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No Eye Has Seen

26/03/08 | Lucy Tyler
No Eye Has Seen is rich in biblical themes and provides an interesting glimpse of heaven and hell.

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Robbie Williams: A Life Less Ordinary

19/03/08 | Heather Smith
The world admires its pop stars. And Robbie Williams is one of the more outrageous ones.

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The Spiderwick Chronicles - the books

09/03/08 | Mark Hadley
You always know when you’re on to a good book when you decide you have time to read one chapter then look up…

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The River Baptists

23/01/08 | Lucy Tyler
Belinda Castles’ second novel, The River Baptists, is a fluid and engrossing novel of interlocking stories…

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The Gathering

02/12/07 | Stephen Liggins
Like most recent Booker winners, The Gathering is not feel-good fiction. Enright, herself, admits that “when…

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The Amber Spyglass

25/11/07 | Mark Hadley
It should come as no surprise to anyone familiar with the first two volumes of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials

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Master Of The Books

29/10/07 | Lisa Hall
Is it possible to deceive when telling the truth? This was an intriguing question raised by James Moloney in his…

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Everyman

17/09/07 | Craig Schwarze
Philip Roth is considered by some to be the finest American novelist of the last 25 years. In his latest book,…

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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

30/07/07 | Sarah Barnett
In her wildly successful “children’s” series JK Rowling has constructed a narrative that asks us to consider…

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The Witch of Portobello

18/07/07 | Craig Schwarze
What is a Christian to make of Paulo Coelho? He is a former dark magician, now a practising Catholic, who writes…

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The Subtle Knife

04/07/07 | Mark Hadley
There is a word for the philosophy that Philip Pullman is pushing in the second installment of the His Dark…

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Northern Lights

25/06/07 | Mark Hadley
Philip Pullman, the author of Northern Lights, may prove to be to children’s literature what Richard Dawkins…

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Heléna

20/06/07 | David McKay
Sydney author Jo-Anne Berthelsen’s first novel takes us into the life of a young Czechoslovakian pianist just…

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Orpheus Lost

06/06/07 | Craig Schwarze
Leela is a mathematical genius. She escaped a fundamentalist upbringing in South Carolina, and is now studying…

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The Gospel According to Judas

30/05/07 | Bill Salier
This beautifully presented book purports to be a ‘gospel’ written by Benjamin Iscariot, the son of Judas Iscariot,…

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The Unhappy Goldfish

25/04/07 | Mark Hadley
One look at The Unhappy Goldfish told me that I had a winner on my hands when it came to my two young boys.…

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Magic for Beginners

17/04/07 | Craig Schwarze
In Magic for Beginners Link writes ‘urban fantasy’, a genre which supposes that there is magic in the…

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The Song Before it is Sung

13/03/07 | Alan Dungey
What happens when an individual’s conscience clashes with loyalty to one’s country and its government’s policies?…

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Inside the Mind of Gideon Rayburn

06/03/07 | Peter Denham
The cover gushes that “Being inside Gideon’s mind is like reading the diary of a guy you have a huge crush…

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