To endure the German invasion of Jersey, islanders needed resilience, fortitude and ingenuity. However, to survive the five years of occupation, Hedy Bercu, a young […]
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Early in 2020 the Victoria & Albert Museum in London opened the sartorially elegant exhibition Kimono: Kyoto to Catwalk, timed to coincide with the Olympic […]
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John Kinsella’s latest book Displaced; A Rural Life begins on a somewhat whimsical note which is, to say the least, unusual. In the first pages […]
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The tone of Stone Sky Gold Mountain is sombre as the author Mirandi Riwoe looks back at Australian History in 1877. The Palmer River in […]
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The Satapur Moonstone, the second book in the Bombay Mystery series from Sujata Massey is very exciting to read, with so much to absorb the […]
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Rummikub
Rummikub is well packaged in a sturdy attractive box. It has won Best Selling Game, and Game of the Year, five times and is suitable […]
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Girls Don’t Lay Bricks: well, guess what, girls do lay bricks and girls do succeed at what they set out to achieve when they have ambition, […]
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Isla’s Family Tree
Isla’s Family Tree is a quirky little story about getting ready for the addition of a new baby in a home where the number one […]
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The Paris Secret from Natasha Lester would have to be considered as one of the better historical fictions to date in 2020. The storyline is […]
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I Don’t Want to Be Quiet!
I Don’t Want to be Quiet! is the perfect book to totally enjoy with small people who love, love, love to make HUGE amounts of […]
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Havenfall
Havenfall, the latest release from Teen fantasy fiction author Sara Holland, is a somewhat interesting crossover between fantasy and romantic fiction, set between two worlds, […]
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Pass the Pen is a drawing game suitable for children, (aged 8 and up) and adults. It is in a colourful strong box which has […]
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Budgerigar
The joy of reading comes home to you strongly when you open this book with the rather bland title Budgerigar. Looking at the book’s cover, […]
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No! Never!
Be careful, very careful what you ask for, because sometimes it may happen when eventually Mummy and Daddy get very, very tired of you saying […]
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A Kinder Sea
Poetry is of its very nature an intensely person collection of thoughts, images, emotions; the telling of stories with a myriad of words each one […]
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Pop the Pig
This colourful game is well presented in a sturdy box and suitable for 4 years and over. It is not recommended for younger children because […]
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Love and Loss
With the advent of the Coronavirus the world is experiencing unprecedented loss as well as many acts of astonishing love. In ‘Love & Loss’ the […]
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Such a Fun Age
Late one night, Emira Tucker, the 25-year-old black baby sitter for Alix Chamberlain, a wealthy white blogger and minor social media celebrity is stopped by […]
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Rubik’s 3×3 Cube
More than forty years after the Rubik’s Cube, a simple, or what appeared to be simple, puzzle cube took the world by storm, back in […]
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The Lost Jewels
The Lost Jewels is a story about a mysterious, 500 piece collection of jewels buried for centauries now known as the Cheapside Hoard. Doing some […]
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Kokoda is a name known to many Australians as a place of great courage; of acts of selfless bravery, mud, brutality and now, more than […]
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The Lost Future of Pepperharrow
This absorbing story follows on from “The Watchmaker of Filigree Street,” but can easily be read as a stand- alone. It is an Historical Fantasy, […]
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There is absolutely no doubt that Moon Magic is a beautifully presented book about the magic of the Moon and the effect it has on […]