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|author=Melanie Rose
|title=Coming Home
|rating=4.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=We meet the narrator of this story drinking coffee from a thermos in a lay-by, on a cold grey day. All her worldly possessions are travelling with her in her car, including her cat. She has clearly made some momentous decision, and is on her way to somewhere new. I assumed that as story unfolded, I'd learn more about her and where she was going.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847561063</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=P C Cast
|summary=Two hundred years ago, with the fall of the monarchy and the Napoleonic wars, France underwent one cataclysmic change after another. There were many who witnessed and experienced the volatile age at first hand, but few left a more detailed record than the subject of this biography, Lucie-Henriette Dillon, Marquise Marchioness de La Tour du Pin.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099490528</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Rook Hastings
|title=Nearly Departed
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=At first sight, you'd think Weirdsville was Anytown - it has a slightly rundown feel; everything's just a little bit shabby. But it's pretty much like any other town. Parents go to work. Kids go to school and clump together in little peer groups of geeks and swots and jocks and bullies. But Weirdsville isn't like any other town. There's a strangely abundant wood right in the middle of it, and at night, everythings turns, well, a little bit weird. The darkness is so dark it almost sucks you in. And there are odd noises too...
... and Emily thinks she's seen a ghost.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007258100</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Daniel Suarez
|title=Daemon
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=As the internet grows and technology advances, it's seems there is nothing you can't do. Recent innovations mean you can operate appliances in your own home from another continent and cars are more automated than ever. Huge online games allow users worldwide to interact and play against each other in huge arenas. Thanks to social networking, the internet can be addictive and, yes, I'm aware of the irony in writing that here.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847249612</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Erica Bauermeister
|title=The Monday Night Cooking School
|rating=4.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=The Monday Night Cooking School is the first novel written by American writer Erica Bauermeister and it really is a delicious read in every sense. The novel tells of eight very diverse people who attend a cooking class once a month at Lillian's restaurant. Each has a different reason for being there and each has his or her own story to tell. However, over the months that the course is run, they start to bond through the learning experience and their love of food. It's not the sort of novel where much happens but if you are interested in people and you love food, I am sure you will enjoy this book. Having said that though, I don't think it is a book that should be read if you are trying to diet because you can virtually smell the food as you turn the pages!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141038837</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Marcus Sedgwick
|title=Lunatics and Luck (Raven Mysteries)
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=It's obvious really. When an earthquake hits Castle Otherhand, Valevine, the head of the household, decides what the place needs is a machine to predict the future, and a new tutor for his two oldest children. And why not? There are only those children, the suicidal baby twins, Valevine's dreadful failed inventions and experiments, Edgar the raven that narrates this series of books, and a monkey. With bells on. Clearly there is not enough weirdness there already to go around.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842556959</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett
|title=The Spirit Level: Why Equality Is Better For Everyone
|rating=4.5
|genre=Politics and Society
|summary=If you asked people why it is (or might be) a good idea to reduce inequality in a society, many people would assume that reducing inequality works by making the life of the poorest better: that the poor are the ones who benefit from reduction of inequality.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141032367</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Ken Bruen
|title=The Killing of the Tinkers
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Jack Taylor returns to his native Ireland with his tail between his legs. He's been lying low 'over the water' in London, licking his wounds. Jack (I'm slightly surprised that Bruen didn't give him a more Irish name) is a middle-aged, washed-up, disgraced ex-cop. As if that wasn't bad enough, he also has a lot of very bad habits. He acknowledges however that 'the new world is designed for non-smokers.' He also admits quite freely and openly that 'An alcoholic has dreams to rival that of any Vietnam vet.'
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0863224113</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Dave Zeltserman
|title=Killer
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Here at the Bookbag, we've been very impressed with Dave Zeltserman's work thus far. He uses a wonderful noirish narrative that takes you straight to the heart of the story. His story telling is very straightforward, not weighing down the story with too much style, but sticking to the substance and delivering a hard-hitting work every time. With ''Killer'', he has done the same again.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184668644X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Roger Hargreaves
|title=Mr Nobody (Mr Men and Little Misses)
|rating=4.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Mr Nobody is... well, he's somebody who sort of is and sort of isn't. Mr Happy comes across him one day, and does his best to cheer him up. Who could possibly help a person who's sort of there and sort of isn't? Ah, the Wizard!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405251425</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Tony Mitton and Guy Parker-Rees
|title=Jolly Olly Octopus
|rating=3.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Jolly Olly Octopus is giggling underneath the sea. He's soon joined by two tickly turtles, three smiley seahorses, and so on through the numbers. The large cast of underwater animals are having a jolly ol' time, until a shark appears...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846166861</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Mo Smith
|title=The Lazy Cook's Family Favourites
|rating=4.5
|genre=Cookery
|summary=These days I get very nervous when I hear about books for 'lazy' cooks, or how to cheat when preparing meals. There's a very simple reason for this: good food, prepared using seasonal ingredients which don't break the budget needs skill and knowledge and neither are the prerogative of the lazy. Mo Smith might like us to think that she's lazy, but take my word for it – she isn't. She might have learned a few tricks for making good food quickly, but she's a woman who knows her onions and all sorts of other food.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007826</amazonuk>
}}
