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|title=The Odyssey (The Classics)
|author=Rosemary Sutcliff and Alan Lee (illustrator)
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=It took ten years but the drama contained within [[The Iliad (The Classics) by Rosemary Sutcliff and Alan Lee (illustrator)|The Iliad]] finally concluded, and the few people to survive were able to go back home. Many packed up their black ships and sailed from whence they arrived, although one was not to find the journey so direct. Odysseus, and his command of twelve ships, were to be battered and torn, tried and tested in all manner of ways, before they had any hope of finishing their circuitous loops of the classical world. But for all the threat they endured, something equally base and nasty was happening at the home they so actively sought…
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847805299</amazonuk>
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|title=The Great War: The People's Story
|summary=The return of Lawrence Block's wonderful burglar, Bernie Rhodenbarr, 9 years after the tenth novel in the series, was my most-anticipated book release for an awfully long time. It is an absolute pleasure to report that the character has lost none of his charm, Block's writing is as superb as ever, and the plot is as ingenious as in any of the previous 10. I say that having reread them all in the twelve months before reading this one. This is up there along with ''The Burglar Who Thought He Was Bogart'' as my favourite in the series. For newcomers to the series, I'd definitely recommend starting at the beginning, but if you do want to dive into this one, you definitely can without feeling too lost.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140915355X</amazonuk>
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