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{{newreview
|author=Michael White
|title=The Art of Murder
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Detective Chief Inspector Jack Pendragon has had a lot of experience of murder but he's never experienced anything like the one he was called to on a wintery January morning in Whitechapel. The man is horribly mutilated but he's held up in a chair and the scene has been set as a nod to the surrealist painter, Magritte. This is art as murder.
Back in Whitechapel in the 1880s the man who was probably the most famous murderer of them all. He's planned the murder of four local prostitutes with the bodies being horribly mutilated. Four, he feels, is a satisfyingly balanced number. This is murder as art.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099551446</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Brooke Morgan
|summary=It has taken three books for Alex to get out of prison. He wouldn't have been there if the powers-that-be hadn't framed him for murder, and he would have found it a better experience were it a regular prison. But no. Over those three books we have seen just what lives and works in the completely subterranean nightmare - The Warden, Mr Furnace, and the evil creatures they are both making, breeding and employing down there. But the whole experience has come at a cost. Alex has been around these evil men too much, and they are changing him too - making him one of their tools. It's only now, on the outside for the first time, that Alex gets a clearer picture of just how many tools there are - and just how much evil has been spread.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571259391</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Philip Hesketh
|title=How to Persuade and Influence People: Powerful Techniques to Get Your Own Way More Often
|rating=4.5
|genre=Business and Finance
|summary=Having just taken up a new management role in a completely new culture, on a completely new continent, I'm well aware that it will be my soft skills, not just my supposed technical expertise, that I'll be relying on for the first few months at least. Thanks to this book, I will be better prepared for the task.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857080423</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Padgett Powell
|title=The Interrogative Mood
|rating=2.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=So, what is a novel? Does it need a plot, climax and resolution? Characters who grow? A setting? Themes which explore the human condition? And must it entertain? Padgett Powell challenges our perceptions of fiction with a book that explores what it is to be a novel, but without any preconditions. How far he succeeds is down to the individual reader. But I thought I'd give it a go.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846683661</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Vicki Myron and Brett Witter
|title=Dewey's Nine Lives: The Legacy of the Small-town Library Cat Who Inspired Millions
|rating=4
|genre=Pets
|summary=Having read [[Dewey: The True Story of a World-famous Library Cat by Vicki Myron and Brett Witter|Dewey: The Small-town Library-cat Who Touched the World]] and having thoroughly enjoyed reading about that delightful cat's escapades in Spencer Library, I was intrigued to discover that the author, Vicki Myron, had written a follow up book entitled Dewey's Nine Lives. At first I thought this might hold many more stories about Dewey but it turned out that this was a collection of short stories each featuring a different exceptional cat. All of their owners had been so moved after reading about Dewey that they felt compelled to contact Vicki and share their stories. Dewey's Nine Lives is a tribute to cats and their owners everywhere.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847378560</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Brian Wildsmith
|title=A Christmas Journey
|rating=3
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Mary is visited by the angel Gabriel and told that she'll give birth to Jesus. So far so good for the Nativity story. Skip ahead to Mary and Joseph leaving for Bethlehem, and that's where we part ways with them for a while. Instead, we travel with their cat and dog, who are left behind but decide to follow. They meet up with the other animals and people from the Nativity story on their way, until finally they come to the manger in Bethlehem.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192789805</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Martin Waddell and Emma Chichester Clark
|title=The Orchard Book Of Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales
|rating=5
|genre=Anthologies
|summary=With ''The Princess and the Pea'', ''The Ugly Duckling'', ''The Tinderbox'', ''The Little Match Girl'', ''The Emperor's New Clothes'', ''The Tin Soldier'', ''The Swineherd'', ''The Nightingale'' and ''The Little Mermaid'', this is a must-have compendium of classic fairy tales. You can't really go wrong with Hans Christian Andersen's best, can you? Martin Waddell and Emma Chichester Clark have not just churned out the old classics, but they've given them an amazing freshness and vibrancy.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846169380</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=David Walliams
|title=Billionaire Boy
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Joe Spud, son of the inventor of 'Freshbum' toilet roll, is the richest twelve year old in the world. He gets everything he could ever possibly need, and quite a lot of things he most certainly doesn't, including robot dogs from Japan, every computer game in the world, an underground 10 lane bowling alley and a private race track along with his own Formula One racing car. The one thing he doesn't have, and the one thing that it turns out money can't buy for him, is a friend.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007371047</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Carl Hiaasen
|title=Scat
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Nick and his friend Marta are ordinary kids. They don't look for trouble, and they don't cause it. But when an unpopular teacher punishes a difficult classmate by making him write an essay about his pimples, then trouble can't be far away. The teacher goes missing during a wildfire, and Duane (nicknamed Smoke, because he has a reputation for setting fires) gets the blame. But the evidence doesn't add up, and our young heroes decide it's up to them to discover the truth.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444000594</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Colm Toibin
|title=The Empty Family
|rating=4.5
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=In his first book since the pitch-perfect [[Brooklyn by Colm Toibin|Brooklyn]], Colm Toibin once more examines the great Irish theme of exile and homecoming in his new collection of short stories, 'The Empty Family'. As the title suggests, many of the stories also revolve around family relationships, and their sweet and sour Nature.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670918172</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Astrid Lindgren
|title=Pippi Longstocking
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=A true classic of children's literature? Check. Illustrations from a modern star with her own unique and delightful style? Check. If you're not already gurgling with delight at the prospect of a Lauren Child-illustrated version of Pippi Longstocking, then, quite frankly, what are you doing at a book review website? Buy it. Buy it now. Buy it for yourself and everyone you know.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>019278241X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Melanie Williamson
|title=Cactus Annie
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=It's Cactus Annie's first day at cowgirl school, but she really struggles to fit in. Her teacher encourages her to believe in herself, but Annie's having a hard time doing that, especially as there are scary rat rustlers on the loose. When the cows go missing, Annie is secretly pleased, as it means she won't have to do any cowgirl things, but she's soon faced with an opportunity to prove herself.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340981415</amazonuk>
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