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|author=Mikey Walsh
|title=Gypsy Boy on the Run
|rating=4.5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=I was surprised to find that 'Gypsy Boy on the Run' is Mikey Walsh's second autobiographical book. The book stands alone as a very satisfying read,and there isn't really any feeling that vast chunks of his life have been left out – although presumably his first book 'Gypsy Boy', has more detail on Mikey's childhood as a travelling Romany Gipsy.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444720201</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Lucinda Hare
|summary=Boy is chilly, and looking for somewhere cosy to snuggle up. He doesn't want to share with his parents though so he goes off exploring by himself to find the perfect cosy spot. Several times he thinks he's discovered somewhere, but then it turns out to be where a sabre-toothed tiger lives, or the home of a woolly mammoth. Will he ever find the place that's perfect just for him?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408314096</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Mat Head
|title=Warduff and the Corncob Caper
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=There's trouble on Corncob Farm. A fox is coming round for tea and poor old Fefferflap is all a flutter because she suspects that she, and all the other farm animals, are on the menu! Can Warduff save the day?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849392269</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Giles Andreae and David Wojtowycz
|title=Mad About Minibeasts!
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Is your little one mad about minibeasts? Are they forever summoning you to come and see the spider in the bathroom or the ladybird on the log? If so then this rhyming book is perfect to read with them!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408309467</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Emily Bearn
|title=Tumtum and Nutmeg: Trouble at Rose Cottage
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Mysterious things are afoot in Rose Cottage. It appears that some new mice, one with golden teeth, have moved into the kitchen and are threatening the tranquil lives of Tumtum and Nutmeg who live in Nutmouse Hall. After some investigation they discover the new mice are town mice, intent on causing trouble. Will the children discover who has been stealing their things, or discover a way to stop their father from selling Rose Cottage before it's too late and their lives, as well as Tumtum and Nutmeg's, are changed forever?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405256559</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=David Benedictus
|title=Return to the Hundred Acre Wood
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Christopher Robin is back! At least that's what the Rumour spreading like wild fire through the Hundred Acre Wood says. He's returning for more adventures with Pooh and Piglet and Rabbit and Owl and Kanga and Roo and Tigger and Eeyore and, as I'm sure you'll agree, that is a Very Good Thing. From exciting new friends (Lottie the Otter giving Kanga some welcome female company) to adventures and competitions, with water slides to locate, bees to relocate, books to write and schools to found, this book picks up where the previous one left off, and really does read like an organic 3rd part of a trilogy (poetry books excepted) rather than a tag on that comes some 80-plus years after the original and from the pen of another.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405251603</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Lisa See
|title=Dreams of Joy
|rating=4.5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=It's the late 1950s, and America's teenagers (the very idea a brand new concept) are beginning to live the all-American dream. For some of them however it isn't all 'Happy Days' diners and rock'n'roll. For the second generation Chinese immigrants there's an alternative: back 'home' there's a brave new world being forged, a world where 'we'd work in the fields and sing songs. We'd do exercises in the park. We'd help clean the neighbourhood and share meals. We wouldn't be poor and we wouldn't be rich. We'd all be equal.'
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408822296</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Christine Dwyer Hickey
|title=The Cold Eye of Heaven
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=I reviewed Hickey's [[Last Train From Liguria by Christine Dwyer Hickey| Last Train From Liguria]] so was keen to see if I'd enjoy this book too. The front cover says that Farley ''unravels the warp and weft of his life'' which is a great phrase - wish I'd though of it. Hickey lives in Dublin so I'm kind of expecting good characterization (as the book's location is Dublin) and a nice line in put-me-down wit. But will I get it? Time to find out ...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857890301</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Margaret Pelling
|title=A Diamond in the Sky
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=We meet Dora in a reflective mood in what used to be the nursery. Well, it still is - except there's no baby there now. Pelling tells us down the storyline exactly what happened and why and the (a bit mushy for me) title of the book is key to the story of Dora. It gets mentions throughout. As Dora sits in the empty nursery she can't help but re-live that tragic event all over again. ''Her arms were wrapping themselves around her so tight that she was having trouble breathing.'' She's now a total mess and that's about the sum total of her life at the moment. Dora now thinks she's a dreadful person. And no one will want to know a dreadful person, will they?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906784280</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Zoe Heller
|title=Notes on a Scandal
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Barbara has been teaching at St George's for several years, and in spite of her caustic words on the institution, it is very much the focus of her lonely life. When newcomer, Sheba joins them, she forms a strong bond with her, and becomes part of Sheba's life. Sheba is married with two children, but her attraction to a pupil, Connolly, leads her to risk everything in a liaison of which Barbara is extremely jealous. As a result, their apparent friendship travels a sinister path.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>024195455X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Lydia Ola Taiwo
|title=A Broken Childhood: A True Story of Abuse
|rating=3.5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=Mojisola – known to everyone as Ola – was born to a Nigerian couple in London in 1964 and spent the first five years of her life in a foster home in Brighton. Here she was loved, looked after and lived her life in a genuinely good family. This wasn't an unusual arrangement as it allowed the biological parents to earn money without worrying about childcare – and Ola was happy. It was all the more cruel when her biological father arrived to take her 'home' for the weekend – a weekend which would stretch into seven years of abuse and neglect.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846245907</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Stacy Schiff
|title=Cleopatra: A Life
|rating=4.5
|genre=Biography
|summary=Stacey Schiff's biography starts more of less from Cleopatra's infamous meeting with Caesar, where she sneaks into his rooms in a sack. This is one of the most popular images of Cleopatra in the public consciousness and Schiff happily refutes the image of her emerging as a well polished seductress, pointing out that anyone who had been carried in a sack for a considerable period of time will more likely be fairly dishevelled. Schiff takes us through from this moment up to Cleopatra's much dramatised death, and beyond, to the end of the Ptolemaic dynasty.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>075353956X</amazonuk>
}}
