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|author=Christopher McGrath

|title=Mr Darley's Arabian: High Life, Low Life, Sporting Life: A History of Racing in 25 Horses

|rating=5

|genre=Sport

|summary=All thoroughbred racehorses are descended from one of just three stallions which came to England about three hundred years ago; The Byerley Turk, The Darley Arabian and The Godolphin Arabian. The last century or so has seen a decline in the lines from the first and last of these stallions, to the extent that some 95% of all thoroughbreds worldwide - not just in England - are descended from The Darley Arabian, which was originally bought in Aleppo from Bedouin tribesmen and shipped to Yorkshire in 1704, by Thomas Darley, who died, in difficult financial circumstances before he could follow his horse home.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848549830</amazonuk>

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|author=Carys Bray

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473625335</amazonuk>

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~~|author=Aleksandra Mizielinski, Daniel Mizielinski and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)~~

~~|title=Under Earth, Under Water~~

~~|rating=5~~

~~|genre=Children's Non-Fiction~~

|summary=One of the major remits of children's non-fiction books is to get them to look around them and gain a better understanding of what they're seeing. After a volume such as this, the obvious response is to see that as an incredibly narrow focus. For this book will take the reader and show them exactly what they can't see – from microscopic things living in soil even seasoned Scrabble players haven't heard of, right down to the fish swimming their way towards the Mariana Trench, the deepest section of sea on earth. Make no bones about it, this book is entirely focused on what is beneath our feet and sea levels, and – no pie in the sky response this – it is a winner.

~~|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783703644</amazonuk>~~

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