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|title=Happiness is Easy
|author=Edney Silvestre
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Monday 20th August 1900. Silvestre sets store by dates in his books. Time is important. Time, he seems to feel, fixes everything we do, because of what everyone else is doing at that time. History winds on, or unravels, while we do what we do – but we are part of that history.
 
Until and unless someone might chose to write us out of it.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857521357</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Elvis Has Left the Building: The Day the King Died
|author=Dylan Jones
|rating=5
|genre=Entertainment
|summary=The phrase ‘Elvis has left the building’ was first used by a promoter in December 1956, when he assured a passionately pro-Elvis audience from the stage that their idol had gone home, and would they please resume their seats to watch the rest of the acts on the bill that evening. Ever since then, it has become a kind of showbiz punchline.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>071564856X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Kill Baxter
|author=Charlie Human
|rating=3.5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Having pretty much saved the world in the previous story and receiving no appreciation for it Baxter Zevcenko is feeling a little hard done by. Add to that the fact that he has to change schools and is attempting to turn over a new leaf and become a better person and you have a character who has a scathing internal monologue. Baxter is only sixteen but he has already seen and experienced things that make him incredibly bitter, he also has a really vicious streak and sharp tongue, making him an exciting and hilarious protagonist.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780891326</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Survivor
|author=Lesley Pearse
|rating=4
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Lesley Pearse is an author who demands compulsive reading as her strong female protagonists suffer and survive by overcoming overwhelming odds. She has a talent for drawing you into her novels as she crafts her characters’ amazing, at times horrific, and continually perilous journeys. There is a strong sense of place about her books which are meticulously researched and rich with period detail and propel readers on a dizzying odyssey through history. She is frank about the problems and pain that ill-judged sexual acts can cause but balances this with the joy and pure passion that is inherent in true love. Her characters are not perfect stereotypes. They are often flawed and must find an inner strength to grow and develop as loyal and caring human beings.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241961521</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Andy Stanton
|summary=Like many other British thirteen-year-olds, Zeyneb is struggling with her feelings as she grows up, and with juggling her friends and family. However, she has an extra dilemma - she's a Muslim girl who's attracted to a non-Muslim boy whom her family would never approve of. Additionally, she needs to decide whether to wear a headscarf or not. What should she do?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909489735</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=A Big Day for Migs
|author=Jo Hodgkinson
|rating=4.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=It's summer which means new school uniforms are in the shops, new stationery is on every shelf, and for those starting school for the first time, there's a wealth of Starting school books to ease the transition. This is a fun new addition to the shelves that ticks all the boxes: colourful, inventive, sweet and, best of all, told in rhyme. I love rhyme.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783440384</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=The Flying Bath
|author=Julia Donaldson and David Roberts
|rating=4.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=It’s long been accepted that when you go to school and your parents are at work, your toys come alive and have adventures until you return. EVERYBODY knows that. But have you ever thought about the other things in your house and whether they have a second life? Here’s a hint: they DO. Welcome to the Flying Bath.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230742602</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Karin Altenberg
|title=Breaking Light
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Gabriel Askew retires to the village of Mortford, the place in which he grew up and from where childhood ghosts haunt him to this day. It’s a conscious decision: Gabe, ostracised as a child due to his hair lip, returns to face these demons that have controlled his life and forced him to do the unthinkable but now he wants peace… if it's not too late.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780877153</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Lost Luggage
|author=Jordi Punti
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=There are lots of things you wonder when you grow up with just one parent, but whether you also have a bunch of half-siblings, all with the same name as you, all dotted around the continent, is not normally high on the list. Gabriel Delacruz has 4 boys by 4 different women in 4 parts of Europe. None of them know of the others’ existence but when Gabriel disappears, his incredulous life is uncovered and Christof, Christophe, Christopher and Cristofol meet.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780722133</amazonuk>
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