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|author=Jeri Smith-Ready
|title=Shift
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=You might be thinking the worst problem a modern-day American girl could have is her rock-star-in-waiting boyfriend dying, and coming back as a ghost that she and those younger than her can see because of some untold event in the past, but suffering when he gets malevolent and becomes a shade, which means she has to help him move on before he's locked up in limbo. That's because you're not factoring in the last boy born before her, who can't see but is utterly repellent to ghosts, but who she's just about to fall in love with when her late love turns up again, this time with a strangely solid, corporeal form...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857071866</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Marcus Gray
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|amazonuk=<amazonuk>067092038X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Andy Kershaw
|title=No Off Switch: The Autobiography
|rating=5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary='The boy Kershaw' as his hero and later friend John Peel sometimes wryly referred to him on air, has had a pretty remarkable life. He's been – taken a deep breath – a concert promoter while studying politics at Leeds University, Billy Bragg's driver across most of Europe, a presenter on BBC TV and successively also on Radios 1, 3 and 4, a news correspondent reporting from Iraq, Haiti, Angola and Rwanda, and also done time as a guest of Her Majesty.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846687446</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Natalie Taylor
|title=Signs of Life
|rating=3
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=Natalie Taylor was just twenty four years old, and five months pregnant, when her husband died in a tragic accident. This memoir takes us from the day she found out he was dead through to her son's first birthday. Natalie's situation is horribly sad. I can't even begin to imagine what I would have done in her place. The record of her grieving process is very raw and honest. Based upon her journals that she kept through this time her pain leaps off the page and makes you feel sick inside for the horror she's facing. I liked that she doesn't seem to be advocating a correct way to grieve. She simply states how she felt, how she reacted at each moment, be that calmly and quietly or with raging, screaming tears. Luckily she had an extremely supportive family and a good group of friends and it is interesting - if rather disturbing - to follow her progress as she deals with her life without her husband.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444724673</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Philip Jose Farmer
|title=The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Peerless Peer
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=It's World War One, and Britain has got wind of some brilliant scientific research, that has created a new bacterial weapon capable of wiping out the world's supply of sauerkraut. But a dastardly German has stolen the formula. Before he can give a variant based on boiled meat, cabbage and potatoes to the kaiser, his most recent nemesis - Sherlock Holmes, no less - must be brought out of beekeeping retirement. Cue an adventure and a half, as he and Watson take to the skies for the first time in their hectic lives, end up in darkest Africa, and encounter a certain yodelling, long-haired nobleman, more than up to the name of King of the Jungle...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857681206</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Kevin O'Neill and Alan Moore
|title=The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1969
|rating=3
|genre=Graphic Novels
|summary=So much for the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Of the three main protagonists available for this adventure, one and a half are female! Anyway, Bram Stoker's Mina, Woolf's Orlando and Allan Quatermain are in London at the height of the swinging 60s, amidst rumours that a new attempt at birthing an Antichrist is about to occur. Certainly, the evil they've faced the last several decades will soon get a new face...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861661621</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Sophie McKenzie
|title=The Medusa Project: Double Cross
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Each of the 'Medusa Project' books is narrated by one of the teens involved in turn, and this time it is Nico who is the first person speaker. Things are not going well for the group: their former mentor Geri has just tried to kill them, and by using all her government and police contacts she has managed to make it look as if they are guilty of murder. The four teens' psychic abilities allow them to escape to France, and now they need to work out how to stop Geri and clear their names. But things just get worse and worse: the strain of their situation and the introduction of new characters start to pull the group apart just at the time when they need to trust each other the most.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085707069X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Alex Woolf
|title=Chronosphere: Malfunction
|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=The ideal paradise of life inside the Chronosphere isn't supposed to be like this. If you're like Raffi and his friends you're spending a year inside, which only takes a minute of real life, enjoying a hedonistic, summery lifestyle with time on your hands and little cares. Except it's getting more than summery, it's a hothouse; the food is running out; the exits are locked; and people are rioting and fighting amongst each other as tempers fly and people sicken and feel the end of their happiness. But then, if you're like Raffi and his friends, you are actually unknowingly there for a much more sinister reason, and someone's "project" is about to get much less Utopian.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907184562</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jeanne Willis and Tony Ross
|title=Dr Xargle's Book Of Earth Tiggers
|rating=4.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=We have met Dr Xargle before, telling his class all about 'earthlets' and 'earth hounds', so now we see him again bumbling through his lesson with highly amusing misinformation about Earth Tiggers, or cats as we like to call them. As with many books by these authors, ''Dr Xargle's Book of Earth Tiggers'' is very witty indeed. The illustrations are funny as ever and work together with the words incredibly well, as without the correct pictures, this style of books can fly over the heads of little readers.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849392978</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Amos Oz
|title=My Michael
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The Introduction to this book has a lovely sub-heading - 'Forty Years Later' where Oz admits freely that now, today, he wouldn't attempt or ... 'dare write an entire novel in a female voice.' But I found his open telling of why and how he came to write the book in the first place interesting and rather enchanting and whetted my appetite to get on and read the book. For example, Oz wrote most of the book in the cramped confines of a toilet, would you believe. But for me what caught my attention was the fact that he tells his readers that Hannah, the central character, was in his head and determined to he heard. 'Just shut up and write' she tells him. A Translator's Note follows before we get to the story proper.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009952905X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Tom Rachman
|title=The Imperfectionists
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=This book has reached the dizzy heights of an ''International Bestseller'' with plaudits all over its covers. And it's a debut novel, albeit by an author who has worked in journalism. So, am I going to be another notch on the book-reading bedpost, so to speak?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849160317</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Hugh Jefferies
|title=Stanley Gibbons Great Britain Concise Stamp Catalogue 2011
|rating=5
|genre=Business and Finance
|summary=Such are the complexity, the sheer variety and number of permutations possible of postage stamp issues in the 21st century, that any catalogue compiler is faced with an almost impossible task. Producing a genuinely concise book is largely a matter of what to include and what to leave out.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0852598084</amazonuk>
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