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|author=Terry Dehart
|title=The Unit
|rating=3.5
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=We all know about the nuclear family, well now meet the post-nuclear family in Terry De Hart's brutal vision of a post apocalyptic America.
We know the score; terrorists attack key US cities with nuclear devices, US retaliates on the nations supporting the terrorist. There is only one possible outcome, mass casualties and the breakdown of civil society leading to the rise of barbarism in a devastated landscape in the grip of a nuclear winter. Within this madness a family survives not knowing how much of the country or the world has been destroyed.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841499331</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=David Szalay
|summary=Most people will have heard of Dr Finlay, although they may not be entirely sure why - A J Cronin's stories of a fictional doctor in pre-War Scotland have been televised over the years, most recently in the nineties when David Rintoul starred as Dr Finlay. Although fictional, A J Cronin, who died in 1981, was himself a doctor and has apparently based some of Finlay's experiences on his own. This omnibus is made up of two books by Cronin, Dr Finlay of Tannochbrae, published in 1978 and Adventures of a Black Bag, published in 1943, both collections of short stories.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841588547</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Samantha Scott-Jeffries
|title=The Final Hitch
|rating=3
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Following her first outing in Samantha Scott-Jeffries ''I Do I Do I Do'', Izzy Mistry is back and comfortably settled into her life in Majorca as a wedding planner. Izzy loves her job and certainly isn’t expecting to be planning her own wedding anytime soon, so is rather surprised when she finds herself being proposed to by two different men on the same night. One of these men is her ex-boyfriend, Harrisson, and Izzy soon finds herself back in his arms, planning to start a new life together on the island. But as they start to renovate their beautiful new home in the mountain town of Soller, the sheen on their relationship starts to fade, and Izzy is left wondering whether she made the right decision.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755352831</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Chris Wormell
|title=Molly and the Night Monster
|rating=4.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Molly is in bed, but then she hears a creak on the stair. Could it be an elephant or a rhino coming to get her? Might it even be a night monster? Luckily, Molly is well-armed with her monster catcher, so should be alright, as the door sloooowly inches open...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1862301859</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Gillian Philip
|title=Firebrand (Rebel Angels)
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Seth lives in the land of the Sidhe, protected from the world of full-mortals by an ancient magical Veil. There's an uneasy but relatively settled peace, with only the occasional border fray to disturb their long lives. But things aren't easy for Seth - he's the unwanted second son of a Sidhe lord, his mother interested only in the corridors of power at the court of Kate NicNiven, and his father with eyes only for his older brother Conal. The inhabitants of his dun don't trust him, he's half-feral, and his only real tie is to Conal, who has taken him under his wing, and for whom Seth would gladly die.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905537190</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Rachel Renee Russell
|title=Dork Diaries: Party Time
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=This is the second in the series of [[Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days by Jeff Kinney|'Wimpy Kid' for girls]] books, full as usual of comic cutaways to cartoon strips, illustrations, OMGs, BTWs, BFFs, smileys and over-used exclamation marks!!!!! It's October, and Nikki is stuck between a rock and a hard place. The place is the school's Halloween Ball, ideally with Brandon, the crush of her life for this term at middle school. The rock is as usual the evil Mackenzie, the Cruella de Vil of snobbish, bullyish school bitches. Can Nikki resolve her dilemma - just for the fortnight this diary spans, and get her beau to the ball - especially when she double-books herself?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184738742X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Catherine Webb
|title=The Dream Thief (Horatio Lyle)
|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=When an orphan girl appears on Horatio Lyle's doorstep, half-dead and apparently poisoned, the genius inventor finds himself drawn into a conspiracy that reaches to the highest circles of London Society. Someone is kidnapping workhouse children and essentially turning them into zombies. Somone is stealing their dreams. With the help of his young ward, the street-urchin Tess, he sets out into the darkest parts of the city to stop them.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905654251</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Tony Hillerman (Editor) and Rosemary Herbert (Editor)
|title=A New Omnibus of Crime
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Clive Wilkes is a delivery boy for a grocery store somewhere in America. Miss Oyster Brown is a devout spinster in a Berkshire town. An unnamed Scottish doctor works in Swaziland. What do these disparate characters have in common with the learned Horace Rumpole, Queer Customer, and Chief Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh? All of them are connected with crimes – either as victims, perpetrators, or investigators – in this brilliant anthology.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0195370716</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Clancy Martin
|title=How To Sell
|rating=3
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=In the 1980's, 16 year old Bobby Clark gets expelled from his high school in Canada for stealing. This is a young boy so immoral that he pilfers his own mother's wedding ring to pawn for cash to keep a girl happy. After the girl turns out to be less interested in him than he is in her, he follows his older brother Jim to Texas, where he gets a job working with Jim in a jewellery store. As he falls into a life of scams, drugs, hookers, gorgeous women, and an obsession with Jim's girlfriend Lisa, it's clear that this coming of age story is a tragedy waiting to happen.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099532182</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Theresa Breslin
|title=Prisoner of the Inquisition
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Don't read this book if you are of a delicate disposition and prone to nightmares. Within the first few pages a woman is burned at the stake, a man is unjustly accused and hanged, his young son only just escapes the same fate and a woman dies in childbirth. But this is no horror story, and none of the violence is gratuitous: this is quite simply the world of fifteenth century Spain. King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella are fighting the Moors in Granada, Christopher Columbus is seeking royal funding for a voyage to prove the world is round, and the Inquisition is spreading terror and anguish throughout the land. And against this background of momentous events, we have the thrilling and beautiful account of the lives of two young people, bound together by hatred and love.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385617038</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=LJ Adlington
|title=The Burning Mountain
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=In AD79, Gaius Justinius Aquila is drenched in grey ash, trying desperately to help the citizens of Herculaneum as Vesuvius erupts around them. In 1943, German paratrooper Peter Schafer finds himself in Naples. Peter has a secret - he's underage, having run away to sign up. Within the year, Peter will find himself defending Monte Cassino against a huge Allied bombardment. Throughout his time in Italy, Peter will have many encounters with Vittoria, an impoverished Neapolitan who steals to keep herself and a ragbag bunch of orphans alive.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340956828</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Chris Wooding
|title=Black Lung Captain: Tales of the Ketty Jay
|rating=4.5
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=Things on board the Ketty Jay have never been as low. Darian Frey and his crew are even having trouble thieving from defenceless orphanages. So when the next token job-they-can't-refuse comes along, they fall under it's spell. An explorer has returned with tales of untold riches, courtesy of the most mysterious artefacts and treasures of an unknown civilization. The fact that the remains are those of an aircraft crashed in the most Arctic of rainforests, inhabited by the most evil beast-men monsters, is neither here nor there. The problems start with what they find there, which is worse than anyone could have expected - or indeed years ago, with a mysterious connection between the remains and the more unusual crewmember...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575085177</amazonuk>
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