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|author=M C Beaton
|title=Travelling Matchmaker: Belinda Goes to Bath
|rating=3.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Miss Hannah Pym was a housekeeper until recently but has now received a legacy which lifts her out of the servant classes and enables her to fulfil her long-held wish to travel. It might be winter but Miss Pym is taking the stagecoach to The Bath (as the upper classes call the city) just for the adventure. The company in the stage is joined by an obviously well-bred young woman, Miss Belinda Earle who, accompanied by her companion, is being sent in disgrace to stay with her aunt.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849014809</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|summary=At over 500 pages this book covers a lot of ground. I immediately took to Weaver's style. Plain, not showy or over-flowery, just sensible words telling a story. Conversational almost, as if he were telling it over the breakfast table, so that even as early as page one, I knew that I was in for a decent read. PI David Raker has a troubled past and a rather sad personal life so he puts 110% into his work - and then some, in order to try and dull his own pain. But does this strategy work? He's not unattractive to women but you can just tell he's not all that interested. A microwaved dinner for one is the order of the day and anyway, the unsocial hours that his job warrant don't make for an active social life. I liked him straight away and no, I didn't feel the need to feel sorry for him.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141042443</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Elizabeth Haynes
|title=Into The Darkest Corner
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The book didn't actually look that appealing. The cover is on the sepia side of dull. I didn't know the author's name and the title didn't really grab me. When I started reading we were straight into the transcript of a court case in which it seemed that a police officer was being questioned in court about his relationship with a woman. He was accused of being violent to her, but it seemed that the boot was really on the other foot. Then we were into a story – or even two stories – with two time lines some four years apart. Within ten minutes I couldn't put it down.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956251579</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Georgie Adams
|title=The Railway Rabbits: Fern and the Dancing Hare
|rating=4.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=In this third episode of the delightful 'The Railway Rabbits' series Barley is taking his five children to meet his parents for the first time. Their mother, Mellow, is staying at home to look after the burrow and, as she wryly comments, tidy up the mess that five young rabbits have left. Smart, tidy and clean behind the ears the rabbits head off to meet Blackberry and Primrose Longears. The journey to the big burrow under the castle is full of adventure – and there's even more when they reach the big burrow.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444001582</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Trent Jamieson
|title=Managing Death
|rating=3.5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=I reviewed the [[Death Most Definite by Trent Jamieson|first book]] in this series and, even although it's not a genre I would normally choose to read, I was pleasantly surprised. Would this second book (which are often difficult to pull off with the same degree of success) be as good or as entertaining? Time to find out ...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498602</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Ben Pastor
|title=Lumen
|rating=4
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=Cracow, Poland, October 1939: The Germans have recently occupied Poland and are seeking to establish their authority. Captain Martin Bora of the Wehrmacht (the German army) has just arrived in the city from the battlefield to take up a posting to Intelligence. His boss asks Bora to drive him to a convent every day to see the renowned Abbess, rumoured to have mystic and healing powers. A few days later, though, she is found shot dead in the grounds of her convent. Bora is asked to investigate and report back. He proceeds to investigate who shot her and why, but as his investigation continues, there are more questions for Bora and the reader. Where does this case fit in with the priorities of the occupying forces?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904738664</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jake Wallis Simons
|title=The English German Girl
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=When it began it wasn't pleasant, but there was hope that it would get better. Rosa's father, Otto was a doctor and she lived with him, her mother, Inga, elder brother Heinrich and younger sister Hedi in a pleasant flat in Berlin. The turn of opinion against Jews was slow – an anti-Jewish pin handed to Rosa as she went shopping, friends who felt that they couldn't remain such obvious friends – certainly for the time being – and a change of employment for Otto. It was better for the patients if they didn't have contact with him, even if he was a good doctor.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846971764</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Andy Mulligan
|title=Return to Ribblestrop
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Before they even get back to Ribblestrop, Millie and her friends singularly or together hitchhike, pay their bus drivers the fare in fags, survive a car crash, set fire to a hotel, survive being eaten by a lion and other big cats, and encourage a Brazilian with a criminal record to take his unemployed circus animals to Ribblestrop. And what is Ribblestrop, you may ask?
"Ribblestrop's a school?" said Flavio.<br>
"Kind of", said Ruskin. "It's trying to be."
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847388124</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Dan Jerris
|title=The Deathless Pirate King (Dragon Blood Pirates)
|rating=3.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Well, after a six-book series, Al and Jack the 21st-Century boys found an ancient, treasured sword and scabbard, but they and their magic are incomplete. Four special diamonds are who-knows-where, but the first just might be found when they try to reunite a lovely, kidnapped princess with her freedom and her family jewels. Standing in the way, a near-undead pirate with sharp blades at the toes of his shoes...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408308231</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Katie Davies and Hannah Shaw
|title=The Great Cat Conspiracy
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Meet the new cat. A vicious thing, it's fond of having a go at any passing human feet, and is even able to stand its ground against the neighbourhood dogs. It also has a great habit of making a mess with its kills, which comes to a head (literally) when the front end of what was the vicar's prize carp ends up on Tom's pillow. After that the cat vanishes. Has it finally met a match? Has it been catnapped - and if so, who is seeking revenge by doing so?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847385974</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Judith Viorst and Lane Smith
|title=Lulu and the Brontosaurus
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Lulu is every parent's worst nightmare. She always, ''always'' gets what she wants, quite often by rolling around on the floor screaming until the light bulbs pop. She is, quite simply, a child in desperate need of Supernanny! For her birthday Lulu decides she would like a Brontosaurus. Her parents, for once, say no, and no amount of screaming makes them change their mind. So Lulu sets off into the forest to find a brontosaurus by herself. The trouble is, when she finally does find one he isn't too keen on the idea of being her pet and actually would much prefer that she became his pet!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857071475</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jessica Ruston
|title=To Touch the Stars
|rating=4
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Cavalley's creates the most luxurious hats in the world along with a host of other items without which the rich cannot survive. At the company's head is Violet Cavalley, now celebrating her sixtieth birthday with her family about her. She looks as though she could go on forever, but Violet and one or two others know differently. There are a few other people who know that Violet isn't who she says she is and that he background wouldn't stand a lot of close examination. From the villa in Capri, to the London homes of the family and the private jet, it's all good living, but there are plenty of secrets which are going to be aired.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755370325</amazonuk>
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