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|author=Jules Stanbridge
|title=A Date in Your Diary
|rating=4.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Harry knows that a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle, but she also knows there's a difference between what we need and what we want – and she wants a bloke. More specifically, she wants a date for the latest in a string of friend-and-family weddings, a wedding where, thanks to a 'tricky' seating plan, she will be sitting on the same table as her most recent ex...and his new girlfriend. With no prospects in sight, Harry comes to the conclusion that internet dating might be the way to go. At best, she'll find a guy who ticks all her boxes and will joyfully accompany her to the wedding before they live happily ever after, and at worst, well, she might get a story out of it, never a bad thing for a magazine journo.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755347137</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Diane Harker
|summary=In some ways, the first line of this novel says it all: 'It's hard to sit still when your client is scheduled to die in fifteen hours.' From this moment on, the action comes thick and fast, leaving the reader with barely the breath to murmer 'is it really probable that all this was left to the last day?' However, if you suspend your disbelief, then the author does deliver blockbuster plot twists and twirls that are very satisfactory.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847561829</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Lesley Pearse
|title=Stolen
|rating=3.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=The story of ''Stolen'' is an interesting one. David Mitchell is walking along a beach in Selsey, Sussex in May 2003, when he comes across a young woman – beautiful, half-drowned and barely alive. She is taken to hospital and her photo is featured in the newspapers, as the police hope to discover who she is.
Meanwhile, Dale, a female hairdresser, sees the photo and believes the girl to be Lotte, who she befriended on a cruise they were working on. Along with Dale's colleague Scott – who also knew Lotte – they visit the girl, but she has amnesia and seems to have forgotten almost everything.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718152859</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Thomas Trofimuk
|title=Waiting for Columbus
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=I was hooked instantly by the title. Original, thought-provoking, quirky. The book revolves around a youngish man who has been admitted to an insane asylum (these two words alone make me want to shiver) in modern-day Spain. The staff have their work cut out. He doesn't remember his name or anything at all about his past. He's sporadically violent - and he says he is Christopher Columbus! As the Americans would say, go figure.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330518844</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Julie Highmore
|title=The Message
|rating=4.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=''The Message'' is very much a twenty first century tale as it all hinges on a voicemail message made from a mobile phone. It is also based on the fact that it is very easy to send a message to one person when it is actually meant for someone else. This is what happens to Jen when she receives a message from her husband Robert. There is nothing particularly special about this message; that is until Jen realises that she is not the intended recipient and then it has a shattering effect on her marriage.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755343018</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Dugald Steer
|title=The Dragon Diary: Dragonology Chronicles Volume 2
|rating=3
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Daniel and Beatrice Cook are studying Dragonology with Dr Ernest Drake, and are awaiting the hatching of their very own dragon egg. But suddenly their parents have gone missing, an illness is killing dragons and it all smells of evil dragonologist, Alexandra Gorynytchka. Before they know it, the brother, sister and new dragon chick have to deliver Liber Draconis, the dragon diary, and St Petroc's chalice to Dr Drake in Hong Wei, which may hold the secret to the cure. As the back cover reads: ''The future of dragon kind hangs in the balance!''
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0763634255</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Isabel Ashdown
|title=Glasshopper
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Thirteen-year-old Jake is just like any other boy on the cusp of puberty: new music and Saturday jobs are at the top of his agenda, while girls are the strange exotic creatures that must be looked at but not touched (particularly his pretty Classics teacher). But behind closed doors, Jake struggles to cope with his mother's ongoing battle with depression and alcoholism. His father moved out a few weeks ago. So has his older brother, Matthew. That leaves Jake as the man of the house: the one who must remember to get him and little brother, Andy, up in time for school in the morning; the one making toast for dinner; and the one keeping a watchful eye over his mother to make sure she doesn't get herself into any serious trouble.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0954930975</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Kate Lum and Sue Hellard
|title=Princesses Are Not Perfect
|rating=3.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Princesses Allie, Mellie and Libby love baking, gardening and building respectively. The day before the big summer party, they suddenly fancy a change and all swap jobs. With a hundred punnets of blueberries to pick, a hundred cupcakes to make, and a hundred chairs to build, the children are going to be awfully disappointed if the princesses' new-found interests aren't successful.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747599297</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Avivah Wittenberg-Cox and Alison Maitland
|title=Why Women Mean Business
|rating=5
|genre=Business and Finance
|summary=Do you want to improve your business? Make more profits? You probably need to look at the sector which makes 80% of purchasing decisions, is the majority of the talent and represents 59% of graduates.
Women.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0470749504</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=David Clayton
|title=The Richard Beckinsale Story
|rating=4
|genre=Biography
|summary=A generation probably knows Richard Beckinsale only from repeats on the UK Gold TV channels, and from occasional mentions in the context of 'how great he would have been if only…' In 1978 The Sunday Times Magazine tipped the 30-year-old sitcom favourite as a rising major star of the 80s who would blossom into one of the great all-round stage actors. One year later, he was dead.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0752454404</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Thomas Asbridge
|title=The Crusades: The War for the Holy Land
|rating=4.5
|genre=History
|summary=The word 'Crusades' has been misappropriated and often used in various other contexts over the passing years. In their original meaning they were a series of holy wars during the medieval era between the Christian and Muslim world, fighting for dominion over the Holy Land between 1095 and 1291 as the defenders of western civilization formed expeditions travelling across the face of the known world from Europe, their sole aim being to conquer and defend an isolated swathe of territory centred on Jerusalem.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0743268601</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=M R Hall
|title=The Disappeared
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=We first met Jenny Cooper in [[The Coroner by M R Hall|The Coroner]] when she had just taken over as Coroner for Severn Valley. It's now some months later and whilst she's settled into the job to some extent her relationship with her officer, Alison, is uneven and she's still shaky mentally and dependant on pills to a greater extent than she would care to admit. She's a feisty woman though and determined that she's going to do the job properly.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230709850</amazonuk>
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