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|author=Dugald Steer
|title=The Dragon Diary: Dragonology Chronicles Volume 2
|rating=3
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Daniel and Beatrice Cook are studying Dragonology with Dr Ernest Drake, and are awaiting the hatching of their very own dragon egg. But suddenly their parents have gone missing, an illness is killing dragons and it all smells of evil dragonologist, Alexandra Gorynytchka. Before they know it, the brother, sister and new dragon chick have to deliver Liber Draconis, the dragon diary, and St Petroc's chalice to Dr Drake in Hong Wei, which may hold the secret to the cure. As the back cover reads: ''The future of dragon kind hangs in the balance!''
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0763634255</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Isabel Ashdown
|summary=Sarah Livingstone's jewellery business was struggling but she was still annoyed when her father called James Ross for help. Sarah and James had had a relationship some ten years earlier and Sarah really didn't want to work with him, particularly after her marriage. Most people thought that her husband's death in a plane crash had been the cruel end to a good marriage. Only a few knew that he had been about to leave her to live with another woman. It's left Sarah very reluctant to get involved with any man.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709089430</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Sushila Anand
|title=Daisy: The Lives and Loves of the Countess of Warwick
|rating=4
|genre=Biography
|summary=Born Daisy Maynard in 1861, the Countess of Warwick lived a colourful life by any standards. She was notoriously promiscuous, a spendthrift who did not hesitate to try and provoke a royal scandal to shore up her parlous finances, and although she relished her lifestyle to the full, she spent several years fighting wholeheartedly for the pioneer socialists in Britain.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749909773</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Suzy Brownlee
|title=The Littlest Detective in London
|rating=3
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=''The Littlest Detective in London'' is the first in this series of children's books by Suzy Brownlee and will soon be followed by the continuing story of Clementine Cordelia Bird's exploits in Paris. The books are aimed at young girls, aged between around eight and fourteen.
Clemmy (as she is known) is nine years old, but looks younger, due to her being rather small. However, she makes up for this by being brave and inventive. We learn early on that her mother disappeared in mysterious circumstances and the books have the underlying theme of Clemmy trying to find her mum again.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956122205</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Alex Hesz and Bambos Neophytou
|title=Guilt Trip: From Fear to Guilt on the Green Bandwagon
|rating=4.5
|genre=Politics and Society
|summary=Did you know that Horlicks, that great sleep aid, is sold in India as a start-the-day energy boost? Not another concoction under the same brand, but the Exact Same Product.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>047074622X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=P C and Kristin Cast
|title=Tempted (House of Night)
|rating=3
|genre=Teens
|summary=Last time we left Zoey, she'd just banished Kalona, an ancient fallen immortal, from the Tulsa House of Night, along with evil High Priestess Neferet. Stevie Rae's Red Fledglings were regaining their humanity, but Stark, second ever Red Vampire, was badly injured. Her official boyfriend was Erik, but she's re-Imprinted with Human, Heath, and Stark had pledged a Warrior's Oath to her.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905654804</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jackie French and Bruce Whatley
|title=Emily and the Big Bad Bunyip
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=The author-illustrator partnership that created the 'Diary of a Wombat', [[Pete the Sheep by Jackie French|Pete the Sheep]] and 'Josephine Wants to Dance' bring all their Aussie characters together in a Christmas book with a Antipodean twist.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007324278</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Mary McCarthy
|title=The Group
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary='Given the attention paid to relations between the sexes, it would be tempting to call The Group a forerunner of today's chick lit. It's not.'
So writes Candace Bushnell, the writer behind the TV series Sex and the City, in the introduction to this new Virago Modern Classics edition of The Group by Mary McCarthy. First published in 1963, this novel is about the lives of a group of young women after leaving college in 1933, including careers, relationships, sex, babies, parents, and money.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1844085937</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Charlie Huston
|title=My Dead Body (Joe Pitt Casebook)
|rating=4
|genre=Horror
|summary=Joe Pitt's New York is one riddled with Vampyres, infected by a Vyrus that makes them drink blood and die in the sun. It is also a wasteland of lawless tribes of Vampyres, gang warfare carving up Manhattan into territories, each with their own leaders, specialist workers, fighters, animosities. As we start book five, Joe's New York is actually a subterranean one, as he hides from everyone in the sewers and tunnels, until the enterprise of a top dog character flushes him out, and tells Pitt to find his daughter - a messianic poster girl for the future of the city.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841496820</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Aeronwy Thomas
|title=My Father's Places: A portrait of childhood by Dylan Thomas' daughter
|rating=3.5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=Aeronwy Thomas was six years old when she and her family came to settle after a nomadic existence at Laugharne, on the Welsh coast, in 1949. Dylan used to broadcast regularly on the BBC, and while he continued to travel to London regularly for the purpose (as well as to carouse with friends in his old haunts), somewhere off the beaten track was a more suitable working environment.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849010056</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Graham Oakley
|title=The Church Mouse
|rating=4.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Arthur the church mouse lives in peace with Sampson the meek church cat, but he gets lonely from time to time. He hits on a great idea: he'll invite all the other mice of the town to come and live with them. The parson agrees, as long as they agree to do a few odd jobs around the place. Then one day, a burglar breaks in and there's no-one around to stop him but Arthur, Sampson and the mice...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1840116102</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Keith Hern
|title=Bangers and Mash
|rating=4.5
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=Keith Hern found a small lump in his neck and when the results of the tests came through he tried to put the appointment off as he had something more pressing to do, but the doctor was insistent. He knew then that he had cancer. The lump in his neck was, in fact, a secondary tumour with the primary being in the back of his tongue. But for the secondary tumour the discovery of the primary might have been too late for successful treatment. Keith takes us through the discovery of his cancer, his reactions to the diagnosis, his treatment and the titular meal of bangers and mash – the first solid food which he had attempted for some time.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312772</amazonuk>
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