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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.
  4 KB (671 words) - 11:04, 19 April 2018
• 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
  3 KB (522 words) - 12:23, 20 March 2018
• 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.
  3 KB (440 words) - 16:13, 11 August 2020
• 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.
  5 KB (939 words) - 12:49, 5 March 2018
• 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
  3 KB (591 words) - 13:49, 17 February 2018
• 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.
  4 KB (715 words) - 10:21, 3 March 2018
• 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
  4 KB (614 words) - 08:28, 29 April 2018
• 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.
  4 KB (671 words) - 12:58, 6 April 2018
• 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.
  3 KB (575 words) - 12:22, 28 April 2018
• 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
  3 KB (593 words) - 08:08, 26 September 2020
• 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
  4 KB (783 words) - 10:23, 27 February 2018
• 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''.
  4 KB (616 words) - 14:24, 15 March 2018
• 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 –
  4 KB (641 words) - 11:17, 26 February 2018
• 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
  5 KB (947 words) - 17:08, 1 February 2011
• 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
  3 KB (560 words) - 09:02, 24 March 2018
• 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.
  5 KB (799 words) - 13:16, 31 March 2018
• 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
  5 KB (769 words) - 15:26, 9 April 2018
• 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?'''
  5 KB (880 words) - 10:03, 28 December 2014
• 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.
  4 KB (796 words) - 11:56, 2 April 2018

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