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|author=Colm Toibin
|title=The Empty Family
|rating=4.5
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=In his first book since the pitch-perfect [[Brooklyn by Colm Toibin|Brooklyn]], Colm Toibin once more examines the great Irish theme of exile and homecoming in his new collection of short stories, 'The Empty Family'. As the title suggests, many of the stories also revolve around family relationships, and their sweet and sour Nature.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670918172</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|summary=Two years have passed since [[The Redemption of Alexander Seaton by Shona Maclean|Alexander Seaton]] found his redemption. He is comfortably settled in his life at the University, about to be sent on the academic expedition of a lifetime, and wondering how best to ask the woman he loves to be his wife. Then a case of mistaken identity, which almost costs him his love and the respect of his friends leads Alexander to discover he has a cousin in town – the son of his late mother's brother, come from Ireland to seek his help.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849162441</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Alison Wong
|title=As the Earth Turns Silver
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=This lyrical novel is set in Wellington, New Zealand just over a hundred years ago. In this country of then recent immigrants, there was a racial hierarchy, with those of British origin considering themselves superior to others, and an active Anti-Chinese League.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330465155</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Gervase Phinn
|title=There's An Alien In The Classroom
|rating=3.5
|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse
|summary=''There's An Alien In The Classroom'' is a collection of school-based poems, and poems aimed at school-age children. Taking in all forms, from limericks and cautionary verse, to acrostics and haiku, it offers a broad overview of poetry. With themes including school, families, seasons, Bonfire Night, Nativity plays and going to the dentist, there's something to appeal to every child.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849392021</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Benjamin J Myers
|title=Bad Tuesdays 3: Blood Alchemy
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Chess and her brothers have been separated. Box and Splinter are incarcerated on a prison planet, at the mercy of the Twisted Symmetry and their Dog Troopers. Chess is just as much of a prisoner - she's being "protected" by The Committee and languishes in a safe house, itching to be free. None of the three intend on being locked up for long. Chess wants to find out who she really is and then to get on with destroying the Brain that feeds off the energy of innocent children, and Box wants to get back to Chess and help protect her. And Splinter, well, he's got ideas of his own and they certainly don't include an agonising death at the hands of his captors.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184255641X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Patricia Borlenghi and Eleanor Taylor
|title=The Bloomsbury Nursery Treasury
|rating=4.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=I am sure that all small children love traditional tales. Maybe for some the appeal is the beguiling innocence of Little Red Riding Hood, or the audacity of Goldilocks as she invades the three bears' cottage or even Jack's daring and courage as he climbs the beanstalk and steals the giant's gold from under his nose. Whichever tale is favourite, there is always something very satisfying when the good characters win and the nasty characters are beaten especially as this always leads of course to a happy ending.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747597472</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=David Soskin
|title=Net Profit: How to Succeed in Digital Business
|rating=5
|genre=Business and Finance
|summary=There's a misconception that digital business is just like the old bricks and mortar type, except that the digital fellahs escape a lot of the expense that real people have to pay and that if they learnt how to do thinwhich a traditional business is content with is almost certainly a danger signal in a digital business and unless you can take your idea and make quick decisions then the chances are that you are dead in the water. Life is very different out there on the internet.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0470660813</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Rebecca Hunt
|title=Mr Chartwell
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=For a couple of years now Esther Hammerhans has lived alone and money is a little tight. She works in the House of Commons library but it doesn't pay particularly well. Letting the spare room to a lodger seemed like a good idea, but she's somewhat surprised when she sees Mr Chartwell's silhouette. It's the size of a mattress and Mr Chartwell is a dog. A large black dog.
At home in Kent, Winston Churchill wakes up. He's reaching the end of his time in parliament and in some ways he's not surprised to sense that there's a visitor in the room. It's someone he hasn't seen for a while, but the presence of the huge, mute hulk who watched him with a tortured expression was only to be expected. Winston's black dog was back.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905490690</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Peter Doggett
|title=You Never Give Me Your Money: The Battle for the Soul of the Beatles
|rating=5
|genre=Entertainment
|summary=When four young Liverpudlians got together to make music in the early 1960s, they can have had no idea of their future impact on the world around them. Likewise they would surely not have had an inkling of the extraordinary business minefield which their existence as a group would create, and which would leave the scars long after they had gone their separate ways, even after two of them had died. As at least one of them ruefully commented, they must have provided several lawyers' children with a very expensive education.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099532360</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Cindy M Meston and David Buss
|title=Why Women Have Sex: Understanding Sexual Motivation from Adventure to Revenge (and Everything in Between)
|rating=4.5
|genre=Popular Science
|summary=Many many years ago, a man who was far too young to be the fusty, dusty RE teacher he was shaping to be, asked my best friend and I why we were each having sex with our girlfriends. Even aged fifteen I thought something along the lines of 'well, if he doesn't know by now, he never will', and listed that it was great fun, a very enjoyable sensation, showed an appetite for the relationship, and that sex proved the ultimate in bonding - how much closer, to be blunt, could you be to someone than actually inside them? I'll come clean now and admit said girlfriend was not real, but several have been since, and I have had heaps of fun finding out how - and perhaps why - women have sex. I was never to know, until now, there are 237 reasons for it.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099546639</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=John Dean
|title=To Die Alone
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The bodies of a man and his dog are found in an isolated part of the northern hills. The injuries, particularly to the dog are horrific and although it initially looks though the man might have died from accidental injuries it soon becomes obvious that he's been stabbed. The victim – Trevor Meredith – has been acting strangely lately and it looks as though he might have been aware that he was in danger. And where has his girl friend disappeared to? More to the point, who, ''exactly'', is Trevor Meredith. Chief Inspector Jack Harris and his team have their work cut out.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709091141</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Gail Carriger
|title=Blameless: The Parasol Protectorate
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=''Blameless'' opens with Alexia back in the family home. She hopes that this is a temporary situation. Not to put too fine a point on it, she has absolutely nothing in common with her parents or her silly half-sisters. Her mother is outraged. Why? Well, because no married woman in proper Victorian society leaves her husband. It's simply not done. Alexia's just done it and would probably say to her mama that she couldn't give a rat's arse either - except her mother would no doubt have a fainting fit. But scandal is looming. And Alexia is forced at some point to re-assess her situation. Underneath all those ridiculous ruffles and lace she is a little put-out and concerned - especially in her present condition.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841499730</amazonuk>
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