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|author=Ian Ridley
|title=There's A Golden Sky: How 20 years of the Premier League has changed football forever
|rating=5
|genre=Sport
|summary=Twenty years ago the Premier League was founded, changing English football irreversibly. Also 20 years ago, journalist Ian Ridley wrote the classic ''Season In The Cold'', a snapshot of the game at the time. Since then, clubs have risen and fallen, players have become legends, and Ridley himself has become chairman of not one but two non-league clubs – first Weymouth, from 2003-2004 (and again briefly in 2009) and more recently St Albans City. In this stunning follow-up to Season In The Cold, Ridley explore the effect that the changes in the sport have had at all levels.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408130408</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Kerry Jamieson
|summary=There is no question but that the story of Angus has all the right ingredients for a fascinating study. Taken from his Scottish Lowlands agricultural early childhood to the isolation of a Hebridean island of South Uist, joining the last ever horse platoon in the British Army at the outbreak of the Second World War, then mental breakdown and effective incarceration for almost all the rest of his life, he created some of the most unusual works of folk art that have existed this century. And Hutchison tackles every angle of this rich narrative, exploring the military thinking behind how horse regiments were to combat Hitler, through to the operations of mental health care in later twentieth century Scotland, and all points in between.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841589713</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Andrew Lane
|title=Young Sherlock Holmes: Fire Storm
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=The estate of Arthur Conan Doyle has authorised Andrew Lane to write a series of books about the early years of Sherlock Holmes, and if this book is typical then they made an excellent choice. Through these stories we see the development of the complex and sometimes contradictory aspects of Sherlock's personality, set in the context of the most thrilling adventures and courageous acts of derring-do a young person could desire.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230758509</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Gavin James
|title=Ariadne's Thread
|rating=3.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=''Ariadne's Thread'' is the story of Elena Avgoulas who decided in May 1941 that she would have to leave Chios, the Greek island where she was born, until the war was over. German soldiers had occupied the island and whilst they were there it would not be home to her, her mother and sister and brothers. The brothers were in the Greek army. Her mother would run the family bakery and her sister would support their mother. Elena was a medical student in Athens and had a nursing qualification; she decided that she would make use of this in the war effort. And so began a journey that would take her to Cyprus, Palestine, Egypt, Italy and Germany in the course of the war.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B005FRG8P4</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Sian Pattenden
|title=The Peppers and the International Magic Guys
|rating=3.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Esme and Monty are the Pepper twins, and whilst their hippie parents are away on holiday 'reconnecting with nature' the twins are left with Uncle Potty who is a member of the International Magic Guys club. Unfortunately the club is threatened with closure, and the more nervous Uncle Potty becomes about the club's future the more disastrous his tricks are! Will he ever be able to perform in the show that must save the club?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007430019</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Thomas Byrne and Tom Cassidy
|title=How to Save the World with Salad Dressing
|rating=3
|genre=Popular Science
|summary=The world is under threat from a manic Bond-type baddie. You, my friendly reader, are the only person with the smarts enough to save it. You'd better not be one of my less intelligent friends, because according to this book one needs a lot of physics-inclined lateral thinking to carry out the dangerous tasks ahead. You'll need to know about gravity and other forces, buoyancy, friction, acceleration and more to get through the puzzles here.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1851688552</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Javier Marias
|title=While the Women are Sleeping
|rating=4.5
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=
The first thing the trivially minded will note is that this is not the complete edition of While the Women are Sleeping, for not all the stories in the original Spanish volume are here. You might think that's because some have been hived off for a future 'best of' compilation. But if this isn't the best of Javier Marias, then I don't know what is.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099553929</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Harry Thompson
|title=Tintin: Herge and His Creation
|rating=3.5
|genre=Biography
|summary=I love Tintin. I love his quiff and his innocence, his plus-fours and his foreign adventures, I love Snowy the dog and most of all I love Captain Haddock and the flamboyance of his blistering barnacles language. So I was thrilled to see a biography of the character and Hergé, his creator, and I picked it up with enthusiasm.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848546726</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Philip Ardagh
|title=Philip Ardagh's Book of Kings, Queens, Emperors and Rotten Wart-Nosed Commoners
|rating=3.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=If you deem a good children's historical trivia book to be one that tells you, the adult, something they didn't know about historical trivia, then this is a good example. I didn't know George V broke his pelvis when his horse fell on him, startled by some post-WWI huzzahs. I didn't know Charles VI of France nearly got torched in some drunken bacchanal. The length of time Charlemagne sat on a throne (over 400 whole years (even if he wasn't wholly whole all that time)) was news to me, as was the raffle that was held (more or less) for being the unknown soldier. Therefore this is a good book for children and the adults willing to instill some historical trivia into them.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330471732</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Joseph Heller
|title=Catch 22
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=At the heart of the very black comedy that is ''Catch 22'' is Captain Yossarian, a World War II American bombardier, who wants to survive the war. Flying repeated combat missions is undermining his sanity, and surely a mad man should be grounded? But if he asks to be grounded, he demonstrates an absolutely sane concern for his own safety. If he is sane, he can't be grounded. This, his doctor tells him, is catch 22.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099529114</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Anthony Hays
|title=The Killing Way
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=Post-Roman invasion and Great Britain shows the signs of a beleagured nation. And straight away Hays gives us an historical flavour - Saxons, Picts and names such as 'Ambrosius Aurelianus' are mentioned early on in the book.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857890050</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jackson Pearce
|title=Sweetly
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=This book is the second in a series of fairy tale retellings (the first being [[Sisters Red by Jackson Pearce|Sisters Red]]) which, without being closely connected, share common elements. They both deal with the paranormal, including the Fenris, which are about as far from the glamorous and sexy werewolves of recent books and films as you can get. They stalk. They kill. They eat. End of story. The two books also look at the aftermath of an attack, and how it changes the lives of those who survive.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444900595</amazonuk>
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