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|author=David Lodge
|title=The Campus Trilogy
|rating=4.5
|genre=Humour
|summary=Somewhere along the line the word "vintage" stopped meaning simply the wine crop of any given year, and started to mean the wine of a particularly good year, and then to mean anything of a past year that was (is) of outstanding quality. Such is the mutability of language.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099529130</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jacqueline Percival
|summary=Rumpelstiltskin is the tale of a miller who is so proud of his daughter that he lies to his friend and says that she can spin straw into gold. The king overhears this story but doesn’t believe it and so orders the miller to bring his daughter to him, he imprisons her and says she must spin the straw he has left for her into gold. Distraught, she sits in the room alone and cries. Just then, a creature appears and offers her help. But what happens next and what does the creature want in return for his help?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846432502</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=John Fardell
|title=The Day Louis Got Eaten
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Louis gets eaten by a Gulper, but it's okay as his sister Sarah has a plan! But what will she do when the Gulper gets eaten by a Grabular? And the Grabular by an Undersnatch? Surely this day can't get anymore ridiculous, or can it?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849390150</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Fin Gypsy, Zoa Gypsy and Monika Suska
|title=The Dog Detectives: Lost in London
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=There are six ravens kept in the Tower of London and they hold a magical spell which stops the city falling into ruin, but only so long as they stay in the Tower. So what happens when they decide to have a game of hide and seek? Luckily Detective Jack and Deputy Poco Loco, The Dog Detectives, are on hand to help. Will they find all six before afternoon tea?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848860692</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Alexander McCall Smith
|title=Isabel Dalhousie: The Forgotten Affairs of Youth
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=My husband is soon to take a work trip to Edinburgh and I am very jealous. Mainly because thanks to AMS' novels I feel like I already know the city, and I would love to walk in the footsteps of Isabel or any of the characters from his other series, '44 Scotland Street'. So, to console me, I have turned to the latest in the Isabel Dalhousie series. I must admit, I was a little wary at the beginning since I was quite disappointed with Isabel's seventh outing, [[Isabel Dalhousie: The Charming Quirks of Others by Alexander McCall Smith|The Charming Quirks of Others]], and I wondered what I would do if this one also proved to be a let down. Fortunately it wasn't, and dear Isabel is back in sparkling form!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408703394</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jeanne Willis and Tony Ross
|title=Sticky Ends
|rating=3.5
|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse
|summary=This is a book of funny rhymes and verses in which rather disgusting and gruesome things happen to the characters involved, with each one getting their comeuppance. Tony Ross obviously had a wonderful time illustrating the book with everything from noses, dripping with blood as they're pinched off right through to Father Christmas using the toilet...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849392501</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Elizabeth Miles
|title=Fury (Fury Trilogy)
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Both the central characters in Fury have dark secrets. Em is in love with her best friend's boyfriend. So when Gabby goes away on a winter holiday and Zach starts flirting with her, Em just can't resist even though she knows she's doing something unforgivable. Chase lives on a trailer park but runs with a rich crowd. He'll do just about anything to maintain his place in the group - and there's something he has done to that end of which he's deeply ashamed. But their small American town has come to the notice of three otherworldly sisters. The Furies have come to Ascension and Em and Chase are about to discover that feeling guilty isn't the only price they'll be paying for their misdeeds...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857071998</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Luana Rinaldo
|title=Who Am I? This is My Mouth
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Who am I? Well, I'm a very sturdy board book, but forget any idea of just having eight to twelve pages with pictures and an elementary story for the youngest children. On each double page spread we have an animal and a rhyme which gives a hint as to who the animal might be – but the mouth obviously belongs to another animal altogether. So – on the first page we have an animal with long teeth which are used to eat hay – but the snout is green and appears to be underwater! Pull the slide at the side of the page and the correct body part appears along with the word 'horse'.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408315092</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Albert Uderzo and Renee Goscinny
|title=Where's Asterix?
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Following in the tradition of 'Where's Wally' books here we have 'Where's Asterix?' There are 12 different scenes from the Asterix stories where you have to find not just Asterix but a whole range of other characters hidden throughout as well. Turn it into a competition as you win a laurel wreath for each character you find!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444004441</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Sara Gruen
|title=Ape House
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Isabel Duncan is a scientist working with Bonobo chimps, teaching them sign language. John Thigpen is a journalist who comes to meet the apes and write a story about Isabel's work with them. He is moved by the apes, by their behaviour and Isabel's obviously very close relationship with them. Soon after he leaves, however, there is a bomb at the centre by a group of extremists who want to liberate the apes. Isabel begins a desperate hunt to try and discover where they've gone, and John finds himself also caught up, trying to discover the truth of what's happened.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444716026</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Andrew Weale and Ben Cort
|title=Nora: The Girl Who Ate and Ate and Ate
|rating=5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary='Nora, the girl who ate and ate and ate...' is a fabulously funny book. Before you even open it, you can tell that Nora is a small child with a huge appetite as on the front cover her plate is piled high with all manner of food that she appears extremely eager to devour. Throughout the story, Nora eats more and more but when she scoffs all of the 'hugest gooey chocolate cake' that her mother has just made, she is sent to her room. It doesn't stop there though as Nora hunts round for more things to eat and I am not just talking about food. She eats everything including her teddy bear curled up in her mattress in order to make a sandwich! After finally eating her clothes she lets out an almighty burp that has the most surprising but happy consequence for this hungry heroine! She whizzes into Space like a balloon and ends up on the moon which, of course, as we all know, is made of cheese!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849390517</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Tiziano Scarpa
|title=Stabat Mater
|rating=3
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Translated by Shaun Whiteside from Scarpa's 2008 Italian original, 'Stabat Mater' is set in a Venetian orphanage for girls run by nuns in what would have been around the 1700s. The girls at the 'Ospedale' are trained as musicians and singers who play from a hidden gallery in the adjoining church for the patrons of the Instituto della Pietà. However, this is a highly stylised little book, bordering on the almost poetic, narrated from the point of view of one of the orphans, a young violinist named Cecilia who goes on to tell of the impact of the appointment of a new in-house composer, one Don Antonio, or Vivaldi as most of us know him.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846687691</amazonuk>
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