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|author=John Hart
|title=Iron House
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Hart is already a best-selling author so he has a lot to live up to with his latest book. At over 400 pages it's a big, meaty read. The story opens with Michael, now an adult. In his prime, with the woman he loves and about to become a father: life is looking very rosy indeed. He thinks that he's left his shady past behind him forever. He's wrong. Hart gives his readers a little background info on Michael, the central character, just enough to whet our appetites. It worked for me and I was eager to keep turning the pages. At the start of the book there's a definite sense of something catastrophic about to happen and that it involves Michael in some way.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848541791</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Anthony Burgess
|summary=While Tom's parents have their first childless holiday in decades, our hero is supposed to be staying at his uncle Harvey's flat. Unfortunately his uncle is a roustabout adventurer, and with a clue to a treasure's location is himself going to Peru to seek the rest of the map. When Tom invites himself along he has no idea Harvey is already wanted by Peru's biggest criminal, nor what this impetuous decision will lead too...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849392455</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Kjartan Poskitt and David Tazzyman
|title=Agatha Parrot and the Floating Head as Typed Out Neatly by Kjartan Poskitt
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Agatha Parrot lives on Odd Street, which is appropriate since her story is rather an odd one. Part school drama, part slapstick farce this is a funny, ridiculous romp of a story!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140525596X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Laura Barella
|title=The Little Mermaid
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=I've always found the story of the Little Mermaid to be a rather strange choice for a toddler's picture book since it doesn't have the expected happy ending. Of course that means that usually the ending gets altered, to make it palatable for little ones. This particular retelling for younger children is unusual as it steers clear of a romantic happy ending in Disney-style and actually ends on quite a solemn, sad note.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846433258</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Carol Thompson
|title=Snug!
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=What makes you feel snug? Tucked up like a bug in a rug? Being as snug as a mole in his underground hole? This story looks at all different ways that make us feel cosy and warm.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846433738</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Neil Griffiths and Vicki Leigh
|title=The Scarecrow Who Didn't Scare
|rating=3.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Farmer Wallace makes himself a scarecrow, but the crows and rabbits and mice take no notice of it, eating the seeds and shoots and ears of corn so that when the farmer comes to harvest his crops he finds nothing. He throws his scarecrow into the hedge in a temper and there poor scarecrow lies...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905434928</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Simon Schama
|title=Scribble, Scribble, Scribble: Writing on Ice Cream, Obama, Churchill and My Mother
|rating=5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=The collection has been divided into reader-friendly sections named, for example - ''Travelling, Testing Democracy, Cooking and Eating'', to name but three. As a professor of Art History, it shouldn't come as a surprise that there's also a rather chunky section on Schama's thoughts on the art world. Politics also is a centre-stage subject. Each article is headed with where it first appeared and the numerous Guardian pieces may be well-known to some. So I suppose you could say that this is second time around, for those who missed the first publication. Not a bad thing at all when the writing is as good as this, I'd say.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099546655</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Alyxandra Harvey
|title=Haunting Violet
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Violet Willoughby is the daughter of one of England's foremost mediums. With her mother in high demand, she follows her, assisting in her work as she puts the cream of society in touch with their dear departed. Of course, it's all fake. Violet has spent seven years helping her mother con the gullible into believing she has real psychic powers, so Violet herself certainly doesn't believe in ghosts. Which makes it all the more surprising when one appears to her…
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408811316</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Siddhartha Sarma
|title=The Grasshopper's Run
|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=India 1944, and the Japanese are coming. In a brutalopening, we see the inhabitants of a small village get massacred, and the brutal killing of Uti, grandson of the leader of the tribe who live there. His best friend Gojen escapes, as he's in school far away. On hearing of the tragedy, the youngster swears revenge, and embarks on a journey which will take him across his country in search of the man responsible for his friend's death.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408809400</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Yvonne Woon
|title=Dead Beautiful
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Renee is a normal school girl living in sunny California. On her sixteenth birthday she is drawn to the woods by her house. There she finds the dead bodies of her parents, surrounded by scattered coins, and shreds of cloth in their mouths. The police say they both died from a heart attack, but Renee isn't convinced — something more sinister must be going on.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409530248</amazonuk>
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