|summary=Big Barb, tub of lard, has turned her life around. No longer overweight with wonky teeth and frizzy hair she has transformed herself into Tia Carpenter, the stylish Beauty editor at Platinum magazine. She has always kept her previous life secret, even from her best friends, but then Juliet Gold, the girl who tormented her at school, joins the magazine as Fashion Editor and suddenly Tia's new life is threatened.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755354370</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Martin Davidson
|title=The Perfect Nazi: Uncovering My SS Grandfather's Secret Past and How Hitler Seduced a Generation
|rating=4.5
|genre=History
|summary=Meet Martin Davidson. Now, when I start my reviews like that, normally it means he's the main character, but he's not here. He's big in the world of BBC History documentaries, and grew up in the UK, half Scottish and half German, knowing that many of his older relatives lived through the Second World War. Foremost among them was his German grandfather, Bruno Langbehn, who would have been of fighting age - in his 30s - during the Third Reich. Nothing much was ever said about Bruno's own history during the war, except for many inflammatory, rising comments by Bruno himself. It took the old man to die for the truth to be admitted by Martin's mother - their forefather was in the SS.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670916161</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Lorraine Jenkin
|title=Cold Enough To Freeze Cows
|rating=4.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Lorraine Jenkin is already well known for her wacky characters and outrageous plotlines. But taking on an archetypical boy next door romantic plot? I really thought that she would be forced onto the cliché-ridden path to a predictably happy ending. Well happy ending duly arrived, but via a completely unpredictable route, one that I could never have guessed in a month of Sundays, even by peeking at the last page before I started. And she ticked all the writing boxes along the way!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906784175</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=David Grossman
|title=To the End of the Land
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=This is a sweeping narrative about one Jewish family and how the various members deal with the ongoing Arab-Israeli war. The mother, Ora, is the lynch-pin of the family, but her resolve is tested to the limit when her younger son is about to be released from his stint in the army.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224089994</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=L J Smith
|title=The Night of the Solstice
|rating=3.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Claudia knew she wasn't really supposed to follow the fox - not on her own, to the old, forbidden house on the hill. But she did. And it will change everything. The fox is the familiar of Morgana Shee, powerful sorceress and only guardian of the passageway to another universe, Wildworld. But Morgana has gone missing and she must be found before the solstice, for then the gateway will be open to all, including Cadal Forge, an evil magician dedicated to conquering Earth. Claudia, and her siblings, Charles, Jane and leader Alys, must find her. And find her quickly, for everything hangs in the balance on the night of the Winter Solstice.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857070509</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=James Mayhew
|title=Katie and the Waterlily Pond
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=When Katie and Grandma are at the art gallery, they see there's a competition to paint a picture in the style of Monet. Grandma has a bit of a rest, whilst Katie goes off to look at the Monet exhibition for inspiration. When one of the paintings speaks to her - really speaks to her - she steps inside it and explores... Subtitled ''A Magical Journey Through Five Monet Masterpieces'', ''Katie and the Waterlily Pond'' is a wonderful introduction for children to art in general and Claude Monet in particular. They'll get a feel for ''In The Woods and Giverny'', ''Bathers at La Grenouillère'', ''Path Through the Poppies'', ''The Waterlily Pond'', and ''The Rue Montorgueil, Paris''.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408304635</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Cathy Cassidy
|title=Cherry Crush: The Chocolate Box Girls
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=When Cherry Costello told her teachers that she was leaving Glasgow and moving to live in a cliff-top house in Somerset where her father would make organic chocolates everyone thought that it was just another of her tall tales. But this one was true. Not only was Cherry moving to Somerset the Costellos, father and daughter, were going to live with his girlfriend and her four daughters. From it just being the two of them there would be seven altogether. How will Cherry cope? And how will the Tanberry family cope with two new members?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141384794</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jon Kalman Stefansson
|title=Heaven and Hell
|rating=3.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Iceland, somewhen about a century ago. Five men and a young lad set out in their tiny oar- and sail-powered fishing boat, for cod. On board are people with the strength to take part in a solid twelve-hour shift - rowing four hours to the fishing banks, staying there stably for the lines, then hauling them in and rowing home. And that's not to factor in any temperament of the weather. Unfortunately it's not only knowledge of fishing these people have taken on board, for Icelandic men still like to dream of love, gaze nightly at the moon at the same time as their belles, and read stories of gods, romance and legend. It's a pity then these distractions will be fatal for one of the boy's five companions...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906694532</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Sjeng Scheijen
|title=Diaghilev: A Life
|rating=4.5
|genre=Biography
|summary=Sergey Diaghilev was one of the towering figures in the artistic world of Russia, and indeed Europe, at the start of the 20th century. Born in 1872 the ambitious son of a bankrupt vodka producer from Perm, and a mother who died a few days later probably from puerperal fever, by his early twenties he was on close terms with such names as Tolstoy, Zola, Tchaikovsky and Brahms. He worked his way into the ranks of the cultural cognoscenti at St Petersburg and launched the itinerant troupe which would become the Ballets Russes, playing to packed houses as far west as Britain and the United States.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846681642</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Kelly McKain
|title=Half a Sister
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=When Hannah's parents begin to have whispered, but obviously heated discussions about something her immediate thought is that they're splitting up. There's quite a bit of that at school and Hannah would hate it to happen to her. But when it all comes out the reality is rather different. Sam has just discovered that he has a fifteen year old daughter living in Paris and that her mother has been in a serious car accident. Sam sees no alternative but to bring Ellie to live with them, but Charlotte is worried about how this will affect their daughter. When it's put to Hannah she has visions of long girly chats and swopping clothes and makeup and agrees without further thought. To begin with it's everything she hoped it would be but then a darker side of Ellie emerges and life turns into a nightmare for Hannah.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0746091249</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Tricia Telep (Editor)
|title=Kiss Me Deadly
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=What do Peter Pan, werecats, vampires, teenage zombies, and unicorn hunters have in common? Possibly very little... but they all appear as central characters in stories in this often enchanting anthology of stories of supernatural romance.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0762439491</amazonuk>
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