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{{newreview
|author=Joss Stirling
|title=Stealing Phoenix
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Phoenix is a thief. She's a very good one, thanks to having some rather useful psychic abilities. Working for the cruel and dominating Seer, she's forced to follow his instructions to bring him whatever he wants – just as the rest of their community of savants are. Then she's told to get something from Yves Benedict, and for the first time in her life, fails to take what she wants. Yves has powers of his own… and he may be the one who's stolen her heart. Can Yves and his family rescue her from the Seer?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192756583</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Kes Gray and Mary McQuillan
|summary=Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat of Jewish ancestry, was without doubt one of the heroes of the Second World War. This book, by one of the war's foremost modern historians, tells the story of his humanitarian work which began with his posting to Budapest in July 1944.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099539136</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Neil Jordan
|title=Mistaken
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The front cover photograph and the blurb on the back cover give this book a misty, floaty, ethereal feel. The story starts at the end, if you get my drift. The adult Kevin attends a local funeral but he's careful to remain low-key, hidden almost. Why is that? And whose funeral is it anyway? As early as page 6, Jordan's poetic and atmospheric style is apparent in lines such as ' ... close to the line of yew trees, were the massed umbrellas of the mourners, retreating, like so many mushrooms come alive in a fairy-tale forest.'
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848544197</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Helen Humphreys
|title=The Reinvention of Love
|rating=4
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary='The Reinvention of Love' is one of those stories that is so bizarre and strange that it could only be based on factual events. Essentially it is a good, old-fashioned love triangle set mostly in Paris in the period from the 1830s to the 1860s; a world where fighting duels is a commonplace event. The triangle features the great French literary writer Victor Hugo, his wife Adèle and the altogether strange critic Charles Saint-Beuve who narrates much of this story, with brief breaks for Adèle's side of events and some letters written by the Hugo's youngest daughter, also called Adèle (but let's call her, as she was known to her family, Dédé to avoid confusion).
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846687985</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Nat Lambert and Andrea Petrlik
|title=Colours Sticker Activity Book
|rating=3.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=It's lovely to find a book – and even better to find a series of books - which allow parents and children to do something constructive together. The first book which we looked at was ''Colours''. On each double page spread there are plenty of things to talk about with your child, stickers to find and put in the appropriate spaces and then a game or an activity to complete. You'll find songs to sing, pictures to colour in and join-the-dot pictures to complete. There are even some smiley faces so that you can reward your child for what they've achieved. They're suitable for the three plus age group and will be enjoyed by both boys and girls.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849562938</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Krystyna Kuhn
|title=The Game
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Meet Julia and Robert. They're siblings on their way to Grace College, an exclusive campus stuck up in the Canadian wilderness. It's a rum place, set by a lake under lowering mountains. It's a place of sudden night-time blackouts, unexpected screams through the dark, mysterious parties clandestinely held out of sight, and pupils declaring it all 'evil', but what is student prank and what is due to something more sinister? And what could Julia and Robert possibly be running from to force them to this strange end of the earth?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907410562</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Wesley Stace
|title=Charles Jessold, Considered as a Murderer
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary="Nothing in recent fiction prepared me for the power and the polish of this subtle tale of English music in the making, a chiller wrapped in an enigma [New Statesman]"
"His handling of dry comic dialogue and cynical affectation is reminiscent of P G Wodehouse… an intelligent, fun and thoughtful piece of fiction [Independent on Sunday]"
Just two of the previous reviews that adorn the back cover of 'Charles Jessold…'
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099546574</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Robin Tzannes and Korky Paul
|title=When Chico Went Fishing
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Chico wants to go fishing with his father very much, and begs him, but dad says no, he will make too much noise and scare away the fish. In the end, Chico sets out to go fishing on his own, and he does really well. This is a very simple story. It is accompanied though by fascinating, detailed illustrations. In fact, it is billed as a Korky Paul picture book, one in which illustrator Korky Paul has done the drawings. I think this is really interesting as often illustrated children’s books are sold on the basis of the author of the text.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192729942</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Elisabeth McNeill
|title=East of Aden
|rating=3
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=It was said that something strange happened to women when they went east of Aden. The normal rules of behaviour seemed to have been left at home and anything – well just about anything – seemed to go. Back in the early nineteen sixties three women met in Bombay. How would they fare in the hot climate? It wasn't just the women who changed when they went out to India, either. How would the husbands of Jess, Joan and Jackie cope when sex seemed to be freely available wherever they looked?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709092458</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Richard Byrne
|title=This Book Belongs To Aye-Aye
|rating=4.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Aye-Aye goes to Miss Deer's Academy For Aspiring Picture-Book Animals. Dontcha just love that concept? He's desperate to be in a book of his own, but he's not quite ready yet. Miss Deer announces that there's going to be a very special prize for the most helpful animal of the week. However, as the week goes on, the parameters of the competition seem to change, and the Rabbit Twins are up to their usual cheeky shenanigans.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192756192</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jan Ormerod and Lindsey Gardiner
|title=The Animal Bop Won't Stop
|rating=3.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=The words are easy to read aloud and would be fun, perhaps, to share with a small group of co-operative pre-school children and try out the suggested movements. If you want to get your kids dancing, this might not be the best choice at bedtime, and my boys are a bit wary of directed activity (so we exercise them in the park).
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>019278014X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Vincent Caldey
|title=A Good Clean Edge
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=After an acrimonious divorce, Vincent chooses to stay with his father and not his mother and sister. As his father works away much of the time, they go to live with Vincent's grandparents, who run an undertaking business. Vincent, a reserved and sensitive child, is being bullied on his way in to his new school by Frankie Lennox from the grammar school, who goes so far as to threaten Vincent with a knife.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408313022</amazonuk>
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