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|author=Harper Lee
|title=To Kill A Mockingbird
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Fifty years after its first release, readers are once again getting the chance to acquaint themselves with Harper Lee's classic tale of growing up in the Deep South during the depression. After five decades, ''To Kill a Mockingbird'' still hasn't lost its charm. Even new readers can expect a classic tale full of elements still relevant to this day.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099549484</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=John E Smelcer
|summary=Sisters of Sinai tells the story of two extraordinary, Victorian women who unearthed an important early copy of the Gospels from a remote monastery in Egypt. It hardly seems possible that they organised and executed such remarkable feats of unaccompanied travel during an age in which women's freedom was hidebound by their status as the inferior sex. Janet Soskice is well-placed as a feminist philosopher and theologian to explore their lives.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009954654X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Alex Scarrow
|title=TimeRiders: Day of the Predator
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Liam, Maddy and Sal were each about to die when an old man appeared to them and invited them to choose another fate. And out of the heartbreak of their decisions to bid farewell to their old existence and their loved ones is born a secret team of time riders, dedicated to putting right the chaos caused by those who meddle with time. It is a decision they will sometimes regret.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>014132693X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Kelly Link
|title=Pretty Monsters
|rating=3
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=It goes without saying, but the greatest thing about fantasy fiction is that one can go anywhere with it, and do anything. So a young man can easily try and dig his girlfriend up and retrieve some poetry he romantically left with her - only to have a hairy evening as a result. There can be a psychic link between a young lad, called Onion and doomed to die in a terrorist attack, and his cousin while she works as slave in an odd community of wizards. Several worlds can be accessed through an elderly woman's handbag, for better or worse.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847677843</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Robert Lewis
|title=Bank Of The Black Sheep (Robin Llywelyn Trilogy)
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=The alcoholic and self-destructive detective is common to the point of cliché in crime fiction, but most carry on to take another case, and make a living. Robert Lewis' character's lifestyle has effectively ended his professional career – he was destitute and he is now terminally ill. He has woken up in a hospice, and learns from a couple of visiting police detectives that he is a washed up Private Investigator, who is avoiding prosecution only because he perhaps has a couple of months left, as he is dying of lung cancer.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846687454</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Helon Habila
|title=Oil on Water
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=The book opens with two local journalists on a rather dangerous trip. Zaq, old-timer and cynic but still has the skills to seek out a good story and apprentice Rufus. A British oil engineer's wife has gone missing, believed kidnapped and the two journalists are following her trail. Zaq comes across as an interesting character; all-seeing, all-knowing albeit likes a drink or two. He's happy to impart years of knowledge to Rufus and tells him that ' ... the story is not always the final goal.' What's really important, what the readers want to know and what sells newspapers is ' ... the meaning of the story.'
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241144868</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Ceci Jenkinson
|title=Doctor Doom: Oli and Skipjack's Tales of Trouble
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Eleven-year-old Skipjack is in serious trouble: his team lost a cricket match because he fell asleep, and now Slugger Stubbins is after him. Slugger has two things in mind: to bash Skipjack, and to squeeze out of him the ten pounds he lost betting on the match. Skipjack, therefore, spends a large part of this wonderfully silly book hiding from his nemesis using a variety of fancy dress costumes from his friend Doctor Hamish Levity's shop. Oli, on the other hand, has weightier matters to deal with: he has discovered an International Criminal Mastermind. And because he has always dreamed of being a secret agent, this promises to be the perfect opportunity to try out the practical tips on espionage contained in ''The Good Spy's Handbook'', which he has recently been given.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571249701</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Martin Walker
|title=Black Diamond: A Bruno Courreges Investigation
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Perigord is rightly famed for its food and at the heart of the region's success lies the black truffle. They're exported all over the world because nothing else quite lives up to the subtlety and nuances of flavour and aroma. There are the first rumblings of trouble though – a few complaints that packs of truffles have been adulterated by cheaper ones from China - and there are ominous signs that Chinese organised crime might be behind the fraud. Intriguingly there's another, possibly related problem for Bruno Courreges, the local chief of police. In St Denis market a Vietnamese family's stall is wrecked – and the attackers looked to be Chinese.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849161216</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Leonie Fox
|title=Up Close and Personal
|rating=2.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=I had high hopes for a bright and breezy bonkbuster from Leonie Fox's third novel, having read some favourable reviews of her first two books. The title, cover art and blurb suggest a frothy, fun, flirty and sexy read, so I was very disappointed to find this is anything but.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141037059</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=James Robertson
|title=And The Land Lay Still
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The novel starts ... at the end. We see the fictional character, photographer Mike Pendreich collating many, many photographs which his late father took with his trusty camera. His father is generally acknowledged as the better of the two at the craft; he simply had the knack. And what his son is now in charge of are black and white photographs charting a social history at that time. And we all know that a picture is worth a thousand words.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>024114356X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Damon Galgut
|title=In a Strange Room
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary='In A Strange Room' follows the actions of one man as he travels across three different countries, with three sets of companions, playing three separate roles. Never settled in one place, narrator Damon continually hops from one country to another collecting more stamps in his passport than he does friends.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848873220</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Ben Kane
|title=The Road to Rome (Forgotten Legion Chronicles)
|rating=5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=After years of wondering if their twin were still alive, Romulus and Fabiola happen to catch sight of each other on the docks at Alexandria. Their meeting isn't to last long, as Fabiola is being rushed to safety by her lover, Brutus, one of Caesar's most trusted generals and Romulus has just been press-ganged into an army about to go into battle. However, this chance meeting gives them additional strength, which they are certainly going to need to survive the struggles ahead.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848090153</amazonuk>
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