|summary=Kids nowadays have far too many toys to play with; whilst I had to make do with a piece of string tied around a rock, today’s youth have rooms filled with more plastic contraptions than an aging Hollywood Starlet’s cheeks. Even with all this stuff at hand most parents will tell you that their child will still gravitate more to a few of their favourite things, ignoring a lot of the other offerings available. Perhaps they have a toy train that they are obsessed by? Train!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1589255429</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Vesna Goldsworthy
|title=Chernobyl Strawberries
|rating=4
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=A book about a woman from a war-shredded country, who discovers she has breast cancer…Not a bundle of laughs, one would assume. One would be wrong. ''Chernobyl Strawberries'' is, amongst other things, very funny.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908524472</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Ian Stewart
|title=Professor Stewart’s Incredible Numbers
|rating=4.5
|genre=Popular Science
|summary= Incredible Numbers starts off easily enough, with a really interesting look at numbers as seen by the earliest people, before moving on to a brief explanation of natural numbers, rational numbers, negative numbers and complex and prime numbers. Subsequent chapters revisit old friends such as Pythagoras’s theorem, the Fibonacci cube, negative numbers, pi and quadratic equations, and other lesser known concepts such as kissing numbers, imaginary numbers and the winsomely-named Sausage Conjecture.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781254109</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Paul O'Keeffe
|title=Waterloo: The Aftermath
|rating=4.5
|genre=History
|summary=There have been several accounts of the battle of Waterloo and of the events that led up to it. But it is always interesting to discover a book which finds a different way of telling the tale, or in this case focusing more on what happened directly afterwards.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099563797</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Barbara Erskine
|title= The Darkest Hour
|rating=4
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary= In the summer of 1940, at the start of the Battle Britain, Evie Lucas has two things on her mind. She paints pictures of the war and she has fallen in love with Tony, a young pilot.
Seventy years later, Lucy, an art historian, begins a study into Evie’s life. Lucy is recently widowed and hopes to find solace in the engrossing project. Instead, she finds secrets that people have been working hard to protect for over half a century – and her discoveries have a profound impact on her own life.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007513151</amazonuk>
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