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|author=Jonathan Litton and Thomas Hegbrook
|title=The Earth Book: A World of Exploration and Wonder
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=The Earth. I kind of quite like it, you know – it seems to serve my purpose. I don't think I've taken too much out of it, all told, and if it's divided up into 200 countries I'm getting close to having visited a quarter of them. But way back when I just didn't get on with studying it. I didn't like geography – what with having to draw maps, oxbow lakes and whatnot I think it was one of those subjects I was put off through the pictorial element – and dropped it as soon as I could. But then, I didn't have the likes of this book to inspire me…
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848575246</amazonuk>
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|author=T K Williams-Nelson
|summary= The Darker Shade of Magic trilogy concludes by continuing with the story of Lila Bard, finding her way through the different Londons', one with magic, one without magic, a London where magic has near enough destroyed their world and the last London, which balances precariously on the edge of oblivion.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0765387468</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author= David Szalay
|title= All That Man Is
|rating= 5
|genre= Literary Fiction
|summary= Two teenage boys on an Inter Rail trip around Europe find themselves staying with a frustrated housewife on the outskirts of Prague, a driftless young Frenchman discovers sexual fulfilment on a package holiday in Cyprus, a lovestruck Hungarian minder is embroiled in a prostitution racket at an upmarket London hotel, a Belgian academic is forced to confront his egotism when his partner becomes pregnant, a Danish tabloid journalist exposes a high-ranking politician's love affair, a property developer inspects a new project in the French alps, a Scot living in Croatia fails in love and business, a Russian millionaire confronts divorce, an elderly English politician survives a road accident in Italy.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099593696</amazonuk>
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