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|author=John Howlett
|title= James Dean: Rebel Life
|rating=4
|genre=Biography
|summary= James Dean was in a sense to the 1950s what Sid Vicious was to the 1970s – the ultimate 'live fast, die young' character, although as the star of three classic movies of the era he achieved rather more in his short life than the hapless punk icon ever did in his.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0859655342</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Neil Gaiman and Chris Riddell
|summary= I often claim to know most of my history from reading story books (a.k.a. novels). Sometimes, however, you need to know the history before you have a context in which to sit the story. Portugal is one of those countries about which I know quite literally nothing, and in 1975 I was about twelve years old – old enough to register that there was a war going on in somewhere called Angola, but back then, there were wars going on all over the place. Western European empires around the world were in their death throes. Some went more peacefully than others, albeit none of them trailing much glory in their wake.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857054325</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author= Melissa Mohr
|title= Holy Sh*t: A brief history of swearing
|rating= 3.5
|genre= History
|summary= Holy Sh*t as the name suggests looks at both swearing, in Biblical terms, to swearing, also usually in Biblical terms but with rather more emphasis on the act, rather than the deity. This book takes the reader on a journey from the Old Testament, when swearing your allegiance to the one true God was a prerequisite for staying alive, to the Middle Ages where swearing on the same God was punishable by rather grisly death. That takes care of the Holy, now onto the part you are really interested in, the Sh*t.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>019049168X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jenifer Roberts
|title=The Beauty of Her Age: A Tale of Sex, Scandal and Money in Victorian England
|rating=4.5
|genre=Biography
|summary= The name of Yolande Stephens (nee Duvernay) is not that well-known in the annals of Victorian England, but behind it lies an enthralling rags-to-riches saga. How did a young girl born into poverty in Paris become one of the most celebrated ballerinas of her time in England, and after that one of the richest women in the country, with a fortune on her death which rivalled that of Queen Victoria?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445653206</amazonuk>
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