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World Book Night 2014 Books Announced

26 November 2013 by Louise Leave a Comment

The last year has certainly passed by in a flash. It seems only a couple of weeks since I was giving out copies of The No1 Ladies Detective Agency for World Book Night 2013 and now the list of books for World Book Night 2014 has been released. It’s an interesting list…

Filed Under: Book News Tagged With: 59 Seconds, A Collection of Short Stories, Adele Parks, After the Funeral, Agatha Christie, Andy McNab, Armistead Maupin, Ben Aaronovitch, Benjamin Daniels, Bernardine Evaristo, Black Hills, Confessions of a GP, Dreda Say Mitchell, Four Warned, Geezer Girls, Getting Rid of Matthew, Gorky Park, Hello Mum, Jane Fallon, Jeffrey Archer, John Boyne, John Grisham, Martin Cruz Smith, Matt Haig, Nora Roberts, Peter James, Professor Richard Wiseman, Rivers of London, Roald Dahl, Robert Muchamore, Sathnam Sanghera, Tales of the City, The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas, The Boy with the Topknot, The Humans, The Perfect Murder, The Recruit, Theodore Boone, Today Everything Changes, WBN, WBN 2014, Whatever It Takes, World Book Night, World Book Night 2014

Calls for 50 Shades Book-Burning

24 August 2012 by Louise Leave a Comment

A charity in the North of England which helps women who have been victims of abuse is calling for copies of the hugely popular Fifty Shades trilogy to be burned in protest at what is seen as the violent and degrading treatment of the female characters…

Filed Under: Book News Tagged With: book-burning, domestic violence, EL James, erotic novels, Fifty Shades, Harry Potter, Tales of the City, Wearside Women In Need