|summary=Mrs Bartolotti has a rather bad habit of ordering things...things that she usually doesn't need. One day a large parcel arrives in the post. Mrs Bartolotti can't think what it can be. What has she ordered recently? She thought she'd been very good! When she opens it she finds, inside, a perfect factory-made little boy - she definitely never ordered a little boy! Conrad and Mrs Bartolotti soon grow to love each other, but what will they do when the factory realises the mistake they've made and attempt to reclaim their goods?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849394830</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Rose Lagercrantz and Eva Eriksson
|title=My Happy Life
|rating=4.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=When Dani can't sleep she doesn't count sheep, she counts all the times that she's been happy! And Dani has been happy a lot of times. She's happy because she's about to start school, though she's nervous about making new friends. But then she meets Ella, and Ella becomes the very best friend she could ever have wished for. They have so much fun together, but then one day Ella tells Dani that she is moving house, and suddenly Dani isn't happy any more.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1877467804</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Yrsa Sigurdardottir
|title=I Remember You
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Too often, people – such as myself – refer to a book as being a rollercoaster read, mostly down to a simply topsy-turvy plot. But this is the true embodiment of a white-knuckle ride. It has the anxiety of the queue as we watch three people – a couple and another young woman – get ferried across the fjord to one of western Iceland's most remote outposts, with the aim being to renovate an old building as a guesthouse. There's the crunch of the roll-cage protection bars locking us in as we find that something very malevolent is hiding in the tiny settlement. And just as the car starts we might be seeking in vain the relieved thumbs-up from those leaving the ride, telling us all is well and all survived.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444738496</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Gregory Hughes
|title=Summertime of the Dead
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Yukio lives with his grandmother in Tokyo. He enjoys school, practising kenzo, and hanging out with his two best friends, twins Hiroshi and Miko. They do everything together - swimming, shopping, eating, even visiting nuns. But then the yakuza - the Japanese mafia - come into their lives. And Hiroshi and Miko are dead - blackmailed and tormented, they take their own lives. Filled with grief, Yukio vows revenge...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780875525</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=G Willow Wilson
|title=Alif the Unseen
|rating=5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Alif lives under an alias and he has a good reason for that: he's a hakinista in an Arabian oil producing country that, to put it mildly, doesn't encourage free speech. He sells IT know-how and wizardy to any covert organisation that works against the government, their agenda unimportant as long as the aim is the downfall of their oppression. But all that's about to change as Alif falls in love and, as it's the wrong girl at the wrong time, is spurned. His response to this romantic let down is to create a computer programme that will identify her internet activity by her individual typing pattern. Unfortunately what works for him also works against him. It's captured by the notoriously dangerous government censor 'The Hand' who also wants Alif and his hidden network of colleagues. Now Alif runs to preserve his life and those who have trusted him, his only possession an ancient manuscript from his former love. Just a book, albeit one that's accompanied by myths and old wives' tales rendering it irrelevant a logical world. However, sometimes the most desperate of times requires more than logic and, sometimes, a mere book of stories may be more than it seems.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857895664</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=David Croydon
|title=The Unprincipled: The Unvarnished Truth About Running a Marketing Agency - from Start-up to Sell-out
|rating=4
|genre=Business and Finance
|summary=In 1985 David Croydon and a couple of his colleagues were in employment but they were spending some of the working hours setting up their own company which would be in competition with their current employers. All's fair in love and the world of sales promotion and Marketing Principles was born the following year. The title of the book is taken from the in-house newsletter published twice a year by their creative department to debunk anyone who worked for the agency and judging by what David Croydon has to say they must have had a lot of material to choose from. If I had to pick one word to describe this book it's ''scurrilous'', so if the title of the book suggests that the content might be rather dry, then think again.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0953685063</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Michael Cobley
|title=The Ascendant Stars
|rating=4
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=''Space Opera has never been in more capable hands'' is the Guardian quote that concludes the blurb for this, Cobley's wrap up part of the ''Humanity's Fire'' trilogy that started with [[Seeds of Earth (Humanity's Fire) by Michael Cobley|Seeds of Earth]] and continued through [[The Orphaned Worlds (Humanity's Fire) by Michael Cobley|The Orphaned Worlds]]. It's hard to disagree, but it's also hard to get away – on this evidence – from the fact that Space Opera might be closer to Soap than Classical, when it comes to opera classification.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841496367</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Lucy Hawking and Stephen Hawking
|title=George and the Big Bang
|rating=3.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=John Lloyd's First Rule of the Universe is that it must contain three things – entropy, trouble, and mis-sold PPI claim adverts. However this book only contains one of those – trouble. Eric is using the Large Hadron Collider to delve into the secrets of the universe and the first micro-seconds of its existence, but he has trouble in the shape of Luddite people who think his experiment will cause the end of our solar system. He has his super-computer, Cosmos, which is able to transport him and his daughter Annie and the kid next door, our hero George, anywhere they desire throughout the universe, but there's only trouble when two of them are discovered larking about on the moon. And, as we've come to expect – this being the closing book of a trilogy – there is an evil scientist somewhere who is just intending to cause a different kind of trouble – making the big bang in the title something you might not have initially expected.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552559628</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Michael Gerard Bauer
|title=Don't Call Me Ishmael
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Fourteen-year-old Ishmael Leseur is a loser. He can't help it - how is he meant to survive with a name that school bully Barry Bagsley can twist into Fishtail Le Sewer, Fishwhale Manure, or even worse combinations? He's so fed up of being bullied that when the nerdy James Scobie moves to his school, he almost welcomes the arrival of a new target for Bagsley's scorn. But Scobie doesn't fear anything. With his help, and that of Miss Tarango, the new English teacher, can Ishmael learn to stand up for himself?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848776837</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Daniel Coyle
|title=The Little Book of Talent
|rating=4
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=When you want - or need - to master a new skill you'll be told to practice, but there's not always a lot of advice around on ''how'' to practice. Sometimes it's that hint about how to practice more effectively, how to approach the skill from a different direction which makes all the difference. Daniel Coyle has fifty two tips - most of which can be applied to just about everything from improving your golf swing to success in the business world. The tips are short - all fifty two are covered in about a hundred and twenty pages - easily read and simple to put into practice.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847946798</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Paul Dowswell
|title=Eleven Eleven
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=It's 2am in Paris on Tuesday 11th November 1918. Negotiations for ending World War I are almost complete and both sides will announce the Armistice at 11am. But the people actually fighting the war don't know that yet...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408826232</amazonuk>
}}
