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|author=Peter Beaumont
|title=The Secret Life of War: Journeys Through Modern Conflict
|rating=5
|genre=Politics and Society
|summary=Peter Beaumont is the Foreign Affairs editor at The Observer. He joined the paper in 1989 and has spent much of the intervening time dealing with the kind of 'foreign affairs' that is better described as 'war reporting'. 'The Secret Life of War' is a distillation of his years in the field. It is a book ill-served by both its title and its cover, except maybe insofar as both might serve to sneak it onto the bookshelves of those who really need to read it, but probably wouldn't choose to do so were it more accurately wrapped.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099520982</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Mira Grant
Like all those accountants they're always showing, you can imagine that Alice too would receive a rather luke-warm welcome on the show. And Alice would concur that her job isn't all that glam, even if her industry itself is a bit swish. But it's an appropriate job for her, since Alice is very sensible and by-the-book. She's certainly not the type of person to go overdrawn, or run into any kind of trouble financially, so when her card is declined one day she's pretty sure it's just a computer error.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099533928</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Guillermo Orsi
|title=No-one Loves a Policeman
|rating=2.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It is December 2001 and Argentina is in crisis. Pablo Martelli used to be a policeman – not just any policeman, but part of a force now referred to as 'the National Shame' for its role doing horrible things to opponents of the military regime. Now he sells bathrooms, but it seems he cannot escape his past – once a policeman, always a policeman.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906694028</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Michael Jackson
|title=Moonwalk
|rating=4
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=Michael Jackson's autobiography, based on tape-recorded conversations with his editor Shaye Ereheart, was first published in 1988. This new edition has an introduction by Berry Gordy, founder of Motown Records and his original mentor, and an afterword by Areheart about how the book was written. The main part of the book is a straight reprint of the original, with no updating at all. Intriguingly, although Gordy's four pages refer to is protégé in the past tense, calling him ''the greatest entertainer that ever lived', Areheart's writing, and also the cover, refer to him in the present. No reference anywhere is made to his untimely death.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099547953</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Lulu Taylor
|title=Midnight Girls
|rating=4
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Best friends Allegra McCorquodale, Imogen Heath and Romily de Lisle, known as the Midnight Girls, spend their nights at the exclusive Westfield Boarding School for Girls up in the attic rooms smoking and bitching. But when the girls are witness to a tragic accident, they become bound together forever by what they have seen and vow never to tell.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099524929</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jenny Nimmo
|title=Charlie Bone and the Red Knight
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Since the loss of his father, Charlie Bone has had to live in the house of horrible Grandmother Bone. But when he discovers he can hear people in pictures talking, a whole new world opens to him. His grandmother and her even more unpleasant sisters insist he should now attend Bloor Academy, a school where he meets other children endowed with magical abilities because they are descendants of the Red King. This King, an African magician, came to the North nine hundred years ago, and left a part of his powers to each his ten children. But several of those children turned to evil, as have their descendants, and Charlie and his friends have to stop them from doing terrible harm to the town. In each of the books in the ''Charlie Bone'' series, he encounters new allies and new enemies, until the whole story culminates in one immense final battle in 'Charlie Bone and the Red Knight'. This book is based on the search for a will, a quest which gradually draws together many of the themes of the series, and ends with the kind of solution which will leave the reader sighing with satisfaction.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405249609</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Tasha Pym and Joel Stewart
|title=Have You Ever Seen A Sneep?
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Ever fallen foul of a Sneep? (No, not [[Oliver Who Travelled Far and Wide by Mara Bergman and Nick Maland|Oliver Donnington Rimington-Sneep]]). What about a Grullock, Knoo or Loon? One poor little boy tries to go about his daily business, but keeps getting interrupted by these mysterious monsters. You've never heard of them before, you say? He wants to have a word with you then...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>055255698X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=David McKee
|title=Elmer On Stilts
|rating=4.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Who doesn't already know and love Elmer the patchwork elephant? This time round, he's helping all his other elephant chums avoid the nasty hunters. Throw in a CD version of the story read by Joss Ackland - yes, really - and you're on to a real winner.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842708376</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Joel Stewart
|title=Dexter Bexley And The Big Blue Beastie On The Road
|rating=3.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Dexter Bexley and the Big Blue Beastie are hooting and hooting and hooting. Everyone in town is sick to the back teeth of their incessant hooting, so they kick them out of town. Dexter and the Beastie hit the road, hooting as they go, embarking on a rollicking adventure and meeting up with a princess and a dragon.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385617720</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Ken McClure
|title=Dust to Dust (Steven Dunbar)
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=John Motram is a cell biologist. He's a promising and well-though of academic and his pet subject is - Black Death. Intrigue is high on the agenda right from the beginning. Motram is invited to a meeting along with other high-fliers in their respective fields. This meeting is top secret. Motram is, however, mystified. The situation appears pretty straightforward, so why all this cloak-and-dagger stuff, he wonders. And why has everyone to refer to the patient only as 'Patient X?'
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846971268</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Captain William Wells
|title=A Sailor's Tales
|rating=4
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=Captain William Wells was born in New Zealand where his father ran a successful carpentry business, but his heart wasn't in following his father into the family firm or in most of the lessons at school. He was an enthusiastic sportsman but what enthralled him most were the ships sailing out of Wellington harbour, which he could see from his bedroom window. Without his parents' knowledge he applied for a scholarship which allowed six boys each year to travel to the UK and undertake their basic nautical training. Billy Wells, who previously had only got 2% in his English exam (his name was spelled correctly) had the second highest score in the country and was soon on his way to England.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>095629040X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Holly McQueen
|title=Confetti Confidential
|rating=4
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=''Confetti Confidential'' is the third book in the Isabel series, but the first one I've read. Even without that grand claim on the front, you couldn't help but draw comparisons between Kinsella's series and this one from the very first page. The writing style is virtually identical – to the point where you do actually wonder if this is just a pseudonym – and while the chatty, chummy, conversational approach is not for everyone, if it's the sort of thing you like then this is the sort of book you'll love.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099545756</amazonuk>
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