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|author=Bob Servant and Neil Forsyth
|title=Bob Servant: Hero of Dundee
|rating=3.5
|genre=Humour
|summary=After [[Delete This at Your Peril: One Man's Fearless Exchanges with the Internet Spammers by Bob Servant|bursting into public consciousness]] as the scourge of email spammers, Broughty Ferry's resident polymath Bob Servant has returned. This time, he expands upon the colourful life only hinted at in his previous oeuvre, Delete this at Your Peril. And what a life it has been. He steers us from his humble beginnings, his broken family and traumatic schooldays, through the rise and fall of his window cleaning empire, and his role in Dundee's brutal cheeseburger wars. Along the way, we witness his struggles with, respectively, women ('skirt'), his simpleton sidekick Frank, and the demon drink.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841589209</amazonuk>
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|summary=In the final days of the Second World War as the allied guns came ever closer a young German was sent on a secret mission to America. He was only in his late teens but still resisted telling anyone, including the U-boat captain who took him across the Atlantic, about the nature of his mission. Fifty five years later the U-boat captain, Eric Hoest, long settled in the States, was murdered at his beach home. Samuel Grey, police detective and part-time student was called in to investigate the murder. The local police chief thought that the most likely murderer was the neighbour who had reported the crime, but Grey suspected that the truth was hidden somewhere in Hoest's background.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1451579527</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Elizabeth Chandler
|title=Dark Secrets 3: The Back Door of Midnight
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Like the first four novellas in the Dark Secrets series - previously released in two 'bind-up' editions - this story features a teenage girl returning to Wisteria, Maryland and trying to find closure on past events. In this case, Anna is summoned there by a letter from her uncle asking her to return to the place where her mother died so that he can tell her something important about their family, but by the time she returns her uncle is dead, his body found in the boot of a burnt out car. Her aunt seems crazy, and her first instinct is to get out as quickly as possible, but instead she's drawn into the mystery along with her cute neighbour Zack. The O'Neill women have always been said to be psychic, and Anna starts getting her own flashes which may draw her towards a solution - but also further into danger.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857070347</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Kate Slater
|title=Magpie's Treasure
|rating=3.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Magnus Magpie, like so many of his fellow magpies, loves collecting shiny things, including a pinnacle from the Taj Mahal and the queen's emerald egg cup. What he wants most of all is the beautiful, shining moon, so off he flies...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849390088</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Paul Geraghty
|title=Help Me!
|rating=3
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=At the waterhole, the elephants wander by, an impala watches and waits, and a tortoise makes his way slowly to the water's edge. One animal after another gets into trouble, and is helped by an unlikely ally. It all makes for an amazing day with the wildlife of Africa.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842709798</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Gok Wan
|title=Through Thick and Thin
|rating=4
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=Famous for his sensitivity and understanding with women, encouraging them and enabling them to accept themselves, and their bodies, as they are, Gok Wan's autobiography sadly tells a very different story with regards to his own body acceptance. Having gained weight throughout his childhood, getting up to twenty one stone as a teenager, he loathed his body and ended up starving himself, becoming anorexic in a desperate effort to be thin and, therefore, successful. Perhaps this is where his empathy comes from? That when he stands a woman in front of a wall of mirrors in her underwear, he actually truly understands what it is to loathe your own body.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091938392</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Sheila O'Flanagan
|title=A Season to Remember
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=We first meet the Lodge owners, a likable couple. They find running their upmarket country house type hotel both exhilarating and exhausting. The novel is bang up to date so O'Flanagan gets in the whole recession/banker-bashing thing early on. As the festive season looms, the unthinkable has happened. Empty rooms. They're not used to empty rooms, at any time of the year. Normally the Lodge is a full house. But then a slow and steady trickle starts as our characters book in - and the story starts proper, so to speak.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755375157</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=L J Smith
|title=The Night of the Solstice: Heart of Valour
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary='Heart of Valour' is the sequel to [[The Night of the Solstice by L J Smith|The Night of the Solstice]], where Alys, Janie, Charles and Claudia discover a strange, enchanting and terrifying world. The Guardian of the mirror-gate between the worlds, Morgana Shee, had been imprisoned by the evil Cadel Forge, and the siblings were called to rescue her. 'Heart of Valour' picks up the story a year later. Morgana has to leave the children to cope alone as she travels north to battle her arch-rival Thia Pendriel, but dangers nearer home send them off on a quest to find her.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857070525</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Philip Palmer
|title=Version 43
|rating=4
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=Version 43 is a Galactic Cop, a cyborg law enforcement officer sent from Earth to tackle an unusual murder case in Lawless City, a sort of sci-fi Baltimore on the distant planet of Belladonna. He gets sidetracked from his original objective and decides to rid the planet of its evil gang bosses while he's there. A huge war ensues in which all the bosses (and thousands of others) are killed, but it soon becomes apparent that the true rulers of the planet are the dead eyed 'children' he has seen dining in the most expensive restaurants, the sinister 'ancien régime' .
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841499218</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|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
|author=Ruth Brown
|title=Snail Trail
|rating=4.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Slimy Snail sets out on an adventure, up a hill, through a tunnel, and on and on. When he finally comes to rest in a dark cave, we take a look at the trail he's left, and discover just where he's been travelling.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849392528</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Michael Foreman
|title=Jack's Fantastic Voyage
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Jack loves spending time with his sea-loving grandfather, hearing tales of his old ocean voyages, and seeing his beautiful paintings. When other kids in the village cast doubts about whether Grandfather really has ever been to sea, Jack begins to see things in a new light. However, as he's drifting off to sleep, Jack, Grandfather and Grandfather's house are all whisked away on a fantastic voyage across the sea.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849392560</amazonuk>
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