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 |genre=Fantasy
 |summary=Gray Wolf is the new magic drug in town but it's a mite more evil than the usual sex potions and enchanted uppers and downers.  Gray Wolf ensures that the user becomes a craven devourer of flesh - human flesh.  Kate Prospero, cop seconded to the MEA (the government agency charged with clearing the streets of dirty, illegal magic) has her work cut out.  Unfortunately this work includes having to go into the Cauldron, the dangerous underbelly of a town called Babylon.  However Kate has a lot to prove, having been born an adept in that very underbelly and now having to face the forces that helped create the tragedy still haunting her.  Also, if she didn't have enough to worry about, her ex-lover is implicated in Gray Wolf's manufacture and her kid brother is choosing his own way in life; not a good thing, not a good thing at all.
-|isbn=035650297X
+|isbn=Wells_Dirty
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 |genre=Fantasy
 |summary= Philip Murdstone is becoming a bit of a has-been. The once-acclaimed children's author has won ''literary'' awards, dontchaknow. Literary. Got that? But these are past glories. His novels about young outsiders are no longer anything new. In fact, his agent can't even sell his latest. And Minerva Finch, said agent, is all about what she can sell. There's nothing for it, she tells Philip, but a foray into fantasy. He's going to have to write a sword-and-sorcery epic. She's even got an A4 blueprint of what's required: realms, minions, dark lords, dwarves, elves, swords, and all the rest of it. Fantasy, you see, is selling by the 'bucketloads, containerloads, downloads'.
-|isbn=1910200158
+|isbn=Peet_Murdstone
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-{{topten
+{{Frontpage
 |title=The Murdstone Trilogy
 |author=Mal Peet
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 |genre=Fantasy
 |summary= Philip Murdstone is becoming a bit of a has-been. The once-acclaimed children's author has won ''literary'' awards, dontchaknow. Literary. Got that? But these are past glories. His novels about young outsiders are no longer anything new. In fact, his agent can't even sell his latest. And Minerva Finch, said agent, is all about what she can sell. There's nothing for it, she tells Philip, but a foray into fantasy. He's going to have to write a sword-and-sorcery epic. She's even got an A4 blueprint of what's required: realms, minions, dark lords, dwarves, elves, swords, and all the rest of it. Fantasy, you see, is selling by the 'bucketloads, containerloads, downloads'.
-|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910200158</amazonuk>
+|isbn=1910200158
 }}
-{{topten
+{{Frontpage
 |title=Dirty Magic: Prospero's War: Book One
 |author=Jaye Wells
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 |genre=Fantasy
 |summary=Gray Wolf is the new magic drug in town but it's a mite more evil than the usual sex potions and enchanted uppers and downers.  Gray Wolf ensures that the user becomes a craven devourer of flesh - human flesh.  Kate Prospero, cop seconded to the MEA (the government agency charged with clearing the streets of dirty, illegal magic) has her work cut out.  Unfortunately this work includes having to go into the Cauldron, the dangerous underbelly of a town called Babylon.  However Kate has a lot to prove, having been born an adept in that very underbelly and now having to face the forces that helped create the tragedy still haunting her.  Also, if she didn't have enough to worry about, her ex-lover is implicated in Gray Wolf's manufacture and her kid brother is choosing his own way in life; not a good thing, not a good thing at all.
-|amazonuk=<amazonuk>035650297X</amazonuk>
+|isbn=035650297X
 }}
-{{topten
+{{Frontpage
 |title=The Copper Promise
 |author=Jen Williams
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 |genre=Fantasy
 |summary=Former knight Sir Sebastian Caverson and Wydrin of Crosshaven (aka Copper Cat) are swords for hire.  On this occasion they're hired by Lord Aaron Frith of Blackwood to enter the Citadel, of which dark legends abound.  They don't know what they need to do once in there, but that doesn't matter.  The trip unleashes something that would have made them forget their purpose anyway, not to mention their pay: they awake Y'Ruen, the last god.  In return for the alarm call, Y'Ruen breathes death across the known world with a little family assistance but that's not the worst bit.  The worst bit (at least for them) is that Sebastian and Wydrin are the only ones who can stop her.
-|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472211111</amazonuk>
+|isbn=1472211111
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-{{Frontpage
+{{topten
 |title=The Murdstone Trilogy
 |author=Mal Peet
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 |genre=Fantasy
 |summary= Philip Murdstone is becoming a bit of a has-been. The once-acclaimed children's author has won ''literary'' awards, dontchaknow. Literary. Got that? But these are past glories. His novels about young outsiders are no longer anything new. In fact, his agent can't even sell his latest. And Minerva Finch, said agent, is all about what she can sell. There's nothing for it, she tells Philip, but a foray into fantasy. He's going to have to write a sword-and-sorcery epic. She's even got an A4 blueprint of what's required: realms, minions, dark lords, dwarves, elves, swords, and all the rest of it. Fantasy, you see, is selling by the 'bucketloads, containerloads, downloads'.
-|isbn=Peet_Murdstone
+|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910200158</amazonuk>
 }}
-{{Frontpage
+{{topten
 |title=Dirty Magic: Prospero's War: Book One
 |author=Jaye Wells
@@ Line 80: / Line 80: @@
 |genre=Fantasy
 |summary=Gray Wolf is the new magic drug in town but it's a mite more evil than the usual sex potions and enchanted uppers and downers.  Gray Wolf ensures that the user becomes a craven devourer of flesh - human flesh.  Kate Prospero, cop seconded to the MEA (the government agency charged with clearing the streets of dirty, illegal magic) has her work cut out.  Unfortunately this work includes having to go into the Cauldron, the dangerous underbelly of a town called Babylon.  However Kate has a lot to prove, having been born an adept in that very underbelly and now having to face the forces that helped create the tragedy still haunting her.  Also, if she didn't have enough to worry about, her ex-lover is implicated in Gray Wolf's manufacture and her kid brother is choosing his own way in life; not a good thing, not a good thing at all.
-|isbn=Wells_Dirty
+|amazonuk=<amazonuk>035650297X</amazonuk>
 }}
-{{Frontpage
+{{topten
 |title=The Copper Promise
 |author=Jen Williams
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 |genre=Fantasy
 |summary=Former knight Sir Sebastian Caverson and Wydrin of Crosshaven (aka Copper Cat) are swords for hire.  On this occasion they're hired by Lord Aaron Frith of Blackwood to enter the Citadel, of which dark legends abound.  They don't know what they need to do once in there, but that doesn't matter.  The trip unleashes something that would have made them forget their purpose anyway, not to mention their pay: they awake Y'Ruen, the last god.  In return for the alarm call, Y'Ruen breathes death across the known world with a little family assistance but that's not the worst bit.  The worst bit (at least for them) is that Sebastian and Wydrin are the only ones who can stop her.
-|isbn=1472211111
+|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472211111</amazonuk>
 }}

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-{{topten
+{{Frontpage
 |title=The Copper Promise
 |author=Jen Williams
@@ Line 89: / Line 89: @@
 |genre=Fantasy
 |summary=Former knight Sir Sebastian Caverson and Wydrin of Crosshaven (aka Copper Cat) are swords for hire.  On this occasion they're hired by Lord Aaron Frith of Blackwood to enter the Citadel, of which dark legends abound.  They don't know what they need to do once in there, but that doesn't matter.  The trip unleashes something that would have made them forget their purpose anyway, not to mention their pay: they awake Y'Ruen, the last god.  In return for the alarm call, Y'Ruen breathes death across the known world with a little family assistance but that's not the worst bit.  The worst bit (at least for them) is that Sebastian and Wydrin are the only ones who can stop her.
-|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472211111</amazonuk>
+|isbn=1472211111
 }}

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 |genre=Fantasy
 |summary= Alex Locke has grown from the young petty criminal he once was.  Now a psychology lecturer with a beautiful 5-year-old daughter he has every incentive he needs to stay straight.  It would take something devastating to make him return to his former life but devastation happens.  Alex is coerced into doing on last job: stealing a piece of heart shaped obsidian from someone it didn’t belong to in the first place.  What are the consequences?  What's so special about this piece of rock?  As all hell breaks loose, Alex is about to find out.
-|isbn=1781168660
+|isbn=Morris_Wolves
 }}