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|author=Tom Rachman
|title=The Rise and Fall of Great Powers
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Tooly (Matilda) Zylberberg, runs a small independent book shop in Caergenog, close enough to Hay on Wye to attract literary festival overflow. She loves and understands literature which is more than can be said about her understanding of her parents. In fact Tooly doesn't even know who her parents are. She had a weird childhood being taken from one city or country to another by Paul but she never got to ask why or even who he was. The sum of her knowledge was that he worked in IT and seemed to take care of her… or rather she took care of him. So one day she leaves her able assistant Fogg to keep the shop going and retraces her life, hopefully finding the answers to the questions she never got around to asking.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444752340</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=David Almond and Vladimir Stankovic
|summary=Two boys - no longer a couple, but still friends - are kissing outside their high school. But this is no ordinary kiss. This is a kiss which they intend to last over 32 hours, breaking the world record for longest kiss. Their friend will document it, spreading the world to, and beyond, their community, some of whom will be supportive, others of whom will be disgusted. Two other boys are in a relationship, while two more may be about to start one. An eighth is looking for something he may never find. ''Two Boys Kissing'' tells the story of all these different boys, at different stages of love.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405264438</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Nicole Mary Kelby
|title=The Pink Suit
|rating=3.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=In November 1963 the world was shocked by the assassination of President John F Kennedy, but the picture which brought home to us the horror of what had happened was not of JFK but of his wife in the iconic pink suit, soaked with her husband's blood. 'Let them see what they have done', she said. I've always assumed that the suit was new for the occasion - but it had a back story too and it's told in ''The Pink Suit'', a work of historical fiction based on facts.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1844089738</amazonuk>
}}

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