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|author=Justine Hardy
|title=In the Valley of Mist: Kashmir's Long War - One Family's Extraordinary Story
|rating=5
|genre=Travel
|summary=Kashmir. Is that not the most romantic of names? To those of us entranced by tales from the East, it echoes with the same essence of myth as ''Shang-ri-la'' – and for good reason. Geographically situated in the Himalaya but with the abundant fertility of the valley, lakes and meadows, it should be a kind of paradise. To the people who live there, it once was.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846041511</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Paul Cave
|summary=If you try to read 'The Book of Disquiet' from cover to cover, it is almost oppressively melancholic. Nothing much happens, and what we have is a collection of reveries and thoughts - almost a diary, but not quite - of existential musings about life, loneliness and the human condition. It's so introspective that after a while the monotony of the writer's mundane existence starts to wear on the reader. '''But''' I would urge you not to read this book like that. Rather, dip into it at random and you will find a work of undeniable genius. It's quite simply a masterpiece of modernist writing.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846687357</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Toby Litt
|title=King Death
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Skelton, that's the musician, adores his girlfriend. She's certainly exotic with ' ... her hair ... like black oil flowing over a stone.' However, they are only a heartbeat away from breaking up when it happens. What looks like some internal part of the body, animal or even human is hurled from a London train. The pair just happen to be travelling on that very train and they also just happen to witness this unsavoury action.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141039728</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Clinton Heylin
|title=Still on the Road: Songs of Bob Dylan, 1974-2008
|rating=4.5
|genre=Entertainment
|summary=Heylin is also obviously a fan, a very knowledgeable and obsessive one to boot. He has never met or directly interviewed his subject (who is known to guard his privacy quite fiercely most of the time), but his research materials include official recording sessionographies and interviews conducted by others. All this is naturally invaluable information for his analysis and history of all the 600-plus songs the man is known to have written or co-written from 1974 to almost the present day. In terms of his discography, that spans the albums from ‘Blood on the Tracks’, released in 1975 and commonly regarded as probably his best post-1960s set, to ‘Together Through Life’, which appeared in 2009.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849010110</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Neil MacFarquhar
|title=The Media Relations Department of Hizbollah Wishes You a Happy Birthday
|rating=4.5
|genre=Politics and Society
|summary=''What are the chances of change in the Middle East?'' is the question central to this book. Since Neil MacFarquhar spent thirteen years wandering the length and breadth of the Islamic stronghold of the Middle East, I feel inclined to believe his in-depth assessment. In descriptive and reasoned terms, he identifies conservative forces which predominate in the region, primarily the religious and political machinery which condemns liberalization and modernization. This discussion of attempts to promote change, for example by individual dissidents or the media, is strengthened in the second half of the book by detailed case studies of six nations with particular reference to their readiness and motivation for change.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1586488112</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jojo Moyes
|title=The Horse Dancer
|rating=4
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Only two things in life matter to fourteen-year-old Sarah: her horse Boo and her grandfather Henri Lachapelle. Henri sees Sarah's skill at horsemanship as her way out of their inner city London life and wants her to follow in his footsteps and become a member of France's elite equestrian academy Le Cadre Noir.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340961600</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Nancy Werlin
|title=Impossible
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Life is just as it should be for Lucy Scarborough. She lives with loving foster parents and at seventeen is looking forward to attending prom with her friends and her date, who has definite boyfriend potential. The only fly in the ointment is Miranda Scarborough, Lucy's birth mother who, having given birth to Lucy at eighteen, promptly went mad and vanished from Lucy's life leaving her in the care of Leo and Soledad MarKowitz. Lucy's life has been plagued by unwanted visits from Miranda who seems determined to cause as much embarrassment as possible.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141330309</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jeanne Peterson
|title=Falling to Heaven
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Emma and Gerald Kittredge are either very brave or very naive. They've made the long journey from America to Tibet. Hardly on the tourist trail and they're not missionaries, so why are they there? This novel is a serious and sweeping narrative trying to answer that very question - and many more.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>185168736X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=David Almond
|title=The Boy Who Climbed Into The Moon
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Paul lives in the basement of a large tower block. He's feeling lonely and out of sorts, so he feigns a headache and stomach ache and has a day off school. Spending his day wisely, he gets to know the eccentric people who inhabit the building, as well as embracing his own eccentric idea that the moon is actually a hole in the sky.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406314579</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Donald Spoto
|title=High Society: Grace Kelly and Hollywood
|rating=3
|genre=Biography
|summary=In his defence, we must acknowledge Spoto's subtitle. It underlines that this does not in any way shape or form claim to be a biography of the American actress who become Her Serene Highness Princess Grace of Monaco. It is an analysis of her film career: a consideration of the "Hollywood years".
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099515377</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Nicola Killen
|title=Not Me!
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=A group of kids are playing, and making an awful mess. One by one they're asked if they're responsible, and one by one they deny any involvement. But have they been caught red handed, and will it really fall upon Jess the pup to do all the tidying up?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405248297</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=John Foster
|title=Whizz Bang Orang-Utan
|rating=3.5
|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse
|summary=Subtitled ''rhymes for the very young'', you know what you're getting with ''Whizz Bang Orang-Utan''. It's a poetry anthology, with sweet poems about kids, what they get up to, and of course whizzing and banging orang-utans.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192729934</amazonuk>
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