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{{newreview
|author=Lucy Dawson
|title=The One That Got Away
|rating=4
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Lucy Dawson's latest novel is a cut above run-of-the-mill chick-lit pap. Molly Greene is happily married to Dan, and they live a normal twenty-first century life in a small town. She is a successful salesperson for a medical supplier. The couple struggle with the bills and hope to buy their own place. She spends time with two old girlfriends whose situations are different from hers, but who know our heroine inside out and will always be there for her for long, boozy heart-to-hearts. So far, so predictable.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751542520</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Gervase Phinn
planted on him and her well respected father takes him in to stop him being sent back to Mexico. Will these two headstrong youngsters find love?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857070436</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jenny Nimmo and Gwen Millward
|title=The Beasties
|rating=4.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=A small girl called Daisy is trying to get to sleep in her new bed in her new house. As she tosses and turns, she does not see three small Beasties creep into her room and under the bed. There they spread out all sorts of treasure such as buttons, feathers, pearls and rings. These items are going to be very important for what happens next in the story. At this point Daisy hears a noise and sits up in bed wondering what it could be. It's a growly sound but as she listens more closely she realises that it actually sounds like a story. One of the Beasties, Ferdinand, is telling an enchanting story all about a ring that belonged to a faraway king. Before long Daisy falls asleep wondering about the ring. During the following two nights similar things happen as she hears noises and then realise that Weevil and Floot, the other two beasties are also telling their lovely bedtime stories about sailing ships and beautiful princesses.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140524335X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Tony Mitton and Layn Marlow
|title=The Night Before Christmas
|rating=3
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=The original poem is from the viewpoint of a father who meets Santa Claus. This version is told by one of the two children who sneak out of bed when they hear Father Christmas coming. Like the original, it's written in rhyming verse, but the words are simpler than in the original and the words and pictures are modern ones, targeted at young children in the 21st century.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140830922X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Sarah Silverwood
|title=The Nowhere Chronicles: The Double-Edged Sword
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=When Fin's guardian, Judge Harlequin Brown is murdered, life as he knows it becomes a whole lot more exciting and dangerous. In the course of one life-changing day, he learns that there is a pathway between his London in 'Somewhere', and an alternate London of a parallel world called 'Nowhere', and that the fates of both worlds are now under threat from a group of rogue Knights, who have the ability to travel between these worlds using their double edged swords.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575095288</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Chloe Aridjis
|title=Book of Clouds
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=We first meet the main character (she's mentioned on almost every page) Tatiana as a newish resident of Berlin. She's Mexican so quite a difference in cultures for her to deal with, as well as the weather aspect. Many episodes in her life seem to take place in a Berlin which is bitterly cold. Aridjis chooses the first person for her novel, so we hear everything from Tatiana's perspective.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099539594</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Wallace and Gromit
|title=Wallace and Gromit's World of Invention
|rating=4
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=We don't have many rules around these 'ere parts, but one of them is that we don't review TV tie-in books. It's not snobbery; it's just that there's only so many books we have time to cover and TV covers itself quite nicely already. So I'm being naughty by reviewing ''Wallace and Gromit's World of Invention'', but I don't care. I couldn't resist it! And Christmas is coming up, so you need some gift ideas, don't you?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007382189</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Tricia Sullivan
|title=Lightborn
|rating=4
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=In an alternate but contemporary United States, everyone uses Lightborn technology, or shine, as it's nicknamed. Providing entertainment, education and self-knowledge, people live in the ultimate plugged-in society. And then the Fall comes. Rogue AIs in the shine field around the city of Los Sombres start sending out bad shine and the adults all go loco - becoming violent and murderous, or broken down and reduced to performing repetitive tasks over and over.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841494070</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Sue Moorcroft
|title=Want to Know a Secret?
|rating=4
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=When you get a couple of policemen in your kitchen telling you that your husband has been badly injured in a helicopter crash you can be forgiven for being upset. On the other hand, if your family has the sort of income which means that your husband was as likely to be in a spaceship as a helicopter then it's quite permissible to say that the policemen have come to the wrong place and this is what Diane Jenner did. Unfortunately it also means that when they prove that it was your husband you've got quite a big adjustment to make.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906931267</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Peter Durantine
|title=The Chocolate Assassin
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=In the final days of the Second World War as the allied guns came ever closer a young German was sent on a secret mission to America. He was only in his late teens but still resisted telling anyone, including the U-boat captain who took him across the Atlantic, about the nature of his mission. Fifty five years later the U-boat captain, Eric Hoest, long settled in the States, was murdered at his beach home. Samuel Grey, police detective and part-time student was called in to investigate the murder. The local police chief thought that the most likely murderer was the neighbour who had reported the crime, but Grey suspected that the truth was hidden somewhere in Hoest's background.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1451579527</amazonuk>
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