Born 2 Rule By Kevin Konomanyi
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Competition – We have 5 copies of Vivian Woodward: Football’s Gentleman, by author Norman Jacobs, up for grabs.
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Book News – Stephen Kirk, a financial commentator and author, believes the ”vast majority” of companies are ”blinkered” and ”completely unaware” of the effects they have on others.
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Book News – Foster carer Cathy is thrown straight into a nightmare when her latest placement, four-year-old Alice, is snatched by her drug-dependent, mentally-ill mother.
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Book Review – Teagan is sure she’s just your average girl… until a horrible twist of events convinces her that she is being hunted by goblins, for a reason she doesn’t understand.
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Ghana’s first female scientist looks set to top the book charts with her critically-acclaimed autobiography chronicling her incredible and inspirational life.
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10 copies of The Engineer – one of the best debut novels of 2010 – are up for grabs. We’ve teamed up with critically-acclaimed author Jan Kusmirek to offer this exciting July giveaway.
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Patricia Risden is in the wrong place at the wrong time, and she almost collides with a man who appears from nowhere in the middle of the road.
Read More...Books
The written word is one of the most important things of all. We are taught how to read at a very young age and will go on to use this skill throughout our entire life. Hardly a day will pass when we do not read something, even if it is just a sign above a door. Words are everywhere we go and we need to understand them. They are at work, at home and everywhere in between. We will see them on television, on the computer and on the bus.
It all sounds as though reading should be a chore, but this is not the case at all! In fact, many of us will get a great deal of pleasure from the written word in books. Think about it; even if you are not a big reader, you will probably still glance at the newspaper. And if you do not take a daily paper, then the chances are that you will enjoy magazines!
Book Reviews
Many people will place an enormous amount of importance on reviews. And now that so many of us have access to the internet, even more items are being tested, rated or commented on. A lot of consumers will simply not even consider buying something until they have read what other people have to say. But is this always the right way to be? Should we really base so many of our decisions upon the opinions of others? And are reviews accurate for any type of item?
Book News
There has never been a better time for finding information on books, authors or publishers! There are entire websites to visit that are dedicated to all manner of book news and any other reading-related subject you can imagine. More and more of will us now prefer to read a few book reviews before going out to buy a new novel. And if you want to know what the critics have to say about a book, then the internet will have more reviews than anywhere else!