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|author=Mary Horlock
|title=The Book of Lies
|rating=3.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Catherine Rozier is fifteen years old and she has a secret.
Secrets are a big thing on Guernsey, the small Channel Isle that is only three miles across at one point with a population a little over 65,000 i.e. somewhat more than Hereford, considerably less than Lincoln, or about half that of Norwich or Preston. Unlike any of those towns, Guernsey is an island. It is self-contained. It isn't just that everyone knows everyone else; they're almost certainly, quite closely, related.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847678858</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Alexi Zentner
|summary=As one of a specially written series of bible stories for toddlers, this board book tells the Easter story in a very simplified way. It would work well for the very young who you perhaps would like to experience a taste of bible stories without going into too much detail.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1859858848</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Juliet David and Steve Whitlow
|title=The Story of Easter
|rating=4.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=This lovely board book of the Easter story gently tells us about Jesus as he rides into Jerusalem on a donkey, shares a meal with his disciples and is betrayed by one of them before facing Pilate and the crowds who condemn him to crucifixion. The story ends with the resurrection and the thought that this is why we celebrate Easter each year.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1859851746</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Fern Britton
|title=New Beginnings
|rating=3.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Christie Lynch is a widowed mother with a couple of children and she's been keeping the proverbial wolf from the door by doing some journalism – but then she gets the lucky break of an appearance on daytime television. She's spotted by Julia Keen, ''the'' most successful agent and it seems that the sky's the limit. It's not long before Christie has a high-profile presenting job. The public loves her. The camera loves her. What's not to like?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007362692</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Frances Hardinge
|title=Twilight Robbery
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Mosca and her companions will be familiar to readers of 'Fly By Night', but it is in no way necessary to have read the first volume of her adventures to thoroughly enjoy this book. She is a twelve-year-old orphan, who travels the roads with her homicidal goose, and a rather shifty poet called, charmingly, Eponymous Clent. We meet them just after a particularly energetic display of destruction by the said goose: Eponymous has been thrown into jail until he can pay for the damage, and Mosca is trying to raise some cash by reading aloud an old newspaper to illiterate townsfolk.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405055391</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Manu Joseph
|title=Serious Men
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Ayyan Mani is a Dalit, an untouchable, stuck in a flat in Mumbai's slums but hoping, somehow, for a better future for his son. Working at the Insitute of Theory and Research he uses all his cunning and wiles to stay ahead of the game amongst the Brahmin scientists. Does he have the intelligence, and nerves, to convince everyone that his son, against all odds, is a genius?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848543085</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Victoria Coren
|title=For Richer, For Poorer: Confessions of a Player
|rating=5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=Some things are in the blood. For Victoria Coren it was cards. As a child she and brother Giles were taught to play Blackjack by their grandfather. He called it Pontoon but the most valuable lesson was that grandfather was ''always'' the dealer and ''always'' the winner. Giles played Poker but wasn't really a gambler. Victoria was one of life's risk-takers and she leant to the more adventurous side of her father's family. She was unhappy at school, preferring the company of her brother's straight-talking friends to the bitchy all-girl atmosphere at school. In the intervening twenty years she's won a million dollars, but for her it's never been about the money.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847672930</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Lucas Ellis
|title=The Ultimate Guide to Marathon Running
|rating=3.5
|genre=Sport
|summary=A friend of mine and I started running nearly ten years ago. I'm still going, a 5 km run-walk most mornings which averages the same speed as a postman whipping through his round. I fear it will never lead on to a marathon, but I always enjoy myself. My friend completed the New York Marathon five years ago, but hasn't run again. Together with a keen 10k runner from a local running club, we approached this book from different viewpoints.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907232575</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Adrian Tinniswood
|title=Pirates Of Barbary: Corsairs, Conquests and Captivity in the 17th-Century Mediterranean
|rating=5
|genre=History
|summary=In the early 17th century the North African coast was a particularly dangerous place to sail near due to the prevalence of pirates there ready to plunder the cargo of ships. In this truly captivating account author Adrian Tinnisworth looks at these corsairs – focusing on Englishmen such as John Ward, who became so renowned that plays about him and Dutchman Simon Danseker managed to outsell
King Lear!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099523868</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Amanda Brookfield
|title=Before I Knew You
|rating=4
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Two couples agree to swap homes for the summer, urged on by a mutual friend. Sophie and Andrew are teachers who live in London, rather jaded with life and each other, but hoping for a break. Their two teenage daughters are on a music tour, but hope to join them for the last week.
William and Beth are a newly married couple, who live in a gorgeous home in Connecticut in the USA. William is rather older than Beth; he's a Brit who has three teenage sons living with their mother in London, not far from Sophie and Andrew's home. William wants to spend time with his sons in the summer, and Beth hopes to get to know them better.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141039949</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Joanne Partis
|title=We're Not Sleepy!
|rating=3.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=It's bedtime, but the three little kittens aren't sleepy. Mum suggests that they count sheep, so they head out to the farmyard to find sheep to count. They find one shaggy sheepdog, two munching cows, three playful foxes, and so on.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192731629</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Carrie Weston and Tim Warnes
|title=Bravo, Boris!
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Miss Cluck's class are going on a camping trip. They've got a map, butterfly net, binoculars, and a tent. All the class are carrying something, be it Leticia the rabbit, Maxwell the mole or the little mice. Boris the grizzly bear gets to carry alllllllll the heavy stuff - well, Fergus the fox cub couldn't exactly carry a great big tent, could he? This being a camping trip, the class get up to all sorts of adventures and into all sorts of scrapes. Luckily, they have Boris on hand to help them out.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192789783</amazonuk>
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