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|title=The School Inspector Calls!
|author=Gervase Phinn
|rating=3.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=If you've read any of Gervase Phinn's fictionalized autobiographies (the Dales series), or either of the previous two volumes in this Little Village School set, you'll know what to expect here: cosy English fun set mostly around a primary school, full of Yorkshire dialect, quirky characters prone to malapropisms and many 'kids say the darndest things' moments.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444706055</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Emily of New Moon: A Virago Modern Classic (Emily Trilogy)
|summary=Richard House's Booker-longlisted The Kills is a collection of four related books, originally published in e-book format between February and June 2013. In some ways, the e-book format is the natural habitat for House's creation as it includes a largely optional multi-media component to the story. It is a hugely ambitious piece about money, murder, greed, stories and where things start and equally where, if ever, they end. Covering more countries than feature in Michael Palin's passport, the book starts with corruption and embezzlement in a US civilian company working in the re-building of Iraq, and ends with a kind of 'Tales of the Unexpected' story in Cyprus having taken in a gruesome story of murder in Naples.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447237862</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Bertie's Guide to Life and Mothers
|author=Alexander McCall Smith
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=So. Bertie. Yes, dear Bertie finally turns seven in this book! And about time too! His birthday gifts from his parents are perhaps not everything he wished for, nor even what his dad might have wanted to get him, but Bertie's mother, Irene, has very definite ideas about what makes a good birthday present for a little boy. Fortunately for my blood pressure the odious Irene is soon whisked away to another country after winning a newspaper competition, and her stay there might be rather longer than she'd intended...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846972531</amazonuk>
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