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{{newreview
|author=Carolyn Turgeon
|title=Mermaid
|rating=3
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=On a stormy night, two very different Princesses save the life of a drowning man.
The first, Lenia, is a mermaid, Princess of the sea. Tired of life underwater, she dreams of her eighteenth birthday when she's allowed to spend one day in the realm of humans. Though it's stormy and dangerous, she can't resist a trip to the surface, where a boat is sinking, human men drowning all around her. When Lenia lays her eyes on one man in particular, she knows she has to save him. Carrying him to the shore, she calls out to a human girl on the cliffs to do what she cannot – to bring him to real shelter and warmth.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755351207</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|summary=The latest in the annual series of short story collections edited by Maxim Jakubowski gives readers a wide range of stories from authors as diverse as the much-acclaimed [[:Category:Ian Rankin|Ian Rankin]] and [[:Category:Kate Atkinson|Kate Atkinson]], newwcomers such as Nigel Bird and Jay Stringer, and father and son combination Peter and Phil Lovesey.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849015678</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Douglas Kennedy
|title=The Moment
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=After I'd read the blurb on the back cover I gave a bit of a shrug as if to say, well, I've read quite a number of books recently where undying love has been found in war-torn Europe, so was this book going to be different, or better? Thomas Nesbitt, middle-aged, disillusioned with love and more than a tad world-weary is trying to move on in his life. His marriage of more than twenty years is dissolving before his very eyes. But rather than being upset, he's feeling as if a weight has been lifted from his shoulders. He and his wife were never really ''in love'' in the true sense of the phrase, despite having a daughter together. And there's a very good reason as to why Thomas is like this and the rest of the book tells us why, warts and all.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091795842</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Aminatta Forna
|title=The Memory of Love
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The setting for this story is a hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone, soon after the government has declared an end to an 11 year civil war. How can people come to terms with the terrible things that have happened? Actually, can they come to terms with those things?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408809656</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Chris Ewan
|title=The Good Thief's Guide to Venice
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary='I'd never met a female burglar before, let alone one with the credentials to model lingerie, and I confess that I was more than a little intrigued.' So says Charlie Howard before he realises that the lady in question has stolen his most prized possession. A talisman that he thinks is essential to his writing is the framed first edition of ''The Maltese Falcon'' that hangs above his desk. All his mysterious visitor leaves in this spot is empty space. The explosive and chaotic events that follow are fuelled by Charlie's determination to get his book back.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847399592</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Amy Plum
|title=Die For Me
|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Ever since Kate's parents died, she's been living life on pause – moving from day to day without actually ever living. She's moved with her sister to Paris to live with their grandparents, but even the beautiful city of love can't shake her out of her apathy. At least, not until she meets Vincent.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190741102X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Ellie Sandall
|title=Daisy Plays Hide-and-Seek
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Jake's friend, Daisy, is a cow. In fact, she's a very special cow. If we were a little older than Jake we'd call her a chameleon because she's not black, or black and white, or brown. Wherever Daisy goes she can take on the colours of what's around her. So when she stands in front of the stone wall she's a mottled grey colour but when she's in the field of corn she turns golden. Funniest of all is when she stands in front Mum's washing and is the colour of the sheets which she has hung out on the line.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140525419X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Benjamin J Myers
|title=Bad Tuesdays 4: The Nonsuch King
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=
With Chess teaching herself the skills she'll need when time reaches the fifth node and with Box stuck on a distant planet fighting for his life with the other Fleshlings, it's time to see what Splinter is doing...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842556428</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Steve Voake
|title=Dark Woods
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Cal has been taken on holiday to America by the latest in a long line of foster families. Despite the trip, there are tensions. Cal has been let down so many times that he refuses to trust in anyone and he rejects any overtures his foster mother makes. He knows they'll send him back to the children's home - the only question is when. So when he meets Eden - vital, funny, exciting - at a campsite and she suggests a walk in the woods, Cal snatches at the chance to get away with someone who doesn't know anything about him or his past.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571260055</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Dan Crisp and Mark Chambers
|title=Pandamonium
|rating=3.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=At the start of 'Pandamonium' by Dan Crisp and Mark Chambers, everything is very quiet at the zoo. In fact, it is so quiet that the zoo keeper is taking the opportunity to put his feet up and to have forty winks. Once the octopus spots this though, he reaches over with one of his long tentacles and borrows the keys that have been left on the table. Before long, he has opened all the cages and freed the animals who decide that it is time to have a party. Soon there is a lot of noise and partying but somehow the zoo keeper manages to sleep through it all. That is until the skunk disgraces himself by making an extremely nasty pong to all of the animals' eyes. It even rouses the zoo keeper who surprisingly does not realise that all of animals have been out partying because the awful smell has made them all return to their cages. As far as he is concerned, it's just another quiet night at the zoo.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849563020</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Betty Lussier
|title=Intrepid Woman: Betty Lussier's Secret War, 1942-1945
|rating=4
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=Betty Lussier was born in Alberta, Canada. At the height of the depression her father bought a Maryland farm at a bank foreclosure sale, they crossed the border to the States and settled down to the hard life of raising dairy cattle and the crops needed to feed them.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1591144493</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jenn Ashworth
|title=Cold Light
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=''Cold Light'' is the story of three teenage girls who become involved in a predatory adult world. As the story opens we're looking back on what happened from a decade later and we know that one of the girls, Chloë, died in a Valentine's Day suicide pact. The town council has finally decided on a memorial to Chloë – it's to be a summerhouse at the side of the pond where she drowned, although it's difficult to understand quite why anyone would want to sit there. The ground-breaking ceremony is being televised when it becomes obvious that something has gone terribly wrong. But Lola, our narrator, knows that they've found a body. She also knows who it is.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444721445</amazonuk>
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