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|author=Elliott Skell
|title=Neversuch House: Mask of the Evergones
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=The Halibuts are an extraordinary family. Almost two centuries ago the Captain used his immense wealth to buy up land and surround it by a high wall. He took a wife, and employed families of servants to serve his every need. Money was no object, and subsequent generations of Halibuts had anything they desired on one condition: if they ever left the grounds of the House, they could never return.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847387446</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Alexander McCall Smith
|summary=''No!'' is all about one family pet's desperate attempts to please his owners. He helps with the laundry, tastes their food before they eat it to make sure it's all right, and even warms up their beds for them before they go to sleep...the poor deluded pup thinks his family love him very much since they're always calling out what he thinks is his name, 'Noooooo!'
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846434173</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Gordon Ferris
|title=The Hanging Shed
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=This book is already ''The No 1 eBook bestseller'' so I was expecting a good read. Part of The Douglas Brodie Series, where Brodie, the central character, is a no-holds-barred journalist, although his past reveals that he's been a soldier and a policeman. Ferris elaborates further and gives his readers some background on Brodie. Brodie comes across, right from the start, as a resourceful, likeable and forthright man who has not been afraid to break away from his small-town roots in the west of Scotland. His present job is based in London but it's obvious that Brodie's heart's just not in it. He wants to return to Scotland, Glasgow in particular and try his journalistic luck there. An opportunity soon comes along - but it's one he was never in a million years expecting.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857893645</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Rebecca Elliott
|title=Sometimes
|rating=4.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Clemmie is Toby's big sister. Sometimes she has to go and stay in hospital. This story tells us all about the fun Toby and Clemmie have in hospital together, and some of the harder parts of being poorly too.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0745962696</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Pauline Black
|title=Black by Design: A 2-tone Memoir
|rating=4.5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=As the front cover of this volume of reminiscences reminds us, Pauline Black is remembered first and foremost for fronting The Selecter, one of the few 2-Tone ska bands to enjoy fleeting chart success at the end of the 1970s. Yet reading this reminds us that that was only the tip of the iceberg.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184668790X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Maile Chapman
|title=Your Presence is Requested at Suvanto
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=American nurse Sunny Taylor needed to get away from home and everything familiar. She takes a gamble into the unknown and ends up in Finland. The language barrier seems to be the least of her problems. As a healthy, relatively young female she sees on a daily basis ailments, minor and major, imagined and otherwise. ''Suvanto'' (which gives the novel its title) is the name of the well-known and well-regarded hospital. It operates on a tier system - those who can pay well for medical care and those who are less well-off. And the accommodation, level of nursing and medical care and even the food also operate on this tiered system.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099548674</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Hannah Cumming
|title=The Lost Stars
|rating=3.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Everyone in the world is terribly busy, rushing around, using all their gadgets and gizmos and lights, far too busy to look up into the night sky and see the stars. The stars get fed up and so they decide to go away on holiday for a while. No one notices until one day the power runs out and suddenly everyone is in the dark...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846434165</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Frances Wilson
|title=How to Survive the Titanic or the Sinking of J. Bruce Ismay
|rating=4.5
|genre=Biography
|summary=As I read 'How to Survive the Titanic' I was conscious that we're only a matter of months away from the centenary of the sinking – and a slew of media to mark the occasion. Given that the subject has been mined extensively over the years it will be interesting to see whether there's anything new to be said about the tragedy. It's a subject which has always fascinated me – and it was with a sense of anticipation that I opened the book.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408809222</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Andre Dubus III
|title=Townie: A Memoir
|rating=4
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=The book opens with Andre and his father taking a jog. Seems a normal and natural activity - what's to write about here, you could be asking. Well, I'll tell you. By this time the father no longer lives in the family home, the mother is struggling to pay the bills and to put food on the table - and the author, Andre is too embarrassed to admit to his father that he doesn't own a pair of jogging shoes. He's borrowed his sister's even although they're about two sizes too small, he's in agony seconds into the jog but is he going to own up? Nope. Bloody feet and pain are a by-product of precious time with his father. So straight away, I'm getting the gist of the book and the relationship between father and son.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393064662</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Kat Falls
|title=Rip Tide (Dark Life)
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Our favourite Dark Lifer and his Topsider friend are set for another post-apocalyptic adventure in this follow-up to Dark Life. Ty and Gemma discover a township chained and sunk on the ocean floor, every one of its hundreds of residents murdered. But before they can begin to unravel the mystery, another crisis takes centre stage.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847387624</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Frank McLynn
|title=The Burma Campaign: Disaster into Triumph 1942-45
|rating=4.5
|genre=History
|summary=I'm no military historian; I'm not really interested in war. In the Second World War, if push came to shove, I would probably have claimed pacificism. But when this paperback version of the recently published hardback came up, by prolific and highly-esteemed historian Frank McLynn, I just had to read it. The subject is very special in our family, because “Grandad was there”. Grandad fought over the tennis court at Kohima, and he has carried the trauma in his head to this day. Frank McLynn describes that particular battle as “... a scene from Hieronymus Bosch out of Passchendaele”. I knew I had to steel myself to read this book, and was very pleased that the author wrote sensitively about the reality of close combat for lily livers like mine.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099551780</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Mark Ellis
|title=Frank Merlin: Princes Gate
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=In the early part of the Second World War there was a lull, when hostilities didn't really seem to get going – the so-called Phoney War. Some Londoners, who'd left the capital in the expectation of early bombing raids, began drifting back and there were still those who thought that peace could be negotiated – that we could stay out of the fight. Chief amongst those outside of the political classes who supported this view was the American Ambassador, Joseph Kennedy. Kennedy was, perhaps fortunately but not unusually, out of the country when one of the staff at the residence was murdered and her body fished out of the Thames.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848766572</amazonuk>
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