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{{newreview
|author=Jackie French and Bruce Whatley
|title=Queen Victoria's Knickers
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=A message from the palace has arrived! It's from Queen Victoria, and as mum reads it she cries out 'The Queen wants my knickers!' Queen Victoria, ruler of the British Empire, has riches galore, but she has no knickers, so the dressmaker's family set about making her some.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007418310</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Kristina McMorris
|summary=After recently reading Perry's [[Acceptable Loss by Anne Perry|Acceptable Loss]] and thoroughly enjoying it, I was looking forward to reading this book and hoping it would be as good as read. The novel opens with Pitt, Special Branch, in the midst of frenzied action trying to catch a suspect. Suspected of murder, it's imperative that he's caught. They weave between crowds, duck through alleys, but their best efforts are simply not good enough. The man is not caught. He's free to strike again. This all makes for a good, old-fashioned chase as Pitt makes up his mind to board a ferry for France, believing that's where the suspect could be heading. Pitt is extremely thorough and meticulous in all matters of policing but this may very well bode ill later on in the story. We learn of deep unrest in parts of the world: Europe and Ireland in particular. And Perry is good at giving her readers a little palatable history here and there, to keep us all in the loop.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>075537682X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Sabbithry Persad
|title=Garbology Kids: Where Do Recyclable Materials Go?
|rating=3.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=I was once told that a lot of children think that milk comes out of a bottle or a carton and are disconcerted to find that it actually comes out of a cow. The thinking has been reversed in Sabbithry Persad's book 'Where Do Recyclable Materials Go?' It's all very well dividing up your waste but it doesn't make a lot of sense unless you actually know what happens to it after you put it out at the kerb. And it all started when Tiana and Peter went looking for their dog Bubbles who ''loved'' to go running after the recycle truck.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0981243908</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Bernard Porter
|title=The Battle of the Styles: Society, Culture and the Design of a new Foreign Office, 1855 - 61
|rating=3.5
|genre=History
|summary=Back in the 1850s it was mooted that Whitehall required some new public buildings, primarily in the form of a new Foreign Office. Such matters are never quite so simple as deciding on the need and arranging the construction and completion: there was to be debate, occasionally about the need for a new building but primarily about the form it should take and the style in which it should be built. This proved to be acrimonious and devious and came to be known as 'The Battle of the Styles'.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1441167390</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Michael Williams
|title=On The Slow Train Again
|rating=5
|genre=Travel
|summary=A few years ago Michael Williams, the railway expert who's written for numerous newspapers and magazines on the subject, released a book called ''On The Slow Train'' about some of Britain's best railway trips. With far too many journeys to fit into one volume, he's given us a dozen more in this sequel.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848092857</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Peter Gill
|title=42 - Douglas Adams' Amazingly Accurate Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything
|rating=5
|genre=Trivia
|summary=A common question about Douglas Adams’ famous Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy is just why Adams chose the number 42 as the answer to life, the universe and everything. In a charming trivia book, author Peter Gill takes 50 pages or so to look into the story of the book and the author and another 250 to find occurrences of 42 in the worlds of sport, crime, science and a wide range of other fields.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907616128</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Graeme Kent
|title=Devil-Devil
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=In the Solomon Islands in 1960, Sergeant Ben Kella stands out as an oddity in many ways. Trained since childhood as an ''aofia'', the traditional peacemaker of the islands, he was mission educated and sent away and appears to belong completely to neither the modern age nor the old customs. Finding his place in the world, though, will have to wait – because there's a missing anthropologist to find, a rebellious nun to protect, and a murder to solve. Oh, and a magic man has just cursed him. All in a day's work…
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849013403</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Mavis Cheek
|title=The Lovers of Pound Hill
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Archaeologist Molly Bonner had something about her. She definitely wasn't dressed for the country when she arrived in Lufferton Boney and she'd captured the heart of one young man before she'd even walked down the street. She captured another when she offered money to work on the Gnome of Pound Hill, but Miles Whittington was ruled by his wallet and he was keen to make money out of the Gnome. The Gnome, you see, was what might euphemistically be called 'well endowed' and Miles had visions of charging visitors to make use of the, er, fertility rites. One thing was certain – none of the villagers of Lufferton Boney would be the same by the time that Molly Bonner (not only an archaeologist but also the archaeologist's granddaughter) had finished her work.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091931665</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Mark Walden
|title=H.I.V.E.: Higher Institute of Villanous Education
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Otto Malpense is one of the newest students at the Higher Institute of Villainous Education, better known as HIVE. So is his new friend Wing. As you'd expect, neither of them are keen to stay there – although this is less to do with moral scruples than with the thought of wasting six years studying how to be evil when they consider they're rather good at it already, thank you very much. A plot to escape is hatched…
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747597219</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Richard Lucas
|title=Axis Sally: The American Voice of Nazi Germany
|rating=4
|genre=History
|summary=Take one personable failed actress, embittered by lack of success at home in the USA, and conspire to land her living in Germany as WW2 breaks out. What chance her becoming an American, female Lord Haw-Haw, being paid by Germany to broadcast entertaining, dissuasive propaganda worldwide on shortwave radio? Anybody could guess it would take innumerable factors, circumstances and events, and they're all here in this entertaining, eye-opening and educational biography.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1935149431</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Lauren St John
|title=Laura Marlin Mysteries: Kidnap in the Caribbean
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=ideal guardian for the crime-and-detection-obsessed young girl, because his job is swathed in secrecy and involves a great deal of creeping out of the house late at night to meet mysterious strangers. But for now they can both relax: Laura has won a holiday for two in the Caribbean, and all she and Calvin have to do is sunbathe and swim. Needless to say, that isn't how things turn out.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444000217</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Nick Bunker
|title=Making Haste from Babylon: The Mayflower Pilgrims and Their World: A New History
|rating=4
|genre=History
|summary=Using hundreds of previously overlooked documents, British historian Nick Bunker tells the story of the Pilgrim Fathers, starting from the religious climate in England which led to them leaving the country, and continuing through to show how they settled in America, trading beaver skins to let them settle in New England.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845951182</amazonuk>
}}