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|title=Frances and Bernard
|author=Carlene Bauer
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=There's something very special about an epistolary novel. The format might seem unnatural to readers in this day of abbreviated text messages and e-mails, but the conceit of a written exchange allows for fully developed first-person voices and a confessional tone. Provided the author can bypass the subtle difficulties of plot-building, letters are also a handy indicator of the passage of time, and ably convey period vocabulary.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099578603</amazonuk>
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|title=Have You Seen My Dragon?
It's France at the 1938 Paris Motor Show. A wonderful new car has been unveiled: the ''Deux Chevaux'' or 2CV for short. It looks a bit odd and is nicknamed ''Tin Snail'' but this is a car for the people: functional, reliable, affordable. And its inventor is just 13 years old! But WWII is about to break out and France is about to be occupied by the Germans. The Tin Snail must face a perilous journey - ''to carry a farmer and his wife, a flagon of wine and a tray of eggs, across a bumpy field in a sleepy French village without spilling a drop or cracking a shell'' - and then go into hiding...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857551299</amazonuk>
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