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|author=Alain de Botton

|title=The News: A User's Manual

|rating=4

|genre=Politics and Society

|summary=Alain de Botton maintains that 'the news' has assumed the position in our lives which was once occupied by religion, with some consumers viewing it as often as every fifteen minutes (slight blush there - let's say about every hour...). Furthermore, we do it completely unprotected against every political scandal or celebrity story. The sub-title 'A User's Manual' sets out to remedy this.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00HYGYIGA</amazonuk>

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{{newreview

|title=The Runaways

|summary=Rabbit is a young woman with plenty on her plate and New Year’s Day brings her a lot more worries. Rabbit witnesses a car careen off a bridge into a lake (with fatal consequences) whilst being pursued and is then seen herself by the pursuer. The victim of the crash was a larger than life man called CJ and we follow his son Joe as he deals with the event and attempts to rediscover who his father was.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0434022039</amazonuk>

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~~|author=Robert A Caro~~

~~|title=The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Means of Ascent~~

~~|rating=5~~

~~|genre=Biography~~

|summary=It's only a matter of days since I finished listening to [[The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power by Robert A Caro|The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power]], the first part of Robert A Caro's definitive work on the President and despite having just spent over forty hours on the book I wanted to learn more. I was torn though - the second book in a series is not often as good as the first and it struck me that these might not be the most exciting years in Johnson's life. Was this book going to be the link which took us on to the more exciting times? Not a bit of it.

~~|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00GSHD0U6</amazonuk>~~

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