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|author=James S A Corey
|title=Leviathan Wakes
|rating=4
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=Humanity has managed to venture into the solar system and colonise Mars, various moons and some asteroids and stations in the (asteroid) Belt between Mars and Jupiter. Those inhabiting the Belt have evolved to be significantly thinner and elongated compared to Earthers and Martians, due the low gravity in which they live; their difference in appearance and a difference in attitude form the basis for a lot of the tension and uneasy relationships in the novel.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841499889</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Adele Parks
|summary=There must be many a parent around who grew up devouring Famous Five adventure stories. I certainly did, so I was excited to read the first in a new series of stories by Helen Moss which bring a flavour of Blyton's famous books into the present day.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444003283</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Neal Shusterman
|title=Everfound
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=We rejoin the limbo world of ''Everlost'' for this final volume in Neal Shusterman's ''Skinjacker'' trilogy with Mary Hightower asleep and encased in a glass coffin, Allie tied to the front of a train, and Nick still amnesiac and still puddling chocolate wherever he goes. Milos is trying to continue with Mary's demonic plan to end the living world, but he lacks her charisma and the vapour of Afterlights is getting smaller as a steady trickle decamps.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857071823</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Bob Marshall-Andrews
|title=Off Message: The Complete Antidote to Political Humbug
|rating=4
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=Bob Marshall-Andrews entered Parliament in 1997, rather too late to be a career politician (he was already an established QC) and with a profound distrust of authority. He had no aspirations towards office, which was perhaps as well for all concerned as he would become best known for being a dissident. I occasionally enquired as to which party held his allegiance and eventually concluded that he went with his conscience. The last three Labour administrations have spawned more political memoirs than any other – and I did wonder if this would be just one more to add to the pile.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846684412</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Simon Mayor and Hilary James
|title=Gobble! Gobble! Gobble!
|rating=3
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=In Gobble! Gobble! Gobble! we meet a turkey who lives in a farmyard and is afraid of Christmas dinners; another who gets married to a duck and a third who buys a car that never goes anywhere. The one thing that they all have in common though is that they all like to gobble a lot and there is certainly a great deal of gobbling going on in this book. There isn't a great story but the idea of the turkeys doing all of the things that I have mentioned had my daughter smiling.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849563179</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Dawn French
|title=A Tiny Bit Marvellous
|rating=3.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Over the years I have become something of a Dawn French fan. She has consistently entertained and quite frankly made my sides split with laughter as an actor, comedian, and most recently as a writer with her wonderful autobiography[[Dear Fatty by dawn French|Dear Fatty]]. So when I saw her first novel ‘A Tiny Bit Marvellous’ waiting for me on The Bookbag shelves I thought here’s another treat from this remarkable entertainer.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141046341</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Sue Brayne
|title=Sex, Meaning and the Menopause
|rating=5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=Things change as you get older. As men – and particularly women – approach their late forties and early fifties they expect that there will be physical changes, some more permanent than others, but they're frequently taken by surprise by the mental changes which occur. Women expect that the menopause will bring the end of menstruation (some looking at this more gratefully than others...) but fail to appreciate that they are moving into a different stage of their life. Looked at positively this can be the most fulfilling period of woman's lifecycle – and I doubt that there's a husband who would object to that!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0826423019</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Andrea Camilleri
|title=The Track of Sand
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Inspector Montalbano awoke one morning and saw the body of a horse on the beach in front of his house, but it's not long before it disappears, leaving only a track in the sand. How is he to investigate this when he doesn't know where the horse came from? It isn't long though before equestrian champion Rachele Esterman arrives at police headquarters to report her horse missing. It had been stabled at the home of Saverio Lo Duca, one of the richest men in Sicily – and one of his horses is missing too. When Montalbano finds that he and his home are under threat he wonders who he has upset – and the list of possibilities is disturbingly large and influential.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330507664</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Tom Sharpe
|title=The Wilt Inheritance
|rating=3.5
|genre=Humour
|summary=Wilt is stuck in a job he doesn't want – teaching a subject he's not keen on to people for whom he has no affection – at one of the new Universities. We used to know them as technical colleges. But he can't afford to lose it because of the expense of keeping the quads at an expensive school and of maintaining his snobbish wife, Eva. It's Eva though who signs him up for a job in the summer holidays – tutoring the step-son of a local aristocrat in the hope of getting him into Cambridge – and particularly Porterhouse College. It's not long before Wilt discovers that the boy totes a gun a shoots at anything which moves – or even doesn't move – and that he's an idiot who would probably struggle to get a bus to Cambridge.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099493136</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jeff Somers
|title=The Final Evolution
|rating=4
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=Don't assume too much when starting this book. Certainly, do not assume you can jump straight into this series at this, part five - start much nearer [[The Electric Church by Jeff Somers|the beginning]], as I did. Don't assume the first person narrative means the narrator survives, for this is a world of cyborgs, and psychic human intelligences stored in robot hardware, and more. Don't assume the lulling opening chapters herald a simple revenge actioner, as Avery Cates lives in a tangled web of vengeful villains, and nothing is very straightforward. And don't assume the unremarkable opening is from an author low on ideas, for when Cates is proven to be the one man to save the world, we find it suitably meaty, and gripping, despite that old saw - and it's a rich nightmare of post-apocalypse for him to be saving, as well...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841499439</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Daniel H Wilson
|title=Robopocalypse
|rating=3.5
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=Rob is out to kill us all, and is going to take some beating. He already has many advantages, and can adapt easily where he finds a fault in his plans. He already has most of us dead, or in concentration camps. Rob is the generic nickname for all robot-kind, all controlled by one supreme Artificial Intelligence, who is set on eradication of our species.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857204122</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Ernesto Mallo and Katherine Silver
|title=Sweet Money
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=A man whose nickname is Mole (and it suits him just perfectly) is released from prison. He's described as your average Joe Public, your man in the street so normal in every way that no one would look twice at him. And that's the point. He's clever and resourceful enough to blend into any crowd and in any situation. Now that he's served his time behind bars, has he become a reformed man? Is he going to opt for a lawful way of life from now on? You'd perhaps think so, wouldn't you?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904738737</amazonuk>
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