Carrie-Anne Brackstone

Advantages: So funny you'll wet yourself - buy in some own brand nappies
Disadvantages: You may be forced to come to terms with your own behaviour

...quoted line 'I hate f****** pikeys'. Hating all things racist or discriminatory I gave an audible gasp when I saw this book and prepared to be offended. However, what I found instead was sheer joy. Back to the book ******************** 'Oi, Pikey, A Celebration of Cheap Living' was written by Carrie-Anne Brackstone and Laura Bushell and published in 2005. I didn't part with good money for it - oh no! That would have been entirely unsuitable. Instead I scrounged it (along with a few dozen other freebies) from my friend who's the arts editor of a regional newspaper. Journalism is a great pikey career with lots of freebies. If you can't find a copy in a charity shop or boot fair (classic pikey haunts) you can get one for list price of £9.99 or much cheaper on Amazon, cheaper still if you buy it second hand. It would be a dereliction of your... Read review

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Advantages: So funny you'll wet yourself - buy in some own brand nappies
Disadvantages: You may be forced to come to terms with your own behaviour

...quoted line 'I hate f****** pikeys'. Hating all things racist or discriminatory I gave an audible gasp when I saw this book and prepared to be offended. However, what I found instead was sheer joy. Back to the book ******************** 'Oi, Pikey, A Celebration of Cheap Living' was written by Carrie-Anne Brackstone and Laura Bushell and published in 2005. I didn't part with good money for it - oh no! That would have been entirely unsuitable. Instead I scrounged it (along with a few dozen other freebies) from my friend who's the arts editor of a regional newspaper. Journalism is a great pikey career with lots of freebies. If you can't find a copy in a charity shop or boot fair (classic pikey haunts) you can get one for list price of £9.99 or much cheaper on Amazon, cheaper still if you buy it second hand. It would be a dereliction of your... Read review

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Advantages: LYRICAL, GENTLE, A JOY TO READ AND A TIMELESS CLASSIC.
Disadvantages: NONE WHAT SO EVER!

.... Aaaah!!!! *****My Opinion***** I love this book. There are others in the series all about Anne and Gilbert and their lives, and I love those too, but this one is special. Reading this book taught me that it's okay to dream, to get caught up in what could be, in all the possibilities of life. In fact, that it's important to dream and to hope and to ache for something that is not here right at this second. Always seeing the positive and the possibility of every situation is something that this book shows, through the main character of Anne, and it's something that I've carried with me all these years. There is always a silver lining, a rainbow, a ray of sunshine, and everything happens for a reason. Anne of Green Gables is available at all good book shops as well as online at places like Amazon, for around the £5.00 mark. Happy reading... Read review

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Advantages: another great vampire book
Disadvantages: not a long or describsional book...could of had more details.

...If you have Read any of Anne Rice vampire books you know that each one is different and special, and they all seem to be connected by David Talbot. This novel begins in present day Paris with David meeting pandora (a 2000y/o vampire) the first vampire ever made by the great marius, David persuades her to tell the story of her life. Pandora begins recount her mesmerizing tale, which takes us through the ages, from Imperial Rome to 18 century France to the 20th century Paris and New Orleans. She carries us back to her girlhood in the world of Caesar. And tell us of her meeting and falling in love with Marius(still mortal) She is forced to flee Rome in fear of assassination by conspirators plotting to take over the city. And we follow her to exotic ports of antioch, where once again she meets marius(immortal)He gives her the "Dark" gift... Read review

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