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|author=Elizabeth Buchan
|title=Separate Beds
|rating=4
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Annie and Tom Nicholson looked like the sort of people you would envy. Both had rewarding jobs, Tom in the World Service and Annie in hospital management. They had a lovely home and three grown-up children. But all is not as it seems. For five years they have had separate existences after a family row when Tom caused his elder daughter to walk out of the house and never return. There hasn't been a catalyst which would have caused them to separate but Tom moved into his daughter's vacated room and he and Annie have lived together - but apart. It could have gone on indefinitely but then Tom came home one day and dropped the bombshell which could well finish them off.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141019891</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=John Vornholt, Arthur Byron Cover and Alice Henderson
|summary=The reader is introduced to one of the two main characters straight away. George Pemberton. But everyone (even his new wife) calls him simply Pemberton. He's faced with an awkward and at the same time delicate situation and deals with it - with violence. No one seems too bothered, not even the local sheriff.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847674887</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Leigh Hobbs
|title=Mr Chicken Goes To Paris
|rating=4.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Mr Chicken wants to see France, so he reads his guidebooks, learns his French phrases and arranges for his penpal Yvette to meet him at the airport. Ooh la la!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408805243</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Margaret Henderson Smith
|title=A Question of Answers
|rating=3.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Harriet Glover lives with her partner who's reluctant to commit himself to marriage. It's not that he hasn't had time to make up his mind – their two children are at the stage where they might produce grandchildren. His excuse is that he can't see the point as they already share a surname through chance, so what difference would marriage make? Mark's not ''entirely'' insensitive (well, some of the time…) but he can't understand Harriet's need for that reassuring piece of paper. Until then she's going to be wondering if his eyes are wandering elsewhere. Harriet's not entirely immune either: she finds the headmaster of the school where she teaches quite irresistible.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845493281</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jim Perrin
|title=West: A Journey Through the Landscapes of Loss
|rating=3.5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=Where would you go if the love of your life, and your son, both died within a short few months of each other? Jim Perrin headed West - to the scraggly patches of land off Ireland, closer to the setting sun, nearer to the further horizon, beyond the noise, information and opinion of humanity. Of course, that question could also be answered in a more metaphoric way. Jim went inward, before coming outward. He suffered - "involuntarily, the tears have come. Who would have thought that death would release so many.." He also, although he would probably hate me for saying it, went on a "psycho-geographical ramble" - both in life, and in making this book.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843546116</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Sam Miller
|title=Delhi: Adventures in a Megacity
|rating=4
|genre=Travel
|summary=Miller is probably one of the best people to take you on a tour of Delhi. He's not a native so has no in-bred partisanship, but he does love the place so will make sure you do too, but mainly because to begin with he HATED it… so he will understand if you don't share his ironic good humour about the shit squirter or the fact that sometimes the only way to cross the road is to take a rickshaw taxi.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099526743</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Simon Packham
|title=comin 2 gt u
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Sam Tennant is reasonably happy at school, generally gets on alright with people, and doesn't have much to worry about – until he's murdered in the first chapter of this novel. Oh, not '''really''' murdered – his character in a game he plays online is killed. But then, the two who kill him refer to him by his real name instead of his computer persona, and he realises that virtual life has just become very nasty indeed.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848120958</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Lili St Crow
|title=Jealousy (Strange Angels)
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Dru Anderson has finally arrived at the Schola Prima – the main school for the training of wulfen and djamphir. She's supposed to be safe here. Supposed to be. Dru doesn't find life any easier. There's someone who wants her dead, and Dru has to work out who, and who else is loyal to them. Because loyalty is everything in the Order.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849161291</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Caspar Walsh
|title=Blood Road
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The book opens with an extremely uncomfortable and graphically depicted scene of violence, made all the more so by the cool, calm and collected manner of the perpetrators. The episode ends in a bloody death. We're in London so straight away there's a smattering of East End humour with lots more to follow. We're introduced to the main male character, Nick, who's really nothing better than low-life scum. That's pretty clear from the outset. Even although he's old enough to know better he's still scum. Add in the fact that he's a husband (separated) and a father and the whole sorry saga starts to unfold. His wife's sick of him and his criminal interests - and so are Jake and Zeb, his two sons.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755317505</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Max Clark and Susan Spaull
|title=Leith's Meat Bible
|rating=5
|genre=Cookery
|summary=I've been cooking beef for almost half a century and I thought that I was making a pretty good job of it, but last weekend I cooked the best beef I have ever done and it was down to 'Leith's Meat Bible'. It wasn't because I had suddenly found a recipe to top all the others – it was because this book doesn't just tell you ''what'' to do; it tells you why. Because of this I made some fairly minor adjustments to how I cooked the beef – and the results were amazing. It's the ultimate meat cookbook and unless you're vegetarian or vegan you should have one.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747590478</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Harper Lee
|title=To Kill A Mockingbird
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Fifty years after its first release, readers are once again getting the chance to acquaint themselves with Harper Lee's classic tale of growing up in the Deep South during the depression. After five decades, ''To Kill a Mockingbird'' still hasn't lost its charm. Even new readers can expect a classic tale full of elements still relevant to this day.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099549484</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=John E Smelcer
|title=The Edge of Nowhere
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Could you survive in the wilds of Alaska if you were washed overboard from a fishing boat during a storm and somehow, amazingly, managed to make it to dry land? This is the challenge facing Seth and his loyal dog, Tucker. They are out on Seth's father's fishing boat during a terrible storm and neither Seth's dad or his friend realise that the boy and dog have been washed overboard until they reach home and are found to be missing from the boat. A search party is sent out, but Seth is assumed drowned. Luckily, Seth and his dog manage to get to one of the tiny islands that run along the coast of Alaska, and after realising that no one is coming to help them they slowly make their way hundreds of miles over many months. Will they starve to death, or freeze, or be eaten by bears before they manage to make it home?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849391963</amazonuk>
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