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|author= Peter Ho Davies
|title= The Fortunes
|rating= 4.5
|genre= General Fiction
|summary= Clashes of cultures or cultural enrichment? Xenophobia or embracing diversity?
Today's hot topics focus much on cultures meeting and notions of foreignness, especially in the context of migration. As such, Peter Ho Davies could not have chosen a more current and thought-provoking theme for ''The Fortunes'': through four different stories, the novel documents some of the history of Chinese people in America over more than century. From railroad workers, laundry owners, and prostitutes to film stars and adoptive parents, ''The Fortunes'' tells tales of searching for identity on both national and personal levels.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340980230</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=K S Turner
|summary=Catching up with old friends is a pleasure, and it's good to be back on Scotland Street, finding out what everyone is getting up to. Irene is back, of course, from her travels to the middle-east. Bruce has fallen in love, Matthew and Elspeth have triplet troubles, and somebody has an extremely unfortunate accident…
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973597</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Siobhan Parkinson
|title= Miraculous Miranda
|rating= 4
|genre= Confident Readers
|summary= It's Old Bear's birthday, and so all the other toys are planning something. In fact lots of somethings: gifts, a cake, a proper celebration. It's wonderful. Elsie the elephant has even ''made'' him a present, the talented little thing. But then, as we soon find out, Elsie is good at many things: wrapping presents, baking cakes, blowing up balloons, singing. It's a lovely sunny day, so the toys gather outside but just as they finish setting things up, and just as Old Bear arrives, disaster strikes! Can the toys have a happy ending and find time to finish Old Bear's party?Miranda is a small girl with a big - no, a huge - imagination. She writes stories, tells jokes using wordplay and her favourite part of school is the Word of the Day competition, which she almost always wins. Unless best friend Caroline O'Rourke aka COR or annoying boy-in-the-class Darren Hoey pinches one of Miranda's words and pips her at the post that way, that is. Miranda is also quite soppy and emotional, unlike COR, who is sporty and blunt.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444929070</amazonuk>
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