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Could It Be this Simple?
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Empire of the Skull
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Gods in Alabama
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Flood and Fang
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Broken April
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How I Live Now
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When to Walk
N. D. Wilson:
Notes from the Tilt-A-Whirl
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E.A.Gray:
Heaven's Hell
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Stranger to History
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Woodenface
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Ghosts and Lightning
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The Singing - The Fourth Book of Pellinor
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Green Eyes
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Tallulah and the Teenstars
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The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾
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A Brief History of Time
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Among Thieves

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Redemption Ark
Robert Jeffrey:
Gangs of Glasgow
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Six Steps to a Girl
Tom Wolfe:
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Mark Haddon:
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Charles Stross:
Accelerando
Reg McKay:
The Last Godfather
Mark Rosendorf:
The Rasner Effect
Corinne Souza:
Jasmine's Tortoise
David Gorman & Danny Wallace:
Are You Dave Gorman?
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Less Than Zero
Marian Keyes:
This Charming Man
Thomas Glavinic:
Night Work
David Rehak:
I Was Born Dead
Melissa Miller:
Love Heals All Pain
Reg McKay:
Murder Capital
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Knowledge of Angels
Rhys Wilcox:
Aftermath
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Once Upon a Time in England
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The Book of Lost Things
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Twilight
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Lost in Juarez
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Big Sur
Belinda Starling:
The Journal of Dora Damage
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The Dice Man
Rachael Weiss:
Me, Myself & Prague
Maria Anton:
Going In Seine
Lehel Vandor:
Ears
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All the President's Men
Robert Muchamore:
The Recruit
Diana Preston:
Wilful Murder: The Sinking of the Lusitania
Geraldine McCaughrean:
Tamburlaine's Elephants
Walter Moers:
The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear
Tony Ruggiero:
Operation: Save the Innocent
Carol Sue Gershman:
The Jewish Lady, The Black Man and the Road Trip
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Enlightenment
Jason Pinter:
The Mark
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The Memory Keeper's Daughter
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The Inheritance of Loss
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Average Review Rating Average Rating [9/10] (1 Review)
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Nigel 31st January 2010 [9/10]
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Review - Southcrop Forest Southcrop Forest by Lorne Rothman
Average Review Rating Average Rating [9/10] (1 Review)
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Paul Lappen 31st January 2010 [9/10]
Review - Second Chance Second Chance by Jane Green
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Sarah has sent in a review for Second Chance by Jane Green. Step inside the home of Holly Mac and meet her successful, distinguished husband Marcus, notice how beautiful her home is and how gorgeous her children Daisy and Oliver are. You might say that they are the perfect family, but you would be very wrong... Holly is desperately lonely. She has spent her entire marriage trying to be the perfect wife but she is missing the one thing she really wants - a husband she can talk to, a soul mate to share everything with, someone like her first love and best friend Tom. Then a terrible tragedy finds Holly reunited with some old friends, and she soon realises that they too are each beset by their own problems... more»»
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Jessica 31st January 2010 [7/10]
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Sarah 31st January 2010 [3/10]
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