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|author=Edward Wright
|title=From Blood
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=While I'm not mad about the title, the book's cover is atmospherically good - it says to the reader 'please pick me up and read me.' So I did. The book opens in 1960s America with the Prologue. A bunch of radical thinkers are angry. They turn this pent-up anger into a well-oiled, well-ordered act of violence. Lives are lost. But the perpetrators are clever and most of them escape justice. They do what many around the world have done before them; they go underground. But several key members are still at large ...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0752891774</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Kate Lace
|summary=In November 2007 the French President, Nicolas Sarkozy was newly divorced from his second wife and, despite his position and busy life, feeling rather lonely. He accepted an invitation to a dinner party from a friend and met supermodel and recording artist, Carla Bruni. The attraction between them was instant – she had already said that she wanted a man with nuclear power and he was smitten by the attentions of a beautiful, famous and intelligent woman. Within months they were married.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0907633145</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Savita Kalhan
|title=The Long Weekend
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Sam's just moved to a new school yet again, but this time he's made a good friend really quickly. He and Lloyd get on so well together that they're spending time with each other after school a lot - until they make one horrible mistake and end up trapped in a car speeding far away from their hometown, with a strange and creepy driver. Once they reach a big house, Sam is quickly separated from Lloyd - can he figure out a way to escape alive?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842708465</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=H A Goodman
|title=Logic of Demons: The Quest for Nadine's Soul
|rating=3
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Devin is in pieces. His pregnant wife has been raped and murdered and revenge is all he can think about. He listens to the advice of his worried father-in-law - who counsels against doing anything rash - but listening is not the same as hearing. And Devin doesn't truly hear his father-in-law's wise words at all. Instead, he focuses on the angry voice in his head, which tells him such an evil murderer has no right to live.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1452018170</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Quentin Bates
|title=Frozen Out
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=When a body was washed up on the beach of a rural Icelandic fishing village the powers-that-be were rather keen that the death should be written off as an accident. After all, falling into the water when you've had far too much to drink is not unusual. Hvalvick's police sargeant, Gunnhildur, isn't convinced though. The 'drinking too much' was done in the bars of Reykjavik, some hundred kilometres away. If the man was too drunk to walk he was certainly in no position to drive a car – so who brought him to his death – and why?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849013608</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Bob Servant and Neil Forsyth
|title=Bob Servant: Hero of Dundee
|rating=3.5
|genre=Humour
|summary=After [[Delete This at Your Peril: One Man's Fearless Exchanges with the Internet Spammers by Bob Servant|bursting into public consciousness]] as the scourge of email spammers, Broughty Ferry's resident polymath Bob Servant has returned. This time, he expands upon the colourful life only hinted at in his previous oeuvre, Delete this at Your Peril. And what a life it has been. He steers us from his humble beginnings, his broken family and traumatic schooldays, through the rise and fall of his window cleaning empire, and his role in Dundee's brutal cheeseburger wars. Along the way, we witness his struggles with, respectively, women ('skirt'), his simpleton sidekick Frank, and the demon drink.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841589209</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=David Gatward
|title=The Dark (The Dead 2)
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=We pick up exactly where we left off in this second book in David Gatward's The Dead series. Lazarus Stone has been killed (twice), resurrected (twice), been to the world of the Dead (don't ask), become a Keeper (dangerous job), got himself a personal guardian angel (Arielle, alcoholic), a Dead guide (Red, whose skin's fallen off), and has gone some way to locating his father (prisoner of the Dark and seriously not having a good time of it). Along with best mate Craig and ex-possessed nurse Clair, Lazarus has a mission.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340999705</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Roland Huntford
|title=Race for the South Pole: The Expedition Diaries of Scott and Amundsen
|rating=4
|genre=Biography
|summary=In 1910 two European ships set out for the Antarctic. 'Terra Nova' was carrying British explorers under the leadership of Captain Robert Scott, while 'Fram' sailed with a rival Norwegian expedition led by Roald Amundsen. The basic facts can be briefly summarized. Amundsen arrived at the South Pole on 14 December 1911 and returned home to a hero's welcome, while Scott reached the same destination 35 days later, only to perish with his men on the return journey. Their bodies were found by a search party some eight months after they had died.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1441169822</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Margaret James
|title=The Silver Locket
|rating=4
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=It is the eve of the First World War and Rose Courtenay's parents are keen to marry her off to well-bred Michael Easton. But Rose is certain a life of domesticity in Dorset is not for her and so instead she takes the bold step of running away to London where she volunteers as a nurse for the war effort. Posted to France, Rose meets injured soldier Alex Denham who she has known since childhood, and is the only man who has ever made her blush. Romance soon blossoms between Rose and Alex, despite Rose fighting against her feelings as Alex is already married, and also disapproved of by her parents due to his dubious background.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906931283</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jan Pienkowski and David Walser
|title=In The Beginning
|rating=3.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Using a modified text, based on the King James bible, this book collects some of the best-loved stories from the Old Testament and they are portrayed in full page, gloriously vibrant pictures. With everything from the Creation through to Noah, Joseph and David and Goliath this is an extensive collection of stories to share with children. My daughter and I love Pienkowski's funny illustrations throughout the [[Meg and Mog: Meg Goes to Bed by Helen Nicoll and Jan Pienkowski|Meg and Mog stories]], so I was hopeful that this would be another lovely book to share with her.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406322482</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Bernadette Strachan
|title=Why DO We Have to Live with Men?
|rating=3.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Cat and her friends often meet up for a drink and a chat, and regularly fantasise about giving up on men, sharing a house and looking after each other. Then one night Germaine calls their bluff – she’s found a house, and wants to know who is going to join her in it. Initially, the answer is no one. Shortly afterwards, though, Cat’s life as she has known it falls apart, as her landlord gives her notice to leave her flat and she loses her job. There is nothing now to keep her in London and moving into Germaine’s commune doesn’t seem like such a mad option.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751542296</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Bob Hartman and Jago
|title=Mr Aesop's Story Shop
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Aesop's fables have been known for centuries all around the world, and here is a new edition where a selection of the fables have been given some new embellishments. Aesop features in the stories himself, as a teller of tales himself with a stall in the market where people, especially children, gather to listen and hear him. His stories are often set within the context of an understandable situation, making it easier for children to see parallels between the animals in the tales and the real life action.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0745969151</amazonuk>
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