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|author=Kate Mosse
|title=The Mistletoe Bride and Other Haunting Tales
|rating=4.5
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=This book of 14 short stories and a short play is based on the idea
of haunting. Sometimes the haunting is the ghostly kind and sometimes
something psychologically deeper and more primal. All the stories drift to
us from different eras, both past and recent, but all have one thing in
common: they centre on a troubled person. For instance we meet Gaston, a
French child who witnesses an odd event on the beach just after losing his
parents. In the inevitably touching but beautiful ''Red Letter Day'' we
travel to a French castle with a woman who has an appointment with the past.
If you want something completely different, there's ''The Duet'' which draws
us into a fascinating dialogue and then hits us with a sting.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409148041</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|title=The Time Traveller's Almanac
|summary=Oberon is a Labrador with a pedigree as long as your arm and ''One Dog and His Man'' is his story about what it's like living with the man he generously refers to as ''The Boss'', about life in general and the ways of the world. Think of him as the canine equivalent of the parliamentary sketch writer, there to highlight the idiosyncrasies of human life and bring a gentle humour to situations which might otherwise be taken far too seriously. Before you wonder how this is possible - how a dog can write a book - let me remind you that dogs are very intelligent animals. After all, dogs and their humans might go to what are laughingly called 'dog training classes', but it's the humans who are trained, not the dogs.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471660354</amazonuk>
}}
