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|author=Vesna Goldsworthy
|title=Chernobyl Strawberries
|rating=4
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=A book about a woman from a war-shredded country, who discovers she has breast cancer…Not a bundle of laughs, one would assume. One would be wrong. ''Chernobyl Strawberries'' is, amongst other things, very funny.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908524472</amazonuk>
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|author=Ian Stewart
|summary=''The Miniaturist'' is a meticulously researched wonder of a book. Burton, her imagination fired by a trip to the Rijksmuseum, where she viewed the wealthy Amsterdammer merchant’s wife Petronella Oortman’s elaborate 1686 cabinet dolls' house, revels in creating her fictional world. She imbues it with authentic details including descriptions of actual rooms, pieces of commissioned art, a parrot’s cage, food made from wax, furniture made to exact scale and miniature puppets. She is a word smith, painting a rich canvas of imagery and emotions for the reader. Her ‘Nella’ Oortman is a tentative rural bride of 18 embarking on a union with an older, learned man of languages who has a warehouse full of strange curiosities.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447250931</amazonuk>
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