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{{newreview
|author=David LodgeChristopher Golden (Editor)
|title=Monster's Corner
|rating=4.5
|summary=Morveren and her twin sister Jenna live with their parents in an isolated community on an island off the coast of Cornwall. A causeway leads to the mainland at low tide but at high tide they are cut off. Music is intrinsic to the islanders and Morveren's little brother Digory has a special talent for playing the violin. One day, he will play the special violin of island legend, but for now, Conan's fiddle sits high on a shelf waiting for him.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007424922</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Kevin Brophy
|title=The Berlin Crossing
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=It's the 1990s and Herr Doktor Ritter - to give Michael his full title - is about to lose his teaching job. Although a German national, he teaches English. Apparently the Social Review Committee has been doing some 'reviewing' lately and it doesn't look good for Michael.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755380851</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=German Sadulaev
|title=I Am A Chechen!
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=That exclamation mark in the title says a lot. It says that, in spite of everything, in spite of Sadulaev leaving his homeland, it still tugs at his heartstrings - and will probably do so throughout the rest of his life. The short author's note at the beginning ends with the arresting sentence - ''Sadulaev's work has unleashed heated debate in Russia.'' And I'm thinking, brave author indeed and I also couldn't wait to find out what all the fuss was about.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099532352</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Daniela Sacerdoti
|title=Watch Over Me
|rating=4
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Eilidh Lawson thought that life was finally looking up. She'd struggled through years of failed fertility treatments despite knowing that her husband was seeing someone else. Their marriage had crumbled around their feet – but then Eilidh found that she was pregnant. Despite being only ten weeks into the pregnancy she wore a maternity smock – and that was the day she lost the baby. Months of heartbreak, depression and hospitalisation followed until one day she decided that enough was enough. She was leaving her home, her marriage and most of her possessions and she was returning to her childhood home in the Highlands of Scotland. She was never going to risk that sort of hurt again.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845023668</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Mark Mustian
|title=The Gendarme
|rating=4.5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=There are times when you will want to shut 'The Gendarme' and just walk away from the despair and disgust that this account of genocide engenders. Don't. Ultimately this tale of an old Turk revisiting his terrible past is both touching and important - an exploration of memory and forgiveness that shouldn't be missed.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1851688390</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Peter Englund
|title=The Beauty and the Sorrow: An intimate history of the first world war
|rating=4.5
|genre=History
|summary=In simple terms the First World War, like most (if not all) conflicts has come down to us largely as a four-year sequence of events, an acknowledgement of defeat by one side, and a peace agreement. Yet there are many different ways of telling its history, and as Englund tells us in his preface, this is not a book about what it '''was''', but about what it was '''like'''. Though a series of snapshots in words, he shows us various stages of the conflict and its effect on people. His emphasis is not so much events and processes, but more the feelings, impressions, experiences and moods of individuals caught up in the period.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846683424</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Otto de Kat
|title=Julia
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The book opens with Chris as an elderly man who is nearing the end of his life. Turn a page or two and he is, in fact, dead. Suicide apparently. It's all very sad. He lived alone and a paid employee, his young driver, found him in his study. 'Suicide for the posh' his driver thinks looking at the corpse. But we have to travel back down the decades to find out why.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857050559</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Cathy MacPhail
|title=Out of the Depths
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=It must be cool to have some superpower, right? Be able to fly, or hold your breath for an hour underwater, or see dead people? Hmm . . . not so much. Tyler isn't at all impressed when she suddenly starts to see people who really shouldn't be there, and neither are her classmates. In fact, they think she's either lying to get attention, or she's insane. And Tyler is beginning to wonder if they're right.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747599092</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Colin Cotterill
|title=Slash And Burn
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=The front cover suggests an action-packed, thriller-type read. But I hadn't bargained for the charm similar to [[:Category:Alexander McCall Smith|Alexander McCall Smith]]. So, a light read then, fair enough. And I could tell from Cotterill's one page 'Acknowledgements' that he is a witty writer. And that is certainly underlined by the chapter headings, such as 'Another Fine Mess' and 'Lipstick and Too Tight Underwear.'
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857381970</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Keren David
|title=Lia's Guide to Winning the Lottery
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=
Lia is obsessed with a guy called Raf who barely seems to know she exists. She has a sister who's got some problems at school, a mother who never seems to stop nagging... and an £8 million lottery ticket in her pocket. Suddenly, she's a lot more popular with her family and friends - but is winning the riches on offer all that it's cracked up to be?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847801919</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=D E Meredith
|title=The Devil's Ribbon
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=In the London of 1858, the Irish are the poorest of the poor, despised and feared by the English. They were forced to emigrate from their fatherland because of the famine which decimated the population, and now the majority of them live in filthy, germ-ridden rookeries. Cholera is killing them off in their hundreds, and blame for their terrible conditions is laid squarely at the feet of their English masters, together with those Irishmen who have so far forgotten their home that they cooperate with the oppressors. And as the hottest summer on record drags on, and the tenth anniversary of the potato blight and its horrific consequences approach, the mood in the slums is ripe for violence and murder.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0312557698</amazonuk>
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