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|author=Jan Bondeson
|title= Strange Victoriana: Tales of the Curious, the Weird and the Uncanny from Our Victorian Ancestors
|rating=4
|genre=History
|summary= The Victorians, not surprisingly, had their own tabloid press. The most successful title of this nature was the 'Illustrated Police News', a weekly journal first published in 1864 and lasting seventy-four years. Not to be confused with the more upmarket 'Illustrated London News', its main stock-in-trade was weird, far-fetched and not always entirely genuine stories from Victorian life, generally in Britain but sometimes in Europe as well. This book is based on a recently-discovered archive of the paper. Prepare to be amazed, enthralled, sometimes horrified – and occasionally disbelieving.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445658852</amazonuk>
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|author=M C Beaton
|summary= ''This Book Thinks You're a Scientist'' takes children through a whole world of scientific areas: forces and motions, light, matter, sound, electricity and magnetism. It encourages children to look, ask questions and a have a go. This science-based activity book, published in association with the Science Museum, will stimulate and inspire young minds.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0500650810</amazonuk>
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|author=Pamela Johnson
|title=Taking in Water
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Pamela Johnson's third novel is set in 2002 but has its roots in a real-life tragedy from nearly 50 years earlier: in 1953 a storm surge hit the Norfolk coast, destroying Lydia Hutton's grandmother's home and sweeping her whole family out to sea. Seven-year-old Lydia was the only one to survive, clinging to the wreckage and singing hymns to herself to survive. It's a dark part of her past she's never told anyone except Luc, the half-French lover whose iconic performance art piece, ''Taking in Water'', she participated in during a spell in New York City in the 1960s, when she was known as 'Layla' and hung around with the likes of Andy Warhol.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1534627243</amazonuk>
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