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|author= K J Whittaker
|title= False Lights
|rating= 4.5
|genre= Historical Fiction
|summary=Cornwall, 1817.
 
What if your worst mistake changed the course of history? Napoleon has crushed the Duke of Wellington at the Battle of Waterloo, and his ex-wife Josephine presides over French-occupied England. Cornwall erupts into open rebellion, and young heiress Hester escapes with Crow, Wellington's former intelligence officer, a half-French aristocrat haunted by his part in the catastrophic defeat. Together, they become embroiled in a web of treachery and espionage as plans are laid to free Wellington from secret captivity in the Scilly Isles and lead an uprising against the French occupation. In a country rife with traitors, Hester and Crow know it is impossible to play such a game as this for long...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786695340</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Cynthia Ryland and Mary Blair
|summary= I'm a bit old-fashioned and therefore not a great fan of stories that can't keep their timeline straight. I'll go with a prologue – even if it's becoming a bit of clichéd way of creating a mystery at the beginning of a story – but switching between 'now' and 'a fortnight ago' – just feels a little lazy, a way of creating tension when all else fails. That, however, is my only little gripe about ''From The Shadows'' and I admit, whether I like it or not, it does more or less work.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785760920</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Lisa Papp
|title=Madeleine Finn and the Library Dog
|rating=4.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Madeleine Finn doesn't like to read - not anything. It's not really her fault, you know. Her teacher tries to encourage her, but some of the other kids giggle when she makes mistakes. And they pull faces of the type which would have given me my head in my hands to play with when I was a child. The words just don't seem to come out right for her. The other children are getting gold stars (I've ''never'' liked that system) but all Madeleine gets is a heart sticker which tells her to keep trying. She's got plenty of those. All week she tries her best but doesn't get the star she longs for.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910646326</amazonuk>
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