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|author=Tishani Doshi
|title=The Pleasure Seekers
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Essentially this is a love story between two people - Babo from Madras and Sian from small-town Wales. You could argue that two more disparate cultures would be hard to imagine. Factor in that the novel opens in the heady, free love days of the 1960s and a very entertaining story starts to unfold.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747590923</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Bonnie Hearn Hill
|summary=September 1989: It is a few months after the Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing, China. Aysha is teaching English at a private language school in New York City. She makes friends with some of her students. Da Ge is angry and disruptive yet attractive and interesting at the same time, and they quickly become involved, although his interest in her is not as romantic as, perhaps, she would like it to be. He asks her to marry him so he can stay in the country. Aysha agrees, although there is still a lot she does not know about the mysterious, unstable Da Ge.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715638998</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Nicola Morgan
|title=Wasted
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Jess wants to study music. She's a wonderful singer. And so a chance encounter with Jack, who needs a singer for his band, is exactly the happenstance she'd hoped for. Even better that Jack is so charming and handsome and charismatic. And still better that he feels the same attraction to her. How lucky can a girl get? Jack believes in luck. In fact, he lives his life by it. He doesn't do a thing unless his coin says he can. Newly in love, Jess is slowly drawn into his game of chance. Although it worries her a little, she can't know that a time will come when the toss of a coin is the difference between life and death.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406321958</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Patrick Ness
|title=Monsters of Men (Chaos Walking)
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Noise - visible thought - dominates the lives of everyone on this settler planet. Noise is used as a tool of oppression and as a weapon. There's a cure, but the Machiavellian President Prentiss reserves it only for the most loyal. The Answer are fighting back against his authoritarian regime, but they've had to make some terrible choices. Between the President's torture and the Answer's terrorist bomb attacks stand Todd and Viola - trying to prevent civil war, trying to hold on long enough for the second wave of settlers to arrive. And then, in the wake of the President's genocide of slaves, the Spackle attack. A scout ship finally arrives, but it may be too late to prevent a catastrophic war...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406310271</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Carl McInerney
|title=The Funniest Football Joke Book Ever
|rating=3.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Who scored the most goals in the Greek Mythology League? The centaur forward. Badoom boom tshhhh. It's a football joke book, packed to the gills with all sorts of cheesiness and silliness. Funniest ever? Perhaps not, but it's not too bad.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849391114</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Chris Stewart
|title=Three Ways to Capsize a Boat: An Optimist Afloat
|rating=5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=Books about sailing fall into two sorts: those written by authors who know what they are talking about, (though sometimes they don't convey it too well) and those who don't have a clue, but like to think they do. Well, Chris Stewart may have started the book with a light and frothy touch as a novice sailor, but he ends up with the credentials of an Ancient Mariner.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956003842</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Keris Stainton
|title=Della Says: OMG!
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Ever since she was four, Della has had a secret crush on Dan, the good-looking and gentle boy who once shared his brand new crayons with her. And now, more than ten years later, he wants to kiss her. It seems too good to be true, and for a while Della fears the whole thing is a joke, set up by mean girl Gemima. After all, Gemima is Dan's best friend. And then disaster strikes: Della's very private and confidential diary goes missing. The diary with all the excruciatingly embarrassing entries about Dan, her family, her friends...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408304279</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Liane Moriarty
|title=What Alice Forgot
|rating=5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary='This wasn't the worst thing that had ever happened to her…it was just the most ridiculous' laments thirty nine year old mother of three, Alice, who has had the last ten years of her life struck from her memory by a blow to the head in her step aerobics class. Alice now thinks she's twenty nine, newly pregnant with her first child and happily married to Nick and furthermore she hasn't a clue what she's doing at an aerobics class in the first place.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141043768</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jonathan Coe
|title=The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Meet Maxwell Sim. Actually, perhaps I should rephrase that so that it doesn't sound like an imperative instruction - for if you do meet him, you might not like the experience. An ex-salesman, he's now in after sales (ie he's stuck on a customer returns counter in a department store); however he is completely awful with regards to other people. His wife has run off with their daughter, all his few friends have forsaken him (and his Facebook wall). We start the book with him trying to patch things up with his father, who's safely in Australia. He finds all those who know of him are already aware he's depressed. Those who don't know him can find him painfully shy, or able to talk away their will to live, gabbling on and on about Watford. But a lot is about to change. He's about to be combined with some people excited about green toothbrushes.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670917389</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Samantha Hunt
|title=The Seas
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=''The Seas'' follows the story of a nameless nineteen-year old girl who is lonely and adrift in a cruel coastal town so far to the north of the USA that the roads only run south. She misses her father, an absent alcoholic sailor, while her silence-loving mother, who grew up on an isolated island with deaf parents, worries deeply about her. Early on in the story we get the distinct impression that our narrator is not deemed 'normal' by her peers, who call her all sorts of unflattering things. With nothing to do in her small town, and no one to do it with, she spends her time pining for a local alcoholic called Jude who is fifteen years her senior, and who refuses her amorous advances on the grounds that it would be wrong. As the story unfolds, Jude and the girl's relationship grows and changes, sometimes in unexpected ways.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849013934</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Lara Fox
|title=Miss Understanding: My Summer on the Shelf
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Anya Buxton is back. It's the summer holidays and her mum is keen for her to find a summer job rather than waste her days lounging around at home. After the brief, worrying possibility that she might just end up as a newspaper delivery girl she lands a dream position gaining work experience with a London publishing house. She finds herself simultaneously editing a dishy, though slightly disturbed teen author, struggling with a long distance relationship with Al, wondering if 'The Boy' really has turned over a new leaf and being wooed by the boss's son. And, of course, she's blogging it all for her dedicated followers.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340988835</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Sheryl Webster and Tim Warnes
|title=What Small Rabbit Heard
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=It's cold and windy. Small Rabbit just wants to stay inside, but Big Rabbit insists that it's fresh, not cold, and they're going on a walk. He's a bit of a cheeky scamp is Small Rabbit, so when Big Rabbit says ''try to keep up'', Small Rabbit somehow mishears it as ''jump in the mud''. As the walk goes on, Small Rabbit mishears Big Rabbit time and time again, getting up to all sorts of shenanigans.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192728679</amazonuk>
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