'.
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  • Lionheart by Sharon Penman
    ...rative that covers the life of Richard I from his coronation to the end of the Third Crusade. ...ife of Richard I, covering the period from his coronation up to the end of the third crusade.
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  • The Cruise of Naromis: August in the Baltic 1939 by G A Jones
    |title=The Cruise of Naromis: August in the Baltic 1939 |sort=Cruise of Naromis: August in the Baltic 1939
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  • Charles Brandon: Henry VIII's Closest Friend by Steven Gunn
    ...full of detail, it is a somewhat dry study aimed more at the academic than the general reader. ...II throughout the latter's reign, never really fell out of favour, and had the good fortune to die peacefully in his bed, just eighteen months before his
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  • Conquest: Daughter of the Last King by Tracey Warr
    |title=Conquest: Daughter of the Last King ...lish throne, both in turmoil, feature in this wonderfully told story about the Welsh struggle that's unfortunately not a common feature in English history
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  • Gate of the Dead (Master of War) by David Gilman
    |title=Gate of the Dead (Master of War) ...a great adventure for the third time. A suspense-filled story that churns the stomach with excitement in such a good way!
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  • Beyond the Shadows (Night Angel Trilogy) by Brent Weeks
    |title= Beyond the Shadows (Night Angel Trilogy) |summary= The concluding volume of The Night Angel trilogy is the biggest, meatiest and most epic, with all plot strands and characters comin
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  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J K Rowling
    |title=Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows I feel surprisingly tired, having finished the final Harry Potter book
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  • Luna Loves Library Day by Joseph Coelho and Fiona Lumbers
    ...y shares the magic of libraries, and the magical worlds to be found inside the cover of a good book. ...nce she's home, she still has her newly borrowed books to escape into, and the memories of her day with her dad.
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  • Top Ten Autobiographies and Biographies 2016
    |title=Penguin Bloom: The Odd Little Bird Who Saved a Family ..., almost fatal, accident. The accident left her paralysed and, because of the sudden and extremely severe impact on her life she slid quickly into a very
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  • The Queen Must Die (Chronicles of the Tempus) by K A S Quinn
    |title=The Queen Must Die (Chronicles of the Tempus) |sort= Queen Must Die (Chronicles of the Tempus)
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  • Glass Thorns - Touchstone by Melanie Rawn
    ...s. Actually short's a good world as he's an elf but he also happens to be the best glister anyone's ever seen, thorns permitting. With one problem solve ...towards the end, but the players have plenty to absorb them (and us) along the way.
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  • Iggy Peck's Big Project Book for Amazing Architects by Andrea Beaty and David Roberts
    |summary=A book that is perfect for the budding young architect – you'll be tasked with drawing a veritable city ...hinking of buildings and how to improve on the ones he knows. And so, for the duration of your engagement with these pages, will you.
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  • Mark of the Black Arrow (Robin Hood: Demons Bane 1) by Debbie Viguie and James R Tuck
    |title=Mark of the Black Arrow (Robin Hood: Demons Bane 1) ...upernatural threat that not only scares, but compliments both the plot and the period perfectly.
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  • Red Sky in the Morning by Elizabeth Laird
    |title=Red Sky in the Morning |summary=Honest and perceptive, direct and emotionally engaging, Red Sky In The Morning is a sensitive book about disability, adolescence and family respon
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  • Clash of Iron (The Iron Age Trilogy) by Angus Watson
    |title=Clash of Iron (The Iron Age Trilogy) ...l fantasy series is as gripping, bloody, swear-busting and entertaining as the first, badgers bits and all!
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  • The Goddess and the Thief by Essie Fox
    |title=The Goddess and the Thief |sort=Goddess and the Thief
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  • Theft of Swords by Michael J Sullivan
    |summary=A swashbuckling, fantasy romp that has the ability to drag the reader in and leave them wanting more. ...an offer which included doubling up the books into three 700 page tomes. (The second volume, ''Rise of Empire'', also came out in 2011, leaving ''Heir of
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  • The Wings of Wrath (The Magister Trilogy) by Celia Friedman
    |title= The Wings of Wrath (The Magister Trilogy) ...ke the first part, it's not overly descriptive writing, but the quality of the story does help to put that aside.
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  • Age of Assassins by R J Barker
    |summary= A pair of assassins become caught up with the politics of a fantasy kingdom, as they act to stop an assassination. ...ne, and the moves of great families, there is no lack of suspects. As such the novel is as much a mystery as it is a fantasy and as much as coming of age
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  • Westminster Abbey: A Thousand Years of National Pageantry by Richard Jenkyns
    ...f the building sometimes regarded as Britain's national church, founded in the 11th century, scene of royal weddings, funerals, coronations, and final res ...the 11th century to the preparations for the wedding of Kate Middleton and Prince William in 2011.
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  • Shadowplay (Shadowmarch Trilogy) by Tad Williams
    ...and leisurely telling of far too many fantasy plot strands to summarise. The mammoth undertaking of all 2,000 pages might suit some readers, but this bo ...older family servant. Barrick meanwhile has fled towards the evil beyond the Shadowline, where lurk faceless nasties called fairies, and worse. He too
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  • Henry V: The Life of the Warrior King & the Battle of Agincourt by Teresa Cole
    |title= Henry V: The Life of the Warrior King & the Battle of Agincourt ...immortalised by Shakespeare and evoked as a role model by Churchill during the Second World War.
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  • Heriot by Margaret Mahy
    ''Heriot'' sets off in what is possibly the most conventional way 'high' fantasy can... ...yarns that follow the lives of a prince who is haunted by odd dreams, and the unruly daughter of a noble who is, well, unruly.
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  • Matter by Iain M Banks
    ...nteresting, and naturally developing throughout. The last part is weaker & the conclusions bit rushed, but still very much recommended to all fans. ...he Culture, dance round each other trying to figure out why exactly one of the client cultures of Morthanveld created a phantom fleet of warships.
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  • Making the Running by Ian Balding
    |title=Making the Running ...industry in the second half of the twentieth century, it's a good read for the enthusiast and novice alike.
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  • The Lost Tudor Princess: A Life of Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox by Alison Weir
    |title= The Lost Tudor Princess: A Life of Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox ...A very full life and times of Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox, one of the more shadowy, lesser known Tudor royal figures. Like so many others who we
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  • Stepsister by Jennifer Donnelly
    |summary= A powerful, feminist retelling of Cinderella and the hardship the stepsisters faced. Not one to be missed! ''People will not forget. Or forgive. An ugly girl is too great an offense...the world is made for men. An ugly girl can never be forgiven.''
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  • Tennyson: To strive, to seek, to find by John Batchelor
    |summary=A biography of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Poet Laureate for much of the Victorian era Most readers, if they were asked to name the ultimate poet of the Victorian age, would almost surely choose Alfred, Lord Tennyson. He was Po
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  • The New Green Consumer Guide by Julia Hailes
    |title=The New Green Consumer Guide ...ntirely devoted to the environmental message. The idea is no longer to get the message out, it's to save people from drowning in it and enable them to act
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  • The Last Days of Richard III by John Ashdown-Hill
    |title=The Last Days of Richard III ...pally on the last 150 days of the King's life, as well as the aftermath of the battle of Bosworth Field.
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  • The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden
    |title=The Girl in the Tower |sort= Girl in the Tower
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  • Aphra Behn: A Secret Life by Janet Todd
    ...is a very account of her (still remarkably secret) life and the culture of the age. ...try and translator of science and French romance. It seems remarkable that the daughter of a barber and a wet-nurse should have achieved such status.
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  • Girl in a Green Gown: The History and Mystery of the Arnolfini Portrait by Carola Hicks
    |title=Girl in a Green Gown: The History and Mystery of the Arnolfini Portrait ...ry=A detailed close-up look at the renowned 15th-century painting known as the Arnolfini Marriage, as well as a history of its provenance and various owne
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  • Shadow Magic by Joshua Khan
    ...n a world full of mysteries and dangers which mischievously upends many of the clichés of fantasy. ...tice and evil, and there are deaths, losses and triumphs. But that's where the same-old, same-old ends.
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  • Forgotten History: Unbelievable Moments from the Past by Jem Duducu
    |title= Forgotten History: Unbelievable Moments from the Past ...day. Some of his stories are amusing, some tragic, some astonishing, and the result is a very enjoyable work into which an immense amount of research ha
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  • Single, Again, and Again, and Again by Louisa Pateman
    ...ppily ever after. Few girls are lucky enough to be brought up ''without'' the expectation that they will marry and have children. It was a belief and it ...her, slimmed down the time which was available for engagements and finally the order of having children and getting married had to be adjusted. She wasn'
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  • Black Wolves (Black Wolves Trilogy) by Kate Elliott
    ...guard who were disbanded after the regicides. Kellas had walked away from the palace in a fog of shock and self-blame and he may not want to come back ...ack Wolves is the first Kate Elliott I've read but what an introduction to the author! It's over 700 pages long and yet feels way too short, finishing mu
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  • I, Coriander by Sally Gardner
    ...and happily lacking in anachronism. I, Coriander would probably appeal to the history-loving early teen. Fans of fantasy need not apply. ...es, only Coriander is left to protect her family and to save the prince of the fairy world.
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  • Thomas Hardy: The Time-Torn Man by Claire Tomalin
    |title= Thomas Hardy: The Time-Torn Man ...A biography of the Victorian novelist who gave up prose and became one of the most renowned of early 20th century poets.
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  • The Table Of Less Valued Knights by Marie Phillips
    |title=The Table Of Less Valued Knights ...venture with humour that ranges from subtle to Pratchettly clever. Ignore the book blurb about Jane Austen and Monty Python; this is pure Marie Phillips.
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  • The Black Friar: Damian Seeker 2 by S G Maclean
    |title=The Black Friar: Damian Seeker 2 |summary=Oliver Cromwell's investigator, The Seeker, is back heralding another great historical crime novel as well as a
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  • Top Ten Funniest Books
    ...lways excellent [[:Category:Alan Bennett|Alan Bennett]]. When you've wiped the tears of laughter away from your eyes, why not [mailto:sue@thebookbag.co.uk |summary=A collection of adverts from ''The London Review of Books'' Lonely Hearts column will leave you spluttering wi
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  • Court of Dreams by Stuart Sharp
    ...hor, hidden meaning or fable-ish morals, just fun, gloom-busting, shut-out-the-day entertainment. ...arily a good thing. Meanwhile the tumble has separated Nicola and Thomas, the hit man is not only determined but also a local lad so knows his way around
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  • Elizabeth's Rival: The Tumultuous Tale of Lettice Knollys, Countess of Leicester by Nicola Tallis
    |title= Elizabeth's Rival: The Tumultuous Tale of Lettice Knollys, Countess of Leicester ...This biography is a beautifully written, lively and colourful ride through the Tudor years and their Stuart postscript with their conspiracies and religio
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  • The Autobiography of Jack the Ripper by James Carnac
    |title=The Autobiography of Jack the Ripper |sort=Autobiography of Jack the Ripper
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  • All You Need is Love by Carole Matthews
    ...us, occasionally witty outing from your friendly, neighbourhood regular-in-the-best-seller-list, Carole Matthews. ...computer course, laid on for those with the greatest need and interest, by the local authority.
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  • 25 Chapters of My Life: The Memoirs of Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna by Olga Alexandrovna, Paul Kulikovsky, Sue Woolmans and Karen Roth-Nicholls
    |title=25 Chapters of My Life: The Memoirs of Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna ...ar Nicholas II of Russia, expanded from a series of interviews she gave at the time of her silver wedding anniversary in 1941.
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  • Ravenspur: Rise of the Tudors (The Wars of the Roses) by Conn Iggulden
    |title=Ravenspur: Rise of the Tudors (The Wars of the Roses) |summary=The final volume in Conn's ''Wars of the Roses'' series brings it all together. Four kings, one story and one exemp
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  • Joined-up Thinking: How to Connect Everything to Everything Else by Stevyn Colgan
    |summary= Everything is linked to everything else – and that's not trivial. The fun in this book remains trivial, but more than slight. ...ing is linked to everything and everyone else, if only you know how. Thus the chapters introduce us to item A, which is linked to item B, which relates t
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  • The Malice of Fortune by Michael Ennis
    |title=The Malice of Fortune |sort=Malice of Fortune, The
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  • Murders of London: In the steps of the capital's killers by David Long
    |title=Murders of London: In the steps of the capital's killers ...ted in London since the early 19th century, though the main emphasis is on the 20th century.
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  • Dragonfly by Julia Golding
    ...cannot accept when her three fellow Princesses decide to marry her off to the 'uncouth' Ramil ac Burinholt in order to unite their lands against their co ..., as his father did. A clash in cultures leads to misunderstanding between the betrothed, and they quickly come to despise one another. But Ramil is not w
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  • The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Keren David
    |title=The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Keren David Keren David's [[Lia's Guide to Winning the Lottery by Keren David|latest book]] is something of a departure - although
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  • The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters by G W Dahlquist
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  • True Things About Me by Deborah Kay Davies
    ...ginning… but it is not necessarily the path to true love as we know it and the undertow of this restless sea into which our heroine has waded, can be dead ...al, brutal and almost wordless sex in an underground car park and you have the opening chapters of Deborah Kay Davies's debut novel.
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  • A Concise History of Russia by Paul Bushkovitch
    ...developments, but also including chapters on Russian arts and culture from the 19th century onwards. ...ritory which was to become the ancestor of the present nation state around the 10th century AD, to Vladimir Putin's assumption of office as President in 2
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  • Emily Climbs: A Virago Modern Classic (Emily Trilogy) by L M Montgomery
    |summary=Emily truly begins to discover who she is in this second book in the Emily trilogy. Fiercely proud, and developing her sense of humour, I like ...g novels - a terrible thing, in her eyes! Emily has no choice but to make the promise, but she finds it very difficult. Still, she is allowed to continu
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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
    ...n 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 ...biographies all at once. As a Tudor tour of places lived in or visited by the Queens, in words and pictures, one could hardly ask for more.
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  • Newest Biography Reviews
    |title=Charles, The Alternative Prince: An Unauthorised Biography ...reatments which have no scientific support has done considerable damage to the reputation of a man who is proud of his refusal to apply evidence-based, lo
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  • Eat. Nourish. Glow.: 10 easy steps for losing weight, looking younger and feeling healthier by Amelia Freer
    ...e the way that you eat to achieve the desired result. Having made some of the changes quite independently some months ago I can confirm that they work. ...decision not only to change her diet, but to train to be a nutritionist. The result is a busy practice - and this book.
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  • Westminster: A biography, from earliest times to the present by Robert Shepherd
    |title=Westminster: A biography, from earliest times to the present ...he monarchs, politicians and others who shaped its history at the heart of the nation
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  • What Have the Germans Ever Done for Us?: A History of the German Population of Great Britain by Susan Duxbury-Neumann
    |title= What Have the Germans Ever Done for Us?: A History of the German Population of Great Britain ...ionship between the British and the Germans which has endured for so long, the impact of German trading and culture on Britain, and provides plenty of foo
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  • Newest Popular Science Reviews
    |title=Charles, The Alternative Prince: An Unauthorised Biography ...reatments which have no scientific support has done considerable damage to the reputation of a man who is proud of his refusal to apply evidence-based, lo
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  • Realm Divided: A Year in the Life of Plantagenet England by Dan Jones
    |title= Realm Divided: A Year in the Life of Plantagenet England ...ies and that his reign was a disaster, but he conveys the struggle between the monarch and his subjects vividly and includes some vivid essays on social h
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  • Just What I Always Wanted: Unwrapping the World's Most Curious Birthday Presents by Robin Laurance
    |title= Just What I Always Wanted: Unwrapping the World's Most Curious Birthday Presents |summary= Put simply, close to the ideal gift book.
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  • So Great a Prince: England and the Accession of Henry VIII by Lauren Johnson
    |title= So Great a Prince: England and the Accession of Henry VIII ...iliar, but Lauren Johnson's social history-cum-biography as she focuses on the pivotal year is a welcome addition to anybody's bookshelf.
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  • The Humiliations of Welton Blake by Alex Wheatle
    |title=The Humiliations of Welton Blake ..., and the amount of problems caused by that ending mean this is not one of the publisher's best.
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  • The Way Of Shadows (Night Angel Trilogy) by Brent Weeks
    |title=The Way Of Shadows (Night Angel Trilogy) ...loped characters facing genuinely tragic moral dilemmas, all surrounded by the classic fantasy world of quasi-medieval, feudalism, functioning magic, intr
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  • A World By Itself: A History of the British Isles by Jonathan Clark
    |title=A World By Itself: A History of the British Isles |sort= World By Itself: A History of the British Isles
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  • Running the Show: Governors of the British Empire 1857-1912 by Stephanie Williams
    |title=Running the Show: Governors of the British Empire 1857-1912 ...second half of the 19th century, revealing the often grim reality beneath the rather airbrushed image.
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  • John Shakespeare: Prince by Rory Clements
    |title=John Shakespeare: Prince |summary=This is the third book in the series and Clements has improved each time: we're now seeing much improved
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  • The Petticoat Men by Barbara Ewing
    |title=The Petticoat Men ...pping story based on a true legal case with plenty of historic detail from the days when judicial homophobia was evidenced by a sentence worse than death.
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  • As Good as God, as Clever as the Devil: The Impossible Life of Mary Benson by Rodney Bolt
    |title=As Good as God, as Clever as the Devil: The Impossible Life of Mary Benson ...is book. All of the above provided an accurate and irresistible glimpse of the biography within, and I wasn't one whit disappointed in my choice.
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  • The Fourth King by Ted Sieger
    |title=The Fourth King ...n family. The appearance of the literal voice of God himself might put off the agnostic. Militant atheists should keep well away.
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  • A Reverie of Brothers by R D Shanks
    ...lot of talent showing through. R D Shanks popped into Bookbag Towers to [[The Interview: Bookbag Talks To R D Shanks|chat to us]]. ...t known as The Eyes. Their plan necessitates the unwitting involvement of the spoilt, egotistical aforementioned niece, Princess Ava. Unfortunately ther
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  • The King's Pearl: Henry VIII and His Daughter Mary by Melita Thomas
    |title= The King's Pearl: Henry VIII and His Daughter Mary ...VIII and his Daughter Mary|popped into Bookbag Towers to chat to us about the relationship betweem Henry and Mary]].
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  • The Sultan's Wife by Jane Johnson
    |title=The Sultan's Wife ...lves a romance but there's so much else to attract the attention that even the most heart-hardened history buff will find something in it to appeal.
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  • My Last Duchess by Daisy Goodwin
    ...ds, with themes of snobbery, sexuality and an underlying menace to enhance the aristocratic atmosphere. ...ry, was about a romance, suitable or unsuitable. So the cover complemented the story – a quite unusual feat, judging by other offerings I have seen rece
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  • The Great Famine: Ireland's Agony 1845-1852 by Ciaran O Murchadha
    |title=The Great Famine: Ireland's Agony 1845-1852 ...anitarian disaster of 19th century Europe, by an author who has researched the subject for over twenty years.
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  • Stanley Gibbons Stamp Catalogue Commonwealth & Empire Stamps 1840-1970 2011 by Hugh Jefferies
    ...monwealth catalogue, including Great Britain, covering all issues prior to the introduction of decimal currency in 1971. ...-month period spanning 1970-1, but by and large this is what we might call the sterling era catalogue.
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  • Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr
    ...e learns that not only her fate, but that of the whole human world lies in the balance. ...Aislinn and Seth love story as a faerie tale. And it's in this story that the teenage fantasy element is at its strongest.
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  • Edward IV & Elizabeth Woodville: A True Romance by Amy Licence
    ...er-present background of the end of the Hundred Years' War and the Wars of the Roses. ...claring allegiance to one side and then another in turn during the Wars of the Roses, it was a divisive era to start with.
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  • The Interview: Bookbag Talks To C E Robinson
    |title=The Interview: Bookbag Talks To C E Robinson ...as impressed by the world building in [[Lilith: Eden's Planetary Princess (The Michael Archives Book 1) by C E Robinson|Lilith: Eden's Planetary Princess]
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  • Archduke Franz Ferdinand Lives!: A World without World War I by Richard Ned Lebow
    |summary=A 'counterfactual', or alternative history of the twentieth century which visualises how it might have been if Archduke Franz ...ife Sophie at Sarajevo in June 1914, the final catalyst which precipitated the First World War.
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  • Who Am I?: The Family Tree Explorer by Anthony Adolph
    |title= Who Am I?: The Family Tree Explorer ...mation on how family trees are made and used in various cultures, 'life in the past' social history, heraldry, meaning and history of names and even evolu
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  • Lady Blue Eyes: My Life With Frank Sinatra by Barbara Sinatra
    ...memoir by Barbara Sinatra, telling her life story but focusing largely on the years with her third husband, whom she married in 1976. ...whom she would make her most enduring marriage, and vice versa. They tied the knot in 1976, and stayed together until his death in 1998.
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  • Electric Shock: From the Gramophone to the iPhone - 125 Years of Pop by Peter Doggett
    |title= Electric Shock: From the Gramophone to the iPhone - 125 Years of Pop ...ugh the history of popular music from the end of the nineteenth century to the present day, from wax cylinders to streaming services, from Edison and Berl
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  • The Princes In The Tower by Alison Weir
    |title=The Princes In The Tower |sort=Princes In The Tower
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  • Sons of the Oak (Runelords) by David Farland
    |title=Sons of the Oak (Runelords) ...him and resist those without. A solidly constructed world and mythology, a little weak on characterisation but with a plot that doesn't pause for breath. Pur
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  • Mr Gig by Nige Tassell
    ...-something going on 20, decides to reconnect with his youth and rediscover the passion of his youth. ...roads the length and breadth of the land in its stride (and the car passed the test - just), it also requires a certain amount of courage.
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  • Hodd by Adam Thorpe
    |summary= A re-telling of the legend of Robin Hood with a sound basis in historical fact, but spoiled by ''Robin Hood, Robin Hood riding through the glen'',<br>
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  • The CILIP Carnegie Medal 2013
    In what must have been a very difficult decision to make the winner was chosen from some excellent books: ...assics. There is something about the phrasing, about the concept and about the main character which chime so perfectly together that they cannot fail to m
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  • The Blood Guard by Carter Roy
    |title= The Blood Guard ...which moves at a breakneck pace curving round corkscrew bends. Roy leaves the reader dry mouthed and wide eyed with shock at cliff hanger moments in a bo
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  • September 2011 Newsletter
    ...we'll tell you about what we've been reading at Bookbag and any news from the site. We promise never to pass your details on to anyone else. In fact... w ...missed any, now's your chance to catch up. We think it's too close to call the eventual winner. What do you think?
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  • Remembering The Bones by Frances Itani
    |title= Remembering The Bones ...ip to the UK. However, only a few minutes into her journey, the car leaves the road and is plunged into a ravine. She is thrown clear of her car, injured
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  • The White Queen of Middleham: Sprigs of Broom 1 by Lesley J Nickell
    |title=The White Queen of Middleham: Sprigs of Broom 1 ...'s minimised to pawn status. Tricia Callow popped into Bookbag Towers to [[The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Tricia Callow, sister of Lesley J Nickell|chat
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  • A Book of Secrets, Illegitimate Daughters, Absent Fathers by Michael Holroyd
    ...to a stoic suspension which she recorded with thoughts from her friends in the pages of annotated diaries which became ''A Book of Secrets''. ...lice Keppel who was to embark upon a dalliance, as is well known, with the Prince of Wales. Besides these, there was a voluptuous Spanish American lady in Ro
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  • High Minds: The Victorians and the Birth of Modern Britain by Simon Heffer
    |title=High Minds: The Victorians and the Birth of Modern Britain |summary=An in-depth study of the social, political and intellectual changes that took place in and transform
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  • Top Ten Books For Sharing 2014
    |title=Sir Scallywag and the Deadly Dragon Poo ...m has grown fat and lazy, except for Sir Scallywag. It's lucky somebody in the castle still has their wits about them, because Baron Greedyguts has heard
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  • The Voyage of the "Dawn Treader" by C S Lewis
    |title=The Voyage of the Dawn Treader |summary=The third (not the fifth!) book in the most wonderful fantasy series ever written for children. Don't miss it and
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  • The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Eve Ainsworth
    |title=The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Eve Ainsworth ...cheeks ''ached'' when she read [[The Blog of Maisy Malone by Eve Ainsworth|The Blog of Maisy Malone]], so we were really looking forward to a chat with he
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  • The Lost Art by Simon Morden
    |title=The Lost Art ...ife characters which may even inspire thought about more serious issues of the use that's made of knowledge and technology, role of religion and coloniali
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  • The Year of Miracle and Grief by Leonid Borodin
    |title=The Year of Miracle and Grief |sort=Year of Miracle and Grief, The
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  • The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Clementine Beauvais and Sarah Horne
    |title=The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Clementine Beauvais and Sarah Horne |summary=Jim can't stop talking about the [[Sesame Seade Mysteries 1: Sleuth on Skates by Clementine Beauvais and Sar
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  • An Exclusive Love by Johanna Adorjan
    |summary=A young woman who seeks to unravel the mysteries of her grandparents' tragic decision; a tale of memory, belonging ...ark. Entry is gained by a local locksmith who charged 297.02 kroner. It is the charm and lyricism with which this tale is related which makes this fateful
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  • Chart Throb by Ben Elton
    ...the observation... some good running gags, and the usual keen insight, but the overall effect doesn't quite make it. ...bout making ''good telly''. "Good telly" of course, is defined by whatever the viewers want to watch.
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  • Emily of New Moon: A Virago Modern Classic (Emily Trilogy) by L M Montgomery
    ...ing me who I am. I wrote my masters dissertation on her books. I went to Prince Edward Island, Canada, for a conference about her works. I came back with ...e very Victorian in nature, rather flowery and formal and over-loaded with the word 'purple'. Still, she writes. She writes whenever and wherever she ca
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  • The Interview: Bookbag Talks To John Piper
    |title=The Interview: Bookbag Talks To John Piper ...by John Piper|Hibernia Unanimis]] and she had quite a few questions to ask the author when he popped into Bookbag Towers.
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  • Holes by Louis Sachar
    |summary=Holes is a quirky, individual little book that can be read by children and adults alike. Part mystery, part comi ''If you take a bad boy and make him dig a hole every day in the hot sun, it will turn him into a good boy. That what was what some people t
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  • The Interview: Bookbag Talks To HM Castor
    |title=The Interview: Bookbag Talks To HM Castor |summary=We loved HM Castor's [[VIII by HM Castor|VIII]] - the story of Henry VIII and we were fascinated by what she had to tell us when
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  • War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
    ...anipulation and social climbing that's become second nature… that is until the tide of war changes. ...the epic are betting on the latter. The surprise is that, reading W&P for the first time, I fully agree with them.
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  • The Race to Save the Romanovs: The Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue Russia's Imperial Family by Helen Rappaport
    |title= The Race to Save the Romanovs: The Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue Russia's Imperial Family |sort= Race to Save the Romanovs: The Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue Russia's Imperial Family
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  • Nella Last's Peace: The Post-war Diaries of Housewife 49 by Patricia Malcolmson (Editor), Robert Malcolmson (Editor)
    |title= Nella Last's Peace: The Post-war Diaries of Housewife 49 During the period 1945-1948, Second World War hostilities were over, but life in Barro
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  • Four Sisters:The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses by Helen Rappaport
    |title=Four Sisters:The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses ...and Anastasia - from their birth to the tragic end at Ekaterinburg during the revolution in 1981
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  • The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Tricia Callow, sister of Lesley J Nickell
    |title=The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Tricia Callow, sister of Lesley J Nickell ...unately she died in 2013. Fortunately, Lesley's sister, Tricia Callow had the answers to many of Ani's questions.
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  • Top Ten Fantasy Books of 2015
    ...unfolds the future, Mattias' daughter Talandra will also play her part as the King's spymaster. Vargus can kill an armed gang singlehanded. Balfruss ca ...enemy doesn't get them, their own flying craft may. Nobody wants to be on the back of an overheated rag!
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  • The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
    |title=The Master and Margarita ...with several interwoven stories and a quite serious helping of fantasy and the grotesque.
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  • Whatever Love Means by David Baddiel
    ...these kinds of musings. He says "c*nt" a lot in a "determined to irritate the uptight people" kind of way. Poor Joe; Vic shocks and embarrasses Joe all the time but he admires him all the same. Joe is a biochemist working in AIDS research, he's conservative with
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  • The Interview: Bookbag Talks To David Gatward
    |title=The Interview: Bookbag Talks To David Gatward ...d Gatward|The Dark]], a book of zombie horror positioning itself firmly in the Darren Shan market, provided strong characters, an interesting premise and
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  • The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Natasha Farrant
    |title=The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Natasha Farrant ...We Did for Love by Natasha Farrant]] so there was lots to chat about when the author popped into Bookbag Towers.
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  • The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Ken Howard
    |title=The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Ken Howard ...rs to peel back. We loved the mix of modernity and tradition and jumped at the chance to ask Ken some questions about writing it.
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  • Newest LGBT Fiction Reviews
    |title=The Raging Storm (Two Rivers) ...book. Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the trip?
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  • Traversa by Fran Sandham
    ...ng. Obsessive might be a better word. Not always in the best of moods or the best of health, he produces a realistic and humourous account of an epic jo ..., as he finally dips his toe into the Indian Ocean, you need to go back to the beginning and start again.
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  • July 2017 Newsletter
    ...we'll tell you about what we've been reading at Bookbag and any news from the site. We promise never to pass your details on to anyone else. In fact... w Hello Bookbaggers! How the devil are you? Well, we hope.
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  • Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
    ...icide, pro-environment polemic, Silent Spring has lyricism and beauty too. The seeds of Jim Lovelock's Gaia theory began with Carson's "web of life". For ...e alarming indeed. As winter leaves the chemically stricken land what does the new season bring? In Carson's words:
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  • The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Cora Harrison
    |title=The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Cora Harrison ...ice and I loved to hear snatches of their serious discussions – and admire the way that they were weaving stories about their future.
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  • Melita Thomas Talks To Bookbag About The King's Pearl: Henry VIII and his Daughter Mary
    |title= Melita Thomas Talks To Bookbag About The King's Pearl: Henry VIII and his Daughter Mary ...eriority, the humanist scholars were advocating that women were capable of the same level of learning as men.
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  • Born Wild: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Passion for Lions and for Africa by Tony Fitzjohn
    |title=Born Wild: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Passion for Lions and for Africa ...f Kenya and Tanzania in the struggle to protect the former and accommodate the latter.
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  • Morse Code Wrens of Station X by Anne Glyn-Jones
    ...ntercepting chatter from the airways – and a light-hearted look at life in the service. ...er, is the work of the telegraphers that served Station X: those posted to the Y-stations. There are few of them left to tell their tales, so I applaud
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  • The Kitchen Revolution by Rosie Sykes, Polly Russell and Zoe Heron
    |title=The Kitchen Revolution |summary=A recipe for a main meal for every day of the year, complete with instructions and shopping lists. I couldn't follow it
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  • The Winter Sleepwalker by Joan Aiken
    |title=The Winter Sleepwalker ...y too old for picture books and for new readers to attempt alone, they are the perfect mix of funny, scary and downright odd. Recommended by Bookbag to fi
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  • The Interview: Bookbag Talks To R D Shanks
    |title=The Interview: Bookbag Talks To R D Shanks ...R D Shanks|A Reverie of Brothers]] and she had quite a few questions when the author popped into Bookbag Towers.
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  • Against All Authority: Anarchism and the Literary Imagination by Jeff Shantz
    |title=Against All Authority: Anarchism and the Literary Imagination ...e noticeable biases but the passion makes it more interesting to read than the usual scholarly analyses.
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  • Top Ten Historical Fiction Books of 2016
    |title=The New Mrs Clifton ...e women struggle to find their place in the world left scarred by the war, the secrets and lies they hide and share may come to tear them all apart...
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  • Top Ten Self-Published Books 2020
    ...raditionally-published books in the same genres. We really couldn't narrow the choice down any further - so this year's top ten consists of eleven books a ...'I Dreamed You'' carries on the tradition beautifully. This little book is the perfect exemplar of our category name, ''For Sharing''. It is a mother's lo
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  • Cross Stitch by Diana Gabaldon
    ...icking read, obviously a very easy one at that and if you manage to ignore the failings, an enjoyable way to waste a few evenings. ...assified outside sci-fi genre, in fact some are even tentatively placed in the so-called mainstream.
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  • Newest Home and Family Reviews
    |summary=''This isn't a diet book. The last thing anyone needs is another diet book.'' ...much the same way as drugs like heroin and cocaine. Does that sound over the top? Well, it isn't.
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  • The Interview: Bookbag Talks To R Julian Cox
    |title=The Interview: Bookbag Talks To R Julian Cox ...ON THE SUN]], an elegant conflation of fact and fiction which kept her on the edge of her seat. She and Julian had quite a few things to chat about when
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  • Newest Fantasy Reviews
    |title=The Briar Book of the Dead ...ret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under
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  • Newest Science Fiction Reviews
    |summary=''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.'' ...anding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who c
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  • Newest Autobiography Reviews
    |title=The Trading Game: A Confession ...injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and h
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  • Newest Politics and Society Reviews
    ...he food system, rewilding…'' One of the joys of the book for me was that the biggest thing he learned about all of these things was that there are no ea ...this sultry island country, it remains the kind of heat forcing you out of the kitchen…
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  • Newest Lifestyle Reviews
    |summary=''This isn't a diet book. The last thing anyone needs is another diet book.'' ...much the same way as drugs like heroin and cocaine. Does that sound over the top? Well, it isn't.
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