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|author=Hilary Freeman
|title=Piccadilly Love Stories: Don't Ask
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Lily thinks of herself as being about a 6 out of 10 on the scale of 'hideous gargoyle to Brad Pitt' and she knows her boyfriend Jack is an 8. So why would he want to be with her? Despite him seeming to be the perfect boy she's convinced there's something in his past and only gets more suspicious when he keeps clamming up about it. So when she finds his ex-girlfriend on a social networking site it seems like a great idea to create a fake profile and make friends with her. Is it worth telling this many lies just to find the truth?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1853409979</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jennifer Egan
|summary=Using hundreds of previously overlooked documents, British historian Nick Bunker tells the story of the Pilgrim Fathers, starting from the religious climate in England which led to them leaving the country, and continuing through to show how they settled in America, trading beaver skins to let them settle in New England.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845951182</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jaclin Azoulay and Fenix
|title=Hic!
|rating=5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=When Snuffletrump woke up on the morning of his birthday, he felt very sad. No one seemed to have remembered and he had been given no cards and no presents. The only thing he had got for his birthday was the hiccups. His mum and dad were very busy and told him to go off and play but that is a difficult thing to do when you have hiccups. He wondered off and went to visit Cow who was sympathetic and suggested drinking a glass of milk whilst standing on his head! Unsurprisingly, when he tried this, Snuffletrump was covered with milk and he still had the hiccups. Other farmyard animals offered well meaning suggestions too but nothing seemed to cure them and the poor little piglet became messier and messier as he juggled eggs and fell in mud and straw. Finally though, there was a very happy surprise in store for Snuffletrump and, as everyone knows, that really is the best cure for hiccups!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849563039</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Mirza Waheed
|title=The Collaborator
|rating=3
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The Collaborator of the title is our narrator, a sensitive bookish young man. He is the son of the headman of a small village in a side valley of the Kashmir. The heritage of the people is that of nomads. The village has been settled for less than a generation. Everything they have has been built by the sheer hard graft of the people themselves… including the recently completed mosque.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670918954</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Yasutaka Tsutsui
|title=The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Kazuko is clearing up her school science lab after hours when something strange happens. She appears to disturb an intruder busy doing some kind of chemistry experiment - one that leaves a lavender scent to the room. She faints, and comes to to find no trace of any disturbance. But things get weirder - she starts to see her and her schoolfriends enduring disaster after disaster. Has she now got powers of premonition, or is something odder at foot?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184688134X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Don Calame
|title=Swim the Fly
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Matt and his friends, Coop and Sean, set themselves a challenge every summer. This year, with fifteenth birthdays under their belts and hormones a-go-go, their goal is to see a girl - any girl - naked. They know it won't be easy but, as Coop insists, it's step one in a very important and natural order of things. I'll let you draw your own conclusions as to what the final step could be...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848774532</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Alan Warner
|title=The Stars in the Bright Sky
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=In 1999, Alan Warner introduced us to a wonderful set of characters in 'The Sopranos' when a school choir from a backwater town in Scotland went on a trip to the big city. Much debauchery ensued. 'The Stars in the Bright Sky' once again reunites most of the original gang and there is no need to have read the first book to pick up on the diverse characters. Now though, they've grown up (or at least got older!) and are gathered at Gatwick Airport to set off on a girls' holiday.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009946182X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=John Trevillian
|title=The A-Men Return
|rating=3.5
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=It's been several years since the Phoenix Tower came down and the A-Men split. Dead City is a shadow of its former self: an urban wasteland and the centre of the sort of gang warfare that finds and exploits drugs and hopelessness with a ruthless talent.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184876619X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Peter James
|title=Dead Man's Grip
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=What starts as a normal day for Tony Revere soon ends in his death after he is knocked from his cycle and is thrown under a truck. Carly Chase does not hit him but as she swerves to avoid him, her Audi smashes into a café window. A subsequent breathalyser test shows that she is still over the limit from the night before. Stuart Ferguson, the truck driver, is also not responsible for the accident but he was tired having driven for more hours than are legally permitted. The van driver who actually hits Tony first just doesn't stop. It seems like a tragic accident, especially as the weather was terrible and Tony was cycling on the wrong side of the road. Tony's mother, who has links with the Mafia, does not think so though and is set on revenge.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230747256</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Geraint Anderson
|title=Just Business
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=The inside cover blurb tells us that the author himself has worked in the square mile in London, so presumably he'll have first-hand experience in the world of finance. The book is bang up-to-date, as it mentions the first whiff of the sub-prime disaster which seemed to start the whole collapse of the (up till then) safe and often extremely well-paid banking sector.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755381726</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Matt Haig
|title=The Radleys
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Rowan Radley is a freak who has to wear factor 60 sunblock. Clara is wasting away as she tries to turn vegan. Their parents are a normal suburban couple – aren't they? When a bully tries to take advantage of Clara in a secluded field, he finds he's bitten off rather more than he can chew – and she's bitten off rather more than he can survive without. Who do you call when you need a body to be buried? Abstainers Peter and Helen haven't had to deal with this sort of thing since they gave up drinking human blood – so in a moment of desperation they turn to Will, Peter's brother, who's rather more of a traditional vampire. Things are about to get messy…
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406330280</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Maria V Snyder
|title=Outside In
|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Although the revelation that Inside, a society crammed into a self-contained cube-shaped metal hull, is actually floating through space came as a shock to the population of Inside, both the Uppers and the Lowers of society expected life to get better after the success of the revolution and the deposition of the tyrannical Travas. However, Trella learns that setting up a new society that smooths over the divides and prejudices that consumed the old one is a cumbersome process. When bombs start exploding and violence begins to flare, a new potent threat has to be confronted by the divided population of Inside, in the form of Outsiders.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0778304132</amazonuk>
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