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|author=Neil Jordan
|title=Mistaken
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The front cover photograph and the blurb on the back cover give this book a misty, floaty, ethereal feel. The story starts at the end, if you get my drift. The adult Kevin attends a local funeral but he's careful to remain low-key, hidden almost. Why is that? And whose funeral is it anyway? As early as page 6, Jordan's poetic and atmospheric style is apparent in lines such as ' ... close to the line of yew trees, were the massed umbrellas of the mourners, retreating, like so many mushrooms come alive in a fairy-tale forest.'
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848544197</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Helen Humphreys
|summary=Barbara Blakeley, born in 1926, was married firstly to Robert Oliver, an executive, with whom she had a son, and secondly to Zeppo Marx. But it was the already thrice-married and thrice-divorced Francis Albert Sinatra, whom she had idolized as a singer for a long time, with whom she would make her most enduring marriage, and vice versa. They tied the knot in 1976, and stayed together until his death in 1998.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091937248</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Chima Njoku-Latty
|title=Thoroughly Modern People: The Long Way Home
|rating=2.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=The front cover graphics are good: interesting and refreshingly modern and when I opened the book I liked the easy-on-the-eye print format. And I think that's where my positive comments end. The back cover blurb says that this book is ''A beautifully moving story.'' I found it neither beautiful nor moving, I'm afraid.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956600107</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Britta Teckentrup
|title=The Wheels on the Bus
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=I doubt that there are many parents who've not sung ''The Wheels on the Bus'' to their child at some point. I've heard it chanted in an attempt to get a fractious child to settle and I've often wondered why it is that no one seems to know all the words. Most parents never seem to get past the wheels going round and round but Britta Teckentrup has produced a book with cut-outs to take us through all the words as all the animals take the bus to the playground.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408314401</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Catherine Bruton
|title=We Can Be Heroes
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Ben is spending the summer with his grandparents because his mother is ill again. She won't stop going out for runs and is not eating properly. She's gone back to stressing out about having the "right" cutlery and worrying about technology and health hazards. And her beautiful hair has started falling out. Ben's father was killed in the 9/11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and with his mother incommunicado, he's feeling very lonely indeed.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405256524</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Anna Burley
|title=Bipolar Parent
|rating=3
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=Anna Burley keeps telling herself that she is a responsible adult now and works on the idea that most people would see her as a normal, well-grounded person. What people ''don't'' see is the story of her childhood. She wrote it down to get rid of it, to get it out her system and rid herself of those pockets of pain which live under her skin. She's decided that she's not going to run from it all any longer. ''Bipolar Parent'' is the story of her childhood and the parent who had such an influence in making her into what she is today.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1456775332</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=David McKee
|title=Elmer and the Hippos
|rating=4.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=One day, just as Elmer was having a chat with Lion and Tiger, three angry elephants came by. The hippos had come to live in their river and they were worried that it would be crowded. Elmer was instructed to go and tell them to go. Elmer the patchwork elephant isn't like that though. He went to chat to the hippos and found that they'd come to this river because their river had dried up – and they really did need a river. Elmer went off to investigate the problem. Sure enough the hippos' river was completely dry.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184270981X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Rachel Renee Russell
|title=Dork Diaries: Pop Star
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=When I saw that both the [[Dork Diaries by Rachel Renee Russell|first]] and [[Dork Diaries: Party Time by Rachel Renee Russell|second]] books in this series had already been put into [[Double Dork Diaries: Two Tales from a Not-so-fabulous Life by Rachel Renee Russell|one compendium]], I wondered quite why. Were they not selling quite as I expected they would, despite their breeziness and simple charms for the beginner reader? Would the third book prove to be a major change in format, hence an early wrapping-up? Well, the answers are in here - as are all those assets, and no real surprises or alterations.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857071181</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Rebecca Makkai
|title=The Borrower
|rating=3.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=I read the front cover blurb and didn't quite get it 'She borrowed a child. He stole her.' I don't mind 'not getting it' in the slightest as it just makes me want to read the book even more. So I was keen to get stuck into this debut novel.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0434021008</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Manuel de Lope and John Cullen (Translator)
|title=The Wrong Blood
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Although de Lope has written over a dozen novels, this is the first to be translated into English. The cover is as pretty as a picture and screams 'Spanish.' So far, so good. But I have to admit that on the whole most of the European novels I've read over the last year or so, have fallen short of the mark for me. Will this one prove to be different?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099551853</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=N M Browne
|title=Wolf Blood
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Trista is a Celtic warrior girl and seeress. Her visions are always horrifying, full of blood and death. And one of her premonitions tells her she must escape from the tribe who have captured and enslaved her, for their time is running out. Fleeing into the snowy forest, she runs straight into two Roman soldiers and thinks this time the game is surely up. Surely she cannot survive a second time? But one of the soldiers has a secret - he is a shapeshifter. Part wolf, part man, Morcant also has both Roman Celtic blood in his veins and he has never felt truly at home in either world.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140881255X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Isabel Ashdown
|title=Hurry Up And Wait
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Ashdown won the Observer Best Debut Novels of the Year with her book [[Glasshopper by Isabel Ashdown|Glasshopper]], an excerpt of which is given at the back of this book. I decided to read it first and I must say that I immediately warmed to Ashown's style of writing. She seems to have a knack for down-to-earth language especially with teenagers and young people. So, I was really looking forward to this book but I was also conscious of the fact that it had a lot to live up to. Will she be able to deliver?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956251552</amazonuk>
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