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Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Lettersby...Mark Dunn rating...5 shelf...have readtags...politicalwordplay entry...'Ella Minnow Pea is a first novel by Mark Dunn who is in fact a successful writer of over 25 plays. The novel structure is epistolary, which means that the ...' view |
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Freshby...Mark McNay rating...4 shelf...have readtags...british first novel realism social entry...'This is Mark McNay’s first novel and clearly draws on first hand knowledge of the day to day grind of a certain working class life where a full belly, a ...' view |
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Jasmine's Tortoiseby...Corinne Souza rating...3 shelf...have readtags...historical political thriller entry...'Jasmine’s Tortoise is the first novel of Corinne who has written non fiction books about her family’s involvement in spying and her experiences as a lobbyist during the Major-Blair years. ...' view |
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clayby...Michael Chabon rating...5 shelf...have readtags...comics historical jewish entry...'The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay was an instant popular and critical success when it came out in 2000 being nominated for a raft of awards. It won ...' view |
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The Book of Lost Things: A Novelby...John Connolly rating...4 shelf...have readtags...adult age coming dark fairy fantasy of story entry...'Which do you think will be read and savoured in 100 years time, the fairy stories of the Grimm Brothers with their roots in the old darkness of firelight nights ...' view |
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The Giverby...Lois Lowry rating...5 shelf...have readtags...children sf entry...'The Giver by Lois Lowry a children’s SF for 8-12 year olds written in 1993 is part of a loose set trilogy set in the same imagined world but not ...' view |
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The Somnambulist (Gollancz)by...Jonathan Barnes rating...3 shelf...have readtags...gothic steampunk entry...'The book has its roots in stream punk or gothic horror with a dark brooding picture of late Victorian London full of grotesques, human monsters, corruption, dystopian nightmares and sharp ...' view |
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The Wanderersby...Richard Price rating...4 shelf...have readtags...age coming of entry...'The Wanderers by Richard Price was a first novel written in 1974 and draws on his teenage years around the Bronx street gangs of the early 60’s. It became a ...' view |
