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Sponsored by: GRIFFIN INTERNATIONAL BOOKSHOP features@algarveresident.com Blood River by Tim Butcher is also on Richard and Judy’s list and is a great account of the author’s time in the Congo.

Sponsored by Griffin Bookshop features@algarveresident.com Captain Underpants and the Preposterous Plight of the Purple Potty People by Dav Pilkey While on the subject of comedy, if one of the family

Sponsored by Griffin Bookshop features@algarveresident.com Crime Code by Michael Cordy The year is 2008. Violent crime has become a global epidemic, nowhere more so than in the US. Everything from

Sponsored by Griffin Bookshop features@algarveresident.com Rainbow’s End – A Memoir of Childhood, War and an African Farm This is a candid and exquisitely evocative memoir through a child’s viewpoint of

Sponsored by: GRIFFIN BOOKSHOP features@algarveresident.com Victoria Clayton, who also wrote Moonshine and Clouds among the Stars, has now come up with A Girl’s Guide to Kissing Frogs. Position vacant: Prince

Sponsored by: GRIFFIN BOOKSHOP features@algarveresident.com Whether you want to take a relaxing vacation in Asia, a backpacking journey in South America, a road trip in the US, a cultural tour

Sponsored by: GRIFFIN BOOKSHOP features@algarveresident.com Master Pip by Lloyd Jones is out in hardcover at 20 euros. English bookies unexpectedly put this novel as favourite to win the Booker Prize.

Sponsored by Griffin Bookshop features@algarveresident.com The Fall by Robert Muchamore When an MI5 operation goes disastrously wrong, James Adams needs all of his skills to get out of Russia alive.

Sponsored by Griffin Bookshop features@algarveresident.com Colouring and Activity Book by Dr Seuss This includes lots of zany pictures for you colour, as well as lots of Dr Seuss’ puzzles, games