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|title=The Ice-Cold Heaven
|author=Mirko Bonne
|rating=4
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=They say that if you fall off a horse you should get back on one right away, but even so… I don't think many people who had only just left their first love – a shopgirl in their village – for their second – exploring the world on sailing cargo ships – would leap to a further voyage having been wrecked and stranded off the coast of South America for well over a week. But Merce here does – he wants to follow his best friend on to a ship called ''The Endurance'' and head with Shackleton to the Antarctic. But Merce is only seventeen, and is rejected – causing him to stow away onto one of the world's worst ever journeys.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715645846</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=The Reluctant Bride
|summary=Gyong-Ho is a seamstress. That's not a euphemism. She works at a machine in a garment factory, with a bullying supervisor, invalided out of the glorious Chochun army, limping around and terrifying the girls only slightly more than the picture of Kim Jong-il on the walls. Gi, a nickname she'll acquire because of her stammering attempts to get her own name out (Gi-Gi-Gyong) strives truly hard to be worthy of the Dear Leader. She has learned the hard way, what happens if someone somewhere for some obscure reason decides that you're not.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780222912</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=The Asylum
|author=John Harwood
|rating=3.5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=A woman wakes up in an unfamiliar room. She doesn’t know where she is, or how she got there, but at least she knows who she is: her name is Georgina Ferrars and she lives with her uncle in Gresham’s Yard, London.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224097415</amazonuk>
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