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On readership by Philip Pullman

Daemon Voices by Philip Pullman is a selection of his essays and speeches delivered during the course of his career. There is a lot of wisdom
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Press Release: Geronimo Stilton on Voot.com

26 02 , 2018 No Comments

First time in India! Fabumouse Reporter Geronimo Stilton is now on Voot.com 26 February 2018
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Sylvia Bishop’s “The Bookshop Girl”

26 02 , 2018 No Comments

Sylvia Bishop’s The Bookshop Girl is about little Sylvia who was left behind in The White Hart bookstore by her birth family. She was six. She
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A. F. Harrold’s “The Song from Somewhere Else”

22 02 , 2018 No Comments

It was music of a short she’d never heard before. She was suddenly filled with shoals of fish, darting and moving like one great whole,
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Mohsin Hamid’s “Exit West”

19 02 , 2018 No Comments

We are all migrants through time. Mohsin Hamid’s latest novel Exit West published nearly a year ago in spring 2017 was received positively worldwide to rapturous reviews.
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“Time Shifters” by Chris Grine

19 02 , 2018 No Comments

Time Shifters by Chris Grine is about young Luke who is devastated after a day in the forest spent with his brother. Due to an unfortunate
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Marius Gabriel’s “The Designer”

18 02 , 2018 No Comments

Marius Grabriel’s The Designer is a novel about the fashion designer, Christian Dior, in Paris in 1944. At this time Dior was still with the fashion house of
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“The Crystal Ribbon” by Celeste Lim and “Untwine” by Edwidge Danticat

17 02 , 2018 No Comments

Strength of character is never with those who blindly follow. You need to be able to make your own choices and walk your own path.
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“Suragi” by U. R. Ananthamurthy

16 02 , 2018 No Comments

The distinguished Kannada writer and public intellectual U. R. Ananthamurthy ( 1932-2014) dictated his “memoir”, rather memories to Ja Na Tejashri, Kannada poet and professor,
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Marilynne Robinson “When I was a child I read books”

15 02 , 2018 No Comments

At the church garden fete I got lucky at the secondhand bookstall and bought a pile of books. One of these was Marilynne Robinson’s When I
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