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Book Review: Brandon Sanderson - Steelheart - Published by Gollancz/Delacorte...
Brandon Sanderson has done it yet again. He has produced another book that has just blown through the cobwebs of my mind. As soon as I had read the synopsis, I felt that this book...
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Mr Ripley's New Young Adult Book Picks: Published In December 2013 - US...
Greg Weisman - Rain of the Ghosts - Published by St Martin's Griffin - 3, December 2013 Rain of the Ghosts is the first in Greg Weisman's series about an adventurous young...
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Mr Ripley's Enchanted Books Cover Wars Final 2013/2014 - Plus Book Swag...
This is the big final for the book cover wars for 2013/134 - are you ready to vote?Over the last four weeks, different authors and illustrators and publishers have battled for their book covers to be...
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Preview: New Chicken House Children's Books Published Early 2014
M.J. Howes - Feed - Published 2nd January 2014 - Age 10+Taken, frozen and eaten – this is the fate facing the human race from enemy invaders – unless fourteen-year-olds Lola...
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Mr Ripley's Book Cover Wars Final Winner 2013/14 - Niel Bushnell - Timesmith
Mr Ripley's book cover wars has now come to a climatic end. After four exciting heats, we now have a worthy winner.......As usual I would like to thank the many people who...
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Guest Author Post: Inspirations For Phoenix by SF Said - Published by David...
My new book Phoenix is set in space. One of the biggest inspirations for it was an amazing book of astral photography created by the Hubble Space Telescope . I found this book in Reykjavik, on a trip...
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Mr Ripley's Book Review: The Obsidian Pebble by Rhys A Jones - Spencer Hill...
Spencer Hill Press have delivered what they set out to do - publishing special reads that fall into the category of "I couldn't put it down". Literally I found myself not...
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Mr Ripley's Children's Book Recommendation - Animal Spirits Series: Wild...
WILD BORN - Book One by Brandon Mull - Out NowFour children separated by vast distances all undergo the same ritual, watched by cloaked strangers. Four flashes of light erupt,...
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MR RIPLEY'S ENCHANTED BOOKS: FAVOURITE BOOKS 2013 - Children's/YA and Adult
2014 is officially on the horizon and Mr Ripley's Enchanted Books is coming to the end of yet another year. Around this festive time I like to take a trip down...
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Mr Ripley's New Children/Teens Horror Books - Published by January 2014
Ransom Riggs - Hollow City: The Second Novel of Miss Peregrine's Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children) - Published by Quirk Book - 14 Jan 2104"Miss Peregrine's Home for...
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Mr Ripley's New Children's and Teens Book Picks: Published January 2014
Julian Sedgwick - Mysterium 2: The Palace of Memory - Published by Hodder Children's Books - 2, Jan 2014Danny Woo has escaped from the jaws of death...
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Mr Ripley's Most Wanted #Friday: Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell - The Nameless...
Welcome to a world like no other. Welcome to the Edge.If he didn't get out of the city now, he was as good as dead.Cade has never met his uncle, the infamous 'descender' Nate...
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Book Review: Simon Mason - Running Girl ( A Garvie Smith Mystery) - Published...
After a recent mission to find a book to review, I came across this one in Waterstone's Bookshop. I was pulled in by the book cover appeal which was bright, bold and very...
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Mr Ripley's New Children's Books Published In January 2014 ( US Post One )
Karen Foxlee - Ophelia and the Marvelous - Published by Knopf Books for Young Readers (January 28, 2014)A luminous retelling of the Snow Queen, this is the story of unlikely...
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Mr Ripley's Book Review: M J Howes - Feed - Chicken House
I have been looking forward to reading this book for quite a while now. The question has to be . . . . . has the wait been worth it? Well, the black glossy book cover...
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Book News: Tor Acquires Stunning Science Fiction From Adrian Tchaikovsky -...
Pan Macmillan's Tor imprint is thrilled to share news of its latest acquisition – a breath-taking science fiction epic by Adrian Tchaikovsky. Senior Commissioning Editor...
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Book Review: Sally Gardner Drawings by David Roberts - Tinder - Published By...
This book is a macabre parade between the visual and the written. It is a dark fantasy feast of delights with a great combination of atmospheric black/white drawings. The splashes of...
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Mr Ripley's New Children's/Teens Books Published February 2014 - Post One
Diana Wynne Jones - The Islands of Chaldea - Published by HarperCollins Children's Books (27 Feb 2014)Aileen was supposed to grow up magical – just like the other...
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Guest Post: Debut Author M.J. Howes - Feed - Chicken House
Firstly, I’m still pinching myself, still can’t quite believe I’m a published author. When you dream about something for so long, (and I have dreamt about getting published for years, probably driving...
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Book Review: John Mcnally - Infinity Drake - The Sons Of Scarlatti -...
This is a very big debut book for 2014 which will go down a storm with the 8-12 year age group. It is a story that boys will definitely love and a book that girls will be intrigued...
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