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{{newreview
|author=Dan Abnett
|title=Primeval: Extinction Event
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=There are rifts in time and space that allow for prehistoric animals to enter our modern world, and it's up to Professor Nick Cutter and his team to track them down and send them back. It's a manageable job, until two animals best described as "demon pigs" hit Oxford Street in London. Cutter feels his days might be easier if he had anyone to share his hush-hush scientific secrets with. Little does he know he's about to be forced to do that, and face something much worse, when his Russian counterparts come demanding help.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857680625</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Lulu Taylor
|summary=As soon as I read the blurb on the back cover I thought there's no doubting that this book is going to be one of those delightful romps, shall we say. Carr takes the famous and much-loved and much-read detective Holmes along with his trusty, if rather dull and plodding side-kick Watson and decides to have a bit of fun. But will it work?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907685405</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Faiza Guene and Sarah Ardizzone
|title=Bar Balto
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Joel, 'The Rink', is the owner of the local bar in town and has been found murdered, stabbed and naked in a pool of blood. He's an opinionated, racist, lecherous busy-body, so there's no shortage of suspects. Faiza Guene creates an intriguing, interesting murder-mystery as we hear from each suspect in their own voice and follow the story through to its conclusion to discover who really murdered 'The Rink'.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701184221</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Elizabeth Beresford
|title=The Wombles at Work
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Bloomsbury have re-issued another tranche of the original Womble books, following the release of the first titles in late 2010. This brings the total to six available titles for you to have a Wombling good time with. And quite frankly, what's not to love here? Any story featuring Elisabeth Beresford's environmentally-minded, charming characters is a delight, for young and old alike.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408808366</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Salvatore Scibona
|title=The End
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Salvatore Scibona is one of a new breed of American authors who in his first book has decided to take on the great American literary novel. Has he succeeded?
The End is a novel that while being a part of a modern burgeoning literary movement very much looks back at the great American literature tradition of the last century. In Scibona's beautifully crafted prose we see glimpses of Saul Bellow, the vibrancy of Kerouac and the sensibilities of Updike, a heady mix to be sure.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224091492</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Simon Scarrow
|title=Gladiator: Fight for Freedom
|rating=3.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Marcus's father was a centurion in the Roman legions. After the slave revolt led by Spartacus was finally put down, he retired from the army and bought a farm on a small Greek island. Marcus has spent most of his boyhood on the farm, learning to train dogs, shoot his sling accurately and dreaming of one day becoming a fighter like his father. But the farm is in debt and Marcus's life is about to crumble...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141333634</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Keren David
|title=Almost True
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=My usual warning when reviewing sequels, there's no way on earth I can avoid some spoilers for the breathtaking [[When I Was Joe by Keren David|When I Was Joe]] so bear that in mind when reading.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847801013</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jo Nesbo and Don Bartlett
|title=The Leopard
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Still completely traumatised by 'The Snowman' investigation, Inspector Harry Hole has fled Norway for the seedy underbelly of Hong Kong where he is happy to lose himself to debt and drugs. Back in Norway, two women are found murdered by the same gruesome means and Crime Squad believe they have another serial killer on their hands. Harry's boss, Gunner Hagen wants his best detective back, as he believes Harry is the only person who can find the killer, after two months with no leads. Despite being persuaded to return to Oslo due to his father's illness and with no apparent interest in the case, Harry's detective instincts take him straight to the murder scene when a third woman is found dead and he cannot resist getting involved, especially when the current investigative team seem to be making such a mess of it.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846554004</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=John H Watson, Tony Reynolds and Chris Coady
|title=The Lost Stories of Sherlock Holmes
|rating=4
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=It is a truth universally acknowledged that a successful detective character will have far too many cases in his career for it to be at all realistic. The worst case in point are the Hardy Boys, who have had two hundred or more adventures and are still not 20. Slightly more literary, but no less busy it can seem, was Sherlock Holmes, for Watson declaimed many times that he did not write down all that man's exploits. Tony Reynolds here gives us eight more cases, making Holmes' workload even more impressive.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907685618</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Lauren Kate
|title=The Betrayal of Natalie Hargrove
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Natalie Hargrove is one half of the It couple of Palmetto High, destined to become Palmetto Princess. Her boyfriend Mike King should be a shoo-in for Prince alongside her - except Mike doesn't seem too bothered, in contrast to the loathsome - but hunky - Justin Balmer. So when she's given a chance to knock JB out of the running for the crown, who can blame Natalie for pulling a harmless prank? Except when the prank turns out to be much less harmless than she'd have expected, the It couple are left frantically trying to cover their tracks before they lose everything.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552563722</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Maria V Snyder
|title=Inside Out
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Through the narrative of the brilliantly gutsy, yet bitter Trella, ''Inside Out'' describes the unlikely revolution provoked by the mission undertaken by our protagonists to discover the legendary Gateway – a rumoured pathway between the self-contained Inside and a utopia known only as Outside. Originally reluctant to be drawn into what she considers to be a hoax, Trella, due to her particular proficiency when it comes to travelling through the piping and ventilation system that separates the various levels of Inside, somehow becomes the figurehead of the rebellion of the Lowers against the Uppers. However, there are some people who don't approve of this newfound hope, and are keen to stifle the revolution before it even begins.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0778304116</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Molly Carr
|title=In Search of Dr Watson - A Sherlockian Investigation
|rating=3.5
|genre=Biography
|summary=The old saying that behind every great man there is a great woman has one major exception - Sherlock Holmes. Behind him is the figure of Dr John Watson, his biographer, the man who shares his Baker St lodgings, and the man eternally flummoxed by his deductions. This biography successfully shows how the superior Holmes walked over Watson in investigative skills, and also how Conan Doyle needed Watson, if only to help us admire Holmes more by making him less insufferably smug.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907685766</amazonuk>
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