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Book Review: Cosmic by Frank Cottrell Boyce2 comments

Lisa Damian wrote 1 week ago: In his latest book, Cosmic, author Frank Cottrell Boyce created a main character, Liam, who is in fa … more →

Tags: Books, kids, Reviews, Cosmic, Youth Fiction

2009 Stockport Schools' Book Award4 comments

bookwitch wrote 1 month ago: We all know what a disgrace I am, and I’m sure if I’d had the patience to wait until lat … more →

Tags: Authors, Awards, blogs, Books, Education, picture book, Reading, Mary Hooper, Nick Sharratt

#18 - Exclusive Review - Framed!

chris ds wrote 1 month ago: This book is one of my all time faves so you can imagine how happy I was when I heard it was going t … more →

Tags: tween, Entertainment, children/kids, Television, Stories, Books, film, BBC, School

God on Trial

Benjamin Steele wrote 1 month ago: Here is a concluding speech from the BBC movie “God on Trial” where a Rabbi finally spea … more →

Tags: spirituality, SocioPolitical, Humanity, Religion, History, Entertainment, Philosophy, suffering, Movie

Writings on the Moon

jostamon wrote 5 months ago: [A loose translation from an article in Le Figaro by Bruno Corty, Françoise Dargent, Thierry Clermon … more →

Tags: Books, film, France, Japan, Moon, Akinari Ueda, apollo, Kenji Mizoguchi, Norman Mailer

24 Hour Party People

Joel Crary wrote 5 months ago: Tony Wilson tours with the Happy Mondays in "24 Hour Party People". (Michael Winterbottom, … more →

Tags: Film Reviews, 24 hour party people, Film Review, Michael Winterbottom, Steve Coogan

Campaign for the Book (3)3 comments

bookwitch wrote 6 months ago: Just imagine! There I was in a classroom sitting next to Linda Newbery, with Frank Cottrell Boyce an … more →

Tags: Books, Authors, blogs, Education, Linda Newbery, Beverley Naidoo, Penny Dolan, Catherine Johnson, Bali Rai

Campaign for the Book (2)8 comments

bookwitch wrote 6 months ago: Thank heavens for people like Alan Gibbons. Someone who not only thinks that things are wrong, but w … more →

Tags: Books, Authors, blogs, Education, Linda Newbery, Fiona Dunbar, Gillian Cross, Bernard Ashley, Celia Rees

Campaign for the Book (1)3 comments

bookwitch wrote 6 months ago: As I usually seem to do, I ran into Fiona Dunbar in the Ladies at the start of the proceedings of th … more →

Tags: audio books, Authors, Books, Education, Linda Newbery, picture book, Poetry, Reading, Travel

The 2009 Carnegie shortlist8 comments

bookwitch wrote 8 months ago: Yippee! At last a shortlist where the lazy witch has read every single book! Very nice list, very ni … more →

Tags: Books, Authors, Awards, Reading, Siobhan Dowd, Eoin Colfer, Kevin Brooks, Patrick Ness, Kate Thompson

Spaced out and starry-eyed

Helen wrote 9 months ago: I have become a space junkie. It all began about 18 months ago when I read the light, accessible and … more →

Tags: Books, Children, Science, Science Fiction, space books, children's web pages, Space Explorer, Astronauts, International Year of Astronomy

Acts of grace

thenextwavefutures wrote 9 months ago: I’ve always been interested in stories about technique – how stories work – and th … more →

Tags: writing

Million$10 comments

bookwitch wrote 10 months ago: Millions is a really good book. Just like the other two children’s novels by Frank Cottrell Bo … more →

Tags: Books, Authors, film, Autism/Asperger Syndrome, Review

books1 comment

joolsayodeji wrote 1 year ago: Been reading a couple of books recently- Story and Character:Interviews with British Screenwriters. … more →

Tags: writing, Add new tag, SCREENWRITERS, Books, History, richrad curtis, William Boyd, Simon Beaufoy, Hossein Amini

Never Let Me Go5 comments

Martin wrote 1 year ago: The first thing you find out when yer dog learns to talk is that dogs don’t got nothing much t … more →

Tags: SF, Books, Strange Horizons, Patrick Ness, Reviews, robin jarvis

Piss & Vinegar #026: A Cock And Bull Story

BristleKRS wrote 1 year ago: Young Tristram Shandy taking a pre-sash-assisted circumcision slash in the Michael Winterbottom/Fran … more →

Tags: The Pictures, Propah Books, Piss & Vinegar, Tristram Shandy, Michael Winterbottom, Steve Coogan, A Cock and Bull Story, Laurence Sterne

Guardian shortlist 20082 comments

bookwitch wrote 1 year ago: Three out of four is pretty good going, even for a bookwitch. I didn’t foresee Cosmic on the s … more →

Tags: Books, Authors, blogs, Awards, Reading, writing, Siobhan Dowd, jenny downham, Patrick Ness

God On Trial4 comments

Mr. Craig wrote 1 year ago: Last night BBC2 screened God on Trial, a new TV play by Frank Cottrell Boyce. It is the story of a g … more →

Tags: Television, God on Trial, Holocaust, Auschwitz, Drama, BBC, Judaism, Atheism, God

God On Trial5 comments

bookwitch wrote 1 year ago: Only knowing the Frank Cottrell Boyce of the funny children’s books, the play on BBC2 on Wedne … more →

Tags: Television, Drama, Stellan Skarsgård, Anthony Sher, Rupert Graves, jack shepherd, Dominic Cooper


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