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Mr Ripley's Guest Post: My Literary Hero Ray Bradbury by Philip Caveney
My Literary Hero by Philip CaveneyPicture this. I’m fourteen years old and I’m stuck in a boarding school in Peterborough, while my parents are on an airbase somewhere in Malaysia, where they’ll live...
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Mr Ripley's Book Review: Seventeen Coffins - By Philip Caveney
We have just moved on from Crow Boy, the first book, to find that Tom has wasted no time falling head first into another nightmarish adventure in and around Mary King's Close, Edinburgh. It all starts...
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Mr Ripley's Random Children's and Teen Picks - July 2014 - UK Post
Amy McCulloch - The Shadow's Curse - Published by Corgi Children's - 3, July 2014Raim is no closer to figuring out the meaning of the broken vow that sentenced him to exile for life. But with his...
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Mr Ripley's Enchanted Children's/Teens Book Picks - UK Post Two
Derek Landy - Armageddon Outta Here ( The World of Skulduggery Pleasant) - Published by HarperCollins Children's Books (3 July 2014) One AMAZING new novella.Three GRIPPING new stories.In the ULTIMATE...
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Mr Ripley's Guest Post: Nick Cook - To the Moon and Beyond!
I think I can probably blame growing up during the era of astronauts first landing on the moon, for how I’ve turned out today. I will never ever forget those grainy images of Neil Armstrong as the...
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Mr Ripley's Book Review - Nick Cook - Cloud Riders - Three Hares Publishing
I really loved the look of this book; from the fantastic eye catching cover, designed by Jennie Rawlings, to the interesting synopsis that I did actually read. When I was asked if I wanted to review...
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Mr Ripley's Children's/Teens Fantasy New Books - Post US Publication July 2014
Livia Blackburne - Midnight Thief - Published by Disney-Hyperion (July 8, 2014)Growing up on Forge's streets has taught Kyra how to stretch a coin. And when that's not enough, her uncanny ability to...
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Mr Ripley's Book Review: Eoin Colfer - W.A.R.P BK 2 - The Hangman's Revolution
"The old maxim that every action has a reaction is true, but when you start messing with time travel, that reaction could take place in a whole different universe."—Professor Charles Smart This is the...
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Mr Ripley's Book Review: Dawn Finch - Brotherhood of Shades
This is the debut book from Dawn Finch. Ever since she was a young girl, Dawn wanted to be a writer and librarian; her home was filled with books. She had a love for Edgar Allan Poe that soon turned...
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Mr Ripley's Adult Sci-fi Fantasy Book Picks - Solaris 2014 - UK Post (July,...
James Lovegrove - World of Fire - Published by Solaris (11 Sep 2014)Dev Harmer, reluctant agent of Interstellar Security Solutions, wakes up in a newly cloned host body on the planet Alighieri, ready...
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Mr Ripley's Guest Post: Paul Durham - The Luck Uglies - HarperCollins - Happy...
DREAMS, THICK SKIN, AND UGLY LUCKDreams don’t come easy. I suppose they aren’t meant to.Since I was a child, my dream was to see my fiction published. Sometimes I wished I’d aspired to be an astronaut...
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Mr Ripley's Book Review: Key to Kashdune by Claudia White - MP Publishing
This might be a pocket size book but inside is a super sized adventure for younger readers. One year on and Key to Kashdune is the next installment to Aesop's Secret featuring the Hutton family....
View ArticleThe Big Idea Competition - Barry Cunningham/Tess Daly - Have You Got One?
GREAT NEW IDEAS FOR CHILDREN’S STORIES GET THE CHANCE TO BE TOLD!Tess Daly joins nationwide search to discover the next big story idea for childrenJudged by experts from the book, film, TV and theatre...
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Mr Ripley's Book Preview: Lucy Inglis - City of Halves - Chicken House
Lucy Inglis - City of Halves - Published by Chicken House; (7 Aug 2014)London. Girls are disappearing. They've all got one thing in common; they just don't know it yet. Sixteen-year-old Lily was meant...
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Mr Ripley's Enchanted Book Picks:Teen/Adult Sci-Fi Fantasy - August 2014
John Hornor Jacobs - The Incorruptibles - Published by Gollancz (14 Aug 2014)In the contested and unexplored territories at the edge of the Empire, a boat is making its laborious way up stream. Riding...
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Mr Ripley's Book Review: Tim Hall - Shadow of the Wolf - David Fickling
Robin Hood has been reinvented like you've never imagined before in this thrilling debut by Tim Hall. There areno Merry Men, no maidens in distress and no stealing from the rich to give to the poor....
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Mr Ripley's New Children's/Teen Book Picks - August 2014 - US Post One
Kazu Kibuishi - Amulet #6 - Escape from Lucien - Published by Graphix (26 Aug 2014)Kazu Kibuishi's #1 NEW YORK TIMES bestselling series continues!Navin and his classmates journey to Lucien, a city...
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MR RIPLEY'S ENCHANTED BOOKS - DARREN SHAN OF HORROR BOOK COVER WARS 2014 +...
Mr Ripley's Enchanted Books has decided to do a one off Book Cover Wars featuring some of Darren Shan's amazing book images. I have tried to pick a varied selection for you to consider. This is your...
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Mr Ripley's Enchanted Books - Niel Bushnell - Timesmith (The Timesmith...
MR RIPLEY'S BOOK REVIEW.....We have moved on from Sorrowline, which is the first book in the exciting series of The Timesmith Chronicles, to the second book called Timesmith by Niel. Jack is now...
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Mr Ripley's Enchanted Books: Top Children's and Teen Series Picks - August...
Derek Landy - Skulduggery Pleasant #9: The Dying of the Light - Published by HarperCollins Children's Books (28 Aug 2014) The FINAL shocking, heart-wrenching book in the jaw-droppingly stupendous...
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