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|author=Emily Cockayne
|title=Cheek by Jowl: A History of Neighbours
|rating=4.5
|genre=History
|summary=As Emily Cockayne emphasises at the beginning of the first chapter, almost everyone has a neighbour; if you have a neighbour, you are one yourself; and neighbours can enrich or ruin our lives. In this engaging book, she takes various case studies and anecdotes of living side by side in Britain from around 1200 to the present day.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099546949</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|summary=Rose's mother and Josh's father - both members of the police cold case squad - have been missing for more than five years now. Although their bodies were never found, the authorities have always insisted that they are probably dead. But in the [[Dead Time: The Murder Notebooks by Anne Cassidy|first book]] in this series, the step siblings find information that suggests Kathy and Brendan are still alive. So Rose, Josh and friend Skeggsie are pursuing every lead they have - including trying to decipher the cryptic notebooks they have discovered.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408815516</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Anouk Markovits
|title=I Am Forbidden
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The date is 1939 and the place is what we know as Romania and Hungary. Young Zalman Stern is stopped by soldiers and for a moment he feels this is his last moment on Earth. Meanwhile, not too far away, one moment 5 year old Josef Lichtenstein is playing with his baby sister, the next his childhood is deleted by the same bigotry and blood that deletes her. One day their paths will meet. This is the story of Zalman, Josef, their descendants; their struggles, their beliefs; the cost of escape and the cost of remaining.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099571943</amazonuk>
}}

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