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|summary=At Black Rabbit Hall, time goes ''syrupy slow''. None of the clocks work properly, but an hour at Black Rabbit is said to last twice as long as a London one, and you don't get a quarter of the things done. Every holiday, the Alton family swap the hustle and bustle of London life for this secluded Cornish retreat, a place that is theirs and theirs alone.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718182979</amazonuk>
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|author= Jo Walton
|title= The Just City
|rating= 3.5
|genre= Dystopian Fiction
|summary=Urged on by her brother Apollo, goddess Pallas Athene founds the Just City of Atlantis – a city based on Plato’s republic. Filling it with an assortments of adults collected from throughout time, as well as ten thousand ten year olds, (one of whom is a disguised Apollo). Whilst the city flourishes, the arrival of Socrates may prove to be a fly in the ointment…
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472150767</amazonuk>
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|author= Caroline Lawrence
|title= The Case of the Bogus Detective
|rating= 5
|genre= Confident Readers
|summary= Howdy folks! Welcome to Virginia City, bustling and busy home to prospectors, dancing girls, lawyers, gamblers and newspapermen. It's 1862, and our twelve-year-old pal Pinky is continuing the quest to become a successful detective and eventually join Uncle Allan in the famous Pinkerton Detective Agency in Chicago. But for the moment there's so much crime right here in Nevada, thanks to the untold wealth being found daily in the nearby silver mines, that Pinky and financial partner Ping are soon busy day and night, chasing desperados, solving crimes and righting all manner of wrongs.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444010336</amazonuk>
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|author= Marissa Meyer
|title= Fairest: The Lunar Chronicles: Levana's Story
|rating= 4.5
|genre= Teens
|summary= Meyer’s dedication in this prequel to The Lunar Chronicles is to her fans, The Lunartics. This book is especially for voracious readers who have devoured Cinder, Scarlet and Cress and are desperately awaiting Winter, though it works as a standalone too. According to the publisher’s note Queen Levana is a ruler who uses her glamour to gain power. But long before she crossed paths with Cinder, Scarlet and Cress, Levana lived a very different story- a story that has never been told… until now.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1250069661</amazonuk>
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|author=David Loades
|title=The Seymours of Wolf Hall: A Tudor Family Story
|rating= 4.5
|genre= History
|summary= In medieval times Wolf Hall or Wolfhall (or even Wulfhall), the long-since-demolished family seat in Wiltshire, was the home of the Seymour family. Their greatest triumph, followed by a speedy decline and fall, was part of Tudor history, and is thus the focus of this book.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445634953</amazonuk>
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