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{{Frontpage
|author=Claire McGowan
|title=I Know You
|rating=4
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=''Then:'' Casey returns from a walk with the baby, Carson, and comes across three bodies, almost a whole family taken down.
 
''Now:'' Rachel is out for a walk with her dog, Brandy, when she comes across a body in the woods.
 
|isbn=1542019974
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1529148251
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=It was the sort of thing that happened every day, although not to Leila Syed. She'd never driven her nephew, Max, to school before but his father, Andrew Hanson, had rung her in a panic. He was supposed to be taking Max to school but he'd been called into work and the delay in getting there could lead to financial losses. As the school was only five minutes out of Leila's way, could she drop him off? Of course, she could and a sleeping Max was duly strapped into the back of her car. On the way Leila took a phone call - there was panic at her work too, with a problem which could put a multi-million-pound contract at risk.
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{{Frontpage
|author=Oliver Greeves
|title=Nelson's Folly
|rating=2.5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=The story of Admiral Nelson – who never actually achieved that rank, but only ascended to Vice Admiral – is one of the best known in English history. Despite our history teachers' best efforts there are very few battles that most of us can name. Dunkirk, Battle of Britain, Hastings…if we live in the north then Flodden, Bannockburn, Culloden…it probably takes an interest in maritime things to know of the Battle of the Nile and the siege of Malta…but just about every English person knows about Trafalgar. They may not know where it is and what it was about, but we know (if only from the Square and the Column) that it was a mighty victory and that Nelson was in command.
|isbn=0645023701
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{{Frontpage
Erligg Kagge is a Norwegian explorer who has walked to the South Pole, the North Pole and the summit of Everest. He knows a thing or two about walking. However, this isn't a travelogue about any of those epic journeys, it is instead a thoughtful exploration of what it means to walk. It is a plenitude of unnumbered essays about walking. There is no 'contents' page and I haven't counted. In small format paperback, each essay is only a few pages long. Perhaps then, better thought of as a meditation rather than an essay.
|isbn=0241357705
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{{Frontpage
|author=Ian Mark and Louis Ghibault
|title=Monster Hunting For Beginners
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Meet Jack. Now Jack knows very little about being fearless and nimble and quick, for he's a slight boy, and although he wants for danger and peril and interesting things his dad refuses to let him out of his sight. That's because Jack's mother knew all about monsters, and look what happened to her – she died. Luckily or unluckily then, depending on your point of view, a giant ogre will threaten his aunt when Jack's father also goes AWOL, Jack will fluke the ogre's death, a dwarfish wizard-type will make him an apprentice monster hunter, and he'll be given a book that tells him all he needs to know about the perils he always wanted closer contact with. The book's name? ''Monster Hunting for Beginners''...
|isbn=0755501942
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