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It's going to be great fun on the day and something that will be returned to time and time again.

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A child killer has served his tariff and is released under a new identity, with all the meagre support and protection the system allows. There are those who still need questions answered and others who need their own guilt assuaged...following Ben's release and trawling back through memories of the day it happened, questions of guilt are not so easily answered - a gripping and emotional read, with insights into a system that tries but often fails.

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|summary=If you're looking to buy a gift for a fan of fantasy novels but want something a little bit different, look no further than ''The Chimes'' a lyrical, vivid take on the genre from a published poet. Writing is outlawed and no one remembers how to read. In fact memory itself is at a premium; people carry their memories around with them in their hands or any way they're able as each day their minds empty of so much. The world now answers to the music of The Chimes summoning all to daily observance. The music is all. Imagine: a world with no writing, ruled by a mysterious upper class and surrounded by music. A well-conceived, delicate fantasy that reveals a multi-layered fable as it progresses for those who want it and a ripping good tale for those who don't.

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Elsie and Homer Hickam were West Virginians and knew how to make their tales as ''tall as the hills that surrounded them on all sides''. There is a Hickam family legend that has been told and retold so many times over the years that the lines between myth and reality have become well and truly blurred. ''Carrying Albert Home'' is the story of a man and his wife, a sweet pet alligator and a very lucky rooster who decide to take a road trip to Florida in 1935; the year of the Great Depression. What follows next is all completely true, well, except for the parts that are made up...

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''Rose Water and Orange Blossoms'' began life as a blog. Maureen Abood grew up with flavours of the Lebanon around her - the scent of floral waters and cinnamon, lentils, bulgur wheat and yoghurt, but most of all, the succulence of lamb. She revisits the recipes which nourished her childhood, sometimes remaining faithful to the original, but occasionally giving them her personal twist. The whole family has contributed (even if not directly) to the food which she produces and sometimes the recipes have been handed down for generations, but it's not just the food which sings in her hands, but the ''people'' who come alive as you read.

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