|summary=The Argentinian economy is in meltdown and the streets of Buenos Aires are awash with protestors, but this means little to those struggling to survive in the shanty towns clinging to the city's edge. In the ''barrio'' every day is hard and the choices you make really do mean the difference between life and death. Gringo, a youth on the verge of becoming a man and Chueco, his unreliable friend, both short on options, are drawn to the local gang culture and the seemingly easy money it offers. But, with a turf war brewing, can either of them survive the coming storm?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099552388</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=George Bernard Shaw
|title=Cashel Byron's Profession
|rating=3
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=''Cashel Byron’s Profession'' is the fourth of five 'Novels of My Nonage',written by George Bernard Shaw in 1882. In the preface of the book, Shaw heavily criticises these early works, which were rejected by the publishing houses of the time, blaming his immaturity and lack of experience in life. He was clearly unhappy about the way he had written some of his characters, stating that: '...he has not in his nonage the satisfaction of knowing that his guesses at life are true.'
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848547471</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Michael Rosen and Tony Ross
|title=Fluff the Farting Fish
|rating=4.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Elvie wanted a puppy but she was still rather surprised when her mother agreed. Unfortunately what her mother brought home wasn’t a puppy but a goldfish. Now it wasn’t just a pet to cuddle and play with that Elvie had been after - she’d wanted to train the dog. Being a resourceful young lady she decided to train the goldfish instead. ‘’Sit’’ was always going to be rather more than a challenge, but Elvie discovered that much could be achieved with Fluff’s bubbles. Go on - you know exactly what I mean! Soon Fluff was doing mental arithmetic and finally singing. Before long he was in demand at pop concerts and for television appearances.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849395276</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Theodore Dalrymple
|title=The Pleasure of Thinking: A Journey Through the Sideways Leaps of Ideas
|rating=4
|genre=Reference
|summary=Having recently read [[Pieces of Light: the New Science of Memory by Charles Fernyhough]], I expected something similar, judging only from the title of Theodore Dalrymple's ''The Pleasure of Thinking: a Journey Through the Sideways Leaps of Ideas''. Instead of being a book about how people think laterally, as I thought it might be, it turned out to be something rather different, but ultimately equally interesting.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190809608X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Sue Hendra
|title=No-Bot, The Robot With No Bottom
|rating=4.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=The prospects look good for a story when you're already laughing at the front cover, never mind what's inside. There we have him, our little red robot, holding onto his bottom and giving a coy-looking smile to us as readers. Already we're wondering how he ends up with no bottom, and whether the inside of the story will be as funny as the outside. No-Bot, happily, doesn't disappoint. You can't go wrong, really, with a funny red robot who has lost his bottom can you? Just saying the word 'bottom' to small children usually reduces them to giggles!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857074458</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Eve Ainsworth
|title=The Blog of Maisy Malone
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Maisy Malone - not her real name, she's not an idiot, you know - has decided to write a blog. She's 17, has just dropped out of sixth form because her lessons all seemed so irrelevant, and is now waiting for her benefits to arrive while she's looking for a job. And jobs are hard to find in the current economic climate. This makes life even more difficult for Maisy than it is for Maisy's friends. Because Maisy's father hasn't had a job in years and is steadily drinking himself into oblivion and her dog, Dave, desperately needs an expensive visit to the vet to sort out his leaky bottom.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00A3B4BZ6</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=John R Fultz
|title=Seven Kings: Books of the Shaper: Volume 2
|rating=5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary= Runaway slave Tong suicidally avenges his lost love but death seems to elude him. Meanwhile King Vireon is happily married to the beautiful shape-shifting sorceress Alua, although his sister has problems with her husband, King D'zan. A courtesan is carrying his baby; odder still when you realise he's impotent. The Twin Kings of Uruz, scholarly Lyrilan and war-hungry Tyro, can't agree on how to rule so Tyro's wife Talondra puts a real spanner in the works to force a decision. However bad their lives currently are, evil is spreading through their world like a dark shadow and, to make things worse still, Ianthe the Claw and Gammir the Reborn aren't as dead as everyone supposes them to be. (You'd think the clue would be in Gammir's name wouldn't you?)
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356500829</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Michael Kardos
|title=The Three Day Affair
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary= How well do you know your best friends? Will thought he knew Jeffrey, Nolan and Evan particularly well. Heck, they'd known each other since college at Princeton, before the advent of wives and partners. However, Will's assurance becomes less certain during a golfing weekend. Just blokes together with the WaGs out the way; what could go wrong? Nothing till Jeffrey stops the car to pop into a convenience store and emerges with nothing except the till's contents and the shop assistant he's kidnapped. What do they do? A simple enough question but as the hours tick by it becomes more complicated.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178185081X</amazonuk>
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