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Advantages: Quality of the writing
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...a good review. .. Cadogan books focus mainly on travel guides though there are lesser known chess books as well. Based in London, they have been providing quality guides for over 20 years by a dedicated team who will not compromise on quality of the writing despite the recent trends for snappy, quick and vague reviews in other guide books. National newspapers love them, they rountinely provide a glowing review of the books as does Michael Palin! ...
...guides in 2004. Many of the writers, such as European guide writer Dana Facaros routinely write for papers and magazines including the Sunday Times Travel section or the National Geographic Traveller. The quality of the writing is very high and I find myself immersed in some tid bit of historical information which no matter how dull, the authors always seem to make it fascinating! One can really see the level of research that has gone into writing ... Read review

Advantages: A fantastic well written book with a great storyline
Disadvantages: Costs £10.99

Just In Case - Meg Rosoff Meg Rosoff was born in Boston USA but she now lives in north London with her husband and daughter. She is the author of award winning "How I Live Now", this is her second novel. Just In Case was published in 2006 and in 2007 it was short listed for the CILIP Carnegie Medal. The Blurb on the back is what first attracted me to this book. It reads: Every minute of every day, a million things happen. A butterfly flaps it's ...
...was feeling. Also I've read Meg Rosoff's first book and absolutely loved it to it seemed like this would be a good book for me. This is a story about a 15 year old boy named David Case. He lives with his parents and baby brother Charlie in the small town of Luton. His life gets turned around one day when 1 year old Charlie try and henceforth almost falls out of an upstairs window. This makes David start to believe he is doomed and that fate is after ... Read review

Advantages: good skills, achieved lots
Disadvantages: plays for manchester united and end of career

...I am a fan of Ryan Giggs because I think he has done so much for English football in the past 10 years or so while he has been in the first team for Manchester United. He has achieved so much that he is widely known as one of the best wingers in the history of the game and is very popular with many football fans. Facts about him: His full name: Ryan Joseph Giggs OBE Date of Birth: 29th November 1973 Current Age: 34 years old Where he is was ...
...best wingers in the game. Ryan holds the record for the highest amount of goal assists with a total of 289 assists in 535 appearances. He also past Sir Bobby Charlton's record of 759 appearances for Manchester United and has become his club's all time best player with the most amount of appearances. Ryan represented England at youth international level because he was attending a English school but then went on to represent his birth country, Wales ... Read review

Advantages: A good writer
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Alexander McCall Smith who is known as Sandy was born on the 24/8/1948. In a place called Bulawayo,he is a Rhodesian born British writer.The first stage of his education was at CBC Bulawayo then moved to Scotland where he studied Law at University of Edinburgh.. After that Alexander moved back to South Africa and at the University of Botswana he taught Law. Then after a while he then returned to Edinburgh where he still lives today a long side his ...
...in the late twentieth Century Alexander became a very repected person and an expert on medical law and bioethics and he has been on a number of committees for Britain and Internationally. He was a former Chairman of the British Medical Journal Ethics Committee and he was there until 2002. Vice-Chairman of the Human Genetics Commission of the United Kingdom and a former member of the International Bioethics Commission of Unesco. As he became well ... Read review

Advantages: great fun
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Harry hill is a famous comedian who you will either love or hate there is no inbetween with him. I love harry hill so obviously i love this tv show which is on on a saturday tea time at 5.25pm on itv1 for 1/2 an hour. The show looks at the tv from the week that has just passes showing clips from the most popular programs on tv and taking the micky out of them. The show features programs from all 5 of the basic tv cannels, like eastenders, coronation ...
...see on harry hills program you will already have watched during the week so will not fail to see the funny sideof his comedy about them. This realy is an hilarious show and even the cast of the programs he is taking the micky out of find it funny. If you havent seen this show before have a look on saturday. ... Read review