On a Hoof and a Prayer

Sponsored by Griffin Bookshop features@algarveresident.com On a Hoof and a Prayer by Polly Evans Subtitled, Around Argentina at a Gallop, this is Polly Evans’ account of achieving her dream of

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Skullduggery Pleasant

Sponsored by: GRIFFIN BOOKSHOP features@algarveresident.com Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy in paperback at 11 euros should hold fascinating appeal for ages nine to 12. Skulduggery Pleasant is a wise-cracking sharply-dressed

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The Last Vampire

Sponsored by: GRIFFIN BOOKSHOP features@algarveresident.com For ages 12 and upwards, Christopher Pike’s The Last Vampire comprises two books in one: The Last Vampire and Black Blood. In paperback at 9.50

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Measuring the World

Sponsored by: GRIFFIN BOOKSHOP features@algarveresident.com Measuring the World by Daniel Kehlmann is out in paperback at 12 euros. At the end of the 18th century, two brilliant and eccentric young

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Black Order by James Rollins

Sponsored by: GRIFFIN BOOKSHOP features@algarveresident.com Arson in a Copenhagen bookstore and murder reveal an insidious plot to steal a Bible that once belonged to Charles Darwin, the father of evolutionary

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Digging to America

Sponsored by: griffin Bookshop features@algarveresident.com Digging to America by Anne Tyler, in paperback, priced at 11 euros. Another gem from the incomparable Anne Tyler, sparkling with diamond-sharp wit and observation,

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Master Pip

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.

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