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|author=Jed Mercurio
|title=American Adulterer
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=I've often wondered how history would have viewed Jack Kennedy if he'd died a natural death rather than by an assassin's bullet. As an extension of that I've also thought that he might not have lived that much longer had nature been allowed to take its course. He's one of the most-written-about Presidents of all time and finding a new angle – even a fictional one – is not easy, but Jed Mercurio has looked at Kennedy's adult life through the prism of his sexual peccadilloes and his health.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099515873</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|summary=It's the funeral. Laurel - Lolly to those that love her - is concentrating very hard and trying desperately to turn into an ice lolly. Ice lollies are frozen, you see, and they don't feel so much. They can't miss people - mothers - who are gone and people who are still around can't hurt them. A frozen heart is a sad thing, but it's a safe thing. Auntie Ellen doesn't like the music at the service, she thinks it's inappropriate. It isn't even a hymn. But it was one of Laurel's mother's favourites, and Laurel think it's just perfect. Special.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007281730</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=John Wilcox
|title=The Shangani Patrol
|rating=4
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=This is the latest in the adventures of Simon Fonthill, a cross between a Victorian James Bond and Indianna Jones. Although one of a series, it stands alone as a novel. It's steeped in the history (and there's a lot of it) of the late 19th century when Queen Victoria 'ruled the world.'
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755345614</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Philip Womack
|title=The Liberators
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Ivo's parents have gone off on a South American expedition. As it's the school holidays, Ivo is off to London to stay with some glamorous relatives. Aunt Lydia is a socialite and art expert who arranges exhibitions and parties for the great and the good. Uncle Jago is in finance and there isn't much about wheeling and dealing that he doesn't know. They're fond of Ivo and the kind of guardians who are likely to practise some benign neglect, so what Ivo is really looking forward to about his stay is freedom - he intends to explore London and enjoy everything it has to offer.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747595526</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Emily Gravett
|title=Blue Chameleon
|rating=5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=The chameleon is feeling blue because he's lonely, so he goes and visits a yellow banana, pink cockatoo, swirly snail, brown boot, and so on. Each time, not only does he change his colour to match the object or animal, but he also contorts himself into a shape that matches them.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230704247</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Inga Moore
|title=Six Dinner Sid - A Highland Adventure
|rating=3.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Sid the cat has six owners in six different houses, and he munches his way through six dinners a day. This big ol' greedyguts has a great life, but then one day his owners all decide they want to go on holiday. They consider putting him in a cattery, but they have strange rules like one meal per cat, not six. They give it some thought, and eventually decide to all go on holiday together, taking Sid with them.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340988940</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jaclyn Dolamore
|title=Magic Under Glass
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Namira is a trouser girl - a music hall performer. In Lorinar, she's regarded as a faintly risque curiosity but at home in Tiansher it wasn't like this. Performers like her mother were feted and respected and Namira grew up in a palace. In Lorianar, she lives in poverty, performing for drunken fools who don't understand her art. And then suddenly, she's freed from the seedy music hall by Hollin Parry, a wealthy man and a member of Lorinar's Sorcerer Council. Parry has an automaton, a curiosity that plays the piano, and he wants Namira's unique voice to accompany it.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408802120</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Michael Foreman
|title=Why The Animals Came To Town
|rating=3.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=A young boy looks out of his bedroom window and sees a parade of animals walking up his street. They've come to show him the deserts and ice caps, to warn him of the importance of taking care of Earth. Without the animals, he realises the world would be a much more desolate place.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406318019</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Gaby Morgan (editor)
|title=In My Sky at Twilight
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Off the back of the success of Stephenie Meyer's [[Twilight by Stephenie Meyer|Twilight]] series there has been a boom in vampire novels aimed at teenagers. In My Sky at Twilight is perhaps one of the most unusual books to come out of this craze as it is a collection of love poetry aimed at teenage fans of the series.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230745865</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=John Burdett
|title=The Godfather of Kathmandu
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Sonchai Jitpleecheep is half 'farang' the son of a brothel madam and an American GI, but it's the latter rather than the former which is likely to hold up his promotion in the Thai police force, where he's a detective. He's also the part owner of a brothel where his mother, Nong, is the madam in charge. It's no problem for his boss, Colonel Vikorn, who has a few illegal interests of his own. He's currently in competition with the head of the army, General Zinna, to see who can raise the finance for a forty million dollar shipment of heroin which Sonchai's Kathmandu-based guru has for sale.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593055462</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Gary Blackwood
|title=The Great Race: The Amazing Round-The-World Auto Race Of 1908
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=In 1908, Henry Ford's Model T hadn't yet brought cars to the masses. The pioneers of the world of automobiles were experimenting and discovering just what the car could do, by driving right round the world. Except they didn't want to be pioneers. One of the competitors, Antonio Scarfoglio, put it so perfectly when he said 'We had set out to perpetuate an act of splendid folly, not to open up a new way for men. We wished to be madmen, not pioneers.' Isn't that about the best quote you've ever read?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0810994895</amazonuk>
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