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|author=Gary Hayden
|title=You Kant Make it Up!: Strange Ideas from History's Greatest Philosophers
|rating=3.5
|genre=Popular Science
|summary=In You Kant Make it Up, journalist and philosopher Gary Hayden takes his readers through some of the biggest and most important ideas right from the very beginnings of philosophical thought up to the philosophy of the modern day. He gives a brief explanation and discussion of each idea, and shows how through the ages philosophers have argued pretty much everything you could think of, much of which seems bizarre to the modern thinker.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1851688455</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Robert Leroy Ripley
|summary=Berit and Justus (mother and son) are waiting for John before they eat supper. He's late. Perhaps he's popped in to see an ex-colleague or nipped into the pub for a quick drink. But neither of these options ring true for Berit. John is currently unemployed which is a shame as he was very good at his last job. He's also not the most social or chatty of men. Some would even describe him as surly and a bit gruff.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749040092</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Laurence Manley (editor)
|title=The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of London
|rating=3.5
|genre=Politics and Society
|summary=The history of London is a long and storied one, and it's unsurprising that so many people have written about the capital. I've always loved the city, its history and novels and plays set within London, so was really keen to get my hands on this new volume in the Cambridge Companion series.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0521722314</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Robert Harris
|title=The Fear Index
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=With the FTSE recording its biggest quarterly drop in years, turmoil on the bond markets and the prospect of economic meltdown and the possible disintegration of the euro zone, Robert Harris' new thriller couldn't be more timely.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091936969</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=John Julius Norwich
|title=A History of England in 100 Places: From Stonehenge to the Gherkin
|rating=4.5
|genre=History
|summary=There are many different ways of telling the history of England (indeed just England, not Wales and Scotland, as the author makes clear). This takes a very simple and very effective approach to the matter, by focusing on a hundred specific places which somehow illustrate the nation's progress from prehistoric times to today, in chronological order.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848546068</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Samuel Beckett, Martha Dow Fehsenfeld, Lois More Overbeck, George Craig and Dan Gunn
|title=The Letters of Samuel Beckett: Volume 2, 1941-1956
|rating=4
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=Despite the title, Volume 2 really begins in 1945. During the war, Beckett was working with the French Resistance, and had to go into hiding. In order to keep the picture reasonably complete, there is a chronology of the war years, and the introduction includes a lettercard sent to James Joyce in February 1941, a pre-printed postcard presenting prefabricated phrases which the sender could strike out as appropriate. During the war only the mildest of family news could be sent through the mail, and even this was subject to censorship. Joyce never received the card, as he died the day after it was written.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0521867940</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Tom Bale
|title=Blood Falls
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=I read and reviewed Bale's [[Terror's Reach by Tom Bale|Terror's Reach]]and enjoyed it. What would I think of his latest? Joe is doing his level best to live an unremarkable (almost invisible) life in Bristol. He uses his brawn to pay his modest bills for rent, food etc. But you could say, once a copper, always a copper so his brain is not idle, it's in constant use. Whirring away in the background and it's just as well. Joe soon senses imminent danger when a couple of blokes stroll by, stop and ask his gaffer a couple of questions. Joe needs to be somewhere else - and fast.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184809325X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
|title=Beautiful Chaos
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Those of you who've been hooked on this series already will remember where we left off. A choice was made. Everything seems to have been changed. And now, we find, the End of Days is near… Dark characters lurk. Some who we thought (or hoped) were gone, have returned. Other things we’ve not seen before are starting to tear the small town of Gatlin apart. The shorthand way of summing up how terrible things are is to note that Mrs Lincoln may be one of the good guys now…
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141335262</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=John O'Connell
|title=The Baskerville Legacy: A Novel
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=
1900, and a man on a ship coming back from the Boer War to edit the Daily Express meets one of his heroes in the form of Arthur Conan Doyle. With similar experiences and interests yet different enough to bounce off each other they take up the idea of collaborating on a plot. When they do fix on time to do so, it leads to literary prospects, which lead to a week's research together on Dartmoor, which leads to ''The Hound of the Baskervilles''. But perhaps in a way that only one of them intended.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907595465</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Kenzaburo Oe
|title=The Silent Cry
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Featuring rioting and looting of corporate supermarkets and anger against immigrants, this is a timely re-issue of Nobel Prize for Literature winner’s Kenzaburo Óe’s 1967 classic ''The Silent Cry'' which was cited by the Nobel committee as his key work.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846688078</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Luke Johnson
|title=Start It Up: Why Running Your Own Business is Easier Than You Think
|rating=3.5
|genre=Business and Finance
|summary=Luke Johnson is one of our busiest tycoons, with a personal fortune which runs into nine figures. He's been the driving force behind Pizza Express and Channel 4 and has a renowned column in the 'Financial Times'. He's done all this over a couple of decades, so he obviously knows what the score is in terms of getting businesses up and running – and then turning a profit. So, 'Start It Up: Why Running Your Own Business is Easier Than You Think' is going to be perfect for my friends Mr and Mrs Cook, who want to open a restaurant, Mr Plumb, who's been havering about splitting from the builder who employs him and Miss Baker who think that our prosperous village is ripe for an artisan bread shop? Well, perhaps…
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670919411</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Elizabeth Chatwin and Nicholas Shakespeare (ed)
|title=Under the Sun. The Letters of Bruce Chatwin
|rating=4
|genre=Travel
|summary=Bruce Chatwin was best known as a travel writer – this collection both confirms his 'wanderlust' but also clearly establishes that his writing was far more of a creative process than the usual journalistic approach to travel writing. Nicholas Shakespeare’s selection and passages of narration makes this a mix of the biographical and the autobiographical, a fascinating insight into a restless spirit, but also into the experimentation and literary reflection that made him outstanding amongst his peers.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224089897</amazonuk>
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