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|author= Sabrina Mahfouz
|title= The Things I Would Tell You: British Muslim Women Write
|rating= 5
|genre= Anthologies
|summary= What does it mean to be British and Muslim? This is a question these writers tackle with stunning clarity. Modern day British society has a varied sense of cultural heritage; it is a society that is changing and moving forward as it adds more and more voices to the population, but is also one that has an undercurrent of anxiety and fear towards those that are minorities. So this collection displays how all that fear is received; it comes in the form of stereotypical labels and racial prejudice, which are themes eloquently reproduced here.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0863561462</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Meg Rosoff
|summary= Bryant and May are back! So the slow decline into old age, with a side helping of dementia, isn't quite the Reichenbach Falls: it did give Fowler a cleaner and clearer way to have Arthur Bryant return to work. A simple ''he hasn't been well but he's back now'' and no more need be said about it.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857523430</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo
|title=Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=It's been said very often that 'history is told by the winners'. Well, too often history, the news and even destinies are written by men, and the proof is between these covers. I didn't know anything about this before reading it, even if it has become the most richly-backed crowd-funded book ever. I'd never heard of the Hollow Flashlight, powered purely by body warmth – which is rich if you're old enough to remember the brou-ha-ha when a maverick British bloke did a wind-up radio. I'd never read about the Niger female who has successfully made a stand against forced, arranged marriage, rejecting a cousin for a fate she wishes to write for herself. My ignorance may, perhaps, show me up to be a chauvinist of sorts, but I think it is further evidence that 'the gaze is male' and that the media are phallocentric. I hope too that this book doesn't turn any of its readers into a feminist, for that would be as bad as the chauvinist charge against me. If anything it is designed to create equals, and that is as it should be, even if there is still a long way to go…
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>014198600X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author= Phillip Lewis
|title= The Barrowfields
|rating= 4
|genre= Literary Fiction
|summary= Just before Henry Aster's birth, his father, a frustrated novelist and lawyer, reluctantly returns to the remote North Carolina mountains in which he was improbably raised and installs his young family in a gothic mansion - nicknamed 'the vulture house' - worthy of his hero Edgar Allan Poe. There, Henry grows up under the desk of this fierce and brilliant man. But when a death in the family tips his father toward a fearsome unravelling, what was once a young son's reverence is poisoned, and Henry flees, not to return until years later when he, too, must go home again.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473636825</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author= Paula Cocozza
|title= How to Be Human
|rating= 4.5
|genre= Literary Fiction
|summary= When Mary arrives home from work one day to find a magnificent fox on her lawn - his ears spiked in attention and every hair bristling with his power to surprise - it is only the beginning. He brings gifts (at least, Mary imagines they are gifts), and gradually makes himself at home.
And as he listens to Mary, Mary listens back. She begins to hear herself for the first time in years. Her bullish ex-boyfriend, still lurking on the fringes of her life, would be appalled. So would the neighbours with a new baby. They only like wildlife that fits with the decor. But inside Mary a wildness is growing that will not be tamed.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786330334</amazonuk>
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