|summary=Meet Dave. The average Joe personified, he sits at home with his internet connection, his comics collection, his dad, and very little contact with anyone else. He is a typical loner teenager, nearly friendless, wears glasses at school - especially around the hot, mature biology teacher who for some reason seems to have maths sums on her blackboard... Until one day he decides to emulate the comics in his collection. The only superheroes in his world are those whose colourful adventures he follows on the page - why not get his own costume mucked up, and go and fight crime?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848565356</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=David Aaronovitch
|title=Voodoo Histories: How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped The World
|rating=4.5
|genre=Politics and Society
|summary=What shape is a conspiracy theory? Unusual question, I know, but I think on this evidence it is round. A conspiracy theory is lumpen, ragged, full of holes, and has a huge circular gap where the obvious and sensible has dropped through, leaving the believer or theorist with the implausible skeleton of what they choose to think instead. They certainly have a habit of coming round in circles - if I mentioned a heinous crime caused by a western leader that killed hundreds or more people, purely to get their way and get a war started, I could be referring to Roosevelt and Pearl Harbor, Maggie Thatcher and the General Belgrano, or Bush etc and 9/11.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009947896X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Gillian Galbraith
|title=No Sorrow to Die: An Alice Rice Mystery
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Straight away, DS Rice has a gruesome murder on her hands. The victim, a Mr Brodie (a suitably Scottish name) has had to give up a lucrative and interesting career due to ill-health. He's now merely existing. He's waiting to die, basically. He wants to die. So straight away, the plot starts to thicken nicely. We're introduced to a clutch of characters, or, more appropriately, suspects. Apart from the immediate family, the extended family, there's also various others, home helps etc. It seems several people have an axe to grind as far as the recently deceased Mr Brodie is concerned. You have to ask yourself the question at this point, who'd murder a frail, almost-dead man? It would take a particularly callous person. Mr Brodie would have been virtually unable to have put up any sort of struggle. It would have been similar to killing a tiny, helpless kitten. He's so far gone, why not just play the waiting game?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846971640</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Ronald Skirth and Duncan Barrett
|title=The Reluctant Tommy: An Extraordinary Memoir of the First World War
|rating=4.5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=Ronald Skirth was one of many young Englishmen of nineteen caught up in the First World War. He joined the Royal Garrison Artillery in 1916, was promoted to Corporal, and sent to the western front. Like most of his contemporaries, when he went he was an unquestioning servant of King and country, fighting for what he believed was right. On the battlefields of Flanders, one day he came across the body of Hans, a German soldier the same age, if not younger. The dead man's hand was clutching a photograph of his girlfriend, who could almost have been the twin sister of Ella, Skirth's own sweetheart. Like two of his friends who had just been killed, Hans had died as a result of the stupidity of others.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>023074673X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Danielle Trussoni
|title=Angelology
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=The Nephilim have lived among the human race since before the days of the Great Flood. Horrific creatures, the hybrid children of humans and angels, their strength, beauty and cruelty are unmatched, and they have infiltrated human society completely. For centuries, a secret society, students in a branch of theology known as 'Angelology', have studied the ways of the heavens and the Nephilim, and waged a secret war against them – a war that has spanned every continent. But the Nephilim grow weak, their blood contaminated by the blood of their human ancestors.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718155580</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Carsten Jensen
|title=We, the Drowned
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=In 1848, Laurids Madsen and other men of the small
town of Marstal go to war to fight the Germans, and an explosion
flings him up to heaven, as far as anyone can tell. But Laurids
returns, claiming his sea boots were too heavy for him to stay up
there – only to be lost to Marstal anyway, as he abandons his family
to sail the high seas.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846550963</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Joanne Harris
|title=Blueeyedboy
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=BB - or ''blueyedboy'' in his online persona - is a middle-aged man who lives with his mother in the Yorkshire town of Malbry. He has a dead-end job in a hospital although his mother would have it that he's of some importance. BB has a way of escaping his rather boring life; he writes murderous fantasies on his website in company with other misfits, some of whom he knows in real life. It might be fiction on ''badguysrock'' but he and Albertine share a troubled history and BB's manipulation of friends and enemies causes his past to unravel.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385609507</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Marcus Sedgwick
|title=White Crow
|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Rebecca is not happy to be leaving London. She's not happy with her dad, she's not happy with her boyfriend, and she just generally an unhappy person. Having to move to a dead-end place like Winterfold doesn't help at all. Her only friend there is a strange girl named Ferelith who one hot summer's day shows her an abandoned mansion where two hundred years ago a priest performed horrible experiments on human corpses. He wanted to learn something from the dead. But what was it? And what does Ferelith really want from Rebecca?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842551876</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Matthew Hooton
|title=Deloume Road
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=A tiny, rural community with a handful of characters is at the heart of this novel. And the thing that binds them all together is Deloume Road. Hooton gives over every chapter (and some are very short) to one of his characters - Irene, Andy, the butcher. Each is very different from the other.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224087657</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Paul Parsons
|title=30-Second Theories
|rating=3
|genre=Popular Science
|summary=Take fifty of science's most thought-provoking theories, and try to explain each in thirty seconds or one page. It's all here, from Schrodinger's cat, to cosmic topology, via the Gaia hypothesis and chaos theory.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184831129X</amazonuk>
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