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|author=Jhumpa Lahiri

|title=The Lowland

|rating=4.5

|genre=Literary Fiction

|summary=Subhash and Udayan Mitra are brothers growing up in an India growing into its post-independence status. Subhash goes along with Udayan's ideas but it's Udayan who's the radical, fighting against the injustices of an elitism that remains once the British have left India. Eventually they go their separate ways, one studying abroad to avoid conflict and the other becoming more deeply embroiled. Life can't go on like this forever and it doesn't but the reverberations seem to, affecting generation after generation as Subhash realises that the search for peace isn't always an external thing.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408828111</amazonuk>

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{{newreview

|summary=Queen Maeve wants the Brown Bull of Cooley and the lands of Ulster. With an army of 10,000 men, she marches to try to take them by force. The only man who stands between her and her goal is Cú Chulainn, the legendary hero. Can he save his country from the evil enchantress?

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847173381</amazonuk>

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~~|title=More Than This~~

~~|author=Patrick Ness~~

~~|rating=4.5~~

~~|genre=Teens~~

~~|summary=''Here is the boy, drowning.''~~

And Seth does drown. He is alone; taken by the sea, arms and legs flailing and breaking, skull dashed against the rocks whilst the icy water constricts his muscles and breath. Seth is consciously aware of his final moments. His death consumes him with a heavy, confusing blur until… he awakens and finds himself in a desolate, shattered world; naked, alone, starving and alive. This place looks familiar. It looks exactly like the English village where he spent his early childhood before his brother’s accident and his family’s move to America, but it is now overgrown and devoid of human life. It is as if the whole place was simply abandoned one day.

~~|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406331155</amazonuk>~~

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