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|author=Frank Cottrell Boyce
|title=Sputnik's Guide to Life on Earth
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Sputnik Mellows set himself a mission – to discover whether Earth exists. Now he's found it, he needs to prove it ''should'' exist and, to do this, he enlists the help of schoolboy Prez Mellows. Together they need to find ten things that will justify Earth's existence. If they fail to do this by the end of the summer holidays, Earth will be shrunk by Planetary Clearance as part of the pan-galactic decluttering programme.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230771378</amazonuk>
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|author= Peter Ackroyd
|summary=It's set to be the sale of the century: Russian oligarchs, Arab sheikhs, rappers and heiresses are all lined up to bid for ''The Improbability of Love'', a small Antoine Watteau oil painting depicting a courting couple overlooked by a clown. The painting was missing until six months ago, when Annie McDee bought it from a junk shop for £75 as a birthday present for an incompatible fellow she met through Internet dating. When he didn't show for dinner and the junk shop mysteriously burnt down so that she couldn't ask for a refund, the painting became hers. Thirty-year-old Annie had been in a rut: after a painful break-up from Desmond, with whom she ran a cheese shop and café in Devon, she moved to London and was working as a PA to randy Italian film director Carlo Spinetti. She also acquired an unwanted roommate: her alcoholic mother, Evie.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408862476</amazonuk>
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