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|author=David Barrie
|title=Night-Scented
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Isabelle Arbaud is determined to make her mark in the world of luxury brands. Most perfumes are off-shoots of established fashion houses (or celebrity names, but let's not go down ''that'' road), but Isabelle has poached her rival's most talented perfumer and given him free rein to produce an irresistible scent which will take her upstart fashion house straight to the top. But – it would seem that someone is determined that she won't succeed. First on and then a second of her financial backers died, the first in circumstances which might have been a accident, but probably wasn't. About the second there could be no doubt. Two bullet holes are fairly conclusive evidence of a suspicious death.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956251811</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Debbie Macomber
|summary=Wobble is a very busy little bear who has just learned to walk and now, of course, wants to walk everywhere. We see him here walking in to wake up his parents, treading on the cat, dancing and falling over, walking on a wall, splashing in a puddle until, of course, by the end of the day he has worn himself out and is too tired to walk up the stairs to bed!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192792628</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Ian Whybrow and Caroline Jayne Church
|title=Wobble Bear Says Yellow
|rating=4.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Wobble Bear is a delightful little bear who is just starting to learn about colours. He insists through the book on calling everything 'yellow', whether it is or not, much to his mummy's frustration and my daughter's delight!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>019279261X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Xanthe Milton
|title=Eat Me!: The Stupendous, Self-raising World of Cupcakes and Bakes According to Cookie Girl
|rating=5
|genre=Cookery
|summary=What a stunning book this is. The inside, that is. I was almost
stunned in a less positive way by the brightness of the front cover.
I don't like pink at the best of times, and this book is very, very
pink.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091925118</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Sandra Wilson
|title=A Change of Fortune
|rating=3
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Leonie Conyngham seemed to have everything going for her. She was beautiful and set to be the belle of the forthcoming season, but a family disaster stripped her of her position as the most important pupil in her school and placed her there as the lowliest teacher, there to do the bidding of those above her. Her possessions stolen and in debt she had little choice in the matter. Her physical attractions have not left her though, but now the young rakes of London are not looking at her as a possible wife, but to see who can be the first to deprive her of her virtue.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709089996</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Cathy Cassidy
|title=Love, Peace and Chocolate (Pocket Money Puffins)
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Jess and Kady have been best friends since they were three years old and now they're in year eight at Parkway Community School. They're on the edge of puberty but things have been a bit slow on the boyfriend front – not that either of them is looking to rush things, particularly as there isn't a single Y8 boy who can make their eyes light up. They've a good, solid friendship which means a lot to both of them and they both think that nothing can come between the girls. Unfortunately they hadn't taken the arrival of Jack Somers into account.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>014133021X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Barbara Trapido
|title=Sex and Stravinsky
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Josh and Caroline and their daughter Zoe live on an old red bus in Oxford, even though both have quite well paid jobs as an academic and headteacher. Caroline has spent her adult life deferring her plans for the future in order to support her widowed mother who lives in a house nearby. Josh’s job in the drama department of Bristol University does offer him some opportunities to escape abroad though, this time to a conference in his native South Africa.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408802325</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Catherine Forde
|title=Fifteen Minute Bob
|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=For years, conscientious student Rory and his hard-working mother have struggled to cope with his father, an eyeliner wearing struggling singer-songwriter unable to hold down a job, and obsessed with a star called Bob Blade. While Rory finds his
father's unreliability a nightmare to live with, his two friends Smiler and Barry think he's cool and spend more time hanging out with him than with Rory. As the trio of Smiler, Barry, and Rory's dad team up to make a music video that goes viral on the internet, Rory gets unwittingly involved and, in the words of the blurb from the back,
'everything flips'.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405229306</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Olga Alexandrovna, Paul Kulikovsky, Sue Woolmans and Karen Roth-Nicholls
|title=25 Chapters of My Life: The Memoirs of Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna
|rating=4.5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna was born in 1882, youngest child of Tsar Alexander III of Russia and thus sister of the ill-fated Tsar Nicholas II. Her first marriage to Prince Peter Oldenburg, who was probably gay, ended in an amicable divorce, and in 1916 she married Colonel Nicholas Kulikovsky. They escaped from Russia after the revolution, and settled in Denmark for nearly thirty years until, feeling threatened by Stalin’s regime, they moved to Canada. She outlived him by two years, dying in 1960.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906775168</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Gillian Morgan
|title=Salt Blue
|rating=3
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=I always judge a book by its cover. The eyes in the pretty face on the cover of ''Salt Blue'' are arresting, but difficult to assign to a period, though it’s clearly women’s or teen fiction. I imagine that the cover might attract fiction readers of mainstream women’s magazines such as Women’s Weekly or Woman’s Own, so it’s spot on for the story inside.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906784159</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Tom Shone
|title=In The Rooms
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=The book jacket for this novel is of New York by night, a cityscape par excellence. It also boasts Toby Young's comment as ''laugh-out-loud funny.'' I have a lot of time for Toby Young. I find him witty and entertaining. But I usually approach claims such as this with a healthy dose of 'we'll-wait-and-see' scepticism. However, he was right. And I am truly impressed with Shone's ability to make me laugh out loud and at the very beginning of the novel too. A very good sign of delights to come, I thought.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099534061</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Natasha Narayan
|title=The Maharajah's Monkey: A Kit Salter Adventure
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Kit Salter has a nose for adventure. Somehow she always finds trouble, or it finds her, and this latest episode is no exception as she finds herself travelling from the home comforts of Oxford all the way to India, then on to the freezing mountains of Tibet. What has happened to Monsieur Champlon? Has he abandoned poor Aunt Hilda? Why is the mysterious monkey leaving threatening messages for Kit? And what does it all have to do with the Maharajah? Kit and her friends set off on a fantastic journey to investigate.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847245293</amazonuk>
}}
