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|author=Sue Eckstein
|title=Interpreters
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Julia Rosenthal whilst visiting her childhood haunts, is invited to go around what used to be her family home. As she wanders around the rooms, she relives her past and seeks to understand why her parents (particularly her mother) were as they were. Julia also desperately seeks reassurance that she has not, in turn, damaged her own daughter, Susanna. Meanwhile the reader is given the privilege of knowledge unavailable to Julia. Via transcriptions of discussions with counsellor, the reader learns about Julia's mother first hand. Slowly, in alternating chapters, whilst Julia goes over her far from normal 1970s upbringing, her mother haltingly and touchingly reveals the secret life which almost destroyed her.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956559964</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Toby Lester
|summary=The story is told through the eyes of the nameless cat. It starts in Summer when he tells how he loves living at the top of the hill with its tremendous views of the sea and the constant visitors who are only too happy to share their sandwiches and the drips from their ice creams. Life is good even with horrible squawky gulls trying to steal his food. He explains how he used to be a ship's cat until both the skipper and the ship became too old to sail the seas.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842704710</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jermaine Jackson
|title=You Are Not Alone: Michael Through A Brother's Eyes
|rating=4.5
|genre=Biography
|summary=It is inevitable that the books we have already seen about Michael Jackson in the two years since his sudden passing will be merely the tip of the iceberg. Yet for those which comprise and are based on first-hand knowledge of his life and death, there will surely be few if any to rival this account by his brother Jermaine and ghostwriter Steve Dennis.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007435665</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Helen Gordon
|title=Landfall
|rating=4
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary='Most people at one time or another of their lives get a feeling that they must kill themselves; as a rule they get over it in a day or two' ('How Girls Can Build Up The Empire: the handbook for Girl Guides' 1912)
Excerpts from the handbook precede each section of ''Landfall'' and it is hard to know what to make of them – other than to take on board that women are not, by any stretch, the weaker sex, just the more emotional one 'They can even…shoot tigers, if they can keep cool'.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905490828</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Ruth Warburton
|title=A Witch in Winter
|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Anna and her father have just moved to the coastal town of Winter - they needed to downsize. So Anna finds herself at a new school trying to make new friends. So when she finds a book of spells and Prue, Liz and June suggest trying the one which will enchant a boy to love you, Anna goes along with it - despite not believing in magic - and thinks of the gorgeous Seth Waters when she closes her eyes. And it's the worst thing she could have done...
... because Anna is a witch.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444904698</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=James McKnight and Mark Chambers
|title=The Day The Gogglynipper Escaped
|rating=5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=
One day, when rounding up the rather dangerous and often very smelly Gogglynippers, Diggle discovers that there are only nine of the purple monsters, instead of ten.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849564507</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Neil Griffiths and Peggy Collins
|title=Don't Invite Dinosaurs To Dinner
|rating=5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Don't invite dinosaurs to dinner, or take them to the shops… don't take them to a football match, or to sports day, or to the zoo …. In fact, '''DON'T''' take a dinosaur anywhere because, as you will find out, it's a really, really bad idea!
I've got to tell you now, that I really love this book – firstly, the stanzas are the well-paced rhyming variety and not your ''moon'', ''June'', ''spoon'' assortment of verse, either, which was a pleasant surprise and went down very well in our house and secondly there are fold out flaps which are huge and beautifully illustrated, often with hilarious punch lines lurking inside.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905434847</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Elisabeth Eaves
|title=Wanderlust
|rating=4.5
|genre=Travel
|summary=Egypt. Australia. Papua New Guinea. Spain. Pakistan. New Zealand. France. For some that list will be a random list of places, mixing those they know with those they’ve never considered. Others might tick off a few and have the remainder on a ‘to do’ list. It’s probably only a small subset who will have passed through all of them, and an ever tinier one who will have spent considerable time in each. Canadian native Elisabeth Eaves is one of the lucky few who has been there, done that, and this book is essentially her travel diaries of those years wandering the globe.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1580053114</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Garrett Carr
|title=Deep Deep Down
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Ewan can see monsters, wherever he is. That's not because he has any special abilities - unlike his friend May, who can telepathically talk to the animals, or Andrew, who starts this book a sub-human, with a Hellboy-type mutated and very mighty arm, and demons writhing inside him sending him berserk. No, Ewan can see monsters everywhere he looks because life is like that - especially adults. So when May decides a fabled pool of magical water is what can cure Andrew, they go and find an idyllic place of long life, peace and Utopia. And still Ewan can see monsters. But which side is of more danger to the other?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847386008</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Gavin James Bower
|title=Made in Britain
|rating=2
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=The settings of the intertwined tales of Russell, the working class swot trapped by his conditions, Charlie, the heroic 'lad' who gets caught in the drugs scene and Hayley the naïve wannabee with a single parent father are the school rooms and backstreets, flats, pubs and clubs of Every Town, the vision of twenty-first century deprivation that Bower conjures. Or rather fails to conjure, for the device of making the 16 year olds tell the story from their own first person narrative deprives the reader of a genuine sense of the physical reality in which this story unfolds.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0704372290</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Pauline Fisk
|title=Midnight Blue
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Bonnie has finally got away from Grandbag and Aunt Doreen and gone to live with her - very young - mother, Maybelle. Maybelle may be nervous and insecure but she brims over with love. And love is something Grandbag doesn't understand too well at all. For Grandbag, it's all about control and possession. But for Maybelle, it's about sharing, bright colours, pretty plants and pancakes for breakfast. Finally, there's some optimism in Bonnie's life.
But it doesn't last long.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B0062F6K10</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Laura Wilkinson
|title=Bloodmining
|rating=3.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=
Although Wilkinson has placed her story in the near future, for the most part, you wouldn't necessarily be aware of that fact. Personally, I was delighted as I'm not a fan of futuristic fiction.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907335145</amazonuk>
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