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|author=SB Hayes
|title=Don't Look Back
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Ever since they were children, Sinead has been taunted by her older brother Patrick. Always their mother's favourite, he constantly plays games with her, trying to force her to follow him. When he goes missing, it seems to be his most sinister game yet - as he leaves a trail of clues which lead to Benedict House, a strange place where time seems to stand still.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857386816</amazonuk>
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|summary=Having read many of the Father Brown short stories before, and after really enjoying the recent screen version, I jumped at the chance to get hold of this TV tie-in omnibus. The little cleric who has such a mild manner, but a keen knowledge of human evil, is one of my favourite detectives, and it was a pleasure to be able to read this complete collection of his stories.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849906467</amazonuk>
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|author=Eleanor Henderson
|title=Ten Thousand Saints
|rating=3.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Eleanor Henderson's debut novel ''Ten Thousand Saints'' is set in late 1980s Vermont and, more memorably, New York. Opening in 1987 we discover in the second sentence that one of the two boys hiding under the stands to the Vermont school football field on match day will die that night. It's a powerful opening. From then on, the book deals first with Teddy's death and then with the life he has left behind in the form of his friend Jude, Jude's sort of step sister Eliza and Teddy's older brother Johnny. It's a world of broken homes and the trinity of sex and drugs and rock and roll, or more specifically punk. Henderson is particularly good at evoking the underground scene in New York at the time before the unlikely combination of AIDS and mayoral intervention combined to clean up the city.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780872194</amazonuk>
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