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|author=Simone de Beauvoir
|title=The Second Sex
|rating=4
|genre=History
|summary=This book was first published in France in the late 1940s and was an instant success. Much praise is heaped upon it as we see from the back cover; but the line which resonates with me, is simply 'The Second Sex is required reading for anyone who believes in equality.' I happily put my hand up for that one, speaking, as it happens - as a 'second sex' individual. It struck me that wouldn't it be interesting to also have a male reviewer give this book his thorough and undivided attention?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009949938X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|summary=Nella Last wrote a regular diary for twenty-seven years. Two previous volumes, also edited by Patricia and Robert Malcolmson, deal with the Second World War and immediate [[Nella Last's Peace: The Post-war Diaries of Housewife 49 by Patricia Malcolmson (Editor), Robert Malcolmson (Editor)|post-War years]]. Now this third book starts with selections from 1950 and covers four years of social change as Britain moves into the reign of Elizabeth II.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846683505</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Marcus Chown
|title=We Need To Talk About Kelvin
|rating=4.5
|genre=Popular Science
|summary=Sporting the best title for a popular science book this side of [[:Category:Alex Bellos|Alex Bellos']] ''Here's Looking At Euclid'', Marcus Chown shows us what everyday things tell us about the universe. You'll find out how your reflection in a window shows the randomness of the universe, how the abundance of iron shows a 4.5bn degree furnace exists in space, and how most of the world's astronomers are wrong about what the darkness of night shows us.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571244033</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Rick Yancey
|title=The Monstrumologist: The Curse of the Wendigo
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=While the celebrated monstrumologist Dr Peregrine Warthrop has spent his life tracking down dark and mysterious creatures, the existence of some of these fiends is too much for him to believe. In fact, there's a split between Warthrop, his former close friend John Chanler, and their mentor Von Helrung over whether
there really are such things as vampires, werewolves, and the terrifying wendigo, rumoured to be the ultimate predator. Warthrop scoffs at the other men's belief in this creature - and at one point in the book gives an interesting lecture on why it's impossible for it to exist - but nevertheless goes in search of Chanler when he disappears searching for it. It's not just friendship that drives him to look for his colleague though, as he's asked by Chanler's wife Muriel - who is Warthrop's former fiancee. The search for Chanler takes the monstrumologist and his young assistant John Henry deep into the Canadian wilderness, but when they return to New York they bring back someone - or something - that can endanger their lives.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847387675</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Celine Kiernan
|title=Moorehawke Trilogy: The Rebel Prince
|rating=5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=After spending the entire of [[Moorehawke Trilogy: The Crowded Shadows by Celine Kiernan|The Crowded Shadows]], the excellent second book in this series, looking for it, the Protector Lady Wynter Moorehawke has finally discovered the hidden
camp of her childhood friend Prince Alberon. Can she, along with her travelling companions Razi Kingsson - Alberon's brother - and Christopher Garron, persuade the Rebel Prince to make peace with his father, or is their quest to end in bloodshed and failure?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498238</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Elizabeth Beresford
|title=The Wombles
|rating=5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=A scruffy, shaggy, slightly overweight, furry creature is riding around part of South London, barely in control of his bicycle. No, not the political memoirs of the incumbent Mayor of London. Better. Far better. It's Orinoco Womble and the gang are back!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408808374</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Kwame Anthony Appiah
|title=The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen
|rating=3.5
|genre=History
|summary=In the Preface, Appiah believes that morality is an extremely important area of our lives as we live them today. He goes on by saying that it's all very well thinking about morality - our morals - our own code of living - but it's the ultimate action which truly matters. Well, I would certainly agree with that. And as Appiah digs deeper into his subject, he tells his readers that he was struck by similarities between, for example, ''the collapse of the duel, the abandonment of footbinding, the end of Atlantic slavery.'' In the following chapters he debates the issues of those three major areas of morality. They were, in short, moral issues on a very large scale.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393071626</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Emily Bearn
|title=Tumtum and Nutmeg: A Circus Adventure
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=I'm a big fan of the Tumtum and Nutmeg stories. They always remind me of Mary Norton's ''The Borrowers'', with the two little mice scurrying secretly around the human's house, helping the children when possible and trying to avoid being seen. So I was excited to read their latest adventure.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405254440</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Hugh Jefferies
|title=Stanley Gibbons Stamp Catalogue Commonwealth & Empire Stamps 1840-1970 2011
|rating=5
|genre=Business and Finance
|summary=Over the years the 'Gibbons Commonwealth' catalogue has seen many changes. This is the second edition since Gibbons compacted its listings to cover the era of pounds, shillings and pence up to the end of 1970. (This is fair as the currency in Britain and various other territories goes, though Canada and her territories went decimal in the mid-nineteenth century). This boundary is extended in a few instances, such as the Barbuda British monarchs series, issued at regular intervals over an eighteen-month period spanning 1970-1, but by and large this is what we might call the sterling era catalogue.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0852597975</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Tony DiTerlizzi
|title=The Search for WondLa
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Tony DiTerlizzi's name will be familiar to many readers as the co-creator of the [[A Giant Problem (Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles) by Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi|Spiderwick Chronicles]], and it is entirely possible that this new trilogy will become just as popular. It is a charming tale of a young girl who has never seen another human being and who has been brought up by a kindly robot in an underground home. Right from the very first pages we suspect things are not going well: lights flicker and malfunction, machinery and furniture is chipped and scratched, and even the wheel Eva's robot mother moves around on is tread-worn. Eva is being trained to go up into the outside world to meet other humans, but there has been no contact from other Sanctuaries, as the underground homes are called, for a long time. Eva will very soon need to go out and discover for herself if there are any other humans on this strange and colourful planet.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184738966X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Alan James Brown
|title=The Tolpuddle Boy: Transported to Hell and Back
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=In 1834, six men from the Dorset village of Tolpuddle were deported to Australia for their trade union activities. This book, written in a very simple style for children, tells the true story of what happened to them, the politics of their arrest and deportation and the campaign by trade unionists and other supporters of trade union rights to overturn their convictions.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905512775</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Alyxandra Harvey
|title=Out For Blood
|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Hunter Wild has always been head of her class at the Helios-Ra Vampire Hunter Academy. Her family takes vampire hunting very seriously – she's called Hunter, after all – and her Grandpa is one of the most infamous vampire hunters of his generation. He believes in staking all vampires, no questions asked. But then, he also believes it's a good idea for Hunter to cut off all her long blonde hair. Hunter isn't so sure on either count.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408807068</amazonuk>
}}