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|author=Robert Bausch

|title=Far As the Eye Can See

|rating=5

|genre=Historical Fiction

|summary=''It was a bit slow'' was probably my Mam's worst condemnation of film… but I'm going to forgive her for not appreciating slowness, because it was she that got me into appreciating westerns. Of course she preferred the all-action kind, but through watching those with her, I started to watch and enjoy the long, slow, ones and to appreciate the back-drop to all of that action… and then somewhere along the line I got interested in what might really have happened: not just in the West but the whole of what became the U.S. in the early days of settlement.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408844303</amazonuk>

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|author=Harri Nykanen and Kristian London (translator)

|summary=Meet Tyke Tiler. I first did so a very long time ago – I might even have my copy of the original paperback, with its ending-spoiling cover artwork, as one of the few books I carried over from those days. Tyke is a schoolchild in the last year before big school, and is permanently in trouble, partly due to hanging round with Danny Price. It seems wherever Danny unfortunately leads, Tyke follows – whether it's digging sheep bones out the town weir system, or handling stolen goods when Danny nicks a high-value note from one of the teacher's purses. How is the term going to end, when everything Danny does seems to reflect badly on Tyke?

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571313914</amazonuk>

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~~|author=Helen Eve~~

~~|title=Stella~~

~~|rating=4~~

~~|genre=Teens~~

|summary=What do you get when you mix up Cecily Von Ziegesar's delightfully trashy ''Gossip Girl'' series with Dickens's classic ''Great Expectations'', and throw in a splash of ''Animal Farm'' by George Orwell? A really readable YA contemporary story which has surprising depth and has been one I've been thinking about a lot since originally reading it towards the start of the year. I read Stella for the first time after getting it out of the library, and at the time I was extremely impressed by the voices of lead characters Stella and Caitlin, but had issues with it. On rereading, to prepare myself for upcoming prequel ''Siena'', I think it's one of the relatively few books I've read recently which works even better second time around, although those issues haven't vanished completely.

~~|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447241711</amazonuk>~~

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