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|title=Convertible Spaceship

|author=Claire Philip and Belinda Gallagher

|rating=4.5

|genre=For Sharing

|summary=When is a book, not a book? When it is also a playmat and also a spaceship. With ‘Convertible Spaceship’ you get all three; a book that folds out into a playmat or into a spaceship. Can I hear the excitement from here?

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782094970</amazonuk>

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|author=Antonia Hodgson

|summary=A few years on from [[The Lavender Keeper by Fiona McIntosh|The Lavender Keeper]] Luc the former resistance fighter and Lisette the former British spy have survived the ravages of war and start a new life together in England with their little boy Harry. However Luc can't settle, missing the lavender farming that's in his blood. This is remedied when the freshly transplanted family move again, this time to Tasmania. Nonetheless they still have a lot to learn; the biggest lessons being that no one can outrun the past and that fate isn't always kind.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749015659</amazonuk>

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~~|author=Alexandra Witze and Jeff Kanipe~~

~~|title=Island on Fire: The extraordinary story of Laki, the volcano that turned eighteenth-century Europe dark~~

~~|rating=4~~

~~|genre=Popular Science~~

|summary=I'm fascinated by volcanoes, by their uncontrollability and potential to disrupt way beyond their immediate environment and for years to come, but I've always struggled to find books which were accessible to someone without specialist knowledge - or at least more behind them than my very basic qualifications. Like many people my attention was drawn to Iceland when Eyjafjallajokull erupted in the spring of 2010, not because of the plight of the Icelanders and their livestock, but because of the disruption it caused over much of Europe, I'm afraid. I began to look at other volcanoes in Iceland - particularly Katla, reputed historically to erupt in conjunction with Eyjafjallajokull. It's likely that a full-scale eruption of Katla would cause even more disruption than its little sister - and then I started to look back at other eruptions in Iceland. The one which few people seem to know about is Laki - which might have been one of the triggers of the French Revolution.

~~|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781250049</amazonuk>~~

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