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| − | |summary=[[:Category:Ian Mortimer|Ian Mortimer]] can do no wrong for us here at Bookbag and we loved this latest book about Henry V. It's a detailed, day-by-day account of the year | + | |summary=[[:Category:Ian Mortimer|Ian Mortimer]] can do no wrong for us here at Bookbag and we loved this latest book about Henry V. It's a detailed, day-by-day account of the year 1415, its centerpiece being the battle of Agincourt, and in effect almost a biography of King Henry V. We thought that there was little more that could be said about the Kennedy assassination but we were wrong - [[The Kennedy Assassination: 24 Hours After by Steven M Gillon|Steven Gillon]] looks at the subject from the Lyndon Johnson perspective and it sheds some interesting lights on many of the main participants. Our reviewer stayed up late to find out what happened... |
| − | We've also got a brilliant [[The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn by Alison Weir|book]] about Anne Boleyn by the unsurpassable Alison Weir and a [[Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes by Tamim Ansary|history of world through Islamic eyes]] which our reviewer found to be a real page turner. | + | We've also got a brilliant [[The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn by Alison Weir|book]] about Anne Boleyn by the unsurpassable Alison Weir and a [[Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes by Tamim Ansary|history of the world through Islamic eyes]] which our reviewer found to be a real page turner. |
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224079921</amazonuk> | |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224079921</amazonuk> | ||
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Revision as of 14:31, 18 November 2009
A carefully chosen book is always a welcome gift, but it's not always easy to know which books are good and which have had the benefit of clever marketing. We've picked out the best books which we've seen this year and we think that you should be able to find something for everyone on your gift list.
Fiction
Crime
Fantasy and Science Fiction
General Fiction
Literary Fiction
Women's Fiction
Non Fiction
Biography
Cookery
History
Home and Family and Lifestyle
Politics and Society
Popular Science
Children's Books
Teens
Confident Readers
For Sharing
Children's Non-Fiction
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