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• Who Do You Love? by Mandy Stanley
  |title=Who Do You Love? ...illustrations ago. This kind of style appeals to many children and I dare say would appeal to many parents, especially those that dislike super-naturalis
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• Your Baby's First Word Will Be Dada by Jimmy Fallon and Miguel Ordonez
  ...simple book all about a group of fathers trying to persuade their child to say Dada. With its fun imagery and straight forward story it appeals to a youn ...Jimmy Fallon and Miguel Ordonez have put it to paper. Do you want to know what my children's first word was? Dada, of course. I win!
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• Say Hello Like This by Mary Murphy
  |title=Say Hello Like This |summary=All the animals teach you how to say hello, so you can greet them too. Cute as can be.
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• Someone Else's Life by Katie Dale
  |summary=What do you do when your mother dies of Huntington's Disease and you find out that she wasn't your mother at all? And that there is a person - a ...you've guessed it, she lies and omits (no spoilers at Bookbag, so I won't say how).
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• What Does the Fox Say? by Ylvis and Svein Nyhus
  |title=What Does the Fox Say? ...asked him if he knows was foxes say, but I imagine he doesn’t. I mean, do you?
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• I Love You, Little Monster by Giles Andreae and Jess Mikhail
  |title=I Love You, Little Monster ...our child at bedtime, then I suggest that you look no further than 'I Love You, Little Monster'. This is a beautiful book with some heartfelt sentiments t
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Alan Titchmarsh
  * '''Bookbag: When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, who do you see?''' ...ite for people who just enjoy reading a good story; a yarn, if you like. What they call page-turners. It's important to me when my readers get to the en
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• The Book With No Pictures by B J Novak
  ...once you open this book, you have to say Every. Single. Thing on the page. You have been warned. ...blork', or sentences like 'I am a monkey who taught myself to read', can't you? A brilliant way to bring people together with a book.
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• The Decision Book: Fifty Models for Strategic Thinking by Mikael Krogerus and Roman Tschappeler
  ...are designed to give the individual both self-awareness and ammunition, if you like, in order to cope with various business/political and even social scen ...ates ''Instructions For Use.'' Okay, I thought. But there's more. ''Why You Should Read This Book'' and ''How To Use This Book.'' So, there's absolut
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• Category:Richard Hennerley
  ...icture of the author is a true likeness or that his given name is real, we do not know where he lives, or his age. The author himself freely admits that Tell us a bit about your book 'I Really, Really Want It'…. what is it about?
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• The Quiet People by Paul Cleave
  ...instance. The question has nothing to do with the book, but everything to do with how I came to be reading it. I mistook the author for one that I have ...ch he should not hear because this is New Zealand and that is not how they do things there, he takes a risk. It ends badly.
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• Doctor Who and the Dinosaur Invasion by Malcolm Hulke
  ...ct. What is causing time to leave the dinosaurs moving around London, and what is a mediaeval man, complaining of witchcraft under King John, doing there ...happily, not successfully) you don't see the dinosaur suits and dodgy FX. You don't get anything describing the dinosaurs, beyond tiny hands here, big he
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• Tips From Widows by Jan Robinson
  ...must do. Who better to give advice than other women who have experienced what must be the worst thing that life can throw at them? ...nd there's a sense of being empowered. What has happened is dreadful, but you will be able to cope.
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• Who's Yawning? by David Bedford and Leonie Worthington
  ...her animals yawning as they get ready for bed. The elephant (and the child you're reading to) identifies the animal from their noise, then lifts the flaps ...include [[How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night? by Jane Yolen|How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night?]] by [[:Category:Jane Yolen|Jane Yolen]] and [[The Tiger Who Ca
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• The Afterwards by A F Harrold and Emily Gravett
  ''Tell them what The Afterwards is about, they said.''<br> ''Hopefully you know this, but...''<br>
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• One by Sarah Crossan
  ...int do you say ''yes'' to separation surgery? And how would life change if you survived? ...pi are face with are Hobson's choices. Damned if you do, equally damned if you don't. But they forge on with the kind of quiet (and sometimes noisy) deter
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• 3 Reasons Why You Need an ISBN
  ...e more exciting it gets with possibilities, so let's look at 3 reasons why you need an ISBN. ...digitally, you now have three numbers for one book. Amazon will designate you with one of their own numbers too, an ASIN. So while we have the same produ
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• Jimmy Coates: Power by Joe Craig
  ...and deal another blow to the big baddies in NR7. But this time, he has to do it all while his body is poisoned... ...ent organisations. And if you can't get a thrilling adventure out of that, you probably shouldn't be writing books. Joe Craig, though, gives his readers m
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• Say Zoop! by Herve Tullet
  |title=Say Zoop! ...take a reasonable idea and play it out for page, after page, after page. What's that … SQUIRREL!
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Danielle Joseph
  * '''Bookbag: When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, who do you see?''' ...ng YA I pictured an audience full of teens, mostly girls. Now I’m happy to say that I see everyone: boys, girls and adults too. I love how YA books are no
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• Fucking Good Manners by Simon Griffin
  ...behave if you get an invitation to Buckingham Palace, they have nothing to do with class or financial status: they're about getting the basics right bef ...tion of humour which might lessen your blushes as you realise exactly what you've been doing to offend people.
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• A Day With Dogs by Dorothee de Monfreid
  |summary=A Richard Scarry-esque look at what dogs (or really people) do all day. A fun way of starting conversations with kids. ...et an answer to that question, although it certainly won't be the one that you're expecting: these dogs are in cars, on skis, in the kitchen, at the docto
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• The Colour of the Sun by David Almond
  ''This book... explores what excites and mystifies me about the nature of being young, and dramatises th ...of being young - both older than you used to enjoy being and younger than you aspire to be. And it's a story of finding strangeness in ordinary things.
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• Category:C A Sacha
  ...well it's like this – I thought the novel would be easier to do. (I refer you to my opening line.)
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• The Gloomster by Ludwig Bechstein, Axel Sceffler and Julia Donaldson
  ...particular irritant that gets us so rattled, tetchy and narked all we can do is invoke "Hell and damnation!" down on all creation - including, of course ...o stand there, hands in pockets, staring out at us as if to say 'I suppose you actually like this sort of thing...'
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• L'Auberge by Julia Stagg
  ...oung English couple. The author lives in the Pyrenees and definitely knows what she's talking about. ...en it comes down to it are quite a few other people in Fogas who don't see what's happening in quite the same way as the mayor.
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Sandy Donaghy
  ...second time and was surprised by how uplifted I felt. I'm delighted that you’re happy to answer some questions for us. * '''Bookbag: When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, who do you see?'''
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• Quick and Quirky: Short Stories with Quips! by Fred Onymouse and Ann Onymouse
  |summary=Come here for simple but unexpected scenarios that you don't get elsewhere in short story publishing – then see very little come ...he world of creative writing for a few years now, and whenever anyone asks what it is I mostly write, I define it with the catch-all safety net of ''flippa
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• Me After You by Lucie Brownlee
  |title=Me After You ...eme to be worth reading, it has to have a pull, a twist, something to make you look twice. In Lucie’s case it’s the fact that her husband Mark was onl
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• Braver Than Britain, Occasionally by Spadge Whittaker
  Before I begin, I just want to say that this book has the best cover quote ever, ever, ever. ''I'm mostly just glad you stopped writing vampire porn.''
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• This Modern Love by Will Darbyshire
  ...ories of love and loss from around the globe, this is one to dip into when you want a lift ...ote. This book, a compilation of letters and other contributions, explores what love is in the 21st century. It's certainly international – there were 15
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• Leadership Rules by Jo Owen
  ...t really going to cut it for you. If you just want an easy read that puts what we all already know into a sharp focus, this is your man. ...harp snipes which might be aimed at the dip-in-and-out brigade, I can also say that it reads well as a sit-down-and-consider book.
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• The Gravity of Love by Sara Stridsberg and Deborah Bragan-Turner (translator)
  ...vice to the potential audience of this book and put them off. And, like I say, that would be a pity. ...es is a fine reading experience, with rich emotion, and an ease that takes you to the depths of metaphor and surprise. And even with the characters, loca
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• Winnie-the-Pooh's Little Book Of Wisdom by A A Milne and E H Shepard
  ...ld be honoured that he's chosen to share with us a few of his wise words. You see, occasionally (well, an awful lot of the time, if we're honest) we look ...the delightfully charming originals from E H Shepard - but who else would you want but 'the man who drew Pooh'?
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• How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night? by Jane Yolen
  |title=How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night? ...r they fall on the top of their covers and cry - when Mama or Papa come to say goodnight.
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Ellie Irving
  * '''Bookbag: When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, who do you see?''' ...e Irving: I like to think of happy, smiley faces - readers of any age from say, 8, upwards, enjoying the crazyness of the story. And hopefully laughing at
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• Very British Problems Abroad by Rob Temple
  ...properly. And if the idea hits the world outside our shores, then – well, you certainly have a book full of content regarding our attitude and ineptitude ...you're of the mind to think them such, and all seem particularly British. Do the Germans pack socks for hiding their feet round the pool?
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• Where to Open Your Business: Choosing Between Onshore and Offshore Free Zones in the UAE
  ...have no taxes to pay at all! You will be able to take the same benefit if you set up an [https://uae-consult.com/en/blog-en/offshore-zones/offshore-compa '''When You Can Set Up a Company in the Mainland Area'''
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• Betty Goes Bananas by Steve Antony
  Betty is a chimp. Chimps like bananas. But did you ever think about how they cope with the small, yet complicated matter of, P ...er repeated saviour, is keen to show her how to do things rather than just do them for her. Teach a man to fish and he’ll never go hungry, teach a chim
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• Give Me Everything You Have: On Being Stalked by James Lasdun
  |title=Give Me Everything You Have: On Being Stalked |summary=A riveting look at what it's like to be stalked, not physically but online. The impotence is frigh
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• The People Inside by Ray Fawkes
  ...ou can say a lot more about what is on these pages, and you still have all you need to know in those two words. This book takes the profound – which, o ...together. Another couple don't have babies – they're both male – but they do have a bakery. Other couples have break-ups, other couples have tragedies,
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• To Rise Again At A Decent Hour by Joshua Ferris
  ...ng a dentist to confront his online presence. This is a book like no other you’ll know. ...s of TV shows about doctors and lots about lawyers, but other professions, say accountants or vets or dentists, get less of a look in. Just not as sexy, w
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• Lily and the Octopus by Steven Rowley
  ...ent debut novel, even if it's grounded firmly in the adage of writing what you know. Some elements sit awkwardly, but I can see why it'll be much loved b ...o goes along with the metaphor, even when we know what it exactly is. And what it is is bound to stir up the emotions of a book that can be really funny,
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• Little by Little by Amber Stewart and Layn Marlow
  |summary=Scramble the otter can do everything but swim but with the help of his family he learns ''little by l ...with mud sliding, making sandcastles and slippery-rock hopping. The Can't-do list was very short. There was only one thing on it.
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Gregory Hughes
  ...apper, some goddamn paedophiles, and the most entrancing central character you're ever likely to meet. Unsurprisingly, we jumped at the chance of asking G ...apper, some goddamn paedophiles, and the most entrancing central character you're ever likely to meet. Unsurprisingly, we jumped at the chance of asking G
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• Alphabet (My First Bob Books) by Sue Hendra and John R Maslen
  ...do not need to buy the whole programme in one go. You can buy each set as you need it, and most sets will take at least one term to complete. ...vampires, naughty children and so many other fun topics. I honestly cannot say I have any books that are more effective for teaching the alphabet than the
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• Night of the Veggie Monster by George McClements
  ...hough, the boy accidentally eats a pea - a whole pea - and doesn't notice. What's going to happen? ...it just isn't worth it at all as it's our anxieties they pick up. The more you worry about something they don't eat, the more likely they are to refuse (a
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• Just What Kind of Mother Are You? by Paula Daly
  |title=Just What Kind of Mother Are You? ...ou take a closer look. So what was it with ''Just What Kind of Mother Are You?'' I'm not a particularly maternal person, so it wasn't the title. I didn
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• Burnt Tongues: An Anthology of Transgressive Short Stories by Chuck Palahniuk, Dennis Widmyer and Richard Thomas
  ...Fiction, a collection of short stories that will have you questioning what you are reading. ...n of Burnt Tongue; an aftereffect of knowing what you said was wrong. Are you prepared to enter the world of Transgressive Fiction that aims to disturb,
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• Grumpy Cat: No-it-All: Everything You Need to No by Grumpy Cat
  |title=Grumpy Cat: No-it-All: Everything You Need to No ...tions to be anything more. If you're a fan of Grumpy-Cat you might want to say 'No' to the world but 'Yes' to this book.
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• The Killer's Daughter by Vivian Oldaker
  ...hop. It's not long before feelings grow, and they become an item. He would do anything for her, disobeying his uncle everyday to see her – she's a kill ...tches a plan – to go to Greece on a school trip and stay after to find out what really happened the day her Grandmother died and clear her Father's name on
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• The Unwritten Laws of Business by W J King and James G Skakoon
  ...ous individual who says nothing is usually credited with having nothing to say.'' ...ou are ones like 'honesty' and 'dependability'. Take this advice as to how you should act when asked a question:
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• Carnaby by Cate Sampson
  ...ashed out, finding it difficult to cope. What if the baby gets taken away? What if she and Jude are separated? Can Sarah manage to keep them all together? ...e many because ''Carnaby'' has skilled and clever plotting. I'd better not say more. I hate a spoiler.
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• Just Listen by Sarah Dessen
  |summary=What happens when the girl who has it all loses everything over night? This is a ...rious Owen, with whom looks were very much deceiving. About Emily, who did what Annabel couldn't, about Clarke who was left behind once but was somehow bac
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Naima B Robert
  * '''Bookbag: When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, who do you see?''' ...and Misha come from totally different sides of the tracks. Although I must say, I really enjoyed talking to myself in Dwayne's voice and that of his inner
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• The Jelly Effect: How to Make Your Communication Stick by Andy Bounds
  ...'s just my personal opinion. That aside, I was keen to start reading, see what all the fuss was about ... ...y Too Much Irrelevant Stuff'' struck a wry chord with me and probably will do for many others so I was already engaged and keen to gobble up all chapters
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• The Things We Do by Kay Pfaltz
  |title=The Things We Do |sort=Things We Do
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Lydia Ola Taiwo
  * '''Bookbag: When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, who do you see?''' * '''BB: Did you find writing about your experiences as a child difficult?'''
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• Thanks for the Trouble by Tommy Wallach
  ...lda and everything changes. Loved this honest, engrossing story that keeps you guessing until the very end. ...etty theft habit, which he indulges in well-heeled hotels. Oh dear, I hear you saying. It's not as though there aren't reasons for Parker's behaviour, the
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• Jew by DO Dodd
  |author=DO Dodd DO Dodd creates a dark world of religious war in this book about identity and
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Rick Yancey
  * '''Bookbag: When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, who do you see?''' * '''BB: Where did you get the inspiration for writing The 5th Wave?'''
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• Out of Office: Work Where You Like and Achieve More by Chris Ward
  |title=Out of Office: Work Where You Like and Achieve More ...would be an apt summary of the gist of ''Out of Office'' by Chris Ward. If you choose to read the book, be prepared to receive inspiration rather than pra
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• Fly Away Home by Jennifer Weiner
  ...news rather than in the privacy of the matrimonial home. What's Sylvie to do? ...uld do something different with her next book. Unfortunately I'm going to say much the same thing again.
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• Sock It! by Neil Griffiths and Janette Louden
  ...ough different types of socks, telling you some of the many things you can do with them, because it's not just putting them on your feet! ...ch. Because of this I'd say it's one to read together with your child when you want a bit of fun, as opposed to a bedtime story, as it has a very loud fee
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• Storytelling: The Presenter's Secret Weapon by John Clare
  ...ing presentations which is very usable for the generalist but gold dust if you're in the medical or scientific sectors. ...Dreaded PowerPoint. I've been making presentations successfully (but I'll say more about this later) in various professional situations for some forty or
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• Lula Does The Hula by Samantha Mackintosh
  ...is review is annoying so far with the exclamation marks and strange words, you may want to avoid the book! ...his to me, publishers? I like to start from the beginning and it's hard to do that if I don't know where the beginning is!
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• Think and Make Like an Artist by Claudia Boldt and Eleanor Meredith
  ...dren that has some great things to do, but also makes it fun to wonder why you are doing them. ...the artists sells you Brigadoon. A lot of what makes art great is knowing what it is meant to represent; even I have been swayed on occasion once I have b
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• How to Use an AI Content Detector
  ...ssays and papers. Therefore, even if you have written your piece yourself, you still need to run it through an AI detector to be on the safe side. It is safe to say that AI tools are becoming extremely popular among students. One obvious re
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• Hinton Hollow Death Trip by Will Carver
  Hinton Hollow, population 5,120. It sounds like one of those signs you see on improbably wide highways in America's mid-west, but this particular ...a label around his neck asking for him to be kept safe and told him not to say anything about who he was or where he was from for seven sleeps. It might
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• Never ask a Dinosaur to Dinner by Gareth Edwards and Guy Parker-Rees
  ...hould you be thinking about using a tiger as a towel or, heaven forbid, if you wondered if it would be okay to share your toothbrush with a shark! ...ly his ferocious-looking teeth as he perhaps forgets to say a polite thank you for sharing the boy's toothbrush and instead tries to bite his head off!
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• Busy: How to Thrive in a World of Too Much by Tony Crabbe
  ...and take notice of if I was to stop going ''backwards''. Because that was what I was doing. ...ands. You might think that time management is the answer - but I can tell you that it's not. I'm very efficient about how I manage my time - and it's ma
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• Losing It by Keith Gray
  Doing it for the first time... you know, ''Losing It''. It. ...n exactly to stop waiting. And when you've never done it, how on earth can you possibly know that?!
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• Palestinian Walks: Notes from a Vanishing Landscape by Raja Shehadeh
  ...crumbling of his dreams for a legal solution to the Israeli occupation. As you would expect, it is sad, angry, hopeless. However, it is also quite beautif ...n known as sarha. Sarha means to roam freely, to go where the spirit takes you. And Shehadah takes the reader on six sarhat, to explore his country's beau
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• An Alphabet by Oliver Jeffers
  ...rds are there in the world? Because when you only get one for each letter, you may find a simple book of 26 entries may not be enough. ...habet game these aren't the ones that might be top of your list and yet if you were playing eye-spy, out in the real world, well then so many of these wou
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• Latte or Cappuccino: 125 Decisions That Will Change Your Life by Hilly Janes
  ...e relatively minor questions which can have real impact, particularly when you add them all up. ...make (or might have made without thinking about the consequences) and how you can make relatively minor changes which make a difference but don't involve
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• All Sorts of Possible by Rupert Wallis
  ...the thought that you might lose your father, the other half of you, makes you feel? ...eet endings I've ever read. I cried like a baby at the humanity of it. So, you know, I call that a recommendation, ok?
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• Don't Do That! by Tony Ross
  |title=Don't Do That! |sort=Don't Do That!
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Ben Mezrich
  |summary=Robert doesn't often say that a book should have been longer, but [[Straight Flush by Ben Mezrich|St Robert doesn't often say that a book should have been longer, but [[Straight Flush by Ben Mezrich|St
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• Michael Grant Talks To Bookbag About The ''GONE'' TV Show
  Let me say this up-front: whatever you may have taken from the Frankie Muniz movie, ''Big Fat Liar'', the Hollywoo ...don't really care, but my readers are driving me nuts about it.” (Okay, I do really care. That was just me trying to sound cool.) Usually the producer
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• To Catch a Killer by Emma Kavanagh
  ...your job with the minimum amount of emotion. That's relatively easy when you encounter your victim when they're already dead but DS Alice Parr met the w ...as this woman? She was beautiful, patrician looking and obviously well-to-do. There were children's toys in her pocket: why had no one missed her?
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• Beneath The Lake by Christopher Ransom
  ...will overshadow their lives forever. Immediately engaging and compelling, you can feel the evil within. ...not to feel disappointed that their solitude has been encroached upon and do their best to keep out of the other family's way, but when the newcomers' f
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• Grandad There's a Head on the Beach by Colin Cotterill
  ...of a journey which will uncover piracy and slavery, violence and murder in what should be a beautiful part of the world, but isn't. ...treat them as disposable. The issues are important and the message about what's happening is delivered with a firm hand.
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• Beautiful Patterns by Various Authors
  .... Not only is this book filled with great patterns, but it will also make you consider composition. ...ouring book for grownups feel more like a military operation, but at least you will have fun doing it and improve your skills.
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Johnny Ringwood
  * '''Bookbag: When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, who do you see?''' Johnny Ringwood: If I close my eyes and try to think what my readers will look like, I suppose because of the title, they will be peo
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• The Anxiety-Elimination System by Nicos Nicolaou
  ...he same. No one is born with a chemical imbalance in the brain and genes do not determine behaviour. The proof of the efficacy of his system is that th ...ink that the book is no more than an advertisement for his other services: you can simply follow the system as described in the book.
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• The Wide-Mouthed Frog by Iain Smyth and Michael Terry
  ...who he is whilst saying ''Ooh, you don't see many of those round here, do you?'' I'm hardly doing it justice, but it's very cheesy and funny. Anyway, thi ...he sort of joke that gets funnier every time you say it, especially if you do a silly voice.
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• How to be a Social Entrepreneur: Make Money and Change the World by Robert Ashton
  ...er through the business maze. And before we go any further, what, exactly do we mean by the perhaps woolly phrase of 'Social Entrepreneur'? Many think ...st be sustainable. No good to anyone, he says, illustrating the point, of say opening a soup kitchen for the homeless - for it to fold a month later. Th
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Marcus Sedgwick
  * '''When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, who do you see?''' ...hope that it finds favour with people; I don't think you can second guess what people want to read.
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To W Scott Beaven
  * '''Bookbag: When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, what do you see?''' ...er mixed parentage allows an examination of racism but is there any reason you chose Japanese in particular?'''
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• A Deal's a Deal by Stephanie Blake
  ...dinand's car is just a plastic one and his are metal he somehow finds that what he really, really wants is this particular red car, and Ferdinand manipulat ...et his own back on Ferdinand. I won't spoil the conclusion but let's just say Ferdinand gets his comeuppance in a rather disgusting way!
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• Frisky Business by Clodagh Murphy
  ...ut is she ready for what she might find, if she goes looking, and how much do blood ties mean anyway? ...re lots of mysteries in this book, beyond finding out who can legitimately say ''Luke, I am your father''. There’s lots of confusing jumping to conclusi
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• The Three Sillies by Tony Ross
  ...e land to discover whether there are other people who are even sillier. As you can imagine, lots of very silly things happen as George sets out on his mis ...rincess]] stories. The story of The Three Sillies is indeed very silly and you can tell that it is going to be just that by looking at the front cover and
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• Discover the Awesome World by Camilla de la Bedoyere, John Farndon, Ian Graham, Richard Platt and Philip Steele
  ...Kids are going to read this because they love it - and learn whilst they do so. ...habit of recycling reviews (honest!) but sometimes you know that you can't say it any better as exactly the same comments apply to Discover the Awesome Wo
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• Stitches in Time: The Story of the Clothes We Wear by Lucy Adlington
  ...ltures of times gone by, in order to paint a fascinating portrait of quite what a huge part clothing has played in our history. With shoes sparked by a dan
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• The Scarecrows' Wedding by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler
  ...ill ever forget? A wonderfully captivating romp around the farm brought to you by the Queen of preschool literature. ...h as the Gruffalo related nod on the side of the tractor, which I can tell you will not go unnoticed by any children reading!
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• Flirt Diva - For Women Who Want to be Bold and Sassy and have a Fabulous Life! by Susan Ostler
  ...ing Loved Up'' that promises to put its participants (and as you'll learn, you're more than a mere reader with this title) on the fast track to romance. G ...oman she is too. This is one bubbly lady, and her personality jumps out at you from every page.
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• The Glump and the Peeble by Wendy Meddour and Rebecca Ashdown
  ...tle quicker if you had read more books as a child all about being whomever you want to be. ...and think. Can these two creatures work together to prove that anyone can do anything their heart desires?
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Liz Kessler
  * '''Bookbag: When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, who do you see?''' ...s left frantically trying to go back. Is there any period in your own life you’d like to revisit, either to change something or just to relive it?'''
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Megan Miranda
  * '''Bookbag: When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, who do you see?''' ...leven Minutes, the tie-in made available on the internet. How important do you think the internet is to the success of a YA novel today?'''
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Kim Staflund Again
  * '''Bookbag: When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, who do you see?''' ...g that something must be done to get those sales rolling. The question is: what?
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• Y Square by Judith Park
  ...special advisor. You don't see where this manga is ever going, but nor do you particularly want to. ...n the horizon can only bring out jealousies, problems, and everything else you might expect.
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• Lets Compromise and Say I'm Right: Calman on Love & Relationships by Mel Calman
  |title=Lets Compromise and Say I'm Right: Calman on Love & Relationships ...front of the book. ''Let's compromise and say I'm right...'' he says and you can see from the woman's expression that she had ''hoped'' for, but really
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• The Buccaneering Book of Pirates (Pop Up Books) by Saviour Pirotta
  .... The others are more original, just as is the bonus element you get when you buy this title… ...and a limply-achieved paragraph to end. They're readable, they cover all you need – a simple black and white good versus bad, and a range of different
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• Say Yes to New Opportunities! by Ruth Pearson
  |title=Say Yes to New Opportunities! |summary=A well-written, easy-to-read guide to turning problem times in you life into opportunities. Definitely recommended.
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• Killing Yourself to Live by Chuck Klosterman
  ...something profound enough for you to wish you'd thought of it first, then you will like Killing Yourself To Live. The ladeez may have to overlook the und ...he visits the most famous rock and roll death sites in the United States. What we actually get is a road trip diary from an obsessive, anal over-analyser
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Richard Smith
  * '''Bookbag: When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, who do you see?''' ...oyment only. (Which I do now) But since going into several schools, I must say I look at my readers as a class full of pupils, making them judges, to try
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• Yellowcake by Margo Lanagan
  ...an. And more. I don't want to say much more for fear of ruining it all for you. ...e all good short stories, what they don't say matters as much as what they do. Gaps and pauses matter.
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• Nonsense Limericks (Faber Children's Classics) by Edward Lear and Arthur Robins (illustrator)
  ...air to say that he knew what he was doing – these hundreds of little poems do make up a classic of all-ages literature after all. ...''th' Abruzzi, so blind that he couldn't his foot see''. Only in Lear do you get people getting stoned, cooking mice for dinner and entrapping their wif
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• I Love You More and More by Nicky Benson and Jonny Lambert
  |title=I Love You More and More ...tibly drawn to stories with bears in, and this one did not disappoint. If you're looking for a good old pull-at-the-heartstrings read for cozy afternoons
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• Reunion by Fred Uhlman
  ...xquisite, brave, daring, beautifully written and with a twist which smacks you. Highly recommended. How do you talk about a perfect book? How much more can you say other than 'read it - it's amazing'? Written in 1960, the book is not auto
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• Choosing the Perfect Puppy by Pippa Mattinson
  ...you shouldn't get a puppy - and that could well be the right decision for you. Highly recommended. ...a particular breed or any puppy: she simply presents the facts and allows you to make your own decisions.
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Leila Sales
  * '''Bookbag: When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, who do you see?''' ...Song Will Save Your Life to ANY book, certainly not for a long time. Where you surprised by just how much people have loved it?'''
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• Reviews, Time and Filthy Lucre
  At Bookbag, we cover as many books as we can, but we do ''need'' to cover those which are searched for, or nobody will find the sit ...re not big enough, you don't get coverage. You can't get big enough unless you get coverage. It's all a horrible vicious circle.
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• Anton and the Battle by Ole Konnecke
  ...amount of time with small children will know of the 'well I'm taller than you!' arguments which seem to appear, all of a sudden, and carry on for years! ...s swinging a man-eating tiger over his head, and the other declares he can do the same with a lion, and then the next minute they're both claiming to be
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• Any Other Mouth by Anneliese Mackintosh
  ...cussed in such an open way, as told by a girl who really doesn't care what you think. ...like ''Any Other Mouth'', you know from the outset that this is, shall we say, a rather niche book. It’s not all about orifices, though. Partially auto
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• Flowerpot Farm: A First Gardening Activity Book by Lorraine Harrison
  ...nto the garden to graze like cattle? However, before you do this, perhaps you should pick up a book like ''Flowerpot Farm'' by Lorraine Harrison and Faye ...by step guide on how to create a flower pot garden. What is one of those you may ask? Essentially it is growing food and flowers in anything that can h
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Eric Lindner
  * '''Bookbag: When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, who do you see?''' EL: Thank you...
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• Holidays According to Humphrey by Betty G Birney
  ...ckily, this is only the summer holiday he is misunderstanding, and what do you know - he will soon be meeting familiar faces, not at school, but at summer ...of the whole fortnight, which has just as much action and entertainment as you could wish for.
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• Joe Craig Talks To Bookbag About Words, Death and Dilemmas
  |summary=Joe Craig popped ito Bookbag Towers to tell us 'What I’m thinking when I think I’m learning about my audiences (but I’m pr - How much money do you make?<br>
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• The Kennedy Wives: Triumph and Tragedy in America's Most Public Family by Amber Hunt and David Batcher
  ...est of the nine children - the only one of the brothers who would, as they say, live to comb grey hair. Not quite so much is known about the women who we ...so moving from a fairly secluded life into one where they were expected to do their bit in campaigning to have their menfolk elected or reelected. Some
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• Big Babies by Michael Bywater
  |summary=An examination of why we have all become so infantile that will have you reduced to tears of shame and hysteria. Everyone should read it before we'r ...down your face. It may make you resolve to change, but you probably won't. You may not even be able to. ''They'' may not allow it.
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• Burial by Neil Cross
  ...ss of some Gloucestershire greenbelt to a housing development, but because what might be ploughed up forces Nathan back to a drug-fuelled, Ouija-board-feat ...ng more akin to an everyman character, but there is no hope of foretelling what will happen at the party. We have no way of second-guessing all that follo
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• Dinosaur Poo! by Christyan Fox and Diane Fox
  |summary=Dinosaur Poo does exactly what it says on the tin, using nice rhymes, bold pictures and interesting flaps ...uch to the next level in this rhyming book all about dinosaur poo. It does what it says on the tin.
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• The Ten Golden Rules of Leadership by Elizabeth Fox and Martin le Comte
  ...ur leadership and which will serve you well no matter ''what'' and ''who'' you are leading. ...more to do with common sense. They don't minimise what's ahead, but they do give everyone in a leadership role or aspiring to one, a framework within w
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• Big Meals for Little Hands by Virginie Aladjidi, Caroline Pellissier and Marion Billet
  ...that it features recipes from a Michelin starred chef, Sébastien Guénard, you immediately know that this is not going to be just any kids’ cook book. A ...look like when you’re done. Or, to quote the Boy as he flicked through, ''What’s a Clafoutis?'' Now there is a picture of the cake, but it’s quite sma
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• The Daves Next Door by Will Carver
  ...he life-altering potential his weapon grants him. It really drives home to you the danger of stepping outside your door; the way in which seemingly random ...ng is, not what it isn’t – and I think that the intended effect was to get you on edge. It’s so brief and so punchy that I almost felt on guard, like I
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Joe Dunthorne
  * '''Bookbag: When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, what do you see?''' ...t looking for hyper-detailed critical feedback, you just want to know that you are not alone in trying to become a writer, and that someone is reading you
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Danaan Elderhill
  * '''Bookbag: When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, who do you see?''' ...on - are you a witch and are Pagan beliefs important to you? What brought you to these beliefs?'''
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• The Last Letter From Your Lover by Jojo Moyes
  ...ithin its little world, making me want to ignore my long list of things to do and just curl up reading all day. Jojo Moyes' new novel certainly managed ...car accident unable to remember anything - her husband, her friends, even what sort of a person she is herself. When she returns home she discovers a hid
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• Panic by Jeff Abbott
  |summary=What would you do if everything in your life was a lie? Evan Casher has to solve this problem ...h available colours? The tag- line for this novel is one that really makes you stop and think.
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• This is a Serious Book by Jodie Parachini and Daniel Rieley
  ...es and doing backflips but only as a warning. They are examples to show us what we ''won't'' find in this book. For they are silly things (yuck). ...fun way. Children will get the irony immediately (even if they don't know what irony is, and without Alanis Morissette, who is ever going to teach them?)
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• The Night Guest by Fiona McFarlane
  The mysteries of the novel are less to do with the personnel - it's fairly clear from the outset who the reader trust ...ew South Wales after all and while there are a lot of things that can kill you in Australia, tigers are not amongst them. It serves not only to represent
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• The Brilliant and Forever by Kevin MacNeil
  ...surdist, metafictional novel that will do all it can to wring a laugh from you. ...someone tells a joke, everyone else laughs, and you're sat there wondering what was so funny?
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Julie Cohen
  * '''Bookbag: When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, who do you see?''' ...novel, ''Nina Jones and the Temple of Gloom'', has a great title - how did you come up with it?
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• The Roanoke Girls by Amy Engel
  ...ortunities. Not one for the faint of heart but definitely one for those of you who like your love affairs with teeth. ...are? What other secrets does the dusty, ramshackle homestead keep? And why do all the Roanoke Girls run? Or die? Lane left Roanoke and never looked back
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• A Bookbagger's View:What it's like to be a reviewer
  |title=A Bookbagger's View: What's it's like to be a reviewer |summary=Lesley shares her thoughts on what it's like to be on the Bookbag panel, and on reviewing books generally. She
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• The Poo That Animals Do by Paul Mason and Tony de Saulles
  |title=The Poo That Animals Do |sort=Poo That Animals Do
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To P De V Hencher
  * '''Bookbag: When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, who do you see?''' * '''BB: How did you get the inspiration to write [[The Leopard of Dramoor by P De V Hencher|The
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• The Longest Journey: Nine Keys to Health, Wealth and Happiness by Sandy Donaghy
  |summary=A little book that can make a big impact on your life - if you're prepared to put the effort in. ...u shy away from such books? Now, I want you to drop the cynicism, because what we have here is a book that's written from the heart and not the wallet and
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• I Love My Daddy by Giles Andreae and Emma Dodd
  ...looking after the child on his own, but I was disappointed that they don't do many practical things together, even simple housework. When mummy's out the I should say that our children (aged 2 and 4) like this book more than I do, not just because it's about Dad but because I really prefer books with mor
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• Peas and Queues: The Minefield of Modern Manners by Sandi Toksvig
  ...n manners. Buy a copy for everyone you know as a quote unquote novely gift you secretly hope they read every page of. ...ding to Denmark this coming weekend (are all people there like you? Please say yes). For this alone, I had to get my mitts on your latest offering. I wasn
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• Merchant Account in Genome
  ...If your store does not work with electronic money, but only with cash, you do not need to have a merchant account. ...e that you need a merchant account. Which company to choose? We will offer you a Genome account. Why? Here are some of the benefits.
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• Grass to Grace by Daniel Eyisi
  ...d jobs to earn enough money for food. He had no thoughts of what he might do in the future: it seemed like a waste of time as he had no skills. He was ...sual to see Odin so churlish and Ndu allowed him to say all that he had to say and then he began to help Odin to help. It all began with a few yam seedli
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• My Life In Agony by Irma Kurtz
  ...id, and as agony aunt for Cosmopolitan for more than 40 years it’s safe to say she has been a fair bit more sympathetic than we ever were. ...memoir from this lady would be worth a read. After all, she has plenty to say each month to the magazine’s readers. This book isn’t a series of Q&A,
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• Nothing to be Frightened of by Julian Barnes
  ...on mortality and religion. You'll be interested, absorbed and engaged but you won't be uplifted. Recommended ...The rest are names, sometimes just initials or a set of facts, but rarely do they have personality.
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• Monster High by Lisi Harrison
  |summary=Fitting in is not possible when you go to High School with monsters. ...phenie Meyer|Twilight]]. So, when this book landed on my doorstep, I can't say I held much hope for it.
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• The Variety of Life by Nicola Davies and Lorna Scobie
  ...that you can't lose something if it's got a name, and someone to care for what lives under that name – we can only hope that's right. ...r), and their picture. There's a brief introduction to each grouping, and you have the book. There's no attempt to present the animals in a full diorama
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• Publish on Amazon Kindle with Kindle Direct Publishing by Kindle Direct Publishing
  |summary=If what you need is a guide to the actual uploading this this might help, but don't exp ...nd, well, something which would leave me with the feeling that I ''could'' do this successfully. How did it square up?
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• The Boy on the Porch by Sharon Creech
  ...help but worry. Who is Jacob? Will his parents return for him? And if they do, how will Marta and John bear to give him up - this little boy who paints b ...iar and it's comforting, even when the couple are worrying about Jacob and what the future holds.
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• Farm by Surya Sajnani
  In this sturdy, interactive board book little ones have clues to animals you might find on the farm, and can then slide the pieces of picture round on t ''I say ''CLUCK'' ''<br>
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• Tempting Fate by Jane Green
  ...ell executed story of actions and consequences, this is a lengthy read but you'll fly through it. ...to live with, forever. Gabby has made one of ''those'' mistakes. The sort you can never really come back from.
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• Pear Shaped by Stella Newman
  ...e with Maserati) didn't matter to her - but it didn't do any harm either. What's not to like? Well, there's nothing 'not to like' but just the odd thing ...ells but James was just a little elusive - but then businessmen do have to do quite a bit of travelling. Sophie never quite knew where she stood. Were
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• Luxury Fashion Branding: Trends, Tactics, Techniques by Uche Okonkwo
  ...mary=Do you know your H&M from your D&G, your Birkin from your Paddington? You will, and much more besides, after reading this lengthy and in-depth invest ...ould appreciate or enjoy a book on luxury fashion brands, but that's where you would be wrong.
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• The Maze of Bones (The 39 Clues) by Rick Riordan
  ...yness, and younger brother Dan, with his asthma, and photographic memory. You have to shrug off the feeling this is a most unlikely pairing, and thankful ...ere Cahills, and the innumerable coincidental encounters that follow, that you have to disregard as most unlikely. The opposing teams of questors too are
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• The Popularity Papers by Amy Ignatow
  ...n life will still work its damnedest to heap ignominy and embarrassment on you. ...list of things they want to do - be more artistic, be more successful... You can see where this is going.
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• Teddy Bedtime by Georgie Birkett
  ...or bed everyone, but what do we do? Follow Teddy and friends as they show you step by step of how to get ready for bed. 'Teddy Bedtime’ by Georgie Bir ...ital tool in getting a child to bed. Whilst one set of Nephews come up to you and ask to go to bed at 7pm, the other are bouncing off the walls at 1am.
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• Diary of a Mad Diva by Joan Rivers
  ...life of the late, some would say great, Joan Rivers, this is like no diary you'll have read before, guaranteed. ...y that she’s not particularly kind to them. The world’s a funny old place. You can’t make a snide comment on Twitter about something going on in the new
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• Reviewer Vacancies
  Find out what it's like to be a reviewer [[A Bookbagger's View:What it's like to be a reviewer|here]]. <!--'''Can You Write Book Reviews?'''
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• Walks In The Wild by Peter Wohlleben and Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp (Translator)
  ...hlleben's publisher described the idea for this book, and that's basically what it is – although right at the end the author says that it is not intended ...we as humans interact with nature and how we can maybe get our children to do a bit better than we did.
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• Loose-Limbed by David Barrie
  ...ould tiredness have set in? No – it's the best of them all so far. And I say ''so far'' deliberately because I have a feeling that David Barrie is just ...they're obsessive about what they do and prepared to do what they have to do to stay there.
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• The Thoughts and Happenings of Wilfred Price, Purveyor of Superior Funerals by Wendy Jones
  ...ve not having loved the one you've been with, but having been with the one you should have loved? A seriously great novel from a debut author with a prom ...into the mindset of other people, going over the same conversation twice, say - and all the characters are excellent, from Wilfred's unnamed Da, to Flora
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• Cheeky Charlie: Bugs and Bananas (My Crazy Brother Book 2) by Mat Waugh
  |publisher=Say So Media ...d makes me turn the iPad off, I’ll tell you what Charlie’s been doing: and you won’t believe some of it. I’m surprised Charlie hasn’t been arrested.
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• Dreams and Everyday Life by Aviv Ratzin
  ...ppy way. To give the gist of the surreal, scattershot whimsicality cannot do the contents justice in any way. ...meo from a chap looking suspiciously like Harvey Pekar. The footnotes, if you will, of matchstick men playing out gags, were only intrusive. And while I
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• Pendulum by Adam Hamdy
  ...it. It's sufficient to say that the pace and the action never let up and you're not going to get the answers until the final pages. ...ad I worked out who or what was behind the murderous attacks. All I could do was to keep reading.
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• Star Gazing by Linda Gillard
  ...se once you reach a certain point you simply won't be able to put it down. You can also read an [[The Interview: Bookbag talks to Linda Gillard|interview] ...bag bled wine all over the doorstep. Oh, and there's one other thing that you ought to know about Keir.
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• Worzel says hello! Will you be my friend? by Catherine Pickles and Chantal Bourgonje
  |title=Worzel says hello! Will you be my friend? ...tle as you are, he's frightened of you. He'd like to meet you though: can you see that nose just poking out from the side of the sofa? Now he's peering
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• Never Say No to a Princess! by Tracey Corderoy and Kate Leake
  |title=Never Say No to a Princess! ..., this is a glorious tale of adventure, friendship and finally learning to say please.
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• Unforgettable Walks by Julia Bradbury
  ...Dales, the Lakes, Cumbria, the South Downs and the Peak District. Unless you're in Scotland there's something reasonably close to just about everyone, w ...ore the bridge and that some parts are a little boggy in wet weather, then you will need something a little more detailed, particularly as the text is not
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• Field Guide: Creatures Great and Small (Field Guides) by Lucy Engelman
  ...ery word of the books by being eloquent, informative and opinionated about what we examine, but even I admit four paragraphs regarding a picture book we ou ...e your big cats, but in a green room, so wish to give them a new tint. If you run out of black, certain butterflies will be a lot paler.
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• Don't Make a Sound by David Jackson
  |summary= A juicy thriller, this is about the who and the why as much as the what ...seems nice enough but there's a vibe, a hint of a feeling that all is not what it seems. Just how bad things are, though, is yet to be revealed.
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• Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion
  ...m Perry we will never known, but he does save her, and Julie allows him to do this. After this she takes a very takes an active role, accepting R as he i ...o to make the world a better place, and what would we risk to do it. If we do nothing - are really any better than either the selfish humans or the monst
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• Managing by Henry Mintzberg
  .... Option one is to read every word, chapter by chapter, cover to cover. If you have the time I would recommend this approach because the book is very read ...on-highlighted words are surplus to requirements, but when time is limited you can follow this approach and not spend ages wading through the slightly les
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• The Cook by Wayne Macauley
  ...ous he has his eyes on the top and will do anything to get there. As they say on Masterchef, ''cooking doesn't get any tougher than this''.
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• The Badness of King George by Judith Summers
  ...ersity, decides to foster rescue dogs. Poor George has absolutely no idea what she's let him in for. And nor has Judith. ...iva. After a chance encounter with someone from Many Tears Animal Rescue (you'll find them [http://www.freewebs.com/manytearsrescue/ here] – go on –
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Melissa Wareham
  ...Take Me Home: Tales of Battersea Dogs by Melissa Wareham]], her stories of what life in Battersea Dogs is really like, especially adapted for children. We ...Take Me Home: Tales of Battersea Dogs by Melissa Wareham]], her stories of what life in Battersea Dogs is really like, especially adapted for children. We
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• See Inside Dinosaurs by Michael Bright
  ...box to find an impressive skeleton of a triceratops, including the guts. You also get a card model of a T-Rex to build. And at the back there, in the c ...ide Dinosaurs''. You may think that you are buying one thing, but instead you are getting an impressive triceratops skeleton, or a T-Rex model, or maybe
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• You and I by Padgett Powell
  |title=You and I ...ever you thought of the experiment definitely a different kind of read. ''You & I'' offers a similarly unusual book, for the entirety of it is dialogue.
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• Pug-a-Doodle-Do! by Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyre
  |title=Pug-a-Doodle-Do! ...-falutin' academic language to describe such books – but you know what? I say (redacted) to that – let's just hang it and have fun. And this book, spi
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Luisa Plaja
  * '''Bookbag: When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, who do you see?''' ...seen Fiction Express and the concept of interactive e-books before, could you give us a quick introduction, please?'''
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• Don't Stand So Close by Luana Lewis
  ...t to read this one home alone. An excellent, engaging thriller that leaves you guessing. Who is the victim and who is the culprit? ...n months. You're alone, but you feel safe inside. You do. It’s ok. You can do this.
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• Mind Your Head by Juno Dawson
  ...buy it and read it yourself. I hope I cover the right dog ears to make you do just that. ...aren't about to turn into Jack the Ripper. If that's your fear, forget it. Do. Not. Be. Afraid. To. Read. This. Book.
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• Why Women Mean Business by Avivah Wittenberg-Cox and Alison Maitland
  Do you want to improve your business? Make more profits? You probably need to look at the sector which makes 80% of purchasing decisions ...have in senior positions people who understand how women think – and they do think differently to men. It's not better or worse – it's just different
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• Dresden Files: Ghost Story by Jim Butcher
  |summary=Funny, entertaining and surprisingly thoughtful – just make sure you've read the other books in the series first. ...to make contact with human flesh any more. Yep, Harry's a ghost. Where do you go from here?
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• The Fallen Children by David Owen
  ...and leave it at that. If you don't know the book, it won't matter. If you do, don't worry: it's not just an updated rewrite. I don't think that spoiled ... one night, there is a blackout on the Midwich. Nobody knows what caused it. But shortly afterwards, four of the girls on the estate find the
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• Barbara J Zitwer talks to Bookbag about meeting the ladies at the Hampstead Heath Ladies Pond on the day her mother died
  I can say that the day my Mother died and the day I swam at the pond did change my li ...ounger than her age, she whispered, ''I’m going home.'' And I knew exactly what she meant. So, I chose to let her funeral go forward without my attendance
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• Frozen Charlotte by Alex Bell
  ...usin of hers who died in mysterious circumstances. But what Rebecca has to say is not good. And that very night, Jay drowns in the canal after falling fro ...a strange paranoia in little Lilias. Each of them has different things to say about their dead sister. And then there is Rebecca's collection of Frozen C
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• Eggs by Jerry Spinelli
  ''Eggs'' could have been a horribly cheesy book - particularly when you see that it's written by an American. Americans love schmaltz. I don't love ...ce between them'' - and of course, fallings out are only natural. But when you're a lonely, grieving child, they're almost too much to bear. So it's only
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• Tricks and Games To Teach Your Dog: How to Turn Your Much-Loved Pet into an Accomplished Performer by Sophie Collins
  .... Sophie Collins has put together a collections of tricks and games which you can teach your dog and they range from the ''sit'', ''stay'' and ''down'' o ...nd ultimately you are going to know your dog better and your dog will know you. It's bonding of the first order.
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• Nobody's Horse by Jane Smiley
  ...to say to prospective purchasers. Now he points out that a young girl can do it. School's no better either: the Big Four (every year has a similar grou ...dinary – it's just a wonderful tale of how normal life turns out and about what's important in it.
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• Talk to the Hand by Lynne Truss
  ...ok at the way in which our manners have declined into boorishnesswill have you both thinking and laughing. Buy it for yourself or for someone else as a pr ...place. Apart from the fact that you're not a curmudgeon (old or otherwise) you will be the same, which is one of the reasons that Lynn Truss's book ''Talk
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• Take Back the Skies by Lucy Saxon
  ...njoyable too - there's a slight steampunk flavour but not too much and you do feel as though the world of Tellus comes to life through the pages of the b Much as I hate to say it, though, I found the other elements of the story less satisfactory. Ther
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Glenn Dakin
  * '''Bookbag: When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, who do you see?''' * '''BB: What inspired you to write the Candle Man series?'''
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• Treasure of the Golden Skull (Maudlin Towers) by Chris Priestley
  ...of their school, Maudlin Towers. Who would be? It's run down. It's gloomy. You can't move for gargoyles and that's discounting the teachers. But when they ...ld you believe it, Newboy - who has the strange ability to get everyone to do exactly as he says.
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• Artemis by Andy Weir
  ...What Jazz doesn't know is all the facts behind what she is being asked to do. ...I was really excited when there was a new Andy Weir book, but I'm sorry to say that, for me, it didn't live up to the first book. Sorry Andy! I think he's
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• March 2010 Newsletter
  ...ail]. We won't bother you more than once a month, but we'll tell you about what we've been reading at Bookbag and any news from the site. We promise never Hello! How are you? Looking forward to the Easter break? We certainly are - and if someone doe
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• Puzzled by David Astle
  |summary=Do you do the Sunday crossword in pen, or just dream of being that person? Then look ...avid Astle, the author of this new title that blows the lid on it all with what he calls ''secrets and clues from a life in words''.
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• You Are Very Special by Su Box and Susie Poole
  |title=You Are Very Special |summary=A nice book to read together about families, friendships and what makes each of us special.
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• Precious and Grace by Alexander McCall Smith
  ...d Grace is relaxing and heartwarming, leaving you feeling better than when you began. ...se the pair have a strong difference of opinions, and yet all is not quite what it seems with their investigation, and so perhaps it is a case of neither o
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• Emily Diamand Talks To Bookbag About how scary should it be?
  ...eep out from under the covers we were fascinated to hear what Emily had to say about how scary children's fiction should be. ...s, in case I do. This is the dilemma for an author of children’s fiction – what is exciting to one child is terrifying to another. I choose a safe reading
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To H A Goodman
  * '''Bookbag: When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, who do you see?''' ...sense of their lives to ultra religious individuals who believe they know what God is thinking. Ultimately, I wrote my novel for fantasy enthusiasts and r
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• The Best Singer in the World by Ulf Nilsson and Eva Eriksson
  |summary=A lovely story about finding the courage to do something scary. Perfect for older pre-school children as well as those in ...of other people - well, that's a different matter. So when he's asked to say a few words at the end of the school concert he finds himself growing more
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Christopher Bowden about 'The Purple Shadow'
  * '''Bookbag: When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, who do you see?''' ..., with interesting characters and settings and underlying themes that make you think. Readers are, I suspect, quite varied but with a preference for lite
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• The Right Thing: An Everyday Guide to Ethics in Business by Sally Bibb
  Bibb wastes no time in highlighting key areas of the whole ethics debate. What, exactly, does the word mean ... and why should it matter to us anyway? S ...her sorry saga. Politicians and their expenses. Criminal/greed/devious. You decide. Bibb suggests that this is another high-profile illustration of wh
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• Authors and Publishers
  If your book is self-published you'll find all that you need to know by clicking [[Promotion Packages for Self-Publishing Authors|h .... If we do cover your book please remember that if we don't like it, we'll say so.
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• The Hello Atlas by Ben Handicott and Kenard Pak
  ...He's from Africa, and he speaks Hausa. Do you? Don't worry if not, because you're about to learn. Now for the, shall we say, slightly less excellent areas. Firstly, there is a little repetition. Anas
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• The Cyclist Who Went Out in the Cold: Adventures Along the Iron Curtain Trail by Tim Moore
  ...d good brakes, that was designed for nothing more strenuous than conveying you around a campsite, not for 6,000 miles… Like I say, rather him than me. And the extremes of the trip are where you feel that, for extreme they are. At one end he rides the length of Finland
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• High Sobriety: My Year Without Booze by Jill Stark
  ...ult. But on that first day in January Stark decided that she was going to do something about it and the initial decision was that she would spend three ...s the fun in that, I though. But Stark illustrates that this is, in fact, what is happening.
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Melvin Burgess
  * '''Bookbag: When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, who do you see?''' Melvin Burgess: I never really do. It partly depends on the book. I suppose, in the end, I try to write a boo
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• The Story of Greenriver by Holly Webb
  ...of a tragedy that needs a full stop both set off on their own journeys, in what proves ultimately to be an utterly heart-warming animal drama of wide appea ...e a lot in common. Silken is a girl whose father is the Master Builder of what might be the finest beaver lodge on the Greenriver. Unfortunately she is al
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• Abc 3d by Marion Bataille
  Wow. This is an ABC book with a difference. The publisher's notes say it's "astoundingly beautiful" and it is. Marion Bataille's careful, ingenio ...ld have loved this book as a child. It doesn't ''do'' anything except make you think. There's no story, no printed word, just the alphabet. And if it's no
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• Ten Things We Shouldn't Have Done by Sarah Mlynowski
  ...t of town for a few months. A house with no parents, no rules. Did someone say party? ...t to move to Paris with her mum either. So April decides the best thing to do is to move in with her best friend Vi, and Vi's mum. But, Vi's mum has rece
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• Semi-Detached by Deborah Stone
  ...iend each other and life appears to improve for both pairs. But all is not what it seems, and their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for But what lies below the surface? Told from the points of view of the main characters
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Gerry Brown About Making a Difference: Leadership, Change and Giving Back the Independent Director Way
  * '''Bookbag: When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, who do you see?''' ...s as 'male, pale and stale' but you seem to qualify on two points! How do you differentiate yourself?'''
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• Legends: Beasts and Monsters by Anthony Horowitz
  ...a large compendium of folk stories, legends and tales of classical derring-do. With the attention span of the current under-twelve, however, to be consi ..., as the five stories in this launch volume read very nicely. And they do what the author and editor would have wanted, in that they run the whole gamut o
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• I Want a Pet by Lauren Child
  |summary=If you could have any pet, what would you choose? A sheep? A bat? A boa constrictor? ...ation and come up with a shortlist of critters that might work. One by one you suggest them, and one by one your ideas are shouted down.
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• Getting To Yes by Roger Fisher and William Ury
  ...with a powerful message, crammed full of useful tips to help you get what you want in every arena, by negotiating realistically but effectively. ...ink we’d be better at it. This book starts with the line ''Like it or not, you are a negotiator'' and that’s the bare truth of it.
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• I Contain Multitudes: the microbes within us and a grander view of life by Ed Yong
  The world you know is a lie. There is no such thing as good or bad microbes. Sickness and ...h meeting is described briefly but much like Stephen King, Yong is able to do a lot in terms of characterisation with very few words. With a writer's ski
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• Feather and Bone by Lazlo Strangolov
  ...iking illustrations, appealing front, and intriguing back may easily tempt you to pick it up. That is perfectly understandable. The marketing department d ...p the weekly rations on which their little community survives. He tries to do well at school, even though Miss Milea, his teacher, appears constantly pan
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• Needle by Patrice Lawrence
  ...etively ignorant. And then... well, what exactly happens is not for me to say, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be... ...e, but remains a book that the Charlenes of the world will never read. But you cannot be so damnably pessimistic. They will get to see themselves in print
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Rosanne Licata
  * '''Bookbag: If you close your eyes and imagine your readers, who do you see?''' ...genders have read and responded positively to the story. I guess you could say Raj and Bjornolf have more universal appeal than I thought!
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• The Choke by Sofie Laguna
  |summary= Too intent on wringing tears out of you to do much else, this book ends up not hitting the mark. ...nt that comes when you try something everyone else loves and find out that you're really not into it. Coffee. Ice skating. A new Netflix series. Books are
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• How to Stop Time by Matt Haig
  ...lly is a no-no. But that's not to say it never happened, and that's not to say that he can't feel things for the albatross daughter he's not seen for cent ...ies he has lived through – here is a hero who could do a ''Forrest Gump'', what with his working alongside Shakespeare, and meeting F Scott Fitzgerald, Cha
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• Rice, Spice and All Things Nice by Reza Mahammad
  ...ok will be a delight. His cheeky attitude shines through in every page and you'll also get a reasonably staged introduction to cooking Indian foods right ...nut Coast'' and ''A Place in France'') then this book will be a delight to you. He's the star of the text and photographs and his cheeky, irreverent attit
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• Peekaboo 1 2 3 by Gareth Lucas
  ...s on a tandem'. At number three there are 'three gorillas in a gondola'. You're probably getting the idea by now! The crab and the mice are still runni ...the race as he floated by on an airbed, reading his newspaper. Just watch what happens to him!
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• Run Wild by Gill Lewis
  ...ound in the shadow of a derelict gasometer to practise on, which they duly do, even though they have to drag Izzy's younger brother with them. The follow ...ous things I'll leave the potential reader to discover, but I will have to say that the manner in which everything comes to a head in unison in such pleas
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• Low Red Moon by Ivy Devlin
  ...arts to question whether fairytales are fictional, or if werewolves really do exist. ...confront things she never thought she would have too. Are werewolves real? Do they really live in the forest surrounding her town? And if Ben is a werewo
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• Bread: River Cottage Handbook No 3 by Daniel Stevens
  ...to making your own bread. Say goodbye to some of the dreadful stuff that you find in the supermarkets. Highly recommended. ...wed the instructions to the letter – or so you thought – only to find that you produced a solid mass fit only for the birds and even they took it as an in
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• Failosophy: A handbook for when things go wrong by Elizabeth Day
  |summary=Embrace failure: yes really! It could be the way to a more content you. An easy, inspiring read. ...st to discuss their failures and how life worked out for them afterwards. You'll find the results of these discussions in ''Failosophy''
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• Small Things by Mel Tregonning
  ...ons only seem set on tripping him up as much as the other kids do. Like I say, he has many little things nibbling at him – and that, in this instance, ...t rid of them, or at least stopping their attack? What is the poor lad to do?
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• Children of Lucifer: Modesty Blaise by Peter O'Donnell and Enric Badia Romero
  ...quick little action tales, or even dated kitsch, for both apply here, then you should eagerly be on board… But that's not to say that by story number 90 the creative team were still firing on all cylinder
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• On Purpose: Delivering a Branded Customer Experience People Love by Shaun Smith and Andy Milligan
  ''Marketing is a tax you pay for being unremarkable'' ...tifiable marketing strategy. How to ensure your company portrays the image you want and how to get your staff, and customers, to buy into it.
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Philip Threadneedle
  * '''Bookbag: When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, who do you see?''' ...ons to him as we went.. I think he only put up with it because he used to do a bit of acting, so maybe he quite liked doing the dialogue. I should rope
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• Rules of Summer by Joanna Philbin
  ...Hamptons, reading this one just felt like a completely pointless thing to do. I started every chapter wondering if this would be the one where something ...rgan Matson]] or [[The Sky is Everywhere by Jandy Nelson]]. Books that hit you like a punch to the gut, like ''Bruised'' by Sarah Skilton, or [[Before I D
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• The Everyday Activist by Michael Norton
  ...ant to make a difference however big or small. There's all the information you'll need to enthuse yourself and to organise the sort of changes that can ma Appealingly sub-titled ''Everything you need to know to get off your backside and start to make a difference'' this
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• Craft it Up Around the World by Libby Abadee and Cath Armstrong
  ...ing on a world tour and you can pick the projects to suit other activities you have planned, as a reminder of a holiday or just on a random basis. ...her than UK English and you can decide whether or not this is important to you. After some world bunting the projects are divided into four continental s
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• Allotted Time: Two Blokes, One Shed, No Idea by Robin Shelton
  ...ng, easy read and at the end of it you'll know whether an allotment is for you. ...asonable shape and grew a decent crop or two in their first year. When you say it quickly like that it sounds like a relatively simple task, but it cost b
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• Is This Bottle Corked? The Secret Life of Wine by Kathleen Burk and Michael Bywater
  ...of smell. Added to that a blunt sense of taste and I'm left saying I know what I like when I drink it, and that's it. ...the devil.) Why do people insist on spending silly money – I don't know, say £5 or even more – on their wine when I am happy to show my appreciation
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• Time's Arrow by Martin Amis
  ...t but he doesn't know it - our narrator does, but doesn't know what it is. What he does know is that it's a terrible secret. ...start with tears and rows and end on platonic notes - the wrong way round you see. He goes to work; he's a doctor, but it's to create injuries, not cure
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• Muddle Your Way Through Being a Grandparent: How to Fool People into Thinking You're a Competent Granny or Grandpa by Paul Merrill
  ...dle Your Way Through Being a Grandparent: How to Fool People into Thinking You're a Competent Granny or Grandpa ...y=A spoof self-help book which might not solve the problems, but will make you laugh.
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• All the Hopeful Lovers by William Nicholson
  ...n particular, knows she is bumbling along in life. She's not sure what to do to make things more interesting in the sex department. A fling would proba ...continue as normal. Better the devil you know etc. But will it? And do you? The final parting shot is the lovely couple of lines from one of the wome
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• Keep You Safe by Melissa Hill
  |title=Keep You Safe ...r the 21st century, this book looks at vaccination and at who is liable if you choose not to vaccinate and then something bad happens.
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• Hidden by Emma Kavanagh
  ...certain puzzling pieces fall into place quite satisfyingly. This is not to say that there are no loose ends. I felt there were several aspects of the plot ...written book, packed with detail yet remaining a book so easy to read that you could devour it in just a few greedy gulps. Dialogue is relevant and charac
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• I Used To Know That: General Science by Marianne Taylor
  ...sciences, this is to the point and a good way to revise the science basics you really should know. ...seudo sciences'' as they were often called at school). Marketed as ''stuff you forgot from school'', this is a book from the same series that has already
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• Golden Goal (Jamie Johnson) by Dan Freedman
  ''If you like football, this book's for you! Frank Lampard'' ...s a no brainer. Happily, I like it. Your Jamie Johnsons will lap it up and you can rest assured that they will be lapping something with a genuine plot, c
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Elizabeth Speller
  * '''Bookbag: When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, who do you see?''' ...ls, I gather, but in fact with this book a lot of men have contacted me to say how
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• The Presentation Coach: Bare Knuckle Brilliance For Every Presenter by Graham Davies
  ...other books, says the author. This little baby (my words, not his) is all you need for your presentations: business, politics, in-house or after-dinner ...e most important presentational tool known to man isn't a slideshow. It's you.'' And I can hear him almost shouting out that last word. Chapter 1 opens
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Paul Howard
  * '''Bookbag: When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, who do you see?''' * '''BB: Did you spend much time in zoos or watching nature documentaries to get the look of
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Keren David
  * '''Bookbag: When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, who do you see?''' Keren David: I'm not sure, because I never do that. I started off writing for
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• The Bunny That Couldn't Be Found by Angela Mitchell
  ...y search high and low in the palace and the gardens but can’t seem to find what they’re looking for. ...so even though the police think they have better things to do, they still do as she says and search.
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• When Night Didn't Come by Poly Bernatene
  ...wonderful book with no words. It might take a little effort the first time you read it, but it's most definitely worth it. Poly Bernatene's illustrations ...hing about it, so the man in charge rouses a group of children and they do what they can to bring the night.
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• Starting a Blog to Promote Your Books
  ...ink. These tips will give you some ideas for how to best use a blog to get you and your books out there. ...work for yourself than is necessary – find one that is easy to use and if you are not the most technologically-minded person, [https://www.top10.com/webs
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• Secrets and Lies by Jaishree Misra
  ...) at school but in 2008 she's the reigning queen of Bollywood. Let no one say that she hasn't earned her position; some of those producers can be quite d ...their past as well as insecurities and the odd bit of comfort eating. If you're on a diet – don't read this book – some of the food is to get fat fo
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• Green Living Guide by Hugh Bowring
  ...lly seems a little expensive for something that looks just like a magazine you quickly find, on opening, that it contains an enormous amount of interestin ...ng differences you can make relatively easily in your life, explaining how you can better insulate your home, shop more wisely for anything from eco-frien
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• Doctor Who: The Visitation by Eric Saward
  ...the reasons I really liked Peter Davison's Doctor. All I can say now is, 'what was I thinking?!' ...but on the whole, it was one of the more simple episodes. Still, who's to say the novel isn't much more substantial, rich and varied?
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• The Girl With The Bird's Nest Hair by Sarah Dyer
  ...look. When a bird lands in her head, mum warns Hollie that if she doesn't do something about it more birds will make a nest in her hair. Hollie doesn't ...e for the birds, and there's something admirable about her mum letting her do it despite offering advice to the contrary.
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• Bryant and May and the Invisible Code by Christopher Fowler
  ...tin, but I think it's time we started giving a bit of credit to those that do. And that was what I got.
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• The Descendants by Kaui Hart Hemmings
  ...versible coma Matt King sets off on a journey to bring his wife's lover to say his goodbyes. Thought-provoking and frequently darkly funny. ...ffair. Does the man who's been - er - enjoying his wife have the right to say his goodbyes too?
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• The Gritterman by Orlando Weeks
  ...'s been authored by a celebrity: it's far, far better than that might lead you to suspect. Highly recommended. ...ervices no longer being required. Global warming. Dying profession, they say. There's even a tarmac now that can de-ice itself, but the Gritterman isn'
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• A Children's Treasury of Milligan by Spike Milligan
  ...ow the difference between an African Elephant and an Arctic Elephant, then you're missing out. One to buy for sure, as they'll want the stories read over "'Why is this lion wearing glasses.' What lion?"
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• Speaking Up by Allyson Jule
  ...emale' boxes; ''to say that there is a feminine style of leadership and to say that it is indirect, conciliatory, facilitative or collaborative, while a m ...to people should be key, and 'Speaking Up' doesn't go nearly far enough to do this.
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Melissa Leet
  * '''Bookbag: When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, who do you see?''' ...eyes, I see most the expressions of my family and friends as they tell me what they liked (and disliked) about the novel. Eyes closed, I feel again the un
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• Swell by Jenny Landreth
  ...ough the history of swimming both global and personal…if this doesn’t make you want to campaign for the re-opening of your nearest defunct Lido, nothing w
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• The Sands of Shark Island by Alexander McCall Smith and Iain McIntosh
  ...ip Tobermory is off on another adventure! Well, I suppose really I should say it's open for another term of school, but this is a school unlike any other ...you end up with two friends who don't like each other, and Fee ponders how you might then have to have morning friends and afternoon friends, so as to all
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• Boomsday by Christopher Buckley
  |summary=Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country. Blogger extraordinaire Cassandra Devine strives to convin ...that when you hit age 75, poof, you politely go off to kill yourself and "do your bit" to help out the country's ailing welfare system.
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• Aid and Other Dirty Business: How Good Intentions Have Failed the World's Poor by Giles Bolton
  ...difficulties and how you can best approach confronting them, you couldn't do better. ...sometimes corrupt governments partly due to that environment of conflict. You have few skilled workers because of patchy education, and the ones there ar
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Isabella Davidson
  ...she started reading. She decided to tackle author Isabella Davidson about what it means to be an alpha or a beta mummy when she popped into Bookbag Towers ...she started reading. She decided to tackle author Isabella Davidson about what it means to be an alpha or a beta mummy when she popped into Bookbag Towers
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• Deathwatch by Nicola Morgan
  ...walking home in the dark or the rain, and worrying about footsteps behind you, or the hooded figure coming your way. We also get to sit behind the eyes o ...painful lessons there about giving away too much about yourself to people you don't know at all. Less familiar to readers perhaps, but equally contempora
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• Killing Rachel: The Murder Notebooks by Anne Cassidy
  ...comes the terrible news that Rachel is dead. Wanting to understand exactly what happened, Rose goes to her old school while Josh heads to the coast to chec ...'t want to say too much about that for fear of spoilers, but suffice it to say that things get very interesting!
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• Time and How to Spend It: The 7 Rules for Richer, Happier Days by James Wallman
  ...o do before you die. What you actually get is a way of thinking about how you're acting and whether or not it's in your - and everyone's - best interests ...sely and James Wallman has taken on the onerous task of teaching us how to do this.
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Alex Woolf
  * '''Bookbag: When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, who do you see?''' ...which became Books 1 and 2. Book 3 came about because I was curious about what happened to my characters after the first adventure was over and I had to w
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• InstaKnits for Baby by Melissa Leapman
  ...do the knitting. I'll leave it up to you as to whether or not it worries you that the projects are 'social meadia ready'!. ...k stir and rapid digestion. You could then dash off to do what you had to do. Times have changed and that's not a bad thing. Those meals were disgusti
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• I'm A Parrot by Simon Mayor and Hilary James
  ...out with – often more than once! This lovely book is written in rhyme and you can also hear it sung to music by listening to the accompanying CD. ...we were to read the book a few times, it might become a little annoying to say the least.
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• There May Be a Castle by Piers Torday
  ...ry=Heartbreaking, surprising, uplifting - Mouse's snowbound journey is one you'll remember for a long, long time. ''There May Be a Castle'' proves that st ...deal of time in his own head, telling stories, playing with stuffed toys - you know the kind of thing. Also, he likes to sleep with the light on. Also, an
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Dee Blick
  * '''Bookbag: When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, who do you see?''' * '''BB: What inspired you to write [[The Ultimate Guide to Writing and Marketing a Bestselling Book -
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• Don't Read This Book! by Jill Lewis and Deborah Allwright
  ...s story writer not having completed it yet. All the time, there's someone (you!) reading the incomplete book. Great fun. As highly recommended as they com ...got so far. '''STOP RIGHT THERE!''' Don't read any more. I've not finished what I'm writing. Don't read this review...
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• The Double Shadow by Sally Gardner
  ...orever, a memory machine. It can capture the good, erase the bad, and keep you young for all time. But things aren't going to plan; apart from Amaryllis n ...seemingly younger, spoilt, Amaryllis, in a different setting, it ''keeps'' you hooked.
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• Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult
  ...e former cop turned PI. Can this mismatched threesome uncover the truth of what really happened all those years ago? ...narrators which pull the story this way and that way and distract you from what is coming next in the previous character's tale.
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• June 2010 Newsletter
  ...ail]. We won't bother you more than once a month, but we'll tell you about what we've been reading at Bookbag and any news from the site. We promise never ...he World Cup but even we know that's a sacrilegious remark and so we shall say no more about it...
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• There Will Be Lies by Nick Lake
  ...rns up at the hospital with bags packed. She's running from something, but what is it? And why can't she see the coyote that is watching Shelby, talking to ...ome overlap and what happens in the dreamworld give signs and pointers for what's going on in the real world. The theme is the agency of chaos: that someti
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• If I Never Went Home by Ingrid Persaud
  |summary=What - and where - is home? Ingrid Persaud explores this theme in a novel that f ...other. One question preoccupies Tina - who is her father? Her mother won't say and her grandmother and aunt claim not to know. Tina feels lonely a lot of
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• Out in the Open by Jesus Carrasco and Margaret Jull Costa (translator)
  ...this substitute father figure ever going to be enough to help the boy flee what he needs to? ...ook with a few drinks lined up then you're asking for trouble. You really do live the hardship the landscape provides. But beyond that I felt the bleak
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• Super Short Stories: Flash Fiction by Mark C Wallfisch
  ''These 100 stories are super short. None is more than 300 words. You can read one in a flash.'' ...ittle story if that story is told in fewer than three hundred words? Or do you try to draw out themes from all the flash fictions in a book of them? I don
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• Oh, the Places You'll Go by Dr Seuss
  |title=Oh, the Places You'll Go What would you do if you were sent on a trip?<br>
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• The Boy Book by Emily Lockhart
  ...any of the other things you would normally do straight after breakfast if you hadn't instead picked up said paperback. ''The Boy Book'' is, needless to say, one of these books. Ruby Oliver is in her junior year (first year of 6th f
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• Iggy and Me and the Happy Birthday by Jenny Valentine
  ...yday life they may be, but they're awash with so much charm and heart that you'll love them. Highly recommended. ...y's a funny little thing, Flo's sweet. They're sisters who do what sisters do, in a regular family. They learn to swim, they fall ill, they make cakes, t
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• Jackie Marchant Talks To Bookbag About Mice and Tarantulas - the things we do for research
  ...Jackie Marchant Talks To Bookbag About Mice and Tarantulas - the things we do for research ...eebies. They make me shriek and other silly stuff. So, you may well ask, what was I doing writing [[I'm Dougal Trump . . . Where's My Tarantula? by Douga
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• It's Fine By Me by Per Petterson
  ...-start affairs with lots of awkward silences etc but then again, you could say this is normal for teenager boys. ...too many when he has the cash. All part of normal growing up wouldn't you say and nothing really to write home about. We also discover that Audun is a k
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• Keep Your Brain Stronger for Longer by Tonia Vojtkofsky
  ...ou don't worry about what you'll suffer from in old age. As you get older you develop dreads and one of the biggest for people who are still hale and hea ...ng sudoku (''I'm getting really good at it'') or the crossword (''I always do the one in the paper and I can usually finish it in ten minutes'') but that
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• Beginner's Project Management Handbook: Art of Project Delivery by Dr Sunil C Gebalanage
  ...any literature which put it all together. An additional problem was that what literature there was out there was written with specific professionals in m ...'s clear what is required. I particularly liked his list of stakeholders, what should be found in the project charter and the points at which the client w
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• The Three Day Rule by Emlyn Rees and Josie Lloyd
  ...Karenina; this is a book that requires no concentration and no attention - you could probably watch telly and read this book at the same time. The Thorne family gathers annually at Christmas, like most families do. But the Thornes like to make sure they bring not only the gifts and the pl
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• The Man Who Owns the News: Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch by Michael Wolff
  ...position in the UK media is such that he's courted by politicians and has what many believe to be an excessive amount of power for someone who is not elec ...certainty about what people would say of him or disbelief that they could say anything against him.
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• Granny Grabber's Whizz Bang World by Charlotte Haptie
  |summary=Delilah's parents do not want her to use her imagination, or have fun. They want her to make the ...n even better one to make it nicer and kinder than most humans. But that's what Charlotte Haptie manages in this wonderfully daft tale of a child care robo
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• Dead Time: The Murder Notebooks by Anne Cassidy
  ...nticipate. And the two are very cleverly linked. I won't say too much as I do hate a spoiler. Watch out for all the clues, though! ...osh was supported and helped by Skeggsie. The two are chalk and cheese but you can see why. I'm looking forward to seeing how this relationship grows and
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• The Family Next Door by Sally Hepworth
  |summary=How well do you kinow your neighbours? THe residents of Pleasant Court think they know the ...en too and they're not far away in age from Essie's kids, but you couldn't say that the women are close. It looks as though Fran likes to spend her time
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• That's What Makes a Hippopotamus Smile! by Sean Taylor and Laurent Cardon
  |title=That's What Makes a Hippopotamus Smile! ...uld you do if a hippopotamus turned up on your doorstep? Sean Taylor tells you exactly the things that will make a hippo your life long friend in this fun
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Sarah Prineas
  * '''When you close your eyes, who do you imagine reading ''The Magic Thief: Lost''?''' * '''BB: What spurred you to write ''The Magic Thief'' trilogy?'''
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• Fancy Dress Farmyard by Nick Sharratt
  ...nimals are hiding behind the disguises. A Pirate Pig? A Wizard Sheep and what's this? A Superhero Duck? Nick Sharratt's new book combines all those todd ...dress. Let's turn the pages together and find out who has come dressed as what!
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Cat Clarke
  * '''Bookbag: When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, who do you see?''' * '''BB: Torn tells the story of a school trip gone horribly wrong - what was your own worst experience on a school trip or a holiday?'''
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• The Complete Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino
  ...ost joyous reading experience of your life.'' Quite some accolade, I think you'll agree. ...warrants such an instant impression upon the reader, I feel I could hardly do it justice, or at least, not within the confines of one single review.
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• Who Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!) by Justine Avery and Seema Amjad
  ...ce it with some fun. It's a worthy aim, as any frustrated parent will tell you.  ...t blips. That you can laugh at and once you've laughed, you'll know not to do them again.
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Andrew Hampshire
  * '''Bookbag: When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, who do you see?''' ...aurant, dance school or hedge fund, the importance of maximising the value you can create through technology is relevant.
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• Star Wars: Colouring By Numbers by LucasFilm
  |summary=If you've had your fill of adult colouring books then this might be the next big t ...ht line with a ruler, but it's something I've always wanted to be able to do. For a while in my teens I was seduced by oil-painting-by-numbers kits, wh
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• The Bear With Sticky Paws Won't Go To Bed by Clara Vulliamy
  ...ngs the doorbell, he whisks her away on an amazing adventure - although as you might expect, the bear has a little more energy than Pearl and eventually s ...for childlike dialogue - things like ''let's do an adventure'' and ''let's do sand'' sounds exactly like a child trying to get to grips with the complexi
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• The Shrink and The Sage by Julian Baggini and Antonia Macaro
  ...the Shrink and the Sage and their weekly musings. If not, let me introduce you. Julian Baggini is a philosopher, Antonia Macaro is a therapist – two dif ...or the book. So there's no wasted pages of ''ooh, well the other lot would say this and here's why that's right/wrong'', just two different responses that
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• Why You? 101 Interview Questions You'll Never Fear Again by James Reed
  |title=Why You? 101 Interview Questions You'll Never Fear Again ...ppy at work, we are not happy. Period! (as our transatlantic cousins would say)
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• The Iliad (The Classics) by Rosemary Sutcliff and Alan Lee (illustrator)
  ...he important background detail and just let the story tell itself? How do you convey to the masses the mythical talent of a story that has lasted millenn ...w how it ended, but with my evident lack of a classical education (what do you mean, I certainly look old enough to have had one?!) I clearly had remained
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Steve Cole
  ...an expert to conduct the interview - eight-year-old Billy Young. Over to you, Billy! ...an expert to conduct the interview - eight-year-old Billy Young. Over to you, Billy!
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Richard Denning
  * '''Bookbag: Close your eyes and imagine your readers. Who do you see?''' ...'t come across as being quite as much fun as we might think. What inspired you to write the book?'''
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• Good Neighbours by Sarah Langan
  If you're of a certain vintage, it's hard to read the words ''Good Neighbours'' wi ...left to choose based on what they believe is more plausible and ultimately what they want to believe.
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• The Bunker Diary by Kevin Brooks
  ...nd them and effect a rescue? Or will their captor eventually release them? What does he want? ...y, we explore how it is to be confined, powerless and entirely ignorant of what is to come. It's really rather frightening.
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• Preposterous Rhinoceros (Early Reader) by Tracy Gunaratnam and Marta Costa
  ...m and Marta Costa|picture book]] and here's what our reviewer, Sam, had to say about it: ...s more than just hope to read a book aloud. Will Rhino figure out what to do before the other animals get restless?
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• The Good Lover by Steinunn Sigurdardottir and Philip Roughton (translator)
  ...staying the night with the woman next door. This is purely platonic, but what with his host knowing everything about the situation, an ever-present taxi ...ion is writing that you tend to see up for the major awards, I'm afraid to say this will win no prizes from me.
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Stephen Mark Norman
  * '''Bookbag: When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, who do you see?''' * '''BB: What was the inspiration for Meklyan and the Fourth Piece of the Artefact? '''
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• Legends: Battles and Quests by Anthony Horowitz
  ...terns of threes, and hubris, from China. It also does what legends should do to really hit the mark, in my mind – bring an aspect of their bearing on ...rime among those you may be wondering where the humour went – I will leave you to decide how funny (or not) the fourth tale, featuring an implausibly-name
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• One Hundred Days of Happiness by Fausto Brizzi
  ...I confused the title of their book with one I adored. Make of that what you will, I'm going to call it a happy accident, because this is a book many of ...e messed it up by having an affair. With impeccable timing, he managed to do this immediately before discovering he has only 3 months to live.
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• Stop in the Name of Pants! by Louise Rennison
  ...is hugely successful series of diary-style novels, captures the essence of what it is like to be a teenage girl - bored with school, obsessed, yet puzzled ...hy she did). Which means, I assume, that the books do what they set out to do.
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• Death on Toast (Shades 2.0) by John Townsend
  ...ther it was the DVDs or his parents lack of interest which drove him to do what he did, but whichever it was, Freddy does something from which there is no ...reading this are going to be torn between envying Freddy his freedom to do what he wants and feeling pity for the lack of love and parental care in his lif
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• Soulprint by Megan Miranda
  ...so, she is ''contained'' on a small offshore island. She's not imprisoned, you understand. She's kept apart from society for her own safety, after several ...what of those who helped her escape? What of Dom, of Casey and of Cameron? What are their motives? Has Alina jumped from the frying pan right into the fire
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• The Illicit Happiness of Other People by Manu Joseph
  ...y=This look at the fallout from a young man's suicide is literary, and not what one might assume to expect from Indian novels. While not entirely successf ...is son's friends and output, trying to seek the cause of this suicide, and what we have here is the journey of the family as he struggles towards the truth
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• Stampy's Lovely Book by Joseph Garrett
  |summary=Why Don't You Just Switch Off Your Minecraft Game and Go Out and Do Something Less Boring Instead? ...remind me of a certain TV programme that used to invite us to turn off and do something more active instead?
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• Tabitha Posy Was Ever So Nosy by Julie Fulton and Jona Jung
  ...cCready]], who - in case you don't know - was ever so greedy. Remembering what a glorious romp that was, how could I resist a young friend of Julie's by t ...as downright nosy. Neighbours took to hiding from her and those who could do so made a quick escape. But it all came to a head one day when the new tea
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• My Mummy does weird things / Maman fait des choses bizarres by Amelie Julien
  ...y about just how weird a mother can be - delivered in English and French. What better way to learn a language? ...r reactions to your artistic efforts on the wall. I mean, what else would you use paint for?
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• A Winter's Wedding by Sharon Owens
  ...rses and Dylan was helping out between jobs. Now, there's something which you need to know about Dylan. He's perfect. He's thoughtful, considerate, loy ...her. She can't really turn to her parents for help as, well, they're what you might call 'dysfunctional' as a family.
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• Preposterous Rhinoceros by Tracy Gunaratnam and Marta Costa
  ...bedtime story. Step forward one Preposterous Rhinoceros who thinks he can do the job, but can't even read! Follow Rhino on his fun discovery about read ...s more than just hope to read a book aloud. Will Rhino figure out what to do before the other animals get restless?
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• Stand and Deliver: A Design for Successful Government by Ed Straw
  ...do not feel represented. Worse still, the younger you are, the more likely you are to be politically disengaged. We're in danger of losing an entire gener ...reader to digest, I won't mislead you. But you should read it, even if you do see yourself as one of the disaffected. ''Stand and Deliver'' is dense in t
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• The Astrologer's Daughter by Rebecca Lim
  ...ur own end. Would you want to know how long your life would span, even if you could? ...ruction of a horoscope around it. Clear as mud? Yes, me too. Suffice to say, an horary astrologer would have to be a very gifted individual indeed and
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• Learning Teaching by Jim Scrivener
  ...arrange the chairs and talk to your students for an hour without stopping, you need this book. It takes a year to do a PGCE. Some other people even do whole 3 year degrees in teaching. Not me. I did a 20 day course. Those othe
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• Incredibuilds: House-Elves: Deluxe Book and Model Set (Harry Potter) by Jody Revenson
  ...a gifted small person, particularly at the end of film #7… Or, of course, you can get this gift set, and press the wooden parts out, muckle them together ...no less) in the books, but passing fans of the films (does Harry Potter ''do'' passing fans?!) might not yet have seen how she would have looked if she'
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• The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson
  ...is an amazing novel that will take you to a little known country and leave you a lot more knowledgeable and a little emotionally roller-coastered. ...ter's Son'' follows the adventures of Jun Do who has been born without any say in his future. For this is North Korea, where all is organised for the goo
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• Battalion by Adam Hamdy
  Wow. Just wow. Do you need me to say any more? You'd like me to elaborate? ...ry and mercenaries providing the security for major cities. It's a future you can believe in all too readily.
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• Fans Not Customers: How to create growth companies in a no growth world by Vernon Hill
  ...does put the customer first. It may well not be the type of business book you're expecting! ...the truth was that it didn't need another Bank-just-like-every-other-Bank-you've-encountered, but it did need a fresh approach to the business and a swee
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• Village of Secrets by Caroline Moorehead
  ...riously and who has tried to give credit to all participants. By trying to say it all, she has sought to redress the balance of previous accounts. ...reads more like an academic text book to be studied than the sort of book you'd sit and read for an hour in the evening, but that may partly depend on yo
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• The Green Door by Christopher Bowden
  ...have over our own lives. Do past lives influence the lives we lead today? Do outside forces influence more than our own wishes and desires? ...njoying ''The Green Door'', I plan to rectify that soon. And I don't think you need to worry about missing anything: this novel reads perfectly well as a
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• Harry Hill's Colossal Compendium by Harry Hill
  ...y/Curly Wurly, Cadburys cream egg/Mystic Meg. If this makes sense to you, you may have come across Harry Hill in his various guises. Harry has been a po ...mour, but as ‘TV Burp’ proved, he does appeal to the mainstream audience. What this show also achieved was introducing the character to children and Harry
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• Unwholly by Neal Shusterman
  ...o. ''Unwind'' had a profound effect on me - as the best books for children do - it was exciting, touching, shocking and, above all, fearless. But there w ...Cam - the world's first composite boy, constructed from dozens of unwinds. What can the future possibly hold for a boy such as this?
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• The Colouring Book of Cards and Envelopes - Christmas by Rebecca Jones
  |summary=Twenty four cards ''and'' envelopes for you to colour. Excellent designs and the result will be unique. Great value p ...''. An embroidered card is lovely, but not everyone has the skills and if you buy them they're a frightening price. But I've just discovered a relaxing,
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Ritchie Valentine Smith
  * '''Bookbag: When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, who do you see?''' ...latest novel and the first in a new samurai fantasy series. Please could you tell us a little about it?'''
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• Reading the Game (Football Academy) by Tom Palmer
  ...they're to the point, and the vocabulary is either well or poorly pitched. You can almost see why so few of them tickle the fancy of the target audience. ...ssional contract, it's a bolt from the blue that shocks him into trying to do something about it. His pride in success more than equals his pride in his
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• The New Woman by Charity Norman
  ...a woman. But if he feels that he can no longer live a lie, what will that do to his marriage, and how will his family, friends and colleagues react when The story opens with Luke Livingstone travelling on a train on what he has determined will be the last day of his life. For all his life, he ha
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• Hope: a Tragedy by Shalom Auslander
  ...One character here tries to overcome that, and it's giving little away to say the results aren't a brilliant success. ...walls - is it any wonder he spends a lot of his thinking time working out what would be his best choice of famous last words? But he's little without a s
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• Confessions of a Recovering MP by Nick de Bois
  ...olitical classes. And yes, opposition parties: I'm looking at you as well. You're just as useless. ...traditions and constituent peculiarities explained. I promise though, that you will laugh!
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• Don't Worry Douglas by David Melling
  |summary=What should you do when something bad happens and you're too scared to tell your mum or dad? This sweet, funny story settles tho ...ipient of a brand new woolly hat, a gift from his Dad. But what should he do when he has a bit of trouble and the hat starts to unravel?
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• Frightfully Friendly Ghosties by Daren King
  ...still-alives being so mean - running off screaming every time the ghosties say hello. ...finished. ...All done? Loved it, didn't you? Great. Thought you would. Now you'll want to read ''Frightfully Friendly Ghosties''. The simple plot is a per
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• On My Walk by Kari-Lynn Winters and Christina Leist
  ...the story. Not every rhyme is as familiar as it could be (do frogs really say anything approaching frippity-frop?) but the format helps brush over this s ...ing. The underlying quality is obvious, but it doesn't grab you as much as you'd hope.
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• ZOM-B Baby by Darren Shan
  WARNING! If you haven't read the [[Zom-B by Darren Shan|first book]] in this series, STOP R ...nding it difficult to fit in with the Angels. B has some soul-searching to do - if zombies actually have souls to search.
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• The Demon Trappers: Forsaken by Jana Oliver
  ...into the trap – if the cover isn't amazing I pre-judge. And that's exactly what I did when this book landed on my doorstep – I took one look at the brood I have to say, Beck is an amazing character – I kept flipping ahead to see when he was
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Patricia Fara
  ...era, which era of the 4,000 years covered by your history of science would you most like to live in and why?''' ...say in passing that the book is about "men (and some women)". What changes do the scientific community have to make to ensure this inequality is consigne
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• The Strategy Of Antelopes: Rwanda After the Genocide by Jean Hatzfeld
  ''Who's going to say that word, forgiveness? It's outside of human nature.'' So say some of the survivors of the Rwandan genocide of 1994, when 800,000 Tutsis
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To SJ Griffin
  * '''Bookbag: When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, who do you see?''' ...ople. One of them is me. I'm looking a bit sceptical and like I'm about to say something terribly sardonic and unhelpful.
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• Worth by Jon Canter
  ...life instead. He’ll do some drawing, maybe look into illustrating. She’ll do voluntary work. They will start to Enjoy Life a bit more. They will become ...ages before they leave the city behind, and yet it feels so much longer as you read, for Richard’s story at that point bares little resemblance to the R
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• Strictly English: The correct way to write ... and why it matters by Simon Heffer
  ...I loved the fact that I could say something precisely and convey exactly what I meant in a few words. And then I was stunned to find that there was no lo ...ead, understand and then put the rules into practice. The language is, as you might expect, concise and sometimes there is a lot to be understood. I fou
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• Black God: v. 2 (Black God) by Dall-Young Lim
  ...people to read the opening volume first, but almost recommendable even if you haven't. ...Heck, even Captain America managed to die ('not too great a loss', I hear you knowledgably mutter). So coming to this second book after turning many a p
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Nikki Sheehan
  * '''Bookbag: When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, who do you see?''' ...ist, writing for parenting magazines and co-founding a property blog! Have you always wanted to write a novel?'''
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• The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
  ...fteen years later, fifteen years after Offred gets into a van, not knowing what will happen next. It's told by three narrators: Aunt Lydia, who is secretly ...re these women connected? And what does it mean for Gilead? And that's all you're getting!
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• Eleven by Mark Watson
  ...whether the choices we don't make affect us just as powerfully as those we do.'' And of course, when we take no action about something in our lives, it' ...all that, I took to Xavier straight away. He's normal. But then again - what's normal? He's got his own flat, a regular job which pays the bills and he
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• The Second World War in 100 Facts by Clive Pearson
  ...s are you really will get a lot more from these pages than you assumed had you judged it by the title alone. ...ays about Goebbels or Speer, but Field-Marshal von Manstein? That's not to say this is utterly exhaustive or complex, nor confined to the trivial. Its une
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To K J Lawrence
  * '''Bookbag: When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, who do you see?''' * '''BB: OK, we'll go with that! What inspired you to write ''The Cossack''? What was your starting point? Which authors had an influence on your work?'''
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• Juggle! Rethink Work, Reclaim your Life by Ian Sanders
  ...case scenario - make it your hobby. This book is a good starting point if you have never considered changing your job, don't have a hobby and expect to w ...oth work and see his family, or take inspirational trips to Amsterdam, but what does this give me? Did it take an abrupt step to retire and work for himsel
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• Pictures of Lily by Matthew Yorke
  '' 'I know you do.' ''<br> ''…'But what happens if I can't find them? What happens if I look and they're not there?' ''<br>
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• The Turn of the Tide by Margaret Henderson Smith
  ...l being led astray by Tricia Harrington (or so Harriet's mother would have you believe...) and she can't really make up her mind about 'Mr Sanderson', par ...ch are the love child of P G Wodehouse and Frank Spencer of ''Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em''.
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To R J Morgan
  * '''Bookbag: When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, who do you see?''' ...itable for younger readers', according to the warning on the back. What do you think of age ratings or age guidance in books?'''
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Katy Birchall
  * '''Bookbag: When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, who do you see?''' ...e's hair on fire. What was the worst thing you ever did at school, and did you get caught?'''
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Julia Green
  * '''Bookbag: When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, who do you see?''' ...on the Writing for Young People MA at Bath Spa University; what advice do you have for young writers who are just starting out?'''
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• Playing With Fire by Peter Robinson
  ...ies is still fresh nd a good read. You'll know a lot more about fire when you've read it! Recommended. ...ding them. Banks is becoming a darker character and certainly not someone you'd want to be on the wrong side of. He's coming closer to his old adversary
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• Never Can Say Goodbye by Christina Jones
  |title=Never Can Say Goodbye ...handed the reins to the shop where she currently works, she’s surprised to say the least. Current boss Rita is heading off for a new life (and love) in th
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• You Belong To Me by Samantha Hayes
  |title=You Belong To Me ...who is telling the truth, this is book is highly recommended and will keep you guessing to the very end.
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• Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren and Tony Ross
  ...'m adamant every child should read. You don't need to know more than that you should buy it. Highly recommended. ...full of gold - and with NO grown-ups to tell her what to do. Well, a few do try, but Pippi always gives them short shrift and gets on with living her l
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• Daily Mail Tax Guide 2012/2013 by Jane Vass
  |summary=The Guide that advises you how to reduce your tax liabilities and does it in plain English. Highly re ...a lot of help and information - and it's free. You might wonder then, why you should buy a book which, on the face of it, does the same job?
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• Captain Fantastic (Football Academy) by Tom Palmer
  ...United U12s. This one looks at how you cope when your dad's not around and you'd very much rather not discuss the reasons why. What's the matter with Craig? Why has he changed so much? And is there anything
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• A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
  ...l. Finally. But it's pretty distracting to find a queue of people behind you wanting to leap off this tower block and their own particular mortal coils. ...people's anguish so alluring? It is? Right, ahem, sorry. Shall we just say then, that despite the fact that disgraced television presenter Martin Shar
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• Big Nate: Laugh-O-Rama (Big Nate Activity Book 4) by Lincoln Peirce
  ...ollection, and inwardly as well, at their own thoughts and tastes. Note I say it's for a fan – this example will alienate anyone else from the first pa ...e's band?' and there, 'a, b and c are the performers in which band?'. But you can't just skip through this book. The tasks are much too absorbing. There
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• The Hamster Book by Silvia Borando
  ...t little hamster. You can give her a name, smooth down her fur, watch her do tricks and give her some food. It’s not all fun and games with your new ...our new pet you’re then introduced to her, discovering what she’s like and you’re encouraged to tap her awake, give her a stroke and feed her sunflower
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Anthony Browne
  ...ildren's Laureate's latest offering, [[Me and You by Anthony Browne|Me and You]], we jumped at the chance to ask him some questions. ...ildren's Laureate's latest offering, [[Me and You by Anthony Browne|Me and You]], we jumped at the chance to ask him some questions.
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To O H Robsson
  ...who like to get to know their characters - and that it was likely to tempt you into planning a holiday in western Norway. She had quite a few questions w ...who like to get to know their characters - and that it was likely to tempt you into planning a holiday in western Norway. She had quite a few questions w
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• Where Zebras Go by Sue Hardy-Dawson
  ...nedest, with some brilliant design, to make sure they all catch the eye of you. ...he format is of course decades old by now. Not only these but others here you could see blown up, pasted on the classroom wall and loved for many years.
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• Sea Defences by Hilary Taylor
  |summary=A stunning debut which will have you glued to the page. I'm a sucker for anything set in Norfolk but - even tak ...k on the beach would do them some good - it was stormy but it was probably what they needed. And then Hannah went missing.
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• The Ten-year Nap by Meg Wolitzer
  ...hey nonetheless left high-powered jobs to stay at home with their babies. What was intended to be a temporary time-out has turned into a decade and now th ...k as a puppeteer, it had simply faded away until she could barely remember what it was like to hold a brush in her hands.
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• The Crossing of Ingo by Helen Dunmore
  ...event their journey from even beginning. But begin it does, and all we can do is read breathlessly, and pray they succeed. ...just as beautiful as the first three books in this wonderful quartet. When you finish reading, it will be the only word in your mind, I promise. Beautiful
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• Bears Don't Read by Emma Chichester Clark
  ...e to stick with the status quo. If you're a bear who wants to read a book, you jolly well go and read it. You might think a picture of a bear reading a book, on the cover of a book itse
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• Keys to the Repository: Blue Bloods by Melissa de la Cruz
  ...books in this sequence grows, to have a one book to refer back to for all you need to know. ...ic little book that is a great accompaniment to the Blue Bloods series. If you are a fan of the books, then it is a must have! However, I would recommend
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• The Philosophy of the Universe and the Dimensions of the Multiverse by Aaron Joseph Olivier
  ...with a philosophy of life? This book is Aaron Joseph Olivier's attempt to do just that. The result is an interesting book that ties human spirituality w Have you ever grappled with a philosophy of life? Wondered where you stand on existential questions such as how did we get here? Has religion or
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• The Universe and Life but Not Everything by Anthony Christian Wright
  ...ten wonder - usually after a moment of shaking my fist at the news on TV - what my manifesto for life and society would look like were I to write it down. ...t deal of kudos to Anthony Christian Wright, who has had the discipline to do exactly this - ''The Universe and Life but Not Everything'' is the result.
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• Marvel Iron Man: The Gauntlet by Eoin Colfer
  ...he Marvel character into long-form format has a lot going for it; provided you haven't taken against the hero already. ...om now on, Tony will be building things that are definitely not cutesy, or do-goody. But, while the gamut of Iron Man suits he has developed since then
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• Don't Ever Look Behind Door 32 by B C R Fegan and Lenny Wen
  |summary=A glorious romp through a magical hotel, with a dire warning which you must not ignore. Great fun. ...things as you move from room 2 to room 31. Forget expensive theme parks: you'd be much better off going to the Hotel of Hoo.
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• Milly-Molly-Mandy's Family by Joyce Lankester Brisley
  ...ty (and Toby the dog) in a nice white cottage with a thatched roof. And do you know, she has all sorts of adventures. She goes out into town alone to fetc ...are new to Milly-Molly-Mandy, it really doesn't matter, except that I will say these are some good ones. I adore ''Goes Errands'' and have most of it memo
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• Bear and Hare: Where's Bear? by Emily Gravett
  ...OK, one more time? This time it's the fish tank. I'd like to be able to say that he was ''behind'' the tank, but he's visible over, under and through t ...behind the picture - and then Bear climbs into bed, leaving Hare wondering what's happening.
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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 ston ...provides more than enough impetus for you to write your own. Fairy tales do, as it happens, have the ability to last for centuries – but there's noth
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• Bereft by Chris Womersley
  ...ng he died bravely in action earlier in the war. And the less you know of what he meets and does back in Flint the better, the more to keep this fresh and I say brilliant, because I can hardly pick Womersley up on anything. I did find
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• Dora at Follyfoot by Monica Dickens
  ...y're both under strict instructions not to buy any horses. What's Dora to do though, when she realises that unless she buys the cream-coloured, lame hor ...cream coloured horse cannot be left to pull the log cart. I defy anyone to say that they would have done differently!
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• Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder
  ...hese are very important questions. If you like food as Almanzo likes food, you'll read Farmer Boy and weep. ...too much because he feels that there are so many more important things to do. He knows he must get his "schooling" though, and he trudges through the sn
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• Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back Junior Novel (Star Wars Junior Novel 2) by Ryder Windham
  |summary=Part two – or five, if you're being honest – of the saga, in tween-friendly form. ...DVD editions, and first published at that time – are about the best way to do that.
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• I Am A Chechen! by German Sadulaev
  ...And I'm thinking, brave author indeed and I also couldn't wait to find out what all the fuss was about. ...read to your friend ...'' And I wonder just how many of us could actually do this.
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• Ostrich Boys by Keith Gray
  ...ecial and the urge to tell everyone else all about it simply spills out of you. ''Ostrich Boys'' is such a book. ...thing, these four tell one another everything. They're as tight a group as you could possibly imagine. So when Ross is killed in a traffic accident, the o
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• Good Dog McTavish by Meg Rosoff
  ...family: it was a decision which came from the heart rather than the head. You see the Peacheys were dysfunctional: Ma Peachey, an accountant by professio ...gnation would mean no more matriarchal oppression. She's into philosophy, you know. Twelve year-old Ollie relished the idea that there would be no more
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• Don't Read This Interview with Jill Lewis
  ...s story writer not having completed it yet. All the time, there's someone (you!) reading the incomplete book. Great fun. As highly recommended as they com ...on't need to be in constant communication with her. Deborah seemed to know what we were after straight away and we happily left her to it. Sarah Malley (Sa
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• Belzhar by Meg Wolitzer
  |summary=Original story about grief, depression and moving on. You won't find anything else quite like it and there's a twist we didn't see co ...ved him and then he died, and almost a year passed and no-one knew what to do with me.''
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• Tarantula: The Skin I Live In by Thierry Jonquet
  ...ooks where you start knowing nothing and end up knowing perhaps too much. You don't initially know why it's called 'Tarantula', nor why it was once calle ...ng second person, past tense used with the male abductee - 'he did this... you felt...'.
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Chris Worthington
  ...ht]] of paying a complete stranger to take revenge on someone who has hurt you and we had quite a few questions to ask author Chris Worthington when he po ...ht]] of paying a complete stranger to take revenge on someone who has hurt you and we had quite a few questions to ask author Chris Worthington when he po
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Elizabeth Laird
  * '''Bookbag: When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, who do you see?''' ...Witching Hour'' and in particular, we loved Maggie. Is she based on anyone you know?'''
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• The Wizard of Oz by L Frank Baum, Michel Laporte, Olivier Latyk and Vanessa Mieville (translator)
  ...of queer, questing characters, the yellow bricked road and everything else you would want of a young reader adaptation of the novel. ...ing for some pages to appear far too wordy, it's a decent, brisk telling. You'll certainly get the gist of all the drama and fantasy of the story, as pec
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• Black Heart Blue by Louisa Reid
  ...the story into short chapters and revealing just enough each time to leave you wanting to read on and find out more. ...eat to make her a rather unlikeable character herself, but Reid manages to do this by showing the way she can be unkind towards Rebecca, then redeems her
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• The Double X Economy by Linda Scott
  ...dreds of references and citations, you don't need to dip into these unless you want further reading. Although the subject matter is academic, serious and, ...don't aspire to live in households with just one bread winner, and mothers do aspire to work full time.
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• The Diary of Dennis the Menace: The Great Escape by Steven Butler
  ...exam will only have one winner – said wimp, Walter the Softy. But like I say, Dennis only ''thinks'' he has his life sorted – sometimes it can come ro You can see what is going to happen, even without the back cover blurb giving the game away,
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• No-one Ever Has Sex on a Tuesday by Tracy Bloom
  ...y’s not 100% sure who the father of her baby is, current boyfriend Ben or, you’ve guessed it, long lost flame Matthew. Cue a comedy of errors, misunders ...eded gay best friend hilarity to the story. They all worked well together. You could imagine that they would at least be acquaintances if not BFFs.
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• The Girls by Lori Lansens
  ...ine only being able to do what you want half of the time, and having to do what someone else wants when it's not your "turn"? It's a horrific thought to me ...s written. Some pages had me engaged much more than others, and though I'd say that on the whole I found 95% of the book brilliant, the remaining 5% did d
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• The Solitude of Prime Numbers by Paolo Giordano
  ...characters you could possibly imagine. They never do what you want them to do; they never grab the happiness that suggests itself to them. They are deepl ...nal. There's nothing uplifting about this book - read it on a down day and you'll probably feel like giving up altogether - but it is beautiful in the acc
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• Snow White and the Huntsman by Lily Blake
  They say it's always best to read the book before watching the film, but what if they don't come in the usual order? This novelisation of the film ''Sno ...over this important fact, even if this is done two or three times. Dare I say this is not a blow-by-blow recount of the film? It should perhaps be, as t
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• Can You Say It Too? Brrr! Brrr! by Sebastien Braun
  |title=Can You Say It Too? Brrr! Brrr! ...can start to guide them to words that you want them to use. For example, what language skills would they require if they visited Antarctica?
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• So What! by Tracey Trussell and Neil Price
  |title=So What! ...book captures those feelings, and demonstrates a way to deal with any 'so what' nonsense that comes your way!
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Leigh Bardugo
  ...place in the book? Or did you stick to one plan and tweak it slightly when you thought of other ideas?''' Leigh Bardugo: First of all, thank you for all the kind words.
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• Who Is Mr Satoshi? by Jonathan Lee
  ...r, if you like and Rob glibly decides to take himself off to Japan (as you do). But is it all just a wild goose chase? ...oper meaningful life. So he thinks a complete change of scenery may just do the trick. But does it? And at this point, Lee's knowledge of all things
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• Invisible Monsters Remix by Chuck Palahniuk
  ...roduction, flash to near the end, back to the start, and seesaw away until you settle in the middle - passing some chapters printed in mirror writing alon ...delights as if on a trail of random breadcrumbs. Well, yes and no. As I say it still has a sort of formulaic order, and is not as random as ''Fighting
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• The Legion (Roman Legion 9) by Simon Scarrow
  ...a score to settle. Add a traitor in the camp into the mix, and you really do wonder how on earth they're going win through. ...s they do with the enemies they're supposed to be fighting. This is not to say the book is at all dull or simply a template, because it isn't. It's an enj
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• The Comic Strip Book of Dinosaurs by Sally Kindberg and Tracey Turner
  If I asked you all to put your hands up if you had a dinosaur book as a youth I'd feel the draught from here. My grander e ...nnnga'' for variety, and even a scientist going ''Nnng! Nnnng! Nnnng!''. What the sauropod is all that about?
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• Whatever Love Means by David Baddiel
  |summary=Whatever Love Means is recommended if you like action, plot, pop culture and aren't too fussy about tight, good writi ...wists and turns and red herrings and suspects and and and... so that's all you're getting.
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• Stone's Fall by Iain Pears
  ...ips in and out of the main characters' lives, telling the reader basically what makes them tick. I don't think I'm giving too much away when I say that Mr Stone (the industrialist) has died. Is it an accident? Or is some
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• Fatale by Jean-Patrick Manchette, Max Cabanes and Doug Headline
  ...ld always struggle; but the novelty it provides, along with its bluntness, do give it some small qualities. ...t each other at both play and work, she knows she can play with them. But what might happen, given these undefined rules, if they chose to play as a team
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• Paradise Girl by Phill Featherstone
  ...break down, Kerryl comes to believe that the texts she is receiving really do come from Adam. And she arranges a meeting... ...mbiguity about it. A clever choice by Featherstone because it really makes you think.
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• Puppy Academy: Scout and the Sausage Thief by Gill Lewis
  |summary=Whether or not you love dogs this makes for an engaging early reader from an animal expert. I ...ve at school in good time and looking clean and smart, but what's a pup to do when she spots a much-loved teddy lying in a pool of water? She knows that
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• Mousebeard's Revenge (Mousehunter Trilogy) by Alex Milway
  If you started this trilogy way back when, you would probably never expect the pirate, Mousebeard, and the hero and heroin ...gallows once already? And just what can you do with - and what might one do FOR - a Golden Mouse?
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• A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore
  ...t. Delightfully witty if that's the way your mind works...but you probably do need to have a certain sense of humour. ...hatever specific fear lives in the deepest recess of your soul... assuming you have a soul.
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• More from Our Own Correspondent by Tony Grant (Editor)
  ...d and gentle demeanour and careful but honest reporting that the BBC could do with a lot more of. ...the television in frustration at its propaganda or its dumbing down. But I do listen to ''From Our Own Correspondent''. It's a rare beacon in Auntie's re
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• Cambridge Blue by Alison Bruce
  ...ess or sleep with every woman he meets. I know, you can't believe it, can you? The book's recommended though. ...p-challenged characters who normally inhabit the police procedural genre. You could imagine having a drink with him and enjoying the experience – not t
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• The Art of Noticing: Rediscover What Really Matters to You by Rob Walker
  |title=The Art of Noticing: Rediscover What Really Matters to You |sort=Art of Noticing: Rediscover What Really Matters to You
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• Fifty Sounds by Polly Barton
  ...e describes as being, among other things, the sound of ''every party where you have to introduce yourself''. ...eas exist in some languages and can't be remotely rendered in others, then you will love this book.
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• May 2015 Newsletter
  ...ail]. We won't bother you more than once a month, but we'll tell you about what we've been reading at Bookbag and any news from the site. We promise never Hi, hello, how goes it with you? Post-election blues? Or post-election euphoria? Or simply thankful it's al
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• Serving the Reich: The Struggle for the Soul of Physics under Hitler by Philip Ball
  ...t has hit you before, given its scientific bent, but it's worth looking at what was going on at that time. Which way did Planck walk? Did Heisenberg have ...um physics just because they could hardly understand it, or equate it with what they knew. It obviously was a plot instigated by people who were appointin
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• Love and Kisses by Jean Ure
  |summary= An excellent book about first love with characters you warm to and a great plot. Highly recommended for girls in the eleven plus ...ge when she met Alex. Well, when I say 'met' I should perhaps clarify and say that Alex pushed his wheelbarrow into her, from the building site where he
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• 21 Doors to Happiness: Life Through Travel Experiences and Meditation by Chit Dubey
  ...ng happiness either. Chit Dubey believes that happiness is inside you and you just need to delve a little deeper to find it. ...oved to Spain and the UK. From all this he realised that spirituality was what mattered most to him.
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• The Generation Game by Sophie Duffy
  ...son managing the mayhem? Where were you when Charles and Di got married? What about when Diana died? There's plenty of reminiscing to be done in this bo ...nd her daughter, as well as about growing up generally and discovering who you are.
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• Griffin and Sabine 25th Anniversary Edition: An Extraordinary Correspondence by Nick Bantock
  ...and bring us closer to the sender than any omniscient narrator can hope to do. I've still got the childlike love of picking at an envelope stuck in a bo ...s that – an adult market at last served with opening pockets up and seeing what's inside, fingers carefully opening envelopes up as if ''we'' were the pers
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• Madge Eekal's Christmas by Colleen Jacey and Zed Jacey
  ...utting up their festive lights. Madge's pet dragon, Ashon, wanted to know what had happened to their fairy lights. The truth was that Madge had ''tried'' ...name quickly (go on, say it a few times, over and over - see what I mean?) you might think that she's something of an expert, but Ashon knew that things w
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• How to Write an Impressive CV and Cover Letter: A Comprehensive Guide for the UK Job Seeker by Tracey Whitmore
  ...mpressions really do count'', this carries less weight than it should when you notice the dubious grammar in the first line of the introduction, and in vi ...eed things spelling out to this degree, you might like to consider whether you're even ready to enter the world of work with no one to hold your hand.
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• The Ring of Solomon (Bartimaeus) by Jonathan Stroud
  Well, he isn't actually back. But we do get to revisit him. Which is good. I'm sure you know who I'm talking about. But just in case you don't, Bartimaeus is a sarcastic, wisecracking djinni and the star of a won
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• Making Money by Terry Pratchett
  ...rom the Assassin's guild, the computer in the cellar goes Gloop, you think you're about to be blackmailed, your chief of staff might just be a vampire and ...once you've done it you're home and dry. Well, if you're Moist von Lipwig, you are at least 'home'.
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• Fly, Chick, Fly by Jeanne Willis and Tony Ross
  ...The third one is too much of a thinker for her own good. When her parents say she has to fly, she replies ...now more before they act than their more confident siblings. ''Because I say so'' or ''just get on with it'' isn't going to work with them, and this sto
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• Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters by Greg McKeown
  |title=Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters ...hanges. He did survive and came through stronger - and richer. There is, you see, a different way: ''great things are not reserved for those who bleed,
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• The Infinite Wisdom of Harriet Rose by Diana Janney
  It's an unconventional start to what then unravels as a rather brilliant and beautifully written story. With Pub As a book within a book, you get two stories for the price of one, though Harriet's musings are short sn
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• Attack of the Giant Sea Spiders (Adventures of the Steampunk Pirates) by Gareth P Jones
  ...h, ridiculously French and ridiculously successful recruiter – but to just what is he taking so many seamen? Whatever it is, it's enough to get the Pirate ...can just get on with accepting their existence (and if you can't do that, you'll really struggle with accepting someone like Inkybeard). True, I have no
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• The Resurrection of Jesus by Yancey Williams
  |summary=A classy look at what led up to an art theft. A decidedly good read. ...rrection of Jesus'', and whilst his suspects might seem unlikely, who's to say that he's wrong? Forget the assertions that it was down to the Mafia and m
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Antony Wootten Again
  * '''Bookbag: When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, who do you see?''' * '''BB: I love the idea of ''Bigshorts'': what gave you this idea?'''
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• Driven to Distraction by Jeremy Clarkson
  ...his dander up before tailing neatly back to the cars again. Or not. And what is in between is pure gold dust. OK, I hear you railing against that first paragraph. The shouts of ''no, no'' coming from
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• Some Dogs Do by Jez Alborough
  |title=Some Dogs Do ...encountered for ages, including the grown-up ones. It's hard to precisely say why, but somehow, the combination of the story, the rhyme and the illustrat
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• Harmony by Carolyn Parkhurst
  ...ions: she subscribed to his newsletter, heard him speak and what he had to say rang a bell. Before long he was coming to the house for private consultatio ...well. If you can't do that, then you've failed at the most important task you've ever been given.''
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• Department 19: The Rising by Will Hill
  ...d this review. Go back, get book one, and then come back to read this one. You'll thank me for the advice! HE RISES. The graffiti is breaking out everywhere. For those who don't know what it's referring to, it's a minor annoyance. For Blacklight operatives, it co
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• Ink and Bone by Lisa Unger
  ...latest and best yet up off the shelf and run to the checkout, I don’t know what will! ...re that you were told would be there has either been moved or is something you weren’t expecting at all.
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• The Ghosts Who Danced and other spooky stories by Saviour Pirotta and Paul Hess
  ...hat produce a brilliant 'my first ghost story' book – just be prepared for what happens in future when the endings aren't all as cheerful as herein… ...over the world, don't you know. I don't know of any as of yet but I dare say that people have fixed ghost stories to be set on Antarctica; they're certa
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• Funny Kid for President by Matt Stanton
  ...ilm that inexplicably was named after the book series) but this is exactly what I expect them to be like – irreverent, funny and entertaining. ...pew, a presidential race filled with controversy and a duck – what more do you want? The whole politics side of things is handled extremely well and intro
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• Three Weeks to Say Goodbye by C J Box
  |title= Three Weeks to Say Goodbye ...an influential federal judge. They have, you've guessed it, three weeks to say goodbye to their daughter.
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• Little Bits of Sky by S E Durrant
  ...citurn Mrs Clanks, is being a care kid. Being a care kid marks you out and you spend an awful lot of your time trying not to give away this critical fact ...never paid that rotten tax. And - sigh - give away that I am old enough to say that. Silas is my spirit animal, by the way.)
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• My Mummy does weird things / Maman fait des choses bizarres by Amelie Julien and Gustyawan
  ...y about just how weird a mother can be - delivered in English and French. What better way to learn a language? ...r reactions to your artistic efforts on the wall. I mean, what else would you use paint for?
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• A Shortcut to Paradise by Teresa Solana and Peter Bush
  ...e. And without wishing to spoil the plot in any way, I think I can safely say that he '' ... decided to put himself into the shoes of the heroes he trans ...viewer out there using an acid pen, shall we say. And the similarity with what I'm actually doing right now in writing this review, is not lost on me. In
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• How to Keep a Pet Squirrel by Axel Scheffler
  ...nd came up with these beautiful illustrations to accompany the text and if you're looking for an amusing gift for an animal-loving adult then this book co ...age or in one which consists entirely of a revolving wheel. That's not to say that the revolving wheel doesn't have its uses, as it does help the animal
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Ken Howard
  * '''Bookbag: When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, who do you see?''' ...u are often presented with melodies and lyrics - and when they are right, you ''know'' it. So I sort of picture readers as a cloned ‘me’ – hopefull
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• Guilt About the Past by Bernhard Schlink
  ...been back then in its day, Germany had to physically renounce anything to do with Nazism, to actively 'opt-out' of connections to avoid the solidarity s But generations on, do the after-effects of the Holocaust and the 3rd Reich still include forming
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• Cain by Jose Saramago
  ..., but this barbed lok at the Old Testament god has an unarguable survey of what happens when a man feels a lack of compassion from above. ...more at first hand. All they ever do is make him realise the gulf between what god is supposed to benevolently embody, and how he acts.
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• Leave Me by Gayle Forman
  ...athing; with a bright light in her face, she thought she was dreaming. As you would. Except she was freezing and she couldn't speak. Yep, definitely dr ...low sugar and taste like the box they came in, they're coming, right? And you'll probably get a couple of months off work and not even have to think abou
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• Leviathan's Blood (Children) by Ben Peek
  ...small child who walked unscathed from a burnt out shop. All she wants to do now is save lives but she's frustrated at every turn. Captain Aned Heast i ...ures our interest even when the chapters take us elsewhere. That's not to say that elsewhere isn't interesting in its own right though.
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• Slug Needs a Hug by Jeanne Willis and Tony Ross
  ...’t sure this book would be very enjoyable for me! Still, I’m never one to say no to something illustrated by Tony Ross, and he and Jeanne Willis make a r ...eak, Piglet says he surely needs some trotters, and a tail, and a squeak. You can probably imagine how poor old slug is starting to look now!
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• The Lemon Grove by Helen Walsh
  ...t up many authors wouldn’t bother to create. And yet as you read this book you wonder why, because it adds a dynamic that is definitely different, and in ...easiest of relationships, and by bringing Nathan along, Emma has disturbed what was supposed to be Jenn’s relaxing summer holiday, a break from her physi
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• The Rivers of Zadaa (Pendragon) by D J MacHale
  ...uthor has knowledge of The Time Machine, in book or on film, and wanted to do something a little similar. And the key word is 'little' - there's a lot t ...h!'' in a sing-song voice, lick our lips and itch to read on (or you do if you're like me). It is, then, yet another with the series' usual high standard
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• Room by Emma Donoghue
  ...d Jack, this is a haunting, innovative and brave story that will stay with you long after the final page. A sad situation, lightly and movingly told. ...were any longer the voice might get wearing, but the story will stay with you far longer.
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• The Foxes Come At Night And Other Stories by Cees Nooteboom and Ina Rilke (Translator)
  ...greatest of starts. I was disappointed to say the least and was wondering what all the fuss was about. Then I started to read the story entitled ''Thunde ...h of it frankly. Let me give you a taster without risking spoiling it for you. Told in the first person, it's all about an old photograph depicting a gr
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• Panther by David Owen
  ...happening. If Charlotte wasn't depressed, if she hadn't tried to... well, you know... everything would be fine, just like it used to be. ...power. If he could capture and tame a black panther, then surely he could do the same for Charlotte, his parents, and even himself...
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• Confessions of Modern Women by Spadge Whittaker
  She's back! Huzzah! Do you remember when Spadge Whittaker [[Braver Than Britain, Occasionally by Spadg This time, Spadge has turned her attention to what it means to be a modern woman in twenty-first century, digital Britain. Sur
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• August 2014 Newsletter
  ...ail]. We won't bother you more than once a month, but we'll tell you about what we've been reading at Bookbag and any news from the site. We promise never ...omings-together. And it's in that spirit of comings-together that we bring you this month's newsletter.
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Maudie Smith
  * '''Bookbag: When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, who do you see?''' ...nd I enjoyed the book too!) - where did you get your inspiration from? Do you know many aliens?'''
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• The Map to Everywhere by Carrie Ryan and John Parke Davis
  ...as you approach. Of course it means you can say and do absolutely anything you like, because it will be forgotten immediately, but then, why bother? In fi ...character in a fantasy worthy of the name would say, straight out, exactly what has to be stolen, and where to find it?) but the reader will understand whe
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• Love Hurts by Malorie Blackman
  ...ll want to believe in love, don't we? If you are one of the few who don't, you might as well look away now. The rest of us are in for a treat. This anthol ...en by Tabitha Suzuma]] and many more. Don't let this put you off - I think you might see the original books in a different light after reading their pivot
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• Atomic Habits by James Clear
  ...cessarily knowing it) have applied the principles advocated. Too early to say whether I can use this to my own advantage, but the theories sound perfectl ...ks that you stumble across and some books that drop into your life because you really MUST read them, like, right now! ''Atomic Habits'' is in the last
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• They've Got Your Number by Stephen Baker
  ...you might well be interested in what Business Week journalist Baker has to say. ...the important (politics) and less important (deodorant) issues of the day, you provide an unthinkable amount of information to anyone who is prepared to l
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To K S Turner
  * '''Bookbag: When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, who do you see?''' ...u studied Art and Design at university, at what point did you realise that you wanted to become a writer?'''
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• Buried Secrets by Lisa Cutts
  ...one of those rare exceptions and you really shouldn't pick this book up if you haven't got the time to spare. Top class crime from someone who really kno ...On the other hand, there weren't that many people who had a good word to say about him and when he was involved in a serious road traffic accident which
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• The New Rulers Of The World by John Pilger
  ...n the destablisation of entire regions and it exposes more corruption than you could have possibly made up i n your own personal conspiracy theory. Finall ...That seems irretrievably tasteless. These are Pilger's themes and I think you need to explore them for yourselves.
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• Blue Planet II by James Honeyborne and Mark Brownlow
  ...s another - nothing would justify the numeral. But some nature programmes do have the prestige, the energy and the heft to demand follow ups. And after ...nd behind fish so they're scared right into their mouth by the splash, and you will have a fish ''point to prey it can't reach, so that its octopus friend
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• The One by John Marrs
  ...if somewhat worrying, alternative world in which science dictates who and what we fall in love with. ...rsonality they present to you is their true self. When science takes over, you know for sure, so why not save yourself the hassle?
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• The Road More Travelled: Tales of those seeking refuge by David Beckler
  ...es exploring many issues around refugees - how a person becomes a refugee, what a refugee's journey might be like, how it feels to be a person in a country ...y suspicious? Why should we help them? We should build a wall! - but, when you get to the end, there's a request to read the whole thing again, but this t
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• Message from the Moon by Hilda Offen
  ...out. I did think the more prose-type pieces a let-down, but then I always do. ...om their bedroom window and other people witnessing geese flying over, and you even get a message from a snail. The range of verses in this book is howev
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• Chomp by Carl Hiaasen
  ...t ask) so it's up to his son Wahoo to make sure things go smoothly. And to say that he's got his hands full in this romp through the Florida Everglades is ...there's a vampire too (well, sort of) but if you want to know about that, you'll have to read the book.
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• Belle and Boo and the Very Merry Christmas by Mandy Sutcliffe
  ...fully, his best friend is a little girl called Belle and she knows what to do. Join them in this sweet and nostalgia fueled children's sharing book. ...eed not worry for too long as Belle is on hand to tell him exactly what to do.
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• What's Stopping You?: Why Smart People Don't Always Reach Their Potential and How You Can by Robert Kelsey
  ...Stopping You?: Why Smart People Don't Always Reach Their Potential and How You Can ...have seriously [[Start It Up: Why Running Your Own Business is Easier Than You Think by Luke Johnson|annoyed me]]. It looked as though the book didn't re
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• Dead Beautiful by Yvonne Woon
  ...ounded by scattered coins, and shreds of cloth in their mouths. The police say they both died from a heart attack, but Renee isn't convinced — something ...tangled in trying to find out what's happening to her new friends and also what really happened to her parents, her life becomes more intertwined with Dant
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To L A Weatherly
  |summary=If you're into that whole paranormal romance thing, you're going to love [[Angel by L A Weatherly]]. It's a breathtaking helter-ske ...r 2010), hurry over to the [[Angel by L A Weatherly|review page]], because you could win yourself a copy!
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• Hot Air by Sandrine Dumas Roy
  ...There are no humans in this book, so the animals get together to find out what the problem is. They decide that cows are the reason the world is growing w That isn't to say it is not entertaining. It does have some amusing sections and the illustra
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• Where's the Elephant? by Barroux
  |summary=You might think this is an animal version of ''Where's Wally'', but it's so muc ...rn the page you'll scan the trees again and discover their hiding places. You even wonder if it might get a little ''boring'' if it goes on like this.
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• Lucy by Alan Kennedy
  ...en with a central character who is not particularly likeable but who draws you in despite yourself. I thoroughly enjoyed this one. Alan Kennedy popped int ...ry - about a past full of art, lost love, found love, grief, war and about what could possibly come next. Set in pre-war London, pre-war and wartime France
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• Submission by Michel Houellebecq and Lorin Stein (translator)
  |summary=Do not buy this thinking to get a religious diatribe, rather a harsh look at p ...resulted in something less savoury than literature, to say the least. Do you expect it to be about a France of the near future, where a Muslim political
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• Soul Eater by Michelle Paver
  Oh, you know, this is a marvellous book. It really, really is. It's a living, breat Soul Eater will appeal to children aged say, between nine and fourteen, depending on their development, level of sophis
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• Scarlet (Lunar Chronicles, Book 2) by Marissa Meyer
  ...on't need to be a genius to see the parallels with the fairytale of yore. You might need to be a genius to write such fascinating, sci-fi updates of them ...must say she seems to be particularly overtly evil, and why she would say what she does just because one droid has its back turned I don't know. Apart fr
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• June 2013 Newsletter
  ...ail]. We won't bother you more than once a month, but we'll tell you about what we've been reading at Bookbag and any news from the site. We promise never Hi, hello and good reading to you.
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• The Bloodline Cipher by Stephen Cole
  ...traight back to Coldhardt. Something's going on, but nobody's telling them what. ...inals intensify and complicate. And the baddies are as satisfyingly bad as you could wish them to be.
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• I Feel Sick! (Little Princess) by Tony Ross
  ...k. Especially when she has been asked to do something she doesn't want to do. Then she feels really terrible! ...ulous recovery, although once she's finally at the party, well, let's just say she overindulges somewhat and leave it at that!
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• Turf by John Lucas
  ...ersonal responsibility and the youth of today. And that's all I'm going to say about the events, except that I cried at the end. Properly cried. Messily c ...t takes both him and the reader some time to disentangle what is real from what is not. Who is Leo? A real live tramp? A drug-induced hallucination? A ghos
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• The Weight of a Thousand Feathers by Brian Conaghan
  ...brother, who has learning disabilities. How far would you go for the ones you love? ...how no one ever uses the word 'love' when discussing my case. I do what I do because she's my mum. That pure and that simple.''
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• The Potter's Field by Andrea Camilleri
  ...tively grinning at the way that Montalbano unravels it all. The fact that you might have your suspicions about one or two matters all along does not matt ...gs at corrupt politicians and businessmen. I can't wait to see what he'll do now that Berlusconi is - at least for now - away from the centre of power.
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• Killing Mind (D I Kim Stone) by Angela Marsons
  ...her was about to accuse her husband of saying that Sammy was ready... But what was Sammy ready ''for'' and where was their other daughter, Sophie? ...ammy Brown followed her escape from a cult and Marsons paints a picture of what cults are ''really'' like which I'll find difficult to forget, to the point
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• Misadventures in the English Language by Caroline Taggart
  ...dable book for the most part. Perhaps more suited as a refresher of things you used to know than as a place to learn new skills. ...ore like a summarised textbook, which might not be comprehensive enough if you really are looking to learn something new.
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• The Importance of Being Myrtle by Ulrika Jonsson
  ...y and an instant and painful sadness partnered his consternation'' did not do it for me. If anything, all this unnecessary language was putting me off t ...ok. But before we meet Myrtle, who is after all the central character, we do a bit of a detour and meet her bright and bubbly next door neighbour, Dorot
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• The Little Book of Colouring: Animal Kingdom by Amber Anderson
  ...gence on paper, lasts longer than a bottle of wine and does me more good. What's not to love about colouring? ...evelops to ''complete'' the page, which rather negates the purpose of what you're doing! (It also says something about me...) The Little Book of Colouri
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• Dog Friendly Hotels by www.dogfriendly.co.uk
  ...tels which say 'Dogs Welcome' but when you enquire they actually mean that you can bring one small dog which must never be left alone and for which they'l ...effect) and whether or not there's any limitation on the size of the dog. You're told if there's a charge for the dog and if there is, the amount is give
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