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|author=R J Anderson
|title=Rebel (Knife)
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Fifteen years after the events of Knife, the Queen of the Oakenwyld is dying of old age. She charges Knife's daughter, Linden, with the task of finding other faeries out in the world. Knife is now living in the human world with her husband Paul, and her mission to protect the Oak is put in jeopardy by the arrival of Paul's teenage cousin, Timothy.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408307375</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Justin Richards
|summary=''Bedtime'' is a pull-the-tabs book about - unsurprisingly - bedtime. Page by page reveals child after child rubbing their eyes, changing into their pyjamas, kissing mummy goodnight, and cuddling up with teddy. Each pulled tab changes that picture, much like a before and after shot.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747599386</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=John Green
|title=Paper Towns
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=17-year-old Quentin Jacobsen has been in love with Margo Roth Spiegelmen ever since he can remember. It's an unrequited love though - neighbours and childhood friends they may be, but their respective places in the High School pecking order are miles apart. Margo is one of the beautiful ones. She's cool, clever and a trendsetter. Q languishes in the middle ranks with his band member mates, Radar, who's an obsessive editor of Omnictionary (read Wikipedia), and Ben, who wants a girlfriend more than anything, but lacks the status to get one.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408806592</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Susannah Bates
|title=Under a Sapphire Sky
|rating=4.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Marianne Cooper is happy. She has a thriving jewellery business with her best friend Gabby and is six months pregnant with Gabby's brother Jay's baby. Marianne enjoys her passion for stones, her unconventional attitude to life and her pregnancy, and her unique relationship with Jay, but when her ex boyfriend, and reformed man, Paul comes back into her life with his fiancée Sophie and a rare padparascha stone he wants Marianne to turn into an engagement ring, she soon finds herself questioning her decision to reject Paul and indeed her way of life.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099445441</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Tom Holt
|title=Blonde Bombshell
|rating=4.5
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=The blonde bombshell in question in Tom Holt's latest book of that name is Lucy Pavlov. If you are reading this review in 2017 of course you will know who Lucy Pavlov is. She's the beautiful, talented, wealthy, CEO of PaySoft Industries - the revolutionary operating system that is running on every computer in the world. Of course, if that is indeed the case, then we've got a problem. A very big problem. Because what Lucy doesn't know is that she is literally a blonde bombshell - well she knows she's blonde, just not that her body is a shell for a bomb. A very big and a very smart bomb, but nevertheless a bomb. And she's been sent to destroy the planet. It kind of makes Bill Gates seem OK for the time being.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841497789</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Alec Sillifant
|title=Jake Highfield: Chaos Unleashed
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=What's this that Jake is doing - breaking into a building? Vandalising it with graffiti, having ruined someone's privacy and infiltrated something he shouldn't have done? Three years ago he would have been doing this as a yobbish kick, but now he's a teenage agent of a shadowy organisation called the Academy, and people want him to succeed in his mission. But do they all want that? Who are his taskmasters after all? And what does the Void have in store for his future?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845393481</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Rhys Thomas
|title=The Suicide Club
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Craig Bartlett-Taylor's third attempt at killing himself is nearly successful – except when he announces in class that he's taken a whole bottle of pills, new boy Frederick Spaulding-Carter steps in and saves his life. Freddy attains instant celebrity as a hero, and our narrator Richard Harper is as impressed as anyone else.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552774979</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jason Webster
|title=Sacred Sierra: A Year on a Spanish Mountain
|rating=4
|genre=Travel
|summary=Jason Webster and his partner, Salud searched and bought forty acres of valley and mountainside halfway up the Penyagolosa Ridge in Southern Spain, complete with two derelict sets of farm buildings. These ''mas'', or smallholdings, formed the backbone of Spanish agriculture until young people abandoned rural life for towns in the mid-twentieth century. The agro-economics of the EEC enforced obsolescence of the ''mas'' system. As old timers retired or died, their farms were abandoned, leaving most of the land returning to wild.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099512947</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Diane Janes
|title=The Pull of the Moon
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The main story, the events in Kate's memory, is set in summer 1972. Simon's uncle has gone away for a few months and Simon and his friend Danny are meant to be doing some work on the garden over the holiday. Danny brings his girlfriend Kate along, and Trudie invites herself to join them a couple of weeks later. How did a summer of lounging around and drinking with a little work on the garden end in murder? And what can Kate tell Danny's mother Mrs Ivanisovic?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849010463</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Richard Fortey
|title=The Hidden Landscape
|rating=4
|genre=Popular Science
|summary=The purpose of this book is to explore the connection between the landscape and the geology underlying it, which in one of his many vivid similes Fortey compares the surface personality with the workings of the unconscious mind beneath. He starts by describing a journey he once made from Paddington Station to Haverford West, a market town in Pembrokeshire and with it a passage back into the plutonic depths of geological aeons, indicated by the large 60cm monster trilobites that have been found in the Cambrian rocks near St David's. Fortey describes the magnificence of the Cathedral constructed from the local purple sandstone and mottled with moisture-loving lichens. He contrasts this with the anonymous character of a nearby brightly-coloured service station, anonymous and synthetic, an invader cheaply built and out of context.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847920713</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Glen Duncan
|title=A Day and a Night and a Day
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Augustus Rose was brought up in New York, but not in a des res, in an altogether grittier part of the city. ' ... his childhood in East Harlem, darkness framing the blistered stoop, the blinding asphalt, the smell of garbage cans and urine.' He's had an unfortunate start in life. Mother, white, father (unknown) black so that makes the young Augustus an in-between, a not-sure, a neither-one-colour-nor-the-other. Today, in the 21st century, no one would raise an eyebrow, bat an eyelid. But this novel is set in the 1960s where racial tensions abound. Yes, even in cosmopolitan cities such as New York.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847394175</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Garth Edwards
|title=Shipwrecked (The Adventures of Titch and Mitch)
|rating=3.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Titch and Mitch are two little pixies who have run away from home. Through a series of misadventures they find themselves shipwrecked on an island, and the story revolves around them making new friends there. They come to the rescue of a strange coloured seagull, they save a trapped fairy, they play dentist for a little dragon mouse and they aid and abet an intelligent turkey who is trying to escape from the turkey farm.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956231500</amazonuk>
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