|summary=Andy Miller and his wife both worked and they had a three-year-old son. Despite the fact that Miller was an editor for a London publisher he felt that he'd 'lost' reading from his life. He seemed to acquire a lot of books, but making time for reading them was an entirely different matter. With the help of his wife he developed a 'list of betterment' - initially a limited number of great books which he determined to read but eventually it became fifty great books and two not so great, which he was going to master over the space of a year. He was re-integrating books into everyday life.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00QJV7OAI</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler
|title=Charlie Cook's Favourite Book
|rating=5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=As a parent, you’re always in search of it. That one, elusive thing; the perfect bedtime story. Well, in Charlie Cook’s Favourite Book, I think we quite possibly have it. This ten year anniversary edition of the book will hopefully bring it to slightly wider attention than some of Donaldson’s more well known titles, as it is a completely charming and timeless book.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447276787</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=David Lodge
|title=Lives in Writing
|rating=4
|genre=Entertainment
|summary=David Lodge Lives in Writing. So blares the cover of my edition, and it's not far wrong. When he's not entertaining us with his [[:Category:David Lodge|writing career]] (now in its third, more erudite and to me more serious stage, after the first third of comic light touches, before he found his metier – and fame with TV adaptations– with comedies about the social and sexual lives of academe) he's teaching about and around writing. When I was younger I also read around writing – literature books, in other words – and Lodge's were among those I turned to. So this book and its contents are a welcome step back down a very familiar road.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099587769</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Ann Handley
|title=Everybody Writes: Your Go-To Guide to Creating Ridiculously Good Content
|rating=4
|genre=Business and Finance
|summary=Ann Handley has compiled a one stop resource for writers of any kind of marketing and promotional material. Assuming you have command of basic vocabulary and know how to write a simple sentence, Handley takes you through everything you could ever need to know for a huge variety of platforms, purposes and problems, in order to better represent your business on the internet.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00PJOTG4I</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Anthony J Quinn
|title=Border Angels
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Lena Novak knew all about border country. She was an illegal immigrant from Croatia and whilst she wasn't having to cope with landmines, bears and wolves, the Irish border had its own problems. She had worked in the farmhouse brothel for two months when she met Jack Fowler but her plan to escape left bare footprints in the snow and more than one dead body. The investigating officer was Inspector Celcius Daly and it wasn't long before he found himself in the unprofessional situation of working with a prostitute and a hitman.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784082600</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Robert Bausch
|title=Far As the Eye Can See
|rating=5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=''It was a bit slow'' was probably my Mam's worst condemnation of film… but I'm going to forgive her for not appreciating slowness, because it was she that got me into appreciating westerns. Of course she preferred the all-action kind, but through watching those with her, I started to watch and enjoy the long, slow, ones and to appreciate the back-drop to all of that action… and then somewhere along the line I got interested in what might really have happened: not just in the West but the whole of what became the U.S. in the early days of settlement.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408844303</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Harri Nykanen and Kristian London (translator)
|title=Behind God's Back (Ariel Kafka Series)
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Ariel Kafka, as the only Jewish detective in Helsinki's violent crime unit, has special insight into the Jewish Community. It goes without saying but it also provides Ari with a steady flow of cases. Therefore when a local company director and Jewish congregation member is murdered, Ariel is first choice of investigator. Unfortunately the victim happens to be the man who could have become Ariel's father-in-law a couple of decades before but Ari feels enough removed by time not to disqualify himself from the case. Gradually as the web of clues is carefully teased out, more worrying connections are discovered. The Mossad ''may'' be involved but then so may Ari's brother Eli.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908524421</amazonuk>
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