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|summary= A hit and run. A young boy killed. A family devastated. How can a mother ever recover from seeing her child killed right in front of her? When there are no leads, how can the police know where to look to bring someone to justice?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751554154</amazonuk>
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|author= Martin Edwards
|title=The Golden Age of Murder
|rating=5
|genre=Entertainment
|summary=Martin Edwards has had such a good idea for this book. He takes the foundation of the Detection Club in the late 1920s and follows through into the postwar period, ending his account sometime in the mid-1950s, perhaps with the death of Dorothy L Sayers in 1957. I may sound tentative here because there is no entirely precise end date. The Detection Club itself still lives on, hosting three dinners a year for elected members. Edwards is its current archivist – yet there are no archives, unless you count the hundreds of books produced by its members, which of course he does. And he also explores their lives.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008105960</amazonuk>
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|title=Read Me Like A Book
|author=Liz Kessler
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=
''Read Me Like A Book'' is both a coming-of-age and a coming-out story.
 
Ash feels as though everything is a mess. Her parents aren't getting on and Ash is terrified they're going to split up. She's struggling to keep up her relationships with her friends. She trying to decide whether or not to lose her virginity - and how exactly she even feels about the boy she might lose it with. She's falling behind in her grades at school and half of her is a rebellious teen who couldn't care less about it, while the other half is panicking that she might not get into university.
 
And if all that wasn't enough, Ash is struck by a bolt from the blue when she develops an almighty crush on Miss Murray, her English teacher...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780622090</amazonuk>
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|author=Matthew Pearl
|title=The Last Bookaneer
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=Bookaneer Fergins makes a decent living in 19th century London. However his business acquaintance Davenport has a plan to aid his prosperity. Hot literary property Robert Louis Stevenson is dying on Upolo, a Samoan island, having just written his final potential masterpiece. Therefore all Davenport has to do is to steal it, bringing it back to publishing glory and self-aggrandisement. The only problems are that the enabling legal loophole is about to close and he's not the only one with his eye on that particular prize. And Fergins? He's going too, whether he wants to or not.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846556198</amazonuk>
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|title=The Economist Style Guide: 11th Edition
|rating=4.5
|genre=Reference
|summary=If you don't ''write'' what you mean, how will people ''know'' what you mean?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781253129</amazonuk>
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|title=Gorgeous Colouring Book for Grown-Ups
|rating=4
|genre=Crafts
|summary=So, when I mentioned on Facebook that I had a nice new grown-up colouring book to review, I discovered a secret little group of friends who all confessed (instantly and with glee) that they have succumbed to the new relaxation craze of grown-up colouring! They had tales of how tricky it was to stay inside of the lines, how long one picture could take, and how relaxing the whole thing is. I dug out my old tin of pencils, and settled down to give it a try.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782434461</amazonuk>
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