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{{newreview
|author=Robert Dickinson
|title=The Schism
|rating=3
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Patrick Farrell works for a company that reclaims credit cards from those in debt. He doesn't particularly enjoy the work, but it gives him plenty of opportunity to visit his schizophrenic brother, Mike, which he does regularly. Mike used to be a fairly decent boxer, but now his only fight is against the paranoid delusion that there are people watching him all the time.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908434228</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|summary= Journalist Zoe Temple can't believe her luck when she's sent to Iraq to cover the birth of an emerging nation, not thinking that such luck can sometimes run out. Mahmoud earns his money driving journalists from story to story, sometimes only just escaping intact. However, the most dangerous thing he will ever do is fall in love. Rick Benes is one of the American soldiers on the news, his only ambition being to get his platoon home safely as Iraq's birth pangs are violent and unrelenting. And then there's Adel, a young Iraqi lad who never dreamt of violence; not until the day that Benes killed his family.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1479352047</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Allan Plenderleith
|title=The Chicken and the Egg
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Flo the chicken lived on a farm where ''every'' chicken laid one egg ''every'' day, except for Flo, that is. She tried everything - you'll see from the pictures that she really did try ''everything'', but nothing worked. Then one day it rained and all the other chickens went into the coop but there was no room for Flo - so there was nothing left for her to do but hide under a tree. As the rain came down, so did something else and a really BIG egg landed right next to Flo. The other chickens were just a bit sceptical (the egg was bigger than Flo), but Flo was the maternal type and she loved that egg and cared for it all through the year. Then came the night when a predator came calling at the farm and Flo wouldn't leave her egg...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841613711</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Tony Judt and Timothy Snyder
|title=Thinking the Twentieth Century
|rating=4.5
|genre=History
|summary=In emulating historians from his geographical area of interest, Timothy Snyder poses questions to, and discusses ideas with, the highly esteemed British historian and writer Tony Judt, best known for his 2005 ''Postwar''. This collaboration of the older and the younger thinker engenders the spoken book ''Thinking the Twentieth Century'', a rather intriguing exploration of said time period. Each of its ten chapters begins with Judt’s narrative of a specific point in his personal life, and continues into debates of specific facets of history; a healthy mix of thematic and chronological approaches is used for the latter.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009956355X</amazonuk>
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