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{{newreview
|author=Chris Skidmore
|title=Death and the Virgin: Elizabeth, Dudley and the Mysterious Fate of Amy Robsart
|rating=4.5
|genre=Biography
|summary=When Elizabeth I ascended the throne in November 1558, everyone's dominant concern was the matter of her taking an appropriate husband and securing the succession. The man most likely to become her husband was Robert Dudley, whom she made her Master of the Horse and entrusted with considerable responsibility for her coronation festivities. The fact that he was already married to Amy Robsart did little to quell the speculation, especially since she was believed to be dying of breast cancer.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0297846507</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Ann Kelley
Sorcerer Matthew Swift does not especially like danger. In fact, after the events that led to him destroying the Tower and his former teacher, Robert Bakker, he'd prefer it greatly if danger would leave him to mind his own business, thank you very much.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841497347</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jim Krane
|title=Dubai: The Story of the World's Fastest City
|rating=4.5
|genre=History
|summary=In the 1950's, Dubai contained just a few thousand inhabitants scraping a living. By 1985, it had grown, but Sheikh Mohammed was still laughed at when he said that he wanted to make it a popular destination for tourists. With the addition of artificial islands, the world's tallest building, an indoor ski slope, and much more, it's now one of the world's foremost cities - but as headlines showed last year, the stellar growth may have been extremely costly, in terms of finances, environmental problems, and the quality of life for some of its inhabitants.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848870094</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Sue Shephard
|title=The Surprising Life of Constance Spry
|rating=4.5
|genre=Biography
|summary=The very mention of the name Constance Spry conjures up thoughts of flower arranging and books of recipes from a bygone era. Perhaps it was her misfortune that she died just before television could have made a celebrity of her, as it did of the likes of Fanny Cradock and Nigella Lawson, to name but two. Even so, she enjoyed a remarkably successful career, and the woman behind the public face was no ordinary career woman, but quite an unconventional personality.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230741819</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Tim Bowler
|title=Blade: Cutting Loose
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=''Cutting Loose'' is the seventh book about Blade, the fourteen-year-old anti-hero who has unerring skill with a knife and a past that won't let him go. Blade is coming to the edge of his resources and he can't go on for much longer. He has done all he can to expose uber-villain Hawk - rescued Jaz, talked to the police, given up his carefully-hidden evidence, set a gang war in motion in the Beast. It's not enough, but it's the best he could do and now he just wants out.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192756001</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Susan Fletcher
|title=Corrag
|rating=5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=A small and dirty woman sits in a prison cell. With her bare feet and her matted hair and her damp, filthy clothes, she doesn't wonder at the word ''witch''. She has been called it all her life. Her mother called her ''witch'' before she named her. Her given name Corrag – was a corruption: for Cora (her mother) and Hag (which she'd get as used to as Cora had).
She sits through the snow of the winter, knowing that the sound she hears outside is the dragging of the logs for her pyre.
She was told, though, that a man would come. So she waits for him.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007321597</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Martin Stratford
|title=Double Jeopardy
|rating=2.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Celebrating her release from 18 months under cover busting a drugs gang, Detective Sergeant Julie Cooper meets her cherished Aunt Jo for dinner.
Just across from the restaurant, in a dark alley, a man stands watching.
As the two women leave the restaurant, a motorcycle rounds the corner – not travelling at excess speed or in any other way destined to attract attention – shots ring out. Two bodies hit the ground.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709089651</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=D J Taylor
|title=Ask Alice
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=The central character Alice, has had a humble start in life but ' ... the silence of the Kansas flat ... and the distant murmur of the freight trains ' is not for her. She dreams of the bright lights of the big cities and although she is naive and unworldly, fancies herself as an actress. Painful and difficult decisions are made as she reaches for her goal. Her talent and resourcefulness see her through; give her a modest roof above her head in this precarious profession.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099531984</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Christopher Golden (Editor)
|title=Zombie: An Anthology of the Undead
|rating=5
|genre=Horror
|summary=Anyone who enjoys a good horror story and likes zombie films will love this book, which is a collection of nineteen short stories by a variety of authors. I have to admit that I have only heard of one of the authors before - [[:Category:Mike Carey|Mike Carey]], who writes the [[The Naming of the Beasts (Felix Castor) by Mike Carey|Felix Castor]] novels - but I am not an avid reader of the genre and don't doubt that the authors will be known to readers more familiar with it. Despite this unfamiliarity, I thoroughly enjoyed most of the stories, with just one or two seemingly not up to scratch.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749952539</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Richard Denning
|title=The Amber Treasure
|rating=3.5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=
Cerdic is the younger son of a minor lord living in a quiet Anglo Saxon village in sixth century Northumbria. His people are settled and the Welsh (Romano-Britons) seem contained behind the Pennines. Cedric fully expects to live out his live as a gentleman farmer, hopefully with the beautiful Aidith by his side. But as he listens to the tales told by Lilla the bard, he can't help but dream of following after his uncle, the great warrior Cynric, and finding glory in battle.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849140235</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Abby Lee
|title=Girl With a One Track Mind: Exposed: Further Revelations of a Sex Blogger
|rating=5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=Abby Lee is back with a brand new book that's sure to bring her readers closer to her than they've ever been before.
For those who missed the media spectacle that surrounded her first book, 'Girl With a One Track Mind' followed twelve months in the life of 'Abby Lee', a film runner who became an internet sensation after starting a blog in 2004 detailing her sexual exploits and thoughts. The book became an immediate success with men and women alike and earned Abby a couple of thousand more hits on her blog ever day.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330509691</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Katherine Howe
|title=The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane
|rating=3
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=Connie is doing postgraduate research on witchcraft. Although she is initially rather wary of being asked to clear out her grandmother’s old house, the project turns out to lead to lots of exciting possibilities, including romance and perhaps original sources for her studies.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141047550</amazonuk>
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