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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Gerry Wells
  ...to situations that turn the conventional ideals of normal society on their heads. Dialogue is the writer's friend here... a heartfelt comment at some criti * '''BB: That gives us a lot to look forward to Gerry and thanks for talking to us.'''
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• The Sheep in Wolf's Clothing by Bob Hartman
  ...that is being twisted and I feel a bit uncomfortable talking over innocent heads. The real littlies may also find some of the action a bit macabre too. In
  4 KB (714 words) - 11:13, 12 April 2018
• My Italian Bulldozer by Alexander McCall Smith
  ...a food writer who, after a rather upsetting break-up with his girlfriend, heads to Tuscany to finish writing his book. So far, so normal, but of course th ...lk about Becky or the break up, which means, of course, that they all keep talking about things that lead back to love or relationships until Paul finally int
  4 KB (724 words) - 11:46, 18 March 2018
• A Philosophy of Walking by Frederic Gros
  ...er recently talking about the 'monkey mind' the chitter-chatter inside our heads. He explained that monkey mind needs a job, loves to have a job and if we In talking about long walks, back-pack treks, he considers the art of packing, which i
  7 KB (1,204 words) - 10:02, 18 September 2020
• The Sword in the Stone by T H White
  ...k it matters at all that a lot of ''The Sword in the Stone'' goes over the heads of children the first time they read it. They still enjoy it, they still la ...the grown-ups who talked to him like a baby, but the ones who just went on talking in their usual way, leaving him to jump along in their wake, jumping at mea
  6 KB (1,168 words) - 13:09, 5 March 2018
• The Space Crime Conspiracy by Gareth P Jones
  ...le's brains are enlarged, and teachers are given eyes in the back of their heads.
  4 KB (677 words) - 08:56, 6 October 2020
• Memory by Harriet Harvey Wood
  ...nly what we live but what we are taught that we should try and keep in our heads (although 'learning by heart' just goes to show a dodgy idea of anatomy). ...l order, updating the previous entries - they just don't know when to stop talking. They never seem to disagree, never contradict, and thankfully, due to a go
  7 KB (1,213 words) - 13:26, 6 March 2018
• Boy Underwater by Adam Baron
  ...k for help. He also sneaks out of his auntie’s house during the night and heads back to his own home which, whilst understandable, wasn’t exactly a safe ...ns when someone’s family falls apart, and thinking about those things, and talking about those things, is definitely good.
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• Gate of the Dead (Master of War) by David Gilman
  Thomas may be earning a decent living and keeping the roof over his men's heads as Condotierre (Italian mercenaries) but he also has other business to atte Talking of factual, it's in these pages that we encounter the historically true nig
  4 KB (663 words) - 09:35, 30 August 2020
• Earth, Air, Fire and Custard by Tom Holt
  ...his own death, murders one of his bosses and ends up in a world of custard talking to his fridge.
  5 KB (784 words) - 10:07, 28 August 2020
• Batman: Dark Knight III: The Master Race by Frank Miller and Brian Azzarello
  ...ead anymore?'' scene, or Carrie's ineptly conveyed escape? The TV talking-heads commentaries that made the earlier books' pages sometimes an ordeal to read
  4 KB (735 words) - 17:14, 16 February 2018
• Kane's Ladder by Carlos Alba
  ...husbands to Vera and George's lunches. They wore dungarees, shaved their heads and they smoked roll-ups. Dad said they were queer and I could see what he ...o admit as much in front of his mates. And he definitely couldn't be seen talking reasonably to a girl, under any circumstances.
  5 KB (795 words) - 16:27, 26 May 2021
• The Ice Lands by Steinar Bragi and Lorenza Garcia (translator)
  ...king to each other. Slowly, however, as the unusual landscape makes their heads turn and they lose all sense of direction, they realise something much less
  5 KB (778 words) - 15:09, 22 March 2018
• A Certain Age by Lynne Truss
  ...earliest exponent of this form seems to be Alan Bennett with his ''Talking Heads''. If I had one difficulty in reading ''A Certain Age'' it was that I kept
  4 KB (778 words) - 09:49, 29 September 2020
• The Devils' Alliance: Hitler's Pact with Stalin, 1939-1941 by Roger Moorhouse
  ...that period when the sides were ''pouring buckets of shit on each other's heads'' (sorry for the language, but it’s me quoting Stalin, believe it or not)
  5 KB (841 words) - 08:48, 18 September 2020
• People of the Day 3: The Rich and Famous Caricatured by Peter Wynter Bee and Lucy Clapham
  ...asn't stopped working – like Tony Blair he's joined the speaking circuit. Talking of petrol stations I thought the sub-heading ''BP man and boy'' for Lord Br
  5 KB (849 words) - 13:56, 9 April 2018
• Foxglove Summer (Rivers of London 5) by Ben Aaronovitch
  ...ovitch|Ben Aaronovitch]] – fan. If you don’t take too kindly to exploding heads and/or know nothing of the copper who discovered there was an undercurrent ...natural being de jour are the fae and, like most good adult fantasy, we're talking about something a lot more malevolent than Tinkerbell. You'll also never l
  5 KB (777 words) - 11:23, 7 July 2022
• Snowdrops by A D Miller
  ...cow is full of young and beautiful women so why would these two spend time talking with an older man who wears glasses and is nothing to write home about. Ni ...t from the prose. Many people live in fear. So to get by, they put their heads down and get on with their lives. Asking no questions because they know fr
  4 KB (790 words) - 12:18, 5 March 2018
• The Devil in the Marshalsea by Antonia Hodgson
  1727: The Marshalsea prison is hell on Earth and a Damoclesian sword over the heads of prospective debtors. Tom Hawkins, gambler and bon viveur, has always st Talking about what we're used to, a high adventure/mystery novel normally forfeits
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• Romeo and/or Juliet by Ryan North
  ...marriage and a kid called Ben, because the leads have just banged people's heads together and stopped the quarrelling, or Death by Tybalt (him) or a long li I started with Romeo, talking with my friend about unrequited love, but that didn't mean I stayed Romeo f
  5 KB (948 words) - 09:59, 23 September 2020
• Spilled Blood by Brian Freeman
  My advance reading copy of the book heads up the blurb with ''Why haven't you read Brian Freeman yet?'' That is a ve ...been anywhere near Minnesota can be equally sure of exactly ''where'' he's talking about, despite the fact that scarcely a sentence is wasted in telling us.
  5 KB (915 words) - 08:53, 7 October 2020
• Harbour Nocturne by Joseph Wambaugh
  By way of a prelude to the Nocturne, I should offer a heads-up, that the review copy I received is titled ''Nocturne'' rather than ''Ha ...fer-bums (who also happen to be genuine, good and respected cops) who are talking to him in words that sound like English, but don't really coagulate into an
  8 KB (1,362 words) - 12:58, 1 September 2020
• Totally Wired: Post-punk Interviews and Overviews by Simon Reynolds
  ...Phil Oakey (Human League), Andy Gill (Gang of Four), David Byrne (Talking Heads, who are American though he was born in Scotland), DJ John Peel, and produc
  5 KB (829 words) - 12:51, 11 April 2018
• Theatre of the Gods by M Suddain
  ...the genre of my youth. This is a sci-fi that is willing to quote Talking Heads lyrics, and in fact be quite imbued with '80s pop – a space shanty here q
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• Hunter's Run by George R R Martin, Gardner Dozois and Daniel Abraham
  ...olice attention are good enough reasons, he gets his flying van fixed, and heads off into the unexplored areas of the world to follow his unsuccessful prosp ...s, at least before the reason for it is fully clear. That and the fact I'm talking of a £19 hardback is why it only gets four stars.
  6 KB (1,000 words) - 13:46, 9 May 2018
• Life on Air by David Attenborough
  ...ce to probably the first-ever use of the word ‘bugger’ on TV. Fortunately heads did not roll. ...and waggling his upper lip. It gave the impression that he was doing the talking and she was merely miming.
  6 KB (945 words) - 13:33, 12 August 2020
• Understanding Human Nature: A User's Guide to Life by Richard Brook
  ...fully communicate with them, means we cannot be sure what goes on in their heads. We can talk about human capability and facility and potential without havi ...h he does share the important knowledge that to talk about Yoga is akin to talking about 'Sport' – it is something of a catch-all term and many of us the we
  9 KB (1,560 words) - 10:34, 30 March 2024
• The Language Instinct: The New Science of Language and Mind by Steven Pinker
  ...n on Earth as well as the underlying 'language engine' embedded inside our heads. ...is why Orwellian Newspeak will never remove certain concepts from people's heads. ''Concepts of freedom and equality are thinkable even if nameless. Mental
  10 KB (1,615 words) - 12:32, 28 February 2018
• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Jeffrey Dunn
  ...s to write something in response, I wrote a story about a man in jail cell talking to a penguin. My teacher said he liked my story. He then read it to class. JD: Get their heads out of their factories and cellphones and into the wild. To lose the wild i
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• The Ranger by Ace Atkins
  |summary=Ranger Sergeant Quinn Colson heads home for a family funeral and he gets tangled up in more than just the ques ...as me, let's get the background out of the way. Those who know we're not talking about a Scottish football team can skip ahead.
  6 KB (1,111 words) - 15:13, 10 March 2018
• The Royal Enigma by Krishna Bhatt
  ...d so (being a Nepali citizen - possibly the first we've learnt of that) he heads over the border, where he decides to take part in the national games. Cue ...monsoons and the power generation plummeted''. I am guessing that we're talking about power cuts (or power outages for the US audience) but I'm not sure.
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• April 2014 Newsletter
  ...ees, chopping off bee toes and collecting them in pots, squishing male bee heads in solvent to make pheromone paint and chopping the feet off old museum spe ...erview: Bookbag Talks To Tess Sharpe|popped in]] to see us. Jim can't stop talking about the [[Sesame Seade Mysteries 1: Sleuth on Skates by Clementine Beauva
  7 KB (1,120 words) - 15:54, 10 August 2020
• Three Stories by Alan Bennett
  ...and less full of belly laughs than his famous set of monologues, ''Talking Heads''. Originally published separately as three "pocket money" and also money-s
  7 KB (1,141 words) - 13:49, 11 October 2020
• Night School by Lee Child
  A CIA sleeper has heard a messenger talking about a message to be passed on: ''The American wants a hundred million dol ...ecruits his trusted sergeant Frances Neagley to ride official shotgun, and heads off to Europe.
  7 KB (1,243 words) - 11:09, 16 September 2020
• Pilgrim Soul by Gordon Ferris
  ...rter Sam is called to do her own tour of duty in the war crimes trials and heads off to Hamburg. She soon learns a little of why Brodie is the way he is. ''Upsetting'' isn't usually a term I deploy when talking about crime fiction. It's meant to be easy-reading entertainment. This on
  7 KB (1,201 words) - 12:50, 18 February 2018
• Enlightening: Letters 1946 - 1960 by Isaiah Berlin
  ...olicy wonks (as they are termed in a less deferential age ), diplomats and heads of state. One of the pleasures of reading these letters lies in this invest
  7 KB (1,101 words) - 09:36, 5 October 2020
• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Michael Pronko
  MP: In the Talking Heads song, ''This Must Be the Place,'' there’s a line, ''Home is where I want
  9 KB (1,531 words) - 14:35, 30 March 2015
• Letters From Klara by Tove Jansson
  ...-lines, for me it held echoes (or precursors?) of Alan Bennett's ''Talking Heads'' piece ''A Lady of Letters'' – but unlike the Bennet piece it restricts
  8 KB (1,426 words) - 14:11, 14 September 2020
• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Mac Carty
  ...n't Run causes the adrenalin to rush. So many good bands and groups. We're talking about my generation here, and yours. Flower power, flowers in your hair, st ...porates a number of powerful world leaders, both politicians and religious heads, and largely revolves around a cart-load of cricket stumps.
  8 KB (1,459 words) - 08:00, 26 March 2013
• Shadow's Edge (Night Angel Trilogy) by Brent Weeks
  ...emes, by any means, but to the fantasy magi in a feudal world thinking and talking like a 21st century American therapists.
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Renae Lucas-Hall
  ...as they read the eBook. I can see Westerners living in Japan nodding their heads as they read through each paragraph. Finally, I see students at school and ...I’m trying to put across in each paragraph. I don’t feel very comfortable talking to people about my book when they ask me what it is about. It is difficult
  10 KB (1,843 words) - 14:57, 13 August 2012
• Ashes and Sparks: Essays On Law and Justice by Stephen Sedley
  … in talking about the difficulties of precise drafting of statutes he quotes the legend ...ny; for the case was ''quod vi et armis'' he pissed down upon the people's heads."
  10 KB (1,754 words) - 11:17, 14 April 2018
• Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-sour Memoir of Eating in China by Fuchsia Dunlop
  ..., tapirs and snake long before she reaches the realms of scorpions, rabbit heads and the ovarian fat of the snow frog. As the prologue subtitle sums up: T ...it…walking into kitchens and watching and taking notes… and eventually by talking her way into the Sichuan Institute of Higher Cuisine to be formally trained
  12 KB (2,028 words) - 11:01, 27 February 2018
• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Gerry Brown, Andrew Kakabadse and Filipe Morais about The Independent Director in Society
  ...We had differences of opinion, but we let the data (the evidence) do the talking. So in this way we really reached meaningful conclusions whilst being full ...ese findings will be used to influence thinking at the Commission and with Heads of State. So, all three of us are busy but I suspect that when we come to
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