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{{newreview
|title=Nonsense Limericks (Faber Children's Classics)
|author=Edward Lear and Arthur Robins (illustrator)
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse
|summary=There was a young man whose critique<br>
Of this book was submitted one week<br>
When they asked 'Was it fine?'<br>
He said 'No denyin' –<br>
'There's very little here they could tweak!'
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571302262</amazonuk>
}}
 
{{newreview
|title=A Tour of Bones: Facing Fear and Looking for Life
|summary=It's a little bit different in the UK but in Paris intellectuals are lauded in much the same way as rock stars. Jean-Jacques Marsay is a philosopher and equally as famous as his wife, the beautiful and talented actress, Carine Dufour. Marsay is writing a book about ''Appoghiu Terra'' - an eco-terrorist organisation - and its leader Gabriel Agostini. His editor is Virginie Desmoulins - or rather was - because Virginie was murdered at her flat in a rather unusual way. The case is being investigated by Captain Franck Guerin of the ''Brigade Criminelle'' and he and Agostini have a history. Agostini shot and seriously wounded Guerin when Guerin was with his previous employers, the French version of the security services. He was moved on to the ''Brigade Criminelle'' when it was thought that he might have become just a little too sympathetic to Agostini - and Agostini to him.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956251889</amazonuk>
}}
 
{{newreview
|author=Pamela O'Cuneen
|title=Hummingbirds in My Hair: Adventures of a Diplomatic Wife in the Caribbean
|rating=4
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=Pamela O'Cuneen was what is known in the business as a 'diplomatic wife': the spouse of a diplomat sent abroad to represent his country. It's generally unpaid and extremely hard work - I've always thought of it as one of the original BOGOF deals. When we first meet Pamela she and her husband, KJ, have been transferred from their beloved Africa to Suriname, or ''Suri-where?'' as people always responded when it was mentioned to them. It ''used'' to be Dutch Guyana on the Caribbean coast of South America and there are few people who would think of it in terms of a holiday destination.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0704373637</amazonuk>
}}