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{{newreview
|author=Camilla Ceder
|title=Frozen Moment
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=One cold, dark morning in December 2006 a man was driving to work when he began to have problems with his car. It was a fairly deserted part of the Swedish coast but he had vague memories of a car-repair business in the area. When he limped his car in there he discovered a body: the man had been shot in the head and his lower body crushed as a car had been driven over it. The man panicked and called his neighbour for help. Seja was a trainee reporter and when she arrived she was fascinated by the murder victim, but her lies to Inspector Christian Tell are soon discovered. It's not the end of the matter though as there's an immediate attraction between Seja and Tell – and he's well aware that he's breaking all the rules by getting into a relationship with a witness and even a potential suspect.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0297859471</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Monica Dickens
During these years, her mother with whom she has, at best, a very strained relationship is no source of comfort and Hailey develops a very close attachment to her cousin CJ. Aspects of this relationship make for uncomfortable reading at times.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847373577</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Rachel Neumeier
|title=The Lord of the Changing Winds (Griffin Mage)
|rating=4.5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=When a delegation of diplomat, mage and soldiers enter the mountainous, rural areas to the east of the country to investigate - and remove the cause of - rumours of a host of griffins laying waste, the last thing they expect to meet is one of their own kin, a shy teenager at that, helping the beasts out and magically healing them. But then Kes, the young woman in question, never expected to be there herself. She would never have assumed she had any powers, but when a mysterious man enters her village to whisk her away and teach her to tend the battle-wounded fabulous creatures, she finds herself entering an unspeakably strange world.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498734</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Gareth P Jones
|title=The Space Crime Conspiracy
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Thirteen-year-old Stanley Bound is an ordinary boy from south London who lives above a pub with his bad-tempered half-brother Doug. He is bullied at school, and the situation only gets worse when he discovers that the popular new boy Lance has been both lying and stealing. Lance gets his revenge by framing Stanley, and now no one trusts him, even his grumpy brother. Little wonder, then, that our sad and lonely hero dreams of travelling to distant places to escape his miserable life. But as we all know, that is a dangerous desire: Stanley should have remembered that people who get what they wish for often regret it. By the end of the book he has travelled the universe, been accused of murder, and met more bizarre characters than even his wildest dreams could have created.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747599815</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Irene Nemirovsky
|title=Jezebel
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Gladys Eysenach stands in the dock accused of murdering her young lover. She apparently took a gun from her handbag and shot him in the early hours of Christmas Day in her own home. What happened is clear – Gladys makes no attempt to deny it – but why it happened is less obvious, and Gladys doesn't seem inclined to offer much in the way of explanation. But gradually, oh so teasingly, we find out what really happened and why.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099520389</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jessie Little
|title=The Hoozles: My Magical Teddy
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Willow and her brother Freddie have gone to stay in Summertown with their Aunt Suzy whilst their parents are away for the summer. Aunt Suzy owns a toy shop in town, and she makes her own special Hoozle soft toys. Willow and Freddie each have a Hoozle of their own that their Aunt made for them - Willow has Toby the teddy bear and Freddie has Wobbly the Lion. Willow loves Toby dearly, but it isn't until she is staying with her aunt that she discovers that Toby can come to life and talk to her and she can talk to him! And so begins a summer full of magical adventures for Willow and the Hoozles.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571247911</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Daniel D Victor
|title=The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Seventh Bullet
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=In 1911, author, journalist and celebrated dandy David Graham Phillips was shot multiple times by Harvard educated musician Fitzhugh Coyle Goldsborough, who then committed suicide. The journalist had received on the morning of his death a threatening telegram signed with his own name, but had shrugged it off as during his career as a 'muckraker', to use the term coined for him by Theodore Roosevelt, he'd made many enemies.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184856676X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jennie Rooney
|title=The Opposite of Falling
|rating=4
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=It is 1862 and when wealthy Liverpool girl Ursula Bridgewater finds herself single and restless after her fiancée Henry Springton leaves her for another woman, she soon turns to travel as a means of escape and sets off on her first expedition. But she has agreed to stay friends with Henry and cannot quite escape him completely as they continue to write to each other. Ten years later and Ursula has travelled all over the world and is about to embark on a trip around America, but this time she decides to take a companion.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701182687</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=K J Parker
|title=The Folding Knife
|rating=5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Bassianus Arcadius Severus – call him Basso – is a man of many talents. All but guaranteed a life of ease as his birthright, he instead finds himself driven to excel, first as an executive trustee in his father’s bank, and then in the realm of politics. His rise to the zenith of public life is meteoric, fuelled by ambition, ruthlessness, and above all his ability to turn any defeat into a resounding victory. But with the Republic – and Basso’s own position and even life – under threat from enemies old and new, will his fall prove equally thunderous? Welcome to ''The Folding Knife'', the latest fantasy epic from K.J. Parker.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841495123</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jean Reidy and Genevieve Leloup
|title=Too Pickly!
|rating=4.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=It's [[Too Purply! by Jean Reidy and Genevieve Leloup|Too Purply!]] with food. That about sums it up, but for those of you who haven't already fallen in love with Jean Reidy's tale of getting dressed, ''Too Pickly!'' looks at a little boy (and his hamster) deciding what to eat. Dish by dish, he rejects them for being too pickly, too wrinkly, too burpy, too stringy, and so on, until he finds the one that's just right.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408807114</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Andrew Grant
|title=Die Twice (David Trevellyan)
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=The title is very much at home and in keeping with the thriller genre and it's both eye-catching and also has a perfectly reasonable explanation which comes right at the very end of the story. I must admit to thrillers generally not being my most favourite reading material. Some can be a bit flashy, a bit trashy even. But not this novel. Right from the start I felt I was in for a good, intelligent read. There were pointers to this all over the place. For starters, David Trevellyan has a nice line in witty humour. There are numerous snazzy one-liners. It all went down very well.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230747582</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Louise Doughty
|title=Whatever You Love
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Two police officers knock on Laura's door. They break the news to her that her 9 year old daughter Betty has been run over and killed. Betty's friend Willow is in hospital. Immediately, I was drawn into this story of a mother's worst nightmare coming true.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571254756</amazonuk>
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