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|author=Erwin Mortier and Paul Vincent (translator)

|title=Stammered Songbook: A Mother's Book of Hours

|rating=4.5

|genre=Autobiography

|summary=A chateau in the country. So far, a fine life behind you. Just 65 years of age. A happy collection of three successful children. Alzheimer's. You work out what's the one bummer in that circumstance.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782270213</amazonuk>

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|author=Catherine Chanter

|summary=We all need maths - or so it says on the back of ''Everyday Maths for Grown Ups'' and whilst you could ''exist'' without a basic knowledge, life is going to be so much easier if you can check receipts, do the calculations for that spot of DIY or work out if the 'bargain' you've been offered really is one. Kjartan Poskitt reckons that very few people are really confident with figures, but hopes that he can offer some help.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178243335X</amazonuk>

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~~|author=David Greene~~

~~|title=Midnight in Siberia: A Train Journey into the Heart of Russia~~

~~|rating=4.5~~

~~|genre=Politics and Society~~

|summary=It's no mistake that the cover of my edition of this book is a photo where the Trans-Siberian Railway is horizontal in the frame. It's well known for going east-west, left to right across the map of the largest country by far in the world. 9,288 kilometres from Moscow to the eastern stretches of Russia, it could only be a long, thin line across the cover, as it is in our imagination of it as a form of transport and a travel destination in its own right. So when this book mentions it as the spine or backbone of Russia a couple of times, that's got to be of a prone Russia – one lying down, not upright or active. David Greene, a stalwart of northern American radio journalism, uses this book to see just how active or otherwise Russia and Russians are – and finds their lying down to be quite a definite verdict, as well as a slight indictment. It's no mistake either for this cover to have people in the frame alongside the train carriages, for the people met both riding and living alongside the tracks of the Railway are definitely the ribs of the piece.

~~|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846883709</amazonuk>~~

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