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|author=James Forrester
|title=Sacred Treason
|rating=4
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=In London, in December 1563, the herald William Harley (known to everyone as Clarenceux) had no intention of becoming involved in one of the many Catholic plots against the young Queen Elizabeth, but he's unwittingly drawn into one when his friend and fellow Catholic, Henry Machyn, gave him a chronicle, telling him that it hid a secret which could cost Machyn his life. Clarenceux was sceptical until he was visited by Francis Walsingham's brutal enforcers and within a matter of a few hours he turns from a law-abiding citizen into a man on the run in search of clues which will tell him why the chronicle is so important.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755356012</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Elia Barcelo and David Frye
|summary=Consider taking a five day sail in a small fishing boat the height of the North Sea from Shetland, to try and establish, train and supply some potentially vital anti-German resistance in the far, far north of occupied Norway, your homeland. Imagine the sight of heavy naval parades where you intended to land, as galling proof that your intel is ages out of date. Ponder too the fact that you get reported to the Nazis due to the most ridiculous slight of fortune. All your colleagues are dead or captured, your equipment blown up with your trawler to keep it safe from Jerry hands, half your big toe has been shot off, and you're forced to go on the run in one of Europe's last, and coldest, wildernesses. And you have no idea whatsoever quite how bad this scenario is going to get.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847678459</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Anne Tyler
|title=Noah's Compass
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=It's always a red letter day to sit down to an unread Anne Tyler. This is her eighteenth published novel. For any readers not already fans of her books, this American writer observes the ordinary in order to excel at 'making the familiar, strange'.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099539586</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
|title=The Complete Brigadier Gerard Stories
|rating=5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=Meet Brigadier Etienne Gerard. An officer in Napoleon's army, he is a boastful womaniser with a significantly higher opinion of his own intelligence than anyone around him – notably Napoleon himself. He's also brave, resourceful, fiercely loyal to his emperor and any woman he finds himself in love with, and above all, utterly, totally heroic.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847679196</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=G Willow Wilson
|title=The Butterfly Mosque: A Young Woman's Journey to Love and Islam
|rating=4.5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=This memoir is told in the first person so straight away there is a connection with the reader. The story starts - not in Egypt - but in the USA. Willow (lovely name) says she's ''in the market for a philosophy.'' And in this search she is extremely thorough. She looks at mainstream religions - Christianity, Buddhism to name but two and puts them under the microscope, so to speak. She dismisses all of them before settling on Islam. It appears to offer what she is after, what she is looking for, that enigmatic thing. But also, there's some little twist which helps make her mind up. But not before she digs deep and seeks answers to complex and awkward questions. She reads and researches Islam and finds out surprising facts, which she shares with the reader. Willow is well-read and well-educated. She seems set for a good career of her choice on American soil. Why not settle for that? But she's set on travel to the Middle East come what may.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843548283</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Frank Tallis
|title=Deadly Communion
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Detective Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt arrives at the Temple of Theseus in Vienna to investigate the murder of a young woman at the hands of a deviant sexual predator. Discovering the woman died by the unusual means of a hatpin inserted into her brain, Rheinhardt soon turns to his friend the young psychoanalyst Max Liebermann for assistance and the type of psychological insight that only Liebermann, a disciple of Freud, can provide. Meanwhile, Liebermann is already caught up in his own investigations with a patient named Erstweiler, who believes he has seen his doppelganger and that this is a precursor of death.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099519720</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Joshua Doder
|title=Grk Down Under
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=If you'd ever wondered where speed and agility, and a huge appetite for going where he shouldn't and eating what he oughtn't can get a dog, you only have to turn to this book for evidence. I won't let on how a tiny dog manages to get himself to Australia unaided, but he does - leaving his human owners back in England, and young Tim Malt especially desperate for his return. But the dog called Grk is about to find out how dangerous and nasty Australians can be...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842709313</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Julia Jarman
|title=The Time-travelling Cat and the Great Victorian Stink
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Consider cats. Normally they like to leave you things like poop, and dead animals, generally in the middle of the kitchen floor. Topher's cat leaves himself a stone statue version of himself when he decides to time travel to some past time of history. I know - odd. I can also introduce you to a very different Topher, one just escaped from the workhouse in Victorian London - if only he could escape the stench of the open sewers in London, and the hunger in his stomach just as easily. Well, I could - but actually they are the same person, just with a completely different mind. When our Topher travels through time as well - on the back of a bird - he finds himself in the person of the second, historical lad. Will that homework project about Victorian history be enough to help him out, and perhaps prevent a nasty crime or two?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849390193</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Marek Krajewski and Danusia Stok
|title=The Phantoms of Breslau: An Eberhard Mock Investigation
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Eberhard Mock (a name you would not easily forget) is a police Criminal Assistant. He's a single man still living at home with his father and leading a rather ordinary, uneventful life. Until, one day, four young men who are apparently sailors, are found dead. And Mock is asked by his superior to be part of the new murder commission. He accepts and from there on his life is one roller-coaster of events and emotions.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906694737</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Lisa McMann
|title=Fade (Wake Trilogy)
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Janie's story continues. Still unable to control her abilities as a dream catcher, her latest case is proving difficult. Somebody is preying on the students at Fieldridge and the violent and haunting nightmares that Janie has no choice but to watch yield few answers. Being forced to keep her relationship with Cabel secret is putting a serious strain on the pair, and when Janie learns of the terrible consequences of her powers, she wonders if Cabe is just one more of the many sacrifices she'll have to make.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847387365</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Candy Gourlay
|title=Tall Story
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Andi is a young teenager in the UK. She's not very tall, but she is brilliant at basketball. And she has finally been chosen to play for her school team.
Bernardo is an extremely tall teenager in the Philippines. He lives with his aunt and uncle, and keeps on growing. He is surrounded by superstition, since his name is the same as that of a legendary giant who supposedly protected his village during a major earthquake. Oddly enough, there have not been any earthquakes for some years... ever since Bernardo had his first dramatic growth spurt.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385618948</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Gregg Wallace
|title=Gregg's Favourite Puddings
|rating=4
|genre=Cookery
|summary=Anyone who has watched Gregg Wallace on ''MasterChef'' will be aware of his passion (and that is ''not'' putting it too strongly) for puddings. He's never lost his sweet tooth and, unlike many men, is not afraid to admit it. He takes a child-like delight in the final course and has been known to go against the professional judge if something particularly appeals to him: he's salvaged the pride of many a contestant with his ''yummy''.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>060062143X</amazonuk>
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