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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
  4 KB (614 words) - 10:32, 20 February 2018
• 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.
  3 KB (464 words) - 12:22, 29 March 2018
• 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
  4 KB (656 words) - 15:08, 18 September 2020
• 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
  4 KB (796 words) - 18:31, 19 March 2018
• 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
  4 KB (607 words) - 04:37, 1 April 2024
• 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
  4 KB (742 words) - 19:27, 18 November 2009
• 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
  4 KB (728 words) - 12:50, 29 September 2020
• 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.
  4 KB (749 words) - 16:16, 11 April 2018
• 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?)
  2 KB (370 words) - 13:18, 12 April 2018
• 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
  4 KB (647 words) - 13:39, 29 September 2020
• 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?
  3 KB (488 words) - 15:53, 22 March 2018
• 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?
  5 KB (939 words) - 13:28, 23 March 2010
• 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
  4 KB (691 words) - 14:37, 18 March 2018
• 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
  9 KB (1,616 words) - 13:30, 3 March 2018
• The Poo That Animals Do by Paul Mason and Tony de Saulles
  |title=The Poo That Animals Do |sort=Poo That Animals Do
  3 KB (556 words) - 09:25, 16 February 2018
• 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
  6 KB (1,091 words) - 15:46, 27 August 2014
• 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
  6 KB (1,074 words) - 12:08, 1 July 2021
• 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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