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|author=Ben Raskin
|title=Grow: A Family Guide to Growing Fruit and Veg
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=I worried when I looked at this book: ''Grow'', it said, ''A family guide to growing fruit and veg''. Why did it worry me? Well, it's a mere 48 pages and the cover says that it includes ''Games, stickers and MORE!'' I have weighty tomes which don't completely cover what I need to know about growing fruit and veg, so wasn't this going to fall a little short? Well, it doesn't - not at all.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782404511</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Gavin Rutherford and Tanya Batrak
|summary= Any weight-related book, whether one that considers issues from a medical or sociological perspective, or one that provides advice on how to eat well or lose weight, whose opening pages feature ''fat people are basically insecure, unhappy people trapped inside very unattractive bodies'', ''Islamic people however are at an advantage as they do Ramadan and they are not overweight'', ''there is hope for overweight and obese people, but I don’t see a way back for the clinically aid [sic] morbidly obese'' and my personal favourite: ''as women’s hands are smooth and soft in many cases, females would be useful behind soldiers to be there as assistants to men quickly reloading magazines of bullets speedily'', any such book needs to provide an awful lot of valuable content in the pages that follow to have a chance of redeeming itself.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524662003</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Dorothy Koomson
|title=The Friend
|rating=5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Maxie, Anaya, Hazel and Yvonne – four friends and school-gate-mums who meet for coffee, wine, gossip and momentary escape from their respective lives. Nothing unusual about that until Yvonne is found battered and half-dead in the playground. Three weeks later Cece moves into the area, her children starting that same school. Gradually she finds herself falling into the orbit of Maxie, Anaya and Hazel and hears what happened to the still comatose Yvonne. Two questions still hang in the air though: who did it and why? The police believe that the perpetrator is one of the three remaining friends and that Cece is in the perfect position to help them with their enquiries… a very dangerous position to be in.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780895984</amazonuk>
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