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|author=John Buchan
|title=The Island of Sheep (John Hannay)
|rating=3.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Richard Hannay is feeling old. He looks at himself and his contemporaries and sees a spread of complacency. Luckily - or perhaps very unluckily - an old pledge will come to haunt him. His earlier career in Africa saw Hannay and his friends swear to protect a man from others - and now a second generation of animosity is ripe for Hannay to step in and be a protective detective. Add in a supposed treasure hoard, and who knows where his last journey might end up?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184697156X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Karen Wilkin
|summary=Arthur Claythorne, a decorator by trade finds himself out of work and back home in Plymouth as the First World War begins, along with a stolen copy of William Blake's ''Songs of Innocence and Experience'', a book full of powerful imagery. After being injured in the war Arthur returns home to his wife Queenie May and two daughters, Florrie and Alice, a changed man, deeply affected by his experiences in the trenches and desperate to find religion. Despite Florrie's interest in following her father into Catholicism, it is Alice who suddenly finds herself the object of her father's unusual and inappropriate attention.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848870345</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Karen King and Marina Le Ray
|title=Silly Moo
|rating=3.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=When an apple falls on Cow's head, she gets all woozy so decides to go home for a bit of a lie down. She's got mild amnesia, so she goes from place to place on the farmyard, getting to meet all the animals, and causing all sorts of problems as she doesn't realise where she needs to go.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846669014</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=B R Collins
|title=A Trick of the Dark
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=What if you found a way to cheat death? What if it left you pain-free forever, both physically and emotionally? But what if it also meant you had to split your soul, and that left you unable to touch anyone ever again? After Zach and Annis are dragged to France for a family reconciliation events are set in motion that cannot be undone. Annis sees Zach killed by a the tumbling wall of an old ruined house, yet moments later he is standing, unharmed, in front of her. As she tries to help Zach, and appease her bitter, broken parents, she is dragged deeper and deeper into the horror of Zach's situation.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140880915X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=PJ Vanston
|title=Crump
|rating=3
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=It's Kevin Crump's first day as a lecturer at Thames Metropolitan University - an ex-polytechnic. It's the happiest day of his life, and he can't wait to see all that it holds, and make a difference to all his students. And then it hits him: the relentless pettiness of authority figures, the students who can't string two sentences together, the lowering of standards in search of higher test scores, so more money from foreign students, and political correctness gone (as I believe the saying goes) mad.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848762852</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Rebecca Elliott
|title=Cub's First Winter
|rating=4.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=It's the first day of winter and Cub can't sleep, so Mum decides the best option is a forest walk. Cub is a mass of questions about the new experiences - why are the trees undressed, why can they see their breath, and why are the birds going on holiday? Mum informs and reassures Cub as they enjoy the wonders of nature and each other's company.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849560994</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Gail Carriger
|title=Soulless: The Parasol Protectorate
|rating=4.5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Miss Tarabotti fairly bounces (in a ladylike fashion, of course) onto the page. Her forthright character is refreshingly at odds with the rather snivelling wallflowers of the era. I just knew that Alexia was going to be bags of fun - and she was. She did not disappoint.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841499722</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Ellen Renner
|title=City of Thieves
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=There's nothing better than an adventure story where the thrills and shocks just keep on coming, where you sneak a look at the number of pages left and think nothing more can be piled on the unfortunate heroes, only to see them hit again - and then again! - with shocks and reversals of fortune. At the beginning of this gripping Gothic tale twelve-year-old Charlie has found her long-lost mother, and is about to be crowned Queen Charlotte of Quale; her dear friend and playmate Tobias is still in shock from the revelation that his father is the traitor who plotted to betray their country. The villain, who also killed Charlie's father the King, is about to be hanged for his crimes and the two young people feel once he is dead they will be able to get on with their lives. But mere hours before he is due to die, the devious and complex Windlass escapes from his prison cell . . .
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408304465</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Dai Henley
|title=B Positive
|rating=4
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=Dai Henley counts himself lucky to have been born to loving and nurturing parents. When they discovered that his blood group was B positive they gave him his motto in life, and coincidentally, the title of this book. As he explains, it's not a celebrity autobiography (you might be selling yourself a little short there, Dai) and nor is it a misery memoir. It's the story of a man who has made the most of every opportunity he's been given – and a few mistakes along the way – but he's won through despite the difficulties and played a fair amount of sport too.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907499180</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Alan MacDonald
|title=Arrrrgh! Slimosaur!
|rating=3.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Iggy the Urk wants to spend his days playing boulderball with his friends, and trying to get one over on his nemesis Snark. His dad takes him hunting - Iggy is desperate to bag a woolly mammoth or snaggle-toothed tiger. When they come across huge tracks and an even bigger poo, his dad worries, and Iggy's Grumma warns him about the scary slimosaur that's out there. Life for a caveboy isn't easy.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408803356</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Gemma Malley
|title=The Legacy
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Longevity isn't working. The drug that prolongs life expectancy indefinitely appears to have reached its own life expectancy. A terrible virus is wreaking havoc across Britain and the sluggish immune systems of the Legals simply can't cope. Consumed by a desperate thirst, they're dying horrible deaths, leaving behind shrivelled and desiccated corpses. It's Richard Pinsent's worst nightmare. Not that Richard cares about people dying, of course.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408800896</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Lauren Kate
|title=Torment
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Right, first things first. If you haven't read [[Fallen by Lauren Kate|Fallen]], go read it - or at least read a [[Fallen by Lauren Kate|review]] to see whether it sounds like your cup of tea - because this review will inevitably contain significant spoilers for the earlier Lauren Kate novel.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385618093</amazonuk>
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