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{{newreview
|author=Anthea Simmons and Georgie Birkett
|title=Share!
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Ah, sharing! Perhaps one of the hardest lessons to teach a toddler is how to let go of a chosen toy and share it with someone else. My weekly playgroup is always full of loud parental demands of 'share!' followed by wails of distress from small children being forced to part with the one thing they absolutely, positively must have...until they spot something else they want! This promising-looking story deals with just such an issue, and in this case it is an older sister learning to share everything, from favourite blankets to tea-time food with her baby brother.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849390096</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Roy Vickery
|summary=If you're planning on learning how to prepare accounts the traditional method has what almost amounts to an initiation ceremony. You're introduced to double entry book-keeping, which is the equivalent of being asked to learn HTML without ever having seen a web page. Some people ''do'' take to it like ducks to water – they're usually the people who think that Sudoku is ridiculously easy – but most people find that the concepts are difficult to grasp and this isn't helped by not really understanding why they need to master it. Zarir Suntook hasn't quite stood the methods of teaching on their heads but he's taken a more logical approach which is gentler on the brain.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1443819484</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Kimara Nye and Marcin Bruchnalski
|title=The Four Little Pigs
|rating=4.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Tom loves visiting his Granny especially as she is a witch and can cast magical spells. However, he doesn't always enjoy the bedtime stories that she reads, and when she picks up The Three Little Pigs he declares that it is boring because he has heard it so many times. Granny suggests that it might be interesting to find out what would happen if another pig entered the fray and before he realises what is happening, Tom is transported into the story.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848860633</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Linda Sargent
|title=Paper Wings
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=In a wood in Kent two children played happily and as is the way with children they sometimes went where they shouldn't, but it was the nineteen fifties and the worry was more about whether they would injure themselves by falling down an abandoned well than the problems which we worry over half a century later. It was a place for plans and games, projects they didn't always tell their parents about and generally growing up. Ruby loved climbing trees and longed to fly. Peter was more sensible but the pair were inseparable.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956483305</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Henry Nicholls
|title=The Way of the Panda: The Curious History of China's Political Animal
|rating=4
|genre=Popular Science
|summary=The book cover alone, with its panda hugging a tree, says 'buy me', 'read me.' A good start. The sections are divided into no-nonsense headings: Extraction, Abstraction and Protection. Maps and Prologue give a flavour of what's to come. The inside front cover states boldly that 'Giant pandas have been causing a stir ever since their formal scientific discovery just over 140 years ago.' I think it safe to say that many of us would probably say automatically, without thinking, that the panda has immense appeal. But is it only because of the beautifully marked eyes which give the animal a cuddly, teddy bear look?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846683688</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jane Robins
|title=The Magnificent Spilsbury and the Case of the Brides in the Bath
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=During the early months of 1915, Britain was fighting for her life during the First World War, and newspaper headlines were preoccupied with the army's exploits and outrages by the enemy. For a time, only one event at home could compete with them on the front news pages – the unhappy fate of two or three brides who had been drowned, in separate incidents, in their baths, and the fact that one man was probably responsible.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848541074</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Andrea Levy
|title=The Long Song
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=July's tale, The Long Song, opens with her mother Kitty's rape by Amity plantation's overseer, Tam Dewar. Nine months later, we find him striking the midwife who can't keep Kitty quiet during labour. And Kitty doesn't keep hold of her daughter for very long. Spotted by Caroline, the plantation owner's widowed sister on the side of the road, July is taken away from her mother to become a lady's maid. Deprived of both parent and name - Caroline renames her Marguerite - July learns how to avoid her mistress's needle stick punishments and finds a place among the other house servants.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755359402</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Arnaldur Indridason
|title=Hypothermia
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Maria's body was found by her friend Karen. It was hanging from the rafters of her holiday home at Lake Thingvallavatn and when Detective Erlendur arrived it seemed like a straightforward case of suicide. Maria had been in a poor mental state since the death of her mother two years previously and there was a history of depression. It wasn't until Karen approached Erlendur with a recording of a séance which Maria had attended shortly before her death that his curiosity was aroused. There was no great pressure at work and he had the time to indulge himself, so he looked further into the case along with the unsolved disappearances thirty years earlier of two unconnected people.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099532271</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Tim Bowler
|title=Blade: Risking All
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=It's the final chapter. There's nothing let now but the last confrontation. Blade has nothing left to lose and at last revenge is in sight. Under pressure from the porkers and the gangs, and with his private empire crumbling, Hawk has retreated to his remote hideout. Blade is there, waiting. But Hawk is surrounded by a private army of security. Dozens of grinks and gobbos lie between Blade and his nemesis and getting past them isn't going to be easy. But Blade has his instinct back and nothing is going to stand in his way. Losing is not an option. But can he beat the man who has never known defeat? Can he find redemption?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>019275601X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Kate Elliott
|title=Spiritwalker: Cold Magic
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=In an alternate version of our world in the 19th century, where magic exists but technology is moving forward in the shape of massive airships, 19 year old cousins Cat and Bee Hassi Barahal live normal lives. But without warning, the girls' world is thrown upside down as a cold mage, the arrogant Andevai arrives to collect Cat as his bride - as a result of a bargain which was made many years ago without her
knowledge. Taken away from her beloved family, Cat is brought into a society she knows little about where danger seems to lurk in every corner... But Cat isn't as helpless as everyone else assumes her to be; unknown to anybody, she can see the chains that magic forms, while she quickly picks up allies in some unusual places.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498815</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Michelle Paver
|title=Dark Matter
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=It's January 1937 and dark clouds of impending war are gathering over Europe. Jack Miller is in London, working as a clerk and living in one lonely room. He should probably think himself lucky because many people have neither job nor home in this Great Depression, but he doesn't. He feels lonely and isolated and angry that a career in research physics was snatched away from him by economic circumstance. So when the chance of becoming the wireless operator for an Arctic expedition comes along, he jumps at it - even though the team comprises of the exact privileged young men he most resents.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409123782</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Immodesty Blaize
|title=Ambition
|rating=3.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Las Vegas Showgirl Sienna Starr has got it made. Her career is set to flourish when she lands her dream role in Vegas' top show, she has great friends, a fabulous home, and a red hot sex life with her rich and gorgeous boyfriend Max. But as Sienna starts her new job at the Follies Casino under the eyes of Vegas' most powerful showgirl Brandy Alexander, she soon becomes surrounded by people who are not only envious of her, but are more ruthless and ambitious than she could ever be.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091930073</amazonuk>
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