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Advantages: A book with everything you want, and one you will enjoy reading again
Disadvantages: Don't pick this up if you are in a rush, hard to put down.

This book was gripping from beginning to end. Totally enthralling reading, once you pick it up you find it hard to put it down. A book of suspense that keeps you wondering from the first page to the last. This author goes from strength to strength and just leaves the reader wanting more. You feel you can relate to the characters in her book and go along the roller coaster ride with them. All in all, an excellent book which I couldn't put down. From ... 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
Disadvantages: none

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
Disadvantages: none

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