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{{newreview
|author=Robert Masello
|title=Blood and Ice
|rating=4
|genre=Horror
|summary=Journalist Michael Wilde cannot pass the opportunity of spending some time at a research station in Antarctica. His girlfriend is in what could be a permanent coma following a trip that they both made together and he needs to get away. Expecting to see some amazing sights, he is not disappointed. What he was not expecting, however, was to find a block of ice during a diving expedition in which the bodies of a man a woman, perfectly preserved, were chained together. By their side were several bottles of what appeared to be wine. However, once the bodies are brought to the surface and defrost, strange things start to happen and before long, everyone at the research station is fighting for their lives. Will Michael ever manage to return home safely?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099523876</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=A L Kennedy
This is a big, meaty and satisfying read from the pen of Caro Ramsay. I haven't read any of her previous books to date but I will certainly look them out now. The location is in and around the city of Glasgow so lots of Scottish humour and a nice line in the local dialect from several characters. This all helps to get the reader involved early on. And I was.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141044349</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Vivian Oldaker
|title=The Killer's Daughter
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Emma has just moved to Wessex with her Dad and Jan, her Dad's girlfriend. But it's not just adjusting to a new school, a new country that Emma has to deal with. Emma's Dad was accused of murdering her famous Grandmother by pushing her off a cliff in Greece. No one wants to be her friend, and it's not long before she becomes the newest victim to bullies. Slashed swimming costumes, physical fights – being at her new school is difficult.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842708147</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Katie Flynn
|title=Heading Home
|rating=4
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Claudia is seven when this book opens, in Liverpool in 1926. She's a careful girl, perhaps a little spoilt, although clearly not wealthy. She enjoys the protection of thirteen-year-old Danny who comes from a poorer family, and evidently has something of a crush on Claudia. Even in this first chapter, she comes across as somewhat self-centred, wanting people to think well of her, but not naturally generous or empathic.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099520265</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Per Petterson
|title=I Curse the River of Time
|rating=3.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=This novel is told in the first person by the main character, thirtysomething Arvid Jansen. He's at a painful part of his life when we meet him; he's separated from his wife and he's not coping at all well. As if that wasn't enough personal stress to contend with, he's discovered that his mother is seriously ill. How long has she got to live? How will she cope? And how will Arvid cope?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846553008</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Margaret Mahy
|title=Organ Music
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=David and Harley are out later than they should be. David is getting anxious: he knows his mother will be worrying already, and he's not the type to break rules or get into trouble of any kind. But Harley's feeling rebellious; he's having a tough time at home at the moment, and he's up for pushing at some boundaries. So they wander along Forbes Street, in a down-at-heel area of town, looking for a bit of adventure. And surely enough, they find it in a car left with its keys temptingly in the ignition.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1877467472</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Norman Rose
|title=A Senseless Squalid War: Voices From Palestine 1890s - 1948
|rating=5
|genre=History
|summary=The reappearance of ''A Senseless, Squalid War'' in paperback will afford wider access to the balanced and detailed scholarship of Prof Norman Stone. This is a sad story of the Palestinian Mandate retold through the viewpoints of politicians and proponents; Arab, Jewish, British, French, German and American. It energetically conveys an understanding of the character of figures as disparate as David Ben Gurion, Richard Crossman, Haj Amin and David Lloyd George. Organisations, conferences and sticking points are deftly expounded. It does not lose sight the overarching motives and machinations of International Politics.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845950798</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Kieran Scott
|title=She's So Dead To Us
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Ally Ryan had not expected to return to Orchard Hill – ever. Less than two years previously she and her family had moved out in a hurry when her father’s business dealings had caused serious financial problems in the local community. But her mother has a job in the local school and they move into a small house and try to rebuild their lives. Abby wasn’t exactly expecting a warm welcome but she was surprised when so many of her so called 'friends' cut her dead and it’s made obvious that she now lives on the wrong side of town.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857070444</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Joshua Dysart, Cliff Chiang and Dave Stewart
|title=Neil Young's Greendale
|rating=4
|genre=Graphic Novels
|summary=It's 2003. Alaska is about to get raped, and Iraqis killed, for the sake of providing power for the USA. Which is ironic, as only before this is Sun Green a powerless young woman, and after it - well, she might have a very different kind of power. A mystical sort of girl, with a great affinity to nature, the teenaged Sun has to first solve many blank spaces in her family tree, and work out her nightmares - which might include the strange man new to town.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848567863</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Stanley Gibbons
|title=Great Britain Concise Stamp Catalogue 2010
|rating=5
|genre=Business and Finance
|summary=Stanley Gibbons Great Britain stamp catalogues come at basically three levels. At one end of the scale is Collect British Stamps, a concise listing which excludes variations in shade, perforation, phosphor banding, watermarks et al. At the other is the multi-volume specialized edition. This is the intermediate catalogue, which provides in one 354-page paperback the main variations of each issue. It also includes such extras as miniature sheets, special first day of issue postmarks, postage dues, booklets, and regional issues (Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, plus the Channel Islands and Isle of Man, the latter territories prior to postal independence in 1969 and 1973 respectively).
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0852597584</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=G. De Beauregard and H. De Gorsse
|title=The Stamp King
|rating=4
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=Set in 1896, this is the story of William Keniss and Betty Scott, two young American philatelists each intent on owning the world’s only complete stamp collection. The rarest specimen of all is one issued by the Maharajah of Brahmapootra but never placed on general sale, although one copy did pass through the postal system, and it is one of only two in the entire universe. The Maharajah owns this one himself - and our collectors are determined to get their hands on the other.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0852597460</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=A J Cronin
|title=Dr Finlay's Casebook
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|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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