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{{newreview
|author=Emily Chan
|title=Harvard Business School Confidential: Secrets of Success
|rating=3.5
|genre=Business and Finance
|summary=Harvard Business School has an almost unrivalled reputation for schooling some of the greatest business leaders (and George W Bush!). Former graduate, Emily Chan, who went on to work for leading management consultancy Boston Consulting Group and who is now a director in a family direct investment business in Hong Kong, promises to offer the secrets she learnt there. Does she succeed?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0470822392</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jo Brand
Mace Perry is working out, trying to stay fit, trying to stay sane, trying to stay alive long enough to get out jail in a couple of days' time. Perry was a cop. Under-cover, maverick and darn good at her job. Until she ended up stoned on meth, busted for robbery, convicted and sent down.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230706134</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=David Baldwin
|title=The Kingmaker's Sisters: Six Powerful Women in the Wars of the Roses
|rating=4
|genre=Biography
|summary=Due to the small amount of surviving personal sources, any book which purports to be a biography of a 15-century subject is almost inevitably going to be more a 'life and times' than a life. In the case of women who were sisters but not sovereigns or consorts themselves, the lack of data will be even more acute.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0750950765</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Fred Vargas
|title=The Chalk Circle Man
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Meet Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg. An unlikely police commissaire, he's an acquired taste for his colleagues. Short, ungainly, seemingly thinking about the most obtuse things in his pursuit of the truth, and endlessly doodling, but beneath his deathly slow speech and unexpected diversions into his childhood comes a surprisingly perceptive ability to find the culprit in whatever crime he is forced to solve.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099488973</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jean Reidy and Genevieve Leloup
|title=Too Purply!
|rating=4.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=It's time for school, but the young girl and her tortoise don't want to wear any of their clothes. They're too purply, too tickly, too puckery, too prickly, and so on. You get the idea. Adjectives abound in this fun getting dressed book.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408803151</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Rachel Isadora
|title=The Twelve Dancing Princesses
|rating=3
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Bookbag recently loved Rachel Isadora's take on [[The Night Before Christmas by Rachel Isadora and Clement Clarke Moore|The Night Before Christmas]], which put the classic Christmas poem in an African setting. This time round, she has turned her eye to the Grimms' 'The Twelve Dancing Princesses'.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0142414506</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Gemma Malley
|title=The Returners
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary='Ducks are cool. Whatever happens, whatever gets thrown at them, they just carry on, their little legs paddling. Unfazed. They always look like they're smiling.'
Will almost wishes he could be a duck. He has precious little to smile about. Sitting watching those ducks go about their business so blithely by the pond, he can't help but remember his mother who committed suicide there some years ago, when Will was just a tiny lad.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408800918</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Alex Milway
|title=Mousebeard's Revenge (Mousehunter Trilogy)
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=If you started this trilogy way back when, you would probably never expect the pirate, Mousebeard, and the hero and heroine, Emiline and Scratcher, to be working together. But they are - so deep is the world of Old Town in intrigue, subterfuge and wicked plans, that they need to combine forces - and get other returning characters back on hand and on their side - to counter Mousebeard's enemies once and for all. Only, one great thing has changed. Yes, that's right. Mousebeard has had a shave...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571245102</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Chris Mullin
|title=A Very British Coup
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=No one had anticipated that Labour would win the election, not least because the party leader was Harry Perkins, a former steel worker. His manifesto included promises to remove all American bases from British soil, public control of finance and the dismantling of media empires. There were a few other things too – but they'll do for starters. The establishment – to a man – was appalled. Press barons, media stars, bishops and civil service mandarins knew that, for the good of the country (not themselves, ''of course'') something had to be done and ''obviously'' the end would justify whatever means they had to take to achieve their aims. Harry Perkins had to be removed from office.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846687403</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Orson Scott Card
|title=Ender in Exile
|rating=3.5
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary='Ender in Exile' is the most recently published in the series set in the universe of 'Ender's Game', a long standing and one of the best known series of science-fiction by Orson Scott Card. It's been defined as an 'interquel', fitting chronologically between 'Ender's Game' and the 'Speaker for the Dead', the first two (and probably the best two) novels in the sequence. Technically speaking, 'Ender in Exile' actually fits in-between the last chapters of 'Ender's Game' and describes in more detail events outlined in the resolving sections of 'Ender's Game'. Confusingly for the uninitiated, 'Ender in Exile' is also a sequel to the 'Shadow of the Giant', a parallel sub-series from the universe of the 'Ender's Game'.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841492272</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Sue Roe
|title=The Private Lives of the Impressionists
|rating=4.5
|genre=Biography
|summary=In the early 1860s a group of young Parisian artists were keen to exhibit their work, despite opposition from the official art world. Their protests at being spurned by the Salon, the French equivalent of the Royal Academy, resulted in their paintings being shown at the rather disparagingly-named Salon des Refusés, where crowds and critics came to view - and jeer. When they held the first of their own exhibitions a few years later, one reviewer said that they 'seem to have declared war on beauty', while another assured his readers that every canvas must have been the work of some practical joker who had dipped his brushes in paint, smeared it onto yards of canvas, and signed the result with several different names.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099458349</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Angela McAllister and Alex T Smith
|title=My Mum Has X-Ray Vision
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Milo suspects his mum has x-ray vision. She can see through the ceiling downstairs when he's jumping on her bed. She can see through the outside wall when he's making potions in the garden in her saucepans. Is she really a superhero? Milo puts her to the test...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407105388</amazonuk>
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