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|author=Karin Slaughter
|title=Fallen
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Faith Mitchell is not having a good day. A three-hour training seminar had stretched into four-and-a-half-hours, which meant that not only was she late picking up her baby daughter from her mothers' she was also starving hungry. This mattered more than it would for most of us, because Faith is diabetic. She needs to eat.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846057949</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|summary=There are plenty of books around where the main character has to escape the murderous clutches of a magical or supernatural being. There are even a few which look at things from the demon's point of view. But it's rare to find a book which not only recounts the adventures of the intended victim, but also presents the demon as a complex and sympathetic personality in his own right. And which, as a bonus, allows the demon to grow as a character during the course of the story. A difficult challenge for any writer, but 'Kill Fish Jones' by Caro King manages to pull it off with panache and humour.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857381466</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jean Ure
|title=Skinny Melon and Me
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=After Mrs James at school suggests writing a diary is a healthy and cathartic activity, Cherry decides to chronicle her own life. She's of the view that her mental cupboard is in definite need of a good clear out. This is not an entirely surprising view: Cherry's parents went through an acrimonious divorce and things were just getting back to normal when Slimey Roland appeared. Can you believe it, but Cherry's mother only went and married this chinless wonder! And then she moved him in. And then she reneged on her promise to buy Cherry a dog because Roly had ''allergies''!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000742485X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=John Hart
|title=Iron House
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Hart is already a best-selling author so he has a lot to live up to with his latest book. At over 400 pages it's a big, meaty read. The story opens with Michael, now an adult. In his prime, with the woman he loves and about to become a father: life is looking very rosy indeed. He thinks that he's left his shady past behind him forever. He's wrong. Hart gives his readers a little background info on Michael, the central character, just enough to whet our appetites. It worked for me and I was eager to keep turning the pages. At the start of the book there's a definite sense of something catastrophic about to happen and that it involves Michael in some way.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848541791</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Anthony Burgess
|title=A Clockwork Orange
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=A Clockwork Orange comes under the heading of "books you feel you ought to have read by now". Mostly these are books that you don't necessarily want to read, but are considered such classics that an inability to pass any kind of comment upon them suggests a gaping hole in your education.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241951445</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Charlotte Frost
|title=Sir William Knighton: The Strange Career of a Regency Physician
|rating=3
|genre=Biography
|summary=Sir William Knighton came from humble beginnings: in later life the memories of his mother selling butter and eggs from a market stall would frequently be brought up and it was never to illustrate just how well he'd done. The fact that he became a physician would normally be quite an achievement, but his baronetcy and fame didn't come from his work as a physician but from his less well-publicised work for George IV. Although his work at court would span just over a decade it was far from being what he wanted to do – and for the most part it would not bring him a great deal of happiness. At the end of his career as a physician he simply wanted to retire to his cottage in the country - but found himself unable to desert a king who had become dependent on him.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755213017</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Alison Bruce
|title=The Calling
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=The story's location is in and around Cambridge and we get the blow-by-blow account as DC Goodhew meets the different members of Kaye's family in order to build up a picture of her recent comings and goings. Kaye's mother seems particularly upset. A nice and effective touch by Bruce is that each chapter heading is simply that day's date. Kaye disappeared in March 2011 so that the reader feels a sense of the clock ticking - and still no Kaye.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849012040</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Neil Griffiths and Janette Louden
|title=Sneezy Bear
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=At the beginning of 'Sneezy Bear', we meet Bear who is enjoying a soak in the river. Although he would be happy to luxuriate in the water all day, he starts to feel hungry so decides that he needs to go in search of some food. First he spots some tasty looking salmon but just as he is about to grab one, he lets out an almighty sneeze that causes a huge splash which allows all of the fish to escape. Next he spots a cherry tree, but before he can taste the juicy fruit, he sneezes yet again and the cherries explode everywhere leaving nothing to eat.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190543426X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Hiawyn Oram and Satoshi Kitamura
|title=In The Attic
|rating=3.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=''I had a million toys and I was bored,'' exclaims the unnamed protagonist of ''In The Attic''. Rather than moaning about his boredom, he does something about it, so he climbs into the attic and into his imagination. He finds little creatures, miraculous worlds, an old engine, and a tiger to be his friend. He fills his day with miraculous and dreamy adventures, then heads back home to report back to his mum.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849392986</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Keris Stainton
|title=Jessie Hearts NYC
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=After splitting up with Taylor, Jessie is desperate to forget about him, so her first ever trip to New York is heaven-sent – even if it does mean having to stay with her mother. Emma, her best friend, is equally thrilled to be coming with her. While Jessie is still upset at her mother’s decision to move to America, New Yorker
Finn is facing problems of his own with his controlling family. Railroaded into working in his dad's insurance company during his summer holiday, he dreams of being an architect. He's also fallen hard for a girl - who happens to be his best friend's girlfriend. What will happen when these two meet?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408304287</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Kate Costelloe
|title=The Breakfast Club
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Billie and her three best friends have grown to love the breakfast club they've formed, meeting every Saturday morning to pass the time and discuss the week they've had. Mario's is the perfect venue for it - so it's a huge shock when they find it's closing down! In addition, Billie's mother is adamant that she shouldn't pursue the career in music she wants more than anything, and Billie can't understand why. Can the girls find somewhere else to spend Saturday mornings, and can they persuade Billie's mum that music is what really matters to her?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444902857</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Tim Thornton
|title=Death of an Unsigned Band
|rating=3.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Russell knows that his band is going nowhere, and the prospect of a life consisting only of a grim day job and some depressing creative exercises is getting him down. But when Josh turns up with a potential way out, it's not quite the way Russell, or any of the other band members, would have envisaged.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099531879</amazonuk>
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