4.50 From Paddington by Agatha Christie
ISBN: 9780007120826
Reviewed on 15th March 2009
For an instant the two trains ran together, side by side. In that frozen moment, Elspeth witnessed a murder. Helplessly, she stared out of her carriage window as a man remorselessly tightened his grip... (more)
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61 Hours by Lee Child
ISBN: 9780553825565
Reviewed on 31st March 2012
Icy winter in South Dakota. A bus skids and crashes in a gathering storm. On the back seat: Jack Reacher, hitching a ride to nowhere. A life without baggage has many advantages, but disadvantages too,... (more)
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A Big Boy Did it and Ran Away by Christopher Brookmyre
ISBN: 9780349116846
Reviewed on 24th October 2010
Back when they were students, just like everybody else, Ray Ash and Simon Darcourt had dreams about what they'd do when they grew up. In both their cases, it was to be rock stars. Fifteen years later,... (more)
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A Caribbean Mystery by Agatha Christie
ISBN: 9780007120918
Reviewed on 26th March 2009
An exotic holiday for Miss Marple is ruined when a retired major is killed... As Jane Marple sat basking in the Caribbean sunshine she felt mildly discontented with life. Eventually, her interest w... (more)
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A Clash of Kings by George R R Martin
ISBN: 9780007447831
Reviewed on 22nd August 2012
Throughout Westeros, the cold winds are rising. From the ancient citadel of Dragonstone to the forbidding lands of Winterfell, chaos reigns as pretenders to the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms st... (more)
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A Crown of Swords by Robert Jordan
ISBN: 9781857234039
Reviewed on 15th November 2009
The war for humanity's survival has begun. Rand al' Thor, the Dragon Reborn, has escaped the snares of the White Tower and the first of the rebel Aes Sedai have sworn to follow him. Attacked by the se... (more)
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A Damsel in Distress by P. G. Wodehouse
ISBN: 9780099514138
Reviewed on 7th March 2012
Lady Maud, the spirited young daughter of the Earl of Marshmoreton, is confined to her home, Belpher Castle in Hampshire, under aunt's orders because of an unfortunate infatuation. Enter our hero, Geo... (more)
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A Game of Thrones by George R R Martin
ISBN: 9780007448036
Reviewed on 18th April 2012
Summers span decades. Winter can last a lifetime. And the struggle for the Iron Throne has begun. It will stretch from the south, where heat breeds plot, lusts and intrigues; to the vast and savage... (more)
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A Memory of Light by Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson
ISBN: 9781841498720
Reviewed on 12th January 2013
In the Field of Merrilor the rulers of the nations gather to join behind Rand al'Thor, or to stop him from his plan to break the seals on the Dark One's prison - which may be a sign of his madness, or... (more)
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A Murder Is Announced by Agatha Christie
ISBN: 9780007120963
Reviewed on 15th February 2009
The villagers of Chipping Cleghorn, including Jane Marple, are agog with curiosity over an advertisement in the local gazette which reads: 'A murder is announced and will take place on Friday October ... (more)
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A Painted House by John Grisham
ISBN: 9780099416159
Reviewed on 12th February 2011
Luke Chandler is a seven-year-old who lives with his family in a small, unpainted house on rented land. In the next six weeks, the Chandlers and a hired band of hill people and Mexicans must bring in ... (more)
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A Pocket Full of Rye by Agatha Christie
ISBN: 9780007120970
Reviewed on 5th March 2009
A handful of grain is found in the pocket of a murdered businessman... Rex Fortescue, king of a financial empire, was sipping tea in his 'counting house' when he suffered an agonising and sudden de... (more)
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A Singular Destiny by Keith R A DeCandido
ISBN: 9781416594956
Reviewed on 24th March 2009
The cataclysmic events of Star Trek: Destiny have devastated known space. Worlds have fallen. Lives have been destroyed. In the uneasy weeks that follow, the survivors continue to be tested to the lim... (more)
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A Snow Ball in Hell by Christopher Brookmyre
ISBN: 9780349120515
Reviewed on 18th August 2011
Simon Darcourt is a great deal more successful in his career choice than the average talent show contestant. He's also got the media taped - by the simple expedient of by-passing them completely and p... (more)
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A Storm of Swords (1: Steel and Snow) by George R R Martin
ISBN: 9780007447848
Reviewed on 14th March 2013
Winter approaches Westeros like an angry beast. The Seven Kingdoms are divided by revolt and blood feud. In the northern wastes, a horde of hungry, savage people steeped in the dark magic of the wi... (more)
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A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
ISBN: 9780140439083
Reviewed on 23rd June 2009
Convalescing in London after a disastrous experience of war in Afghanistan, Dr John Watson finds himself sharing rooms with his enigmatic new acquaintance, Sherlock Holmes. But their quiet bachelor li... (more)
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A Tale Etched in Blood and Hard Black Pencil by Christopher Brookmyre
ISBN: 9780349118802
Reviewed on 22nd May 2011
We could tell you about the bodies. We could tell you their names, where they were found, the state they were in. We could tell you about the suspects too, the evidence, the investigators; join a few ... (more)
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A Time for War, A Time for Peace by Keith R A DeCandido
ISBN: 9780743491792
Reviewed on 13th May 2010
After the scandalous Tezwa affair, the resignation of the President forces an election, with the future of the United Federation of Planets at stake. But the fate of the entire galaxy hangs in the bal... (more)
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A Time to be Born by John Vornholt
ISBN: 9780743467650
Reviewed on 28th September 2009
The Rashanar Sector, site of one of the fiercest battles of the Dominion War, now contains a vast intestellar graveyard littered with the hulks of hundreds of devastated starships. The destruction of ... (more)
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A Time to Die by John Vornholt
ISBN: 9780743467667
Reviewed on 2nd October 2009
Suspected without proof of destroying a fellow Starfleet vessel, the Enterprise is stripped of its flagship status and sent on a seemingly pointless mission to a backwater of space. Caught up in event... (more)
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A Time to Harvest by Dayton Ward, Kevin Dilmore
ISBN: 9780743482981
Reviewed on 7th January 2010
Centuries ago a hardy band of survivors, fleeing a planetary catastrophe, took refuge in the inhospitable asteroid belt. Now they must make a choice: to go on as they are on the crowded but functional... (more)
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A Time to Hate by Robert Greenberger
ISBN: 9780743462891
Reviewed on 7th February 2010
Captain Jean-Luc Picard and his crew become caught in the middle of a violent outbreak of destruction between the Bader and Dorset races that have colonized the planet Delta Sigma IV as they race agai... (more)
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A Time to Heal by David Mack
ISBN: 9780743491785
Reviewed on 5th March 2010
A cataclysmic war between the Federation and the Klingon Empire has been miraculously averted, and a new government is finally in place on the planet Tezwa. But deadly secrets still threaten the fragi... (more)
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A Time to Kill by David Mack
ISBN: 9780743491778
Reviewed on 28th February 2010
At the height of the Dominion War, the Federation sends devastating weapons to the planet Tezwa, in violation of its fragile treaty with the Klingons, but the plan goes dangerously awry when Tezwa's r... (more)
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A Time to Kill by John Grisham
ISBN: 9780099134015
Reviewed on 7th April 2009
When Carl Lee Hailey guns down the hoodlums who have raped his ten-year-old child, the people of Clanton see it as a crime of blood and call for his acquittal. But when extremists outside Clanton hear... (more)
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A Time to Love by Robert Greenberger
ISBN: 9780743462853
Reviewed on 31st January 2010
A century ago the long-running conflict between two alien civilizations ended when both of them colonised the same distant planet, becoming instead a shining example of inter-species cooperation and c... (more)
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A Time to Sow by Dayton Ward, Kevin Dilmore
ISBN: 9780743482998
Reviewed on 4th January 2010
Centuries ago a hardy band of survivors, fleeing a planetary catastrophe, took refuge in the inhospitable asteroid belt. Now they must make a choice: to go on as they are on the crowded but functiona... (more)
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A Wanted Man by Lee Child
ISBN: 9780593065730
Reviewed on 5th September 2012
When you're as big and rough as Jack Reacher - and you have a badly-set, freshly-busted nose, patched with silver duct tape - it isn't easy to hitch a ride. But Reacher has some unfinished business in... (more)
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Above Suspicion by Linda La Plante
ISBN: 9781849834339
Reviewed on 30th May 2013
Young Anna Travis has been assigned to her first murder case - a series of killings that has shocked even the most hardened of detectives. They started eight years ago - now the body count is up to si... (more)
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According to Jennings by Anthony Buckeridge
ISBN: 9780333556610
Reviewed on 6th October 2010
Why is Jennings wearing boxing gloves to conceal his paint-smeared hands? And why has Darbishire got flippers on in the dormitory? As is so often the case with these two, there are more questions t... (more)
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Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years by Sue Townsend
ISBN: 9780718153700
Reviewed on 22nd February 2010
Adrian Mole is 39 and a quarter. Unable to afford the mortgage on his riverside apartment, he has been forced to move into a semi-detached converted pigsty next door to his parents. To cap it all off... (more)
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Alcatraz Versus the Knights of Crystallia by Brandon Sanderson
ISBN: 9781444006704
Reviewed on 31st October 2012
Alcatraz Smedry has made it to the Free Kingdoms. Unfortunately, so have the evil Librarians - including his mother. Now all Alcatraz has to do is find a traitor among the Knights of Crystallia, try t... (more)
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Alcatraz Versus the Scrivener's Bones by Brandon Sanderson
ISBN: 9781444006698
Reviewed on 28th October 2012
Alcatraz Smedry is back with a bang - infiltrating the Library of Alexandria, looking for his not-dead-after-all father and discovering a strange golden sarcophagus that might hold the key to his amaz... (more)
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Alcatraz vs the Evil Librarians by Brandon Sanderson
ISBN: 9780575131347
Reviewed on 17th October 2012
On his thirteenth birthday, Alcatraz - a foster child - gets a bag of sand in the mail which purports to be his 'inheritance' sent from his father and mother. The Librarians, of course, immediately st... (more)
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Alex's Adventures in Numberland by Alex Bellos
ISBN: 9780747597162
Reviewed on 13th July 2010
In this richly entertaining and accessible book, Alex Bellos explodes the myth that maths is best left to the geeks. Covering subjects from adding to algebra, from set theory to statistics, and from l... (more)
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All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses an Eye by Christopher Brookmyre
ISBN: 9780349117454
Reviewed on 24th March 2011
As a teenager Jane Bell had dreamt of playing in the casinos of Monte Carlo in the company of James Bond, but in her punk phase she'd got herself pregnant and by the time she reaches forty-six she's a... (more)
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American Gods by Neil Gaiman
ISBN: 9780755322817
Reviewed on 6th July 2008
Shadow has patiently done his time in prison. But as the moment of his release approaches, he begins to sense that some unnamed disaster is lying in wait for him. As he makes his way home, he encounte... (more)
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An Utterly Impartial History of Britain by John O'Farrell
ISBN: 9780385611985
Reviewed on 21st July 2008
When a historian says ‘Waterloo’, do you automatically think of Abba? Do you wonder how Neville chamberlain failed to realize that Hitler was a baddie when the Fuhrer was so clearly wearing a Nazi arm... (more)
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Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
ISBN: 9780755305070
Reviewed on 10th October 2010
Fat Charlie Nancy is not actually fat. He was fat once but he is definitely not fat now. No, right now Fat Charlie Nancy is angry, confused and more than a little scared – right now his life is spinni... (more)
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And Another Thing by Eoin Colfer
ISBN: 9780718155148
Reviewed on 23rd October 2009
Arthur Dent has finally made it home to Earth. But that does not mean he has escaped his fate. For Arthur’s chances of getting his hands on a decent cuppa are evaporating along with the world’s oceans... (more)
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Appointment with Death by Agatha Christie
ISBN: 9780007119356
Reviewed on 17th October 2011
Among the towering red cliffs of Petra, like some monstrous swollen Buddha, sat the corpse of Mrs Boynton. A tiny puncture mark on her wrist was the only sign of the fatal injection that had killed he... (more)
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Ark Angel by Anthony Horowitz
ISBN: 9780744583243
Reviewed on 7th June 2013
From Cornwall to Cuba, Venice to France, Alex Rider has travelled far and wide as a spy for MI6, facing danger and death at every turn. But in his last mission, fighting the criminal organization, Sco... (more)
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Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
ISBN: 9780670899623
Reviewed on 7th February 2009
Twelve-year-old Artemis Fowl is a brilliant criminal mastermind. But even Artemis doesn't know what he's taken on when he kidnaps a fairy, Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon Unit. These aren't the ... (more)
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Articles of the Federation by Keith R A DeCandido
ISBN: 9781416500155
Reviewed on 23rd June 2010
Relations between the Federation, The Klingon Empire and the Romulans remain fragile. Refugees are requesting asylum within the Federation, requiring delicate negotiations whose outcome could prove as... (more)
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Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb
ISBN: 9780006480099
Reviewed on 7th December 2010
Fitz is a royal bastard, cast out into the world with only his magical link with animals for solace and companionship. But when Fitz is adopted into the royal household, he must give up his old ways a... (more)
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Assassin's Quest by Robin Hobb
ISBN: 9780006480112
Reviewed on 16th March 2011
Under the watchful eye of Burrich, old King Shrewd's Stablemaster, Fitz must learn to cast off the wild but carefree ways of the wolf and enter once more the human world: a world beset ever more vicio... (more)
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At Bertram's Hotel by Agatha Christie
ISBN: 9780007121038
Reviewed on 20th April 2009
When Miss Marple comes up from the country for a holiday in London, she finds what she's looking for at Bertram's Hotel: traditional decor, impeccable service and an unmistakable atmosphere of danger ... (more)
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At Home by Bill Bryson
ISBN: 9780385608275
Reviewed on 13th June 2010
Bill Bryson was struck one day by the thought that we devote a lot more time to studying the battles and wars of history than to considering what history really consists of: centuries of people quietl... (more)
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Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks by Christopher Brookmyre
ISBN: 9780349118819
Reviewed on 7th July 2011
Do you believe in ghosts? Do we really live on in some conscious form after we die, and is that form capable of communicating with the world of the living?... "Aye, right." That was Jack Parlaba... (more)
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Back Spin by Harlan Coben
ISBN: 9781409117056
Reviewed on 21st December 2012
The boy was born and raised on the Main Line. But he vanished on Philadelphia's mean streets - last seen in a down-town cheater's hotel. For sports agent Myron Bolitar, his client, superstar Linda Col... (more)
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Bad Luck and Trouble by Lee Child
ISBN: 9780857500144
Reviewed on 2nd November 2011
September 11th changed Reacher's drifter lifestyle in one practical way. As well as his folding toothbrush, he now carries photo ID. Yet he is still as close to untraceable as a human being in America... (more)
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Bad Science by Ben Goldacre
ISBN: 9780007284870
Reviewed on 30th January 2013
Dr Ben Goldacre takes on the MMR hoax and misleading cosmetics ads, acupuncture and homeopathy, vitamins and mankind's vexed relationship with all manner of 'toxins'. Along the way, the self-confessed... (more)
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Bay of the Dead by Mark Morris
ISBN: 9781846077371
Reviewed on 9th September 2009
When the city sleeps, the dead start to walk! Something has sealed off Cardiff, and living corpses are stalking the streets, leaving a trail of half-eaten bodies. Animals are butchered. A young couple... (more)
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Be My Enemy by Christopher Brookmyre
ISBN: 9780349116815
Reviewed on 30th January 2011
It was a junket, a freebie. A 'team-building' weekend in the highlands for lawyers, advertising execs, businessmen, even the head of a charity. Amid the flying paintballs and flowing Shiraz even the m... (more)
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Bedlam by Christopher Brookmyre
ISBN: 9780356502137
Reviewed on 26th February 2013
Would it be your ultimate fantasy to enter the world of a video game? A realm where you don't have to go to work or worry about your health; where you can look like a hero or a goddess; where you c... (more)
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Big Money by P. G. Wodehouse
ISBN: 9780099514220
Reviewed on 31st December 2012
Most of the big money belongs to Torquil Paterson Frisby, the dyspeptic American millionaire - but that doesn't stop him wanting more out of it. His niece, the beautiful Ann Moon, is engaged to 'Biscu... (more)
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Bill the Galactic Hero by Harry Harrison
ISBN: 9781857989052
Reviewed on 17th May 2012
Bill was a peaceful farm boy until he was lured by the martial music of a passing recruitment sergeant, drugged, and made to enlist in the Empire Space Corps. His basic training is sheer hell, but som... (more)
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Black Coffee by Agatha Christie, Charles Osborne
ISBN: 9780006511373
Reviewed on 2nd July 2010
Sir Claud Amory's revolutionary new formula for a powerful explosive is stolen. Locking his house-guests in the library, Sir Claud switches off the lights to allow the thief to replace the formula, no... (more)
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Bleachers by John Grisham
ISBN: 9780099557258
Reviewed on 10th August 2011
Neely Crenshaw was probably the best quarterback ever to play for the legendary Messina Spartans. Fifteen years have gone by since those glory days, and Neely has come home to Messina to bury Coach Ed... (more)
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Blind Man's Bluff by Peter David
ISBN: 9780743429603
Reviewed on 24th May 2011
Captain MacKenzie Calhoun has faced incredible odds before, but nothing he has ever experienced could prepare him for the simultaneous threats from two of the most destructive forces he's ever encount... (more)
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Boiling a Frog by Christopher Brookmyre
ISBN: 9780349114132
Reviewed on 14th September 2010
Jack Parlabane, the investigative journalist who is not averse to breaking the law for the sake of a good story, has finally been caught on the petard of his own self-confidence and is experiencing ac... (more)
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Brinkmanship by Una McCormack
ISBN: 9781451687828
Reviewed on 7th October 2012
The Venette Convention has always remained independent, but it is about to become the flashpoint for a tense military standoff between the two power blocs now dominating interstellar space-the United ... (more)
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Cards on the Table by Agatha Christie
ISBN: 9780007119349
Reviewed on 2nd June 2011
Mr Shaitana was famous as a flamboyant party host. Nevertheless, he was a man of whom everybody was a little afraid. So, when he boasted to Poirot that he considered murder an art form, the detective ... (more)
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Carte Blanche by Jeffery Deaver
ISBN: 9781444716474
Reviewed on 30th May 2011
Fresh from Afghanistan, James Bond has been recruited to a new agency. Conceived in the post-9/11 world, it operates independent of Five, Six and the MoD, its very existence deniable. The Night Action... (more)
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Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
ISBN: 9780141187587
Reviewed on 28th December 2010
Bond is on a mission to neutralize a lethal, high-rolling Russian operative called simply 'Le Chiffre' - by ruining him at the baccarat table and forcing his Soviet spymasters to 'retire' him. It seem... (more)
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Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
ISBN: 9781407132099
Reviewed on 20th May 2012
After winning the brutal Hunger Games, Katniss and Peeta return to their district, hoping for a peaceful future. But their victory has caused rebellion to break out, and the Capitol has decided tHat s... (more)
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Children of the Storm by Kirsten Beyer
ISBN: 9781451607185
Reviewed on 29th July 2011
Three Federation starships - the Quirinal, Planck and Demeter - have mysteriously vanished, and a contingency plan is developed for the Voyager crew to search for the missing ships. An unknown alien r... (more)
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City of Dragons by Robin Hobb
ISBN: 9780007273805
Reviewed on 15th June 2013
The dragons and their keepers have discovered Kelsingra but so far only Heeby has succeeded in flying over the river to enter the fabled city. The other dragons, with their deformed wings and feeble m... (more)
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Class A by Robert Muchamore
ISBN: 9780340881545
Reviewed on 11th August 2012
When Cherub kids go undercover, no one suspects that they are trained professionals, working to infiltrate criminal organisations that have eluded MI5 and the police for years. James Adams is on hi... (more)
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Colonel Sun by Robert Markham, Kingsley Amis
ISBN: 9780340551370
Reviewed on 13th July 2012
Bond is the victim of a plot by Colonel Sun of the People's Liberation Army of China. M has been abducted, but Bond appears to be the target of this plot to discredit the British Secret Service.
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Confessions of a Conjuror by Derren Brown
ISBN: 9781905026579
Reviewed on 1st February 2011
Obsessed with magic and illusions since childhood, Derren's life to date has been an extraordinary journey and here, in Confessions of a Conjuror, he allows us all to join him on a magical mystery tou... (more)
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Consequences by James Moran, Joseph Lidster, Andrew Cartmel, Sarah Pinborough, David Llewellyn
ISBN: 9781846077845
Reviewed on 5th June 2010
What links the Rules and Regulations for replacing a Torchwood leader to the destruction of a shopping center? How does a witness to an alien's reprisals against Torchwood become caught up in a night ... (more)
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Coot Club by Arthur Ransome
ISBN: 9780099427186
Reviewed on 19th September 2011
Tom Dudgeon has cast off a motor cruiser from its moorings to protect a coot's nest, but now the cruiser is searching high and low for him - even offering a reward. Tom accepts an invitation for a wee... (more)
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Coots in the North and other stories by Arthur Ransome
ISBN: 9780099964100
Reviewed on 3rd February 2013
A collection of Arthur Ransome stories, including five chapters from the 13th, unfinished "Swallows and Amazons" book.
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Corsair by Clive Cussler, Jack du Brul
ISBN: 9780718154448
Reviewed on 17th April 2009
When the U. S. Secretary of State’s plane crashes while bringing her to a summit meeting in Libya, the CIA, distrusting the Libyans, hire Cabrillo to search for her, and the misgivings are well founde... (more)
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Country of the Blind by Christopher Brookmyre
ISBN: 9780349109305
Reviewed on 2nd April 2010
The murder of a media mogul in his country mansion appears to be the result of him disturbing a gang of would-be thieves. The robbers are swiftly caught, but when they are unexpectedly moved to a diff... (more)
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Crescent Dawn by Clive Cussler, Dirk Cussler
ISBN: 9780718157401
Reviewed on 23rd November 2010
In A.D. 327, a Roman galley with an extraordinary cargo barely escapes a pirate attack. In 1916, a British warship mysteriously explodes in the middle of the North Sea. In the present day, a cluster o... (more)
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Crossroads of Twilight by Robert Jordan
ISBN: 9781841491836
Reviewed on 26th March 2010
Rand al'Thor, the Dragon Reborn, must fight on against the Dark One in a stuggle that has drawn an entire world into its vortex - claiming the souls of friends and enemies alike. He has cleansed the t... (more)
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Daedalus by Dave Stern
ISBN: 9780743471183
Reviewed on 27th August 2010
After a half-dozen years of research and testing, Starfleet prepares to launch its first warp 5 vessel-Daedalus. Propelled by a radical new engine designed by Earth's most brilliant warp field theoris... (more)
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Daedalus's Children by Dave Stern
ISBN: 9780743476461
Reviewed on 15th October 2010
Ambushed in the middle of a savage civil war, forcibly removed from their ship, imprisoned and brutalised by their captors, the crew of the USS Enterprise have still greater dangers to face. Subtle bi... (more)
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Day of the Vipers by James Swallow
ISBN: 9781416550938
Reviewed on 16th June 2008
What starts as a benign visitation to the bountiful planet Bajor from the resource-poor Cardassian Union soon becomes a conflict of competing national interests. Seen though the eyes of participants o... (more)
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Dead Simple by Peter James
ISBN: 9780330434195
Reviewed on 2nd September 2011
It was meant to be a harmless stag night prank. A few hours later four of his best friends are dead and Michael Harrison has disappeared. With only three days to the wedding, Detective Superintendent ... (more)
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Deal Breaker by Harlan Coben
ISBN: 9781409116967
Reviewed on 25th January 2012
Investigator and sports agent Myron Bolitar is poised on the edge of the big-time. So is Christian Steele, a rookie quarterback and Myron's prized client. But when Christian gets a phone call from a f... (more)
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Death in the Clouds by Agatha Christie
ISBN: 9780007119332
Reviewed on 22nd December 2010
From seat No.9, Hercule Poirot was ideally placed to observe his fellow air passengers. Over to his right sat a pretty young woman, clearly infatuated with the man opposite; ahead, in seat No.13, sat ... (more)
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Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie
ISBN: 9780007119325
Reviewed on 4th August 2011
The tranquillity of a cruise along the Nile is shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway has been shot through the head. She was young, stylish and beautiful, a girl who had everything - until s... (more)
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Deep Down by Lee Child
ISBN:
Reviewed on 26th September 2012
Early in his military career, Jack Reacher is ordered undercover in Washington, to discover which one of four women, all staff officers on fast track careers, is leaking secrets. The suggested meth... (more)
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Devil's Gate by Clive Cussler, Graham Brown
ISBN: 9780718156459
Reviewed on 14th January 2012
A Japanese cargo ship cruises the eastern Atlantic near the Azores - when it bursts into flames. A gang of pirates speeds to take advantage of the disaster - when their boat explodes. As Kurt Au... (more)
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Diamonds Are Forever by Ian Fleming
ISBN: 9780340425640
Reviewed on 13th July 2011
Tiffany Case is the sort of beautiful, devil-may-care blonde who could get a man into deep trouble - if he wanted.She stands between James Bond and the leaders of a diamond-smuggling ring that stretch... (more)
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Diaries 1969-1979: The Python Years by Michael Palin
ISBN: 9780297844365
Reviewed on 16th August 2010
Michael Palin has kept a diary since newly married in the late 1960s, when he was beginning to make a name for himself as a TV scriptwriter (for the Two Ronnies, David Frost etc). Monty Python was jus... (more)
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Die Trying by Lee Child
ISBN: 9780553505412
Reviewed on 13th September 2010
On a Chicago street in bright sunshine, Jack Reacher, is strolling nowhere and sees an attractive young woman, struggling on crutches. Naturally, he stops to offer her a steadying arm. And then he tur... (more)
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Dodger by Terry Pratchett
ISBN: 9780385619271
Reviewed on 19th September 2012
Dodger is a tosher - a sewer scavenger living in the squalor of Dickensian London. Everyone who is nobody knows Dodger. Anyone who is anybody doesn't. But when he rescues a young girl from a bea... (more)
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Dr. No by Ian Fleming
ISBN: 9780141028279
Reviewed on 30th September 2011
Dr No, a sinister recluse with mechanical pincers for hands and a sadistic fascination with pain, holds James Bond firmly in his steely grasp. Bond and Honey Rider, his beautiful and vulnerable girl F... (more)
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Dragon Haven by Robin Hobb
ISBN: 9780007376094
Reviewed on 3rd February 2013
The dragon keepers and the fledgling dragons are forging a passage up the treacherous Rain Wild River. They are in search of the mythical Elderling city of Kelsingra, and are accompanied by the livesh... (more)
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Drop Shot by Harlan Coben
ISBN: 9781409116998
Reviewed on 26th April 2012
The young woman was shot dead in cold blood, dropped outside the stadium, in front of a stand selling Moet for $7.50 a glass. Once her tennis career had skyrocketed. Now, at the height of the US Open,... (more)
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Dumb Witness by Agatha Christie
ISBN: 9780007120796
Reviewed on 29th June 2011
Everyone blamed Emily's accident on a rubber ball left on the stairs by her frisky terrier. But the more she thought about her fall, the more convinced she became that one of her relatives was trying ... (more)
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Eagle Strike by Anthony Horowitz
ISBN: 9781844280957
Reviewed on 21st December 2012
Reluctant MI6 agent Alex Rider is relaxing in the south of France until a sudden, ruthless attack on his hosts plunges him back into a world of violence and mystery - and this time, MI6 don't want to ... (more)
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Echo Burning by Lee Child
ISBN: 9780553813302
Reviewed on 31st December 2010
Jack Reacher – six foot five and dangerous. Adrift in the hellish heat of Texas. Moving like a shark in the water. Looking for a lift through the vast empty landscape. A Cadillac stops. A ride, but... (more)
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Eleven by Mark Watson
ISBN: 9781847379689
Reviewed on 28th November 2010
Xavier Ireland is a radio DJ who by night listens to the hopes, fears and regrets of sleepless Londoners and by day keeps himself very much to himself - until he is brought into the light by a one-of-... (more)
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Empire State by Colin Bateman
ISBN: 9780006498025
Reviewed on 29th January 2012
It's bad enough having a name like Nathan Jones - unless you're a Supremes fan, which Nathan isn't - but when his girlfriend leaves him (for a drag queen) and he gets mugged, then handcuffed to a bed ... (more)
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Encounter at Farpoint by David Gerrold
ISBN: 9781852860608
Reviewed on 2nd May 2013
Led by their captain, Jean-Luc Picard, the new crew set out on their voyage in a new starship, venturing further into the unknown than ever before!
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Evil Under the Sun by Agatha Christie
ISBN: 9780007119264
Reviewed on 27th May 2012
It was not unusual to find the beautiful bronzed body of the sun-loving Arlena Stuart stretched out on a beach, face down. Only, on this occasion, there was no sun! she had been strangled. Ever since ... (more)
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Exodus Code by John Barrowman, Carole E Barrowman
ISBN: 9781846079078
Reviewed on 30th September 2012
It starts with a series of unexplained events. Earth tremors across the globe. Women being driven insane by their heightened and scrambled senses. And the world is starting to notice - the number one ... (more)
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Fade Away by Harlan Coben
ISBN: 9781409117070
Reviewed on 21st July 2012
Myron Bolitar once had a promising career as a sportsman, until an accident forced him to quit. After a spell in the FBI he now runs his own business. Then Myron is approached to find Greg Downing. He... (more)
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Fallen Gods by Michael A Martin
ISBN: 9781451660623
Reviewed on 23rd August 2012
Though the Federation still reels from Andor's decision, Captain Riker and the USS Titan are continuing to search the beta quadrant for an ancient civilization's long-lost terraforming technology. Ti... (more)
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First Born by James Goss
ISBN: 9781849902830
Reviewed on 30th July 2011
Gwen and Rhys are on the run. Rhys was hoping this meant a windswept cottage on a cliff top, but he’s had to settle for a miserable caravan in the isolated village of Rawbone. With the locals taking a... (more)
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Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie
ISBN: 9780007120734
Reviewed on 7th July 2012
Beautiful Caroline Crale was convicted of poisoning her husband, yet there were five other suspects: Philip Blake (the stockbroker) who went to market; Meredith Blake (the amateur herbalist) who staye... (more)
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Fool's Errand by Robin Hobb
ISBN: 9789780006488
Reviewed on 2nd February 2012
Fifteen years have passed and events are about to sweep Fitz out of his quiet backwater life and into the main political current again. Persecution of the Witted has become rampant throughout the Six ... (more)
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Fool's Fate by Robin Hobb
ISBN: 9780006486039
Reviewed on 9th May 2012
A small and sadly untried coterie sail towards the distant island of Aslevjal. There they must fulfil the Narcheska's challenge to her betrothed: to lay the head of the dragon Icefyre, whom legends te... (more)
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For Special Services by John Gardner
ISBN: 9780340321119
Reviewed on 31st August 2012
Bond is back on secret loan to the US government and primed to confront an old and deadly adversary which now has a sinister new leader and a devastating operation underway. In partnership with the da... (more)
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For Your Eyes Only by Ian Fleming
ISBN: 9780141188713
Reviewed on 11th January 2012
Sudden emergencies and beautiful girls who aren't quite what they seem are the stock-in-trade of James Bond. And when 007 is on the case there's only one thing you can be sure of - the result will be ... (more)
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Ford County Stories by John Grisham
ISBN: 9780099545781
Reviewed on 1st July 2012
Ford County: a place of harsh beauty where broken dreams and final wishes converge. From a hard-drinking, downtrodden divorce lawyer looking for pay-dirt, to a manipulative death row inmate with on... (more)
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Forgotten History by Christopher L Bennett
ISBN: 9781451657258
Reviewed on 24th May 2012
The agents of the Department of Temporal Investigations are assigned to look into an anomaly that has appeared deep in Federation territory. It’s difficult to get clear readings, but a mysterious inac... (more)
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From Russia With Love by Ian Fleming
ISBN: 9780141187600
Reviewed on 19th August 2011
Every major foreign government has a file on James Bond, British secret agent. Now, Russia's deadly SMERSH organization has targeted him for elimination - they have the perfect bait in ravishing agent... (more)
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Full Circle by Kirsten Beyer
ISBN: 9781416594963
Reviewed on 30th April 2009
When the U.S.S. Voyager is dispatched on an urgent mission to the planet Kerovi, Captain Chakotay and his first officer, Commander Thomas Paris, must choose between following orders and saving the liv... (more)
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Full Dark House by Christopher Fowler
ISBN: 9780553815528
Reviewed on 21st November 2012
Arthur Bryant and John May of the Met's little-known Peculiar Crimes Unit are London's longest-serving detectives. When a bomb claims Bryant's life, it ends a partnership that has lasted for over hal... (more)
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Gods of Night by David Mack
ISBN: 9781416551713
Reviewed on 24th February 2009
The Borg return -- with a vengeance! Blitzkreig attacks by the single-minded aliens with their hive mentality and their mission to assimilate every intelligent being they encounter are leaving whole w... (more)
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Goldfinger by Ian Fleming
ISBN: 9781856132657
Reviewed on 8th December 2011
Auric Goldfinger is the kind of man Bond loves to hate: cruel, clever, frustratingly careful - a cheat and a crook. So Bond relishes his mission to discover what this man - the richest in the country... (more)
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Gone Tomorrow by Lee Child
ISBN: 9780553824698
Reviewed on 16th February 2012
Suicide bombers are easy to spot. They give out all kinds of tell-tale signs. There are twelve things to look for. No one who has worked in law enforcement will ever forget them. New York City. The su... (more)
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Great Northern? by Arthur Ransome
ISBN: 9780099427261
Reviewed on 26th September 2012
Dick's birdwatching discovery turns a pleasant cruise of the Hebrides into a desperate chase. Soon the Swallows and Amazons are busy dodging the savage natives and evading the ruthless pursuit of a fa... (more)
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Guilty Pleasures by Laurrel K Hamilton
ISBN: 9780755355297
Reviewed on 14th April 2013
My name is Anita Blake. Vampires call me the Executioner. What I call them isn't repeatable. Ever since the Supreme Court granted the undead equal rights, most people think vampires are just ordinary ... (more)
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Harbinger by David Mack
ISBN: 9781416507741
Reviewed on 26th July 2009
Vanguard is a Starfleet space station charged with the exploration and colonization of a region of space that holds a highly coveted, mysterious, and potentially cataclysmic secret - one that the Fede... (more)
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J K Rowling
ISBN: 9780747562184
Reviewed on 11th November 2012
Harry Potter is a wizard. He is in his second year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Little does he know that this year will be just as eventful as the last. The three firm friends, Harry... (more)
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J K Rowling
ISBN: 9780747558194
Reviewed on 27th May 2012
Harry Potter is an ordinary boy who lives in a cupboard under the stairs at his Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon's house, which he thinks is normal for someone like him who's parents have been killed in ... (more)
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Hercule Poirot's Christmas by Agatha Christie
ISBN: 9780007120697
Reviewed on 23rd December 2011
It is Christmas Eve. The Lee family reunion is shattered by a deafening crash of furniture, followed by a high-pitched wailing scream. Upstairs, the tyrannical Simeon Lee lies dead in a pool of blood,... (more)
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Hide and Seek by Ian Rankin
ISBN: 9780752883540
Reviewed on 5th June 2012
A junkie lies dead in an Edinburgh squat spreadeagled, cross-like on the floor, between two burned-down candles, a five-pointed star daubed on the wall above. Just another dead addict, until John Rebu... (more)
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Hot Water by P. G. Wodehouse
ISBN: 9780099514152
Reviewed on 21st March 2013
Château Blissac, on its hill above St Roque, is in a setting where every prospect pleases. But it doesn't please its current occupier, J. Wellington Gedge. Mr Gedge wants none of it - and particularly... (more)
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I Shall Wear Midnight by Terry Pratchett
ISBN: 9780385611077
Reviewed on 6th September 2010
It's not easy being a witch, and it's certainly not all whizzing about on broomsticks, but Tiffany Aching - teen witch - is doing her best. Until something evil wakes up, something that stirs up all t... (more)
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Icebreaker by John Gardner
ISBN: 9780399128110
Reviewed on 31st October 2012
Bond reluctantly finds himself recruited into a dangerous mission involving an equally dangerous and treacherous alliance of agents from the CIA, KGB and Mossad. The team, dubbed "Icebreaker", waste n... (more)
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In Your Dreams by Tom Holt
ISBN: 9781841492193
Reviewed on 21st July 2010
Ever been offered a promotion that seems too good to be true? You know - the sort they'd be insane to be offering to someone like you. The kind where you snap their arm off to accept, then wonder why ... (more)
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Indistinguishable from Magic by David A McIntee
ISBN: 9781451606157
Reviewed on 12th April 2011
The most talented Starfleet engineers of two generations unite to solve a two hundred year old technological mystery that turns out to be only the beginning of a wider quest. With the support of Guina... (more)
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Into the Silence by Sarah Pinborough
ISBN: 9781846077531
Reviewed on 16th August 2009
The body in the church hall is very definitely dead. It has been sliced open with surgical precision, its organs exposed, and its vocal cords are gone. It is as if they were never there or they've bee... (more)
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Jaggy Splinters by Christopher Brookmyre
ISBN:
Reviewed on 23rd November 2012
Everyone's favourite unorthodox journalist, Jack Parlabane, goes undercover to investigate the mysterious and lucrative world of alternative medicine: in particular the practice of homeopathy. Are the... (more)
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Jennings and Darbishire by Anthony Buckeridge
ISBN: 9780755101535
Reviewed on 25th July 2010
Jennings turns journalist when he receives a printing kit for his birthday, and dubs himself Editor of the Form Three Times. Enlisting faithful Darbi as his assistant hack, Jennings sets off to the co... (more)
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Jennings as Usual by Anthony Buckeridge
ISBN: 9780755101156
Reviewed on 19th July 2011
When Jennings starts the second half of the Christmas term by accidentally setting his rubber on fire, it seems he residents of Linbury Court are going to have an exciting few weeks. Along with Hig... (more)
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Jennings Follows a Clue by Anthony Buckeridge
ISBN: 9780755113668
Reviewed on 16th May 2010
When Jennings is inspired to take up a career as a detective, with faithful Darbishire as his assistant, trouble is bound to be just around the corner. Their first mission – to recover a 'stolen' spor... (more)
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Jennings Goes to School by Anthony Buckeridge
ISBN: 9780755113682
Reviewed on 28th April 2010
In this first book in the series, Jennings and Darbishire arrive for their first term at Linbury Court School. But no one could have been prepared for the hilarious trail of muddle and mayhem that fol... (more)
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Jennings' Diary by Anthony Buckeridge
ISBN: 9780755101634
Reviewed on 18th August 2010
It is the Easter term at Linbury Court School and Jennings has been promised five pounds by his aunt if he keeps up his diary every day. When he and Darbishire devise a code for entries, things really... (more)
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Jennings' Little Hut by Anthony Buckeridge
ISBN: 9780755113675
Reviewed on 26th June 2010
The woodland at Linbury Court becomes squatters’ territory when Jennings comes up with the idea of building huts out of reeds and branches. Jennings and Darbishire are thrilled with their construction... (more)
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Judgement Day by Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen
ISBN: 9780091949792
Reviewed on 26th April 2013
Marjorie Daw is a librarian, and takes her job - and indeed the truth of words - very seriously. She doesn't know it, but her world and ours - Roundworld - is in big trouble. On Discworld, a colossal ... (more)
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Jumper by Steven Gould
ISBN: 9780007275991
Reviewed on 28th October 2012
David Rice barely remembers his mother. She left his alcoholic father when Davy was very young. She left Davy too, and since then all of William Rice's abusive anger has been focused on his young teen... (more)
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Just Like Jennings by Anthony Buckeridge
ISBN: 978075510170
Reviewed on 23rd May 2012
When Jennings and Darbishire happen upon a mysterious stranger, they are determined to prove he is a spy. Armed with a lemonade bottle and some chalk dust, their attempts to turn detective go astray,... (more)
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Killing Floor by Lee Child
ISBN: 9780553505405
Reviewed on 8th July 2010
Margrave has just had its first homicide in thirty years. Jack Reacher is the only stranger in town, so the murder is pinned on him. As nasty secrets leak out and the body count mounts, only one thing... (more)
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Knife of Dreams by Robert Jordan
ISBN: 9781841492285
Reviewed on 1st July 2010
Rand must negotiate a truce with the Seanchan armies, as their forces increasingly sap his strength. Perrin has made his own desperate truce with the Seanchan - he would deal with the Dark One himself... (more)
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Knots and Crosses by Ian Rankin
ISBN: 9780752883533
Reviewed on 28th February 2012
'And in Edinburgh of all places. I mean, you never think of that sort of thing happening in Edinburgh, do you...?' That sort of thing... is the brutal abduction and murder of two young girls. And n... (more)
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Kobayashi Maru by Michael A Martin, Andy Mangels
ISBN: 9781416554806
Reviewed on 10th January 2009
Under orders from Starfleet, Captain Jonathan Archer and Captain Erica Hernandez, commanders of the two most powerful starships in the fleet, have been reduced to convoy duty: no more than glorified b... (more)
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Licence Renewed by John Gardner
ISBN: 9780857820440
Reviewed on 6th August 2012
Bond has been assigned to investigate one Dr. Anton Murik, a brilliant nuclear physicist who is thought to have been meeting with a terrorist known as Franco. Together they plan to hijack six nuclear ... (more)
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Life, The Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams
ISBN: 9780330267380
Reviewed on 29th September 2009
In consequence of a number of stunning catastrophes, Arthur Dent is surprised to find himself living in a hideously miserable cave on prehistoric Earth. And just when he thinks things cannot possibly ... (more)
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Live and Let Die by Ian Fleming
ISBN: 9780141187570
Reviewed on 21st March 2011
Beautiful, fortune-telling Solitaire is the prisoner and tool of Mr Big: master of fear, artist in crime and Voodoo Baron of Death. But James Bond has no time for hocus pocus. He knows that this crimi... (more)
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Long Time Dead by Sarah Pinborough
ISBN: 9781849902847
Reviewed on 9th August 2011
Cardiff Bay. The government has ordered the excavation of the wreckage of a secret underground base. DCI Tom Cutler is watching from a distance, fascinated by the process. There are people in his drea... (more)
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Looking Good Dead by Peter James
ISBN: 9780330434201
Reviewed on 1st March 2013
Tom Bryce did what any decent person would do. But within hours of picking up the CD that had been left behind on the train seat next to him, and attempting to return it to its owner, he is the sole w... (more)
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Lord Edgware Dies by Agatha Christie
ISBN: 9780007120741
Reviewed on 3rd September 2010
Poirot had been present when Jane bragged of her plan to 'get rid of' her estranged husband. Now the monstrous man was dead. And yet the great Belgian detective couldn't help feeling that he was being... (more)
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Lord of Chaos by Robert Jordan
ISBN: 9781857233001
Reviewed on 21st September 2009
Rand al' Thor, the Dragon Reborn, strives to bind the nations of the world to his will, to forge the alliances that will fight the advance of the Shadow and to ready the forces of Light for the Last B... (more)
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Losing the Peace by William Leisner
ISBN: 9781439107867
Reviewed on 14th August 2009
For the first time in generations, citizens of the Federation know want, uncertainty and fear. Bloodied yet unbowed, the Federation stands on the edge of a precipice. As he battles to rescue the displ... (more)
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Lost Empire by Clive Cussler, Grant Blackwood
ISBN: 9780718156169
Reviewed on 7th January 2011
While scuba diving in Tanzania, Sam and Remi Fargo come upon a relic belonging to a long-lost Confederate ship. An anomaly about the relic sets them off chasing a mystery–but unknown to them, a much m... (more)
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Lost Souls by David Mack
ISBN: 9781416551751
Reviewed on 11th March 2009
An armada of several thousand Borg cubes has wiped out a fleet of ships sent by the Federation and its allies. This time the goal of the Collective is not assimilation but extermination. Jean-Luc Pica... (more)
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Maximum Security by Robert Muchamore
ISBN: 9780340884355
Reviewed on 31st October 2012
This is James Adams' most dangerous mission so far, working undercover inside a maximum security prison. Over the years, CHERUB has put hundreds of criminals behind bars. Now, for the first time ever... (more)
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Medusa by Clive Cussler, Paul Kemprecos
ISBN: 9780718154677
Reviewed on 5th August 2009
In the Micronesian Islands, a top-secret, US government-sponsored undersea lab conducting vital biomedical research on a rare jellyfish known as the Blue Medusa suddenly disappears. At the same time, ... (more)
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Mere Mortals by David Mack
ISBN: 9781416551720
Reviewed on 3rd March 2009
The Borg have found a secret passage through subspace and are using it to attack the Federation. But the passage is only one of many that the Enterprise crew have discovered inside a nebula. Working t... (more)
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Miss Marple's Final Cases by Agatha Christie
ISBN: 9780007121045
Reviewed on 11th July 2009
First, the mystery man in the church with a bullet-wound! then, the riddle of a dead man's buried treasure! the curious conduct oif a caretaker after a fatal riding accident! the corpse and a tape-mea... (more)
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Missee Lee by Arthur Ransome
ISBN: 9780099427254
Reviewed on 3rd June 2012
The Swallows and Amazons have finally met a real pirate - the tiny, pistol-carrying Missee Lee, who has rescued them after their shipwrick off the coast of China. The only touble is she wants to keep ... (more)
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Missing in Action by Peter David
ISBN: 9781416510802
Reviewed on 23rd January 2009
The crew of the USS Excalibur are lost in space, somehow thrown headlong into the mysteries and dangers of the distant Andromeda Galaxy - and no sooner do they arrive than they are caught up in the mi... (more)
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Moab is my Washpot by Stephen Fry
ISBN: 9780099457046
Reviewed on 23rd September 2010
Stephen Fry’s autobiography, covering the first 20 years of his life. Fry is candid about his many weaknesses, including stealing, cheating and lying. Fry writes about his older brother Roger, Bunce ... (more)
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Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
ISBN: 9781407109374
Reviewed on 5th July 2012
Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has survived the Hunger Games twice. But now that she's made it out of the bloody arena alive, she's still not safe. The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge.... (more)
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Money for Nothing by P. G. Wodehouse
ISBN: 9780099514183
Reviewed on 17th October 2012
The peaceful slumber of the Worcester village of Rudge-in-the-Vale is about to be rudely disrupted. First there's a bitter feud between peppery Colonel Wyvern and the Squire of Rudge Hall, rich but mi... (more)
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Moonraker by Ian Fleming
ISBN: 9780141028330
Reviewed on 17th May 2011
At M's request, Bond has gone up against Sir Hugo Drax at the card table, on a mission to teach the millionaire and head of the Moonraker project a lesson he won't forget, and prevent a scandal engulf... (more)
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Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams
ISBN: 9780330323116
Reviewed on 13th October 2009
20 years on, the Guide falls into the hands of Arthur Dent's daughter, Random, whose mother, unexpectedly to all concerned, is Trillian. Random journeys to an insignificant planet, whose entry in the ... (more)
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Mrs McGinty's Dead by Agatha Christie
ISBN: 9780007121007
Reviewed on 6th June 2013
Mrs McGinty died from a brutal blow to the back of her head. Suspicion fell immediately on her shifty lodger, James Bentley, whose clothes revealed traces of the victim's blood and hair. Yet something... (more)
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Murder in Mesopotamia by Agatha Christie
ISBN: 9780007113804
Reviewed on 6th April 2011
It was clear to Amy Leatheran that something sinister was going on at the Hassanieh dig in Iraq; something associated with the presence of 'Lovely Louise', wife of celebrated archaeologist Dr Leidner.... (more)
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Murder in the Mews by Agatha Christie
ISBN: 9780007120888
Reviewed on 5th September 2011
How did a woman holding a pistol in her right hand manage to shoot herself in the left temple? What was the link between a ghost sighting and the disappearance of top secret military plans? How did th... (more)
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Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
ISBN: 9780007119318
Reviewed on 18th September 2010
Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the Orient Express in its tracks. The luxurious train is surprisingly full for the time of the year, but by the morning it is one passenger fewer. An American ty... (more)
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Mystery Man by Colin Bateman
ISBN: 9780755346752
Reviewed on 1st September 2010
He’s the Man With No Name and the owner of No Alibis, a mystery bookshop in Belfast. But when a detective agency next door goes bust, the agency’s clients start calling into his shop asking him to sol... (more)
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Nemesis by Jo Nesbo
ISBN: 9780099546757
Reviewed on 17th June 2011
While Harry’s girlfriend is away in Russia, an old flame gets in touch. He goes to dinner at her house and wakes up at home with no memory of the past twelve hours. The same morning the girl is found ... (more)
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Nemesis by Agatha Christie
ISBN: 9780007121052
Reviewed on 18th May 2009
In utter disbelief Miss Marple read the letter addressed to her from the recently deceased Mr Rafiel -- an acquaintance she had met briefly on her travels. Recognising in Miss Marple a natural flair f... (more)
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Nerd Do Well by Simon Pegg
ISBN: 9781846058110
Reviewed on 25th January 2011
Zombies in North London, death cults in the West Country, the engineering deck of the Enterprise: actor, comedian, writer and self-proclaimed supergeek Simon Pegg has been ploughing some bizarre furro... (more)
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New Spring by Robert Jordan
ISBN: 9781841492612
Reviewed on 20th May 2010
The city that greets Al'Lan Mandragoran, exiled king of Malkier and the finest swordsman of his generation, is instead one that is rife with rumour and the whisperings of Shadowspawn. Proof, should he... (more)
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News From Gardenia by Robert Llewelyn
ISBN: 9781908717122
Reviewed on 21st March 2013
When Gavin Meckler's light aircraft encounters a mysterious cloud near Didcot power station in Oxfordshire, and lands in a nearby field, he is bewildered to discover the power station is nowhere to be... (more)
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Night of the Living Trekkies by David Anderson, Sam Stall
ISBN: 9781594744631
Reviewed on 4th January 2013
Arriving with homemade uniforms, glued-on prosthetics, and plastic phasers, these fanboys know more than any rational adult should know about Kirk, Spock, Next Generation, particle physics, black hole... (more)
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Nobody Lives Forever by John Gardner
ISBN: 9780857820525
Reviewed on 19th February 2013
En Route to retrieve his faithful housekeeper, May, from a European health clinic where she is recovering from an illness, Bond is warned by the British Secret Service that Tamil Rahani, the current l... (more)
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Northern Lights by Philip Pullman
ISBN: 9780439951784
Reviewed on 22nd June 2012
Lyra Belacqua and her animal daemon live half-wild and carefree among scholars of Jordan College, Oxford. The destiny that awaits her will take her to the frozen lands of the Arctic, where witch-clans... (more)
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Not the End of the World by Christopher Brookmyre
ISBN: 9780349109282
Reviewed on 25th May 2010
The crew of an oceanic research vessel goes missing in the Pacific along with their mini-submarine. An evangelical media star holds a rally next door to a convention in LA devoted to 'nubile' cinemati... (more)
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Nothing to Lose by Lee Child
ISBN: 9780553824414
Reviewed on 2nd January 2012
Two small towns in Colorado: Hope and Despair. Between them, nothing but twelve miles of empty road. Jack Reacher can’t find a ride, so he walks. All he wants is a cup of coffee. What he gets are four... (more)
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Octopussy and The Living Daylights by Ian Fleming
ISBN: 9780340413654
Reviewed on 18th June 2012
For James Bond, British secret agent 007, international espionage can be a dirty business. Whether it is tracking down a wayward Major who has taken a deadly secret with him to the Caribbean; identify... (more)
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On Her Majesty's Secret Service by Ian Fleming
ISBN: 9780340425657
Reviewed on 29th March 2012
When Bond rescues a beautiful, reckless girl from self destruction, he finds himself with a lead on one of the most dangerous men in world - Enrst Stavro Blofeld, the head of SPECTRE. In the snow-boun... (more)
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One False Move by Harlan Coben
ISBN: 9781409117100
Reviewed on 10th February 2013
Myron Bolitar might have a slightly dubious past, but he knows how to handle himself and is doing just fine as a sports agent. And then he meets Brenda Slaughter, one of the hottest female sports star... (more)
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One Fine Day in the Middle of the Night by Christopher Brookmyre
ISBN: 9780349112091
Reviewed on 23rd July 2010
Gavin is creating a unique 'holiday experience', every facility any tourist who hates abroad will ever want, will all be available on a converted North Sea oil rig. To test the facilities he's hosting... (more)
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One for the Money by Janet Evanovich
ISBN: 9780140252927
Reviewed on 19th May 2013
Stephanie Plum is down on her luck. She's lost her job, her car's on the brink of repossession, and her apartment is fast becoming furniture-free. Enter Cousin Vinnie, a low-life who runs a bail-bo... (more)
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One of Our Thursdays is Missing by Jasper Fforde
ISBN: 9780340963074
Reviewed on 26th February 2011
It is a time of unrest in the BookWorld. Only the diplomatic skills of ace literary detective Thursday Next can avert a devastating genre war. But a week before the peace talks, Thursday vanishes. Has... (more)
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One Shot by Lee Child
ISBN: 9780857500120
Reviewed on 7th August 2011
A heartland city thrown into terror. But within hours the cops have it solved. A slam-dunk case. Apart from one thing. The accused gunman refuses to talk except for a single phrase: "Get Jack Reacher ... (more)
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One, Two, Buckle my Shoe by Agatha Christie
ISBN: 9780007120895
Reviewed on 25th March 2012
The dentist was found with a blackened hole below his right temple. A pistol lay on the floor near his outflung right hand. Later, one of his patients was found dead from a lethal dose of local anaest... (more)
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Orion's Hounds by Christopher L Bennett
ISBN: 9781416509509
Reviewed on 29th January 2009
As the USS Titan ventures beyond the outermost reaches of known space, the telepaths in her crew are overwhelmed by an alien cry of distress which leads the crew to a scene of shocking carnage: a civi... (more)
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Our Friend Jennings by Anthony Buckeridge
ISBN: 9780333574065
Reviewed on 23rd December 2010
Going for a cross-country run on a bus is unusual, but to Jennings it was entirely reasonable. The choleric Mr Wilkins took a different view, however. Would he accept the complicated explanation given... (more)
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Our Kind of Traitor by John le Carré
ISBN: 9780670919017
Reviewed on 12th May 2013
Britain is in the depths of recession. A left-leaning young Oxford academic and his barrister girlfriend take an off-peak holiday on the Caribbean island of Antigua. By seeming chance they bump into ... (more)
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Over A Torrent Sea by Christopher L Bennett
ISBN: 9781416594970
Reviewed on 10th April 2009
The crew of Titan encounter a planet made almost entirely of water, which Aili Lavena, Titan's aquatic navigator, sets out to chart. But when their good intentions bring calamity to this new world, La... (more)
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Pandaemonium by Christopher Brookmyre
ISBN: 9780349120508
Reviewed on 22nd March 2012
The senior pupils of St Peter's High School are on retreat to a secluded outdoor activity centre, coming to terms with the murder of a fellow pupil through the means you would expect: counselling, con... (more)
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Paranormality by Richard Wiseman
ISBN: 9780230752986
Reviewed on 4th August 2011
Professor Richard Wiseman is clear about one thing: paranormal phenomena don't exist. But in the same way that the science of space travel transforms our everyday lives, so research into telepathy, fo... (more)
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Paths of Disharmony by Dayton Ward
ISBN: 9781439160831
Reviewed on 10th February 2011
Reproductive issues that have long plagued the Andorian people are reaching crisis level. Despite the Federation's seeming inability to provide assistance and growing doubt over its commitment to a st... (more)
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Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
ISBN: 9780141329994
Reviewed on 1st March 2013
Percy Jackson didn't want to be a half-blood. He never asked to be the son of a Greek God. He was just a normal kid, going to school, playing basketball, skateboarding. The usual. Until he accidentall... (more)
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Peril at End House by Agatha Christie
ISBN: 9780007119301
Reviewed on 9th August 2010
Nick Buckley was an unusual name for a pretty young woman. But then she had led an unusual life. First, on a treacherous Cornish hillside, the brakes on her car failed. Then, on a coastal path, a fall... (more)
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Persuader by Lee Child
ISBN: 9780857500106
Reviewed on 15th April 2011
Jack Reacher lives for the moment. Without a home. Without commitment. But he has a burning desire to right wrongs – and rewrite his own agonizing past. When Reacher witnesses a brutal kidnap attempt,... (more)
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Peter Duck by Arthur Ransome
ISBN: 9780099427162
Reviewed on 1st July 2011
The Swallows and Amazons are sailing with Nancy and Peggy's Uncle Jim (better known as Captain Flint) when their hired deckhand tells them a tale of his younger days - a tale to set pulses racing and ... (more)
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Piccadilly Jim by P. G. Wodehouse
ISBN: 9780099513889
Reviewed on 18th January 2012
It takes a lot of effort for Jimmy Crocker to become Piccadilly Jim - nights on the town roistering, headlines in the gossip columns, a string of broken hearts and breaches of promise. Eventually he b... (more)
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Pigeon Post by Arthur Ransome
ISBN: 9780099427193
Reviewed on 30th November 2011
Reunited for the summer, the Swallows and Amazons with Dick and Dorothea launch a prospecting expedition to find the lost gold mine of the high hills above the lake. But the mining camp runs into all ... (more)
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Plagues of Night by David R George III
ISBN: 9781451649550
Reviewed on 27th June 2012
In the wake of the Borg invasion, six nations adversarial to the United Federation of Planets join ranks to form the Typhon Pact. Through 2381, 2382, and 2383, the Federation and the Klingon Empire, a... (more)
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Point Blanc by Anthony Horowitz
ISBN: 9781844280933
Reviewed on 30th June 2012
Investigations into the "accidental" deaths of two of the world's most powerful men have revealed just one link: both had a son attending Point Blanc Academy - an exclusive school for rebellious rich ... (more)
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Poirot Investigates by Agatha Christie
ISBN: 9780007120703
Reviewed on 28th January 2010
First there was the mystery of the film star and the diamond! then came the 'suicide' that was murder! the mystery of the absurdly cheap flat! a suspicious death in a locked gun-room! a million dollar... (more)
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Poseidon's Arrow by Clive Cussler, Dirk Cussler
ISBN: 9780718177201
Reviewed on 8th December 2012
It is the biggest advance in naval technology in decades - an attack submarine capable of incredible underwater speeds. There is only one problem: A key element of the prototype has vanished, and the ... (more)
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Present Danger by Stella Rimington
ISBN: 9781847249944
Reviewed on 3rd January 2010
In Belfast, Liz and her team are monitoring the brutal breakaway Republican groups who never accepted the peace process and want to continue their 'war'. Intelligence is focused on the shady Fraternit... (more)
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Pulling Up Stakes (part 1) by Peter David
ISBN:
Reviewed on 30th January 2013
Vince is a young vampire hunter who lives with his vampire hunter mother in an entire community of vampire hunters, who in turn are part of a cult of vampire hunters going back all the way to the Fren... (more)
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Quirkology by Richard Wiseman
ISBN: 9780330448116
Reviewed on 28th May 2011
While other scientists beaver away on obvious problems, Richard Wiseman has been busy uncovering the secret ingredients of charisma, exploring how our personalities are shaped by when we are born and ... (more)
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Quite Ugly One Morning by Christopher Brookmyre
ISBN: 9780349108858
Reviewed on 24th January 2010
Yeah, yeah, the usual. A crime. A corpse. A killer. Heard it. Except this stiff happens to be a Ponsonby, scion of a venerable Edinburgh medical clan, and the manner of his death speaks of unspeakable... (more)
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Race of Scorpions by James Goss
ISBN:
Reviewed on 30th January 2013
Assassination is Ancient Egypt's second oldest profession - and The Lady Serpent is the kingdom's most skilled practitioner of its deadly arts. But she has a problem. She on a job in Thebes, and... (more)
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Raise the Dawn by David R George III
ISBN: 9781451649567
Reviewed on 13th July 2012
After the disastrous events in the Bajoran system, Captain Benjamin Sisko must confront the consequences of the recent choices he has made in his life. At the same time, the United Federation of Plane... (more)
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Rip Tide by Stella Rimington
ISBN: 9781408811122
Reviewed on 22nd July 2011
When pirates attack a cargo ship off the Somalian coast and one of them is found to be a British-born Pakistani, alarm bells start ringing at London's Thames House. MI5 Intelligence Officer Liz Carlyl... (more)
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Risk Assessment by James Goss
ISBN: 9782846077838
Reviewed on 18th February 2010
"Are you trying to tell me, Captain Harkness, that the entire staff of Torchwood Cardiff now consists of yourself, a woman in trousers and a tea boy?" Agnes Havisham is awake, and Jack is worried (... (more)
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Roadside Crosses by Jeffery Deaver
ISBN: 9780340994047
Reviewed on 29th September 2010
A highway patrol trooper notices something strange on the side of the road: a homemade cross, fashioned as a memorial. Except the date being 'remembered' is the following day - the day the police find... (more)
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Role of Honour by John Gardner
ISBN: 9780340369418
Reviewed on 24th December 2012
Abandoning his 007 status, James Bond resigns from the service and heads for Monte Carlo, in search of a new role of honour. But he quickly finds himself embroiled with a computer wizard absconding fr... (more)
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Rough Beasts of Empire by David R George III
ISBN: 9781439160817
Reviewed on 22nd January 2011
In the wake of the assassination of the Praetor, the Romulans have cleaved in two. While Empress Donatra has led her Imperial Romulan State to establish relations with the Federation, Praetor Tal'aur... (more)
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Royal Assassin by Robin Hobb
ISBN: 9780006480105
Reviewed on 14th January 2011
King Shrewd has been struck down by a mysterious illness and King-in-waiting, Verity, spends all his time attempting to conjure storms to confuse and destroy the Red-Ship Raiders. And when he leaves o... (more)
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Sad Cypress by Agatha Christie
ISBN: 9780007120710
Reviewed on 8th February 2012
Beautiful young Elinor Carlisle stood serenely in the dock, accused of the murder of Mary Gerrard, her rival in love. The evidence was damning: only Elinor had the motive, the opportunity and the mean... (more)
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Sandstorm by James Rollins
ISBN: 9780752882178
Reviewed on 18th September 2010
Lady Kara Kensington's family paid a high price in money and blood to found the gallery that now lies in ruins. And her search for answers is about to lead her into a world she never imagined existed:... (more)
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Scarecrow by Matthew Reilly
ISBN: 9780330487597
Reviewed on 18th February 2010
As 'Scarecrow' Schofield watches his mission to eliminate a Siberian turn into a bloodbath, he realises he has been tricked - and now become the prey rather than the predator. For a shadowy consortium... (more)
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Scorpia by Anthony Horowitz
ISBN: 9780744570519
Reviewed on 6th February 2013
Still reeling from the terrible discovery he has made about his father, teenage MI6 superspy Alex Rider, is determined to find out more. Travelling to Italy, he manages to infiltrate the glamorous wor... (more)
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Second Son by Lee Child
ISBN:
Reviewed on 25th June 2012
Ever wondered what early experiences shaped Reacher's explosive career as butt-kicker supreme, the one-man guided-missile battler for justice? In this original new short story, Lee Child looks back on... (more)
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Secret Water by Arthur Ransome
ISBN: 9780099427230
Reviewed on 21st February 2012
Marooned on an island, John, Susan, Titty and Roger begin map-making and exploring. But who are the mysterious savages who lurk nearby?
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Seize the Fire by Michael A Martin
ISBN: 9781439167823
Reviewed on 15th December 2010
Shortly after making the stunning revelation that it has joined the Typhon Pact, the Gorn Hegemony suffers an ecological disaster that destroys the hatchery world that nurtures their civilisation's wa... (more)
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Seven Ancient Wonders by Matthew Reilly
ISBN: 9780330426572
Reviewed on 9th August 2010
It is the biggest treasure hunt in history with contesting nations involved in a headlong race to locate the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. 4500 years ago, a magnificent golden capstone sat at t... (more)
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Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde
ISBN: 9780340963036
Reviewed on 3rd May 2010
Eddie Russett lives comfortably in a world where fortune, career and ultimate destiny are rigidly dictated by the colours you can see. Until he falls in love with a Grey named Jane, and starts to ques... (more)
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Ship of Destiny by Robin Hobb
ISBN: 9780006498872
Reviewed on 17th December 2011
The dragon, Tintaglia, has been released from her wizardwood coffin, only to find that the glories of her kingdom have passed into ancient memory. Meanwhile, Malta Vestrit navigates the acid flow of t... (more)
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Ship of Magic by Robin Hobb
ISBN: 9780006498858
Reviewed on 26th July 2011
Wizardwood - a sentient wood. The most precious commodity in the world. It comes only from the Rain River Wilds, but how can one trade with the Rain River Traders when only a liveship, fashioned from ... (more)
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Silent Weapons by David Mack
ISBN: 9781451650730
Reviewed on 10th December 2012
Three years after the disastrous final Borg Invasion, a bitter cold war against the Typhon Pact has pushed Starfleet's resources to the breaking point. Now the rise of a dangerous new technology threa... (more)
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Skeleton Key by Anthony Horowitz
ISBN: 9781844280940
Reviewed on 27th August 2012
Teenage superspy Alex Rider is enlisted by the national security services again - this time for a routine reconnaissance mission at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships. But before long, Alex finds hims... (more)
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Skipping Christmas by John Grisham
ISBN: 9780099481683
Reviewed on 25th March 2011
Imagine a year without Christmas. No crowded shops, no corny office parties, no fruitcakes, no unwanted presents. That's just what Luther and Nora Krank have in mind when they decide that, just this o... (more)
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Sleeping Murder by Agatha Christie
ISBN: 9780007121069
Reviewed on 14th June 2009
Soon after Gwenda moved into her new home, odd things started to happen. Despite her best efforts to modernise the house, she only succeeded in dredging up its past. Worse, she felt an irrational sens... (more)
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Snuff by Terry Pratchett
ISBN: 9780385619264
Reviewed on 21st October 2011
Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch is on holiday in the pleasant and innocent countryside, but not for him a mere body in the wardrobe. There are many, many bodies and an ancient crime... (more)
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So Long and Thanks for All the Fish by Douglas Adams
ISBN: 9780330491235
Reviewed on 4th October 2009
Just when Arthur Dent's sense of reality is at its most clouded, he suddenly finds the girl of his dreams. He finds her in the last place in the Universe in which he would expect to find anything at a... (more)
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Spartan Gold by Clive Cussler, Grant Blackwood
ISBN: 9780718155308
Reviewed on 23rd April 2010
Treasure-hunters Sam and Remi Fargo are exploring the Great Pocomoke Swamp in Delaware when they are shocked to discover a German U-boat. Inside, they find a bottle taken from Napoleon's 'lost cellar'... (more)
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Star Trek by Alan Dean Foster
ISBN: 9781439158869
Reviewed on 28th May 2009
Going back to the very beginnings of the classic Star Trek, the film tells how James T. Kirk, the half-Vulcan Spock, Dr McCoy, engineer Montgomery Scott and crew members Chekov, Sulu and Uhura first c... (more)
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Star Trek Into Darkness by Alan Dean Foster
ISBN: 9781476716480
Reviewed on 22nd May 2013
When the crew of the Enterprise is called back home, they find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization has detonated the fleet and everything it stands for, leaving our world... (more)
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Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
ISBN: 9781408703748
Reviewed on 23rd January 2012
Based on more than forty interviews with Steve Jobs conducted over two years - as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors and colleagues - this bo... (more)
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Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz
ISBN: 9781844280926
Reviewed on 4th March 2012
When his guardian dies in suspicious circumstances, fourteen-year-old Alex Rider finds his world turned upside down. Forcibly recruited into MI6, Alex has to take part in gruelling SAS training exerci... (more)
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Strip Jack by Ian Rankin
ISBN: 9780752883564
Reviewed on 31st December 2012
MP Gregor Jack is caught in an Edinburgh brothel with a prostitute only too keen to show off her considerable assets. When the media horde begins baying for political blood Jack's friends rally round ... (more)
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Swallowdale by Arthur Ransome
ISBN: 9780099427155
Reviewed on 3rd May 2011
John, Susan, Titty and Roger return to the lake for another summer camping on their island with their old allies, Nancy and Peggy, otherwise known as the Amazon pirates. But immediately disaster strik... (more)
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Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
ISBN: 9780099427339
Reviewed on 23rd February 2011
To John, Susan, Titty and Roger, simply being allowed to use the boat Swallow, to go camping on the island is adventure enough. But they soon find themselves under attack from the Amazon pirates, Nanc... (more)
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Sword of Damocles by Geoffrey Thorne
ISBN: 9781416526940
Reviewed on 12th February 2009
Captain Riker and his crew have discovered a mysterious planet populated by a civilization where science and faith are struggling for supremacy, due in large part to a strange, unexplained phenomenon ... (more)
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Synthesis by James Swallow
ISBN: 9781439109144
Reviewed on 25th November 2009
Captain Will Riker and the crew of the USS Titan make contact with a civilization made up entirely of artificial intelligences - sentient computers who have surrounded a vast gas-giant planet for eons... (more)
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Take Jennings for Instance by Anthony Buckeridge
ISBN: 9780333611333
Reviewed on 13th May 2011
Mr Carter has said that the jar of tadpoles could be kept on the common-room window sill: it was when they hatched out into frogs that the trouble really began. According to the long-suffering Mr W... (more)
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Taken at the Flood by Agatha Christie
ISBN: 9780007121014
Reviewed on 5th February 2013
A few weeks after marrying an attractive young widow, Gordon Cloade is tragically killed by a bomb blast in the London blitz. Overnight, the former Mrs Underhay finds herself in sole possession of the... (more)
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Thanks to Jennings by Anthony Buckeridge
ISBN: 9780333655245
Reviewed on 17th March 2011
It's an action-packed term for Linbury Court School, and especially everyone connected with Jennings and his friend, Darbishire. First there's the problem of the missing guinea pig, and then the diast... (more)
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The ABC Murders by Agatha Christie
ISBN: 9780007119295
Reviewed on 19th February 2011
There's a serial killer on the loose, bent on working his way through the alphabet. And as a macabre calling card he leaves beside each victim's corpe the ABC Railway Guide open at the name of the tow... (more)
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The Abduction by John Grisham
ISBN: 9781444714548
Reviewed on 18th January 2013
When his best friend, April, disappears from her bedroom in the middle of the night, no one, not even Theo Boone - who knows April better than anyone - has answers. As fear ripples through his smal... (more)
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The Adventures of Sally by P. G. Wodehouse
ISBN: 9780099514176
Reviewed on 24th April 2012
If you come into a lot of money, life becomes easier, right? No, wrong - at least not for Sally Nicholas, whose generosity of spirit immediately runs into all the slings and arrows outrageous fortu... (more)
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The Affair by Lee Child
ISBN: 9780553825503
Reviewed on 27th August 2012
March 1997. A woman has her throat cut behind a bar in Mississippi. Just down the road is a big army base. Is the murderer a local guy - or is he a soldier? Jack Reacher, still a major in the mi... (more)
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The Affair of the Bloodstained Egg Cosy by James Anderson
ISBN: 9780749080495
Reviewed on 10th May 2012
The theft of the diamond necklace and the antique pistols might all be explained, but the body in the lake - that was a puzzle. "Don't expect me to solve anything," Inspector Wilkens announced modestl... (more)
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The Affair of the Mutilated Mink by James Anderson
ISBN: 9780749079536
Reviewed on 13th August 2012
The Earl of Burford can't believe his luck; Rex Ransom, his favourite star from the 'talkies', and his hot-shot producer, Haggermeir, want to film their next feature at Alderley, the family's seventee... (more)
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The Affair of the Thirty-Nine Cufflinks by James Anderson
ISBN: 9780749007423
Reviewed on 31st October 2012
Understandably, Lord Burford had some misgivings about hosting another house party at Alderley, his beautiful country mansion. After all, the previous two could at best be described as disastrous. But... (more)
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The Alloy of Law by Brandon Sanderson
ISBN: 9780575105829
Reviewed on 11th November 2011
Waxillium Ladrian is a rare Twinborn who can Push on metals with his Allomancy and use Feruchemy to become lighter or heavier at will. After twenty years in the Roughs, Wax has been forced by family t... (more)
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The Antipope by Robert Rankin
ISBN: 9780552138413
Reviewed on 28th May 2010
You could say it all started with the red-eyed tramp with the slimy fingers who put the wind up Neville, the part-time barman, something rotten. Or when Archroy's wife swapped his trusty Morris Minor ... (more)
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The Appeal by John Grisham
ISBN: 9780099481768
Reviewed on 16th March 2012
In a crowded courtroom in Mississippi, a jury returns a shocking verdict against a chemical company accused of dumping toxic waste into a small town's water supply, causing the worst "cancer cluster" ... (more)
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The Assassination Game by Alan Gratz
ISBN: 9781442420588
Reviewed on 18th July 2012
The rules are simple: Draw a target. Track him down and 'kill' him with a spork. Take your victim’s target for your own. Oh, and make sure the player with your name doesn’t get to you first. No safe z... (more)
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The Associate by John Grisham
ISBN: 9780099502234
Reviewed on 17th May 2012
Kyle McAvoy is one of the outstanding legal students of his generation: he's good looking, has a brilliant mind and a glittering future ahead of him. But he has a secret from his past, a secret that t... (more)
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The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket
ISBN: 9781405249539
Reviewed on 12th February 2012
The three Baudelaire children encounter a greedy and repulsive villain, itchy clothing, a disastrous fire, a plot to steal their fortune and cold porridge for breakfast. Then again, why trouble yourse... (more)
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The Bat by Jo Nesbo
ISBN: 9781846551451
Reviewed on 17th October 2012
Detective Harry Hole is meant to keep out of trouble. A young Norwegian girl taking a gap year in Sydney has been murdered, and Harry has been sent to Australia to assist in any way he can. When the ... (more)
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The Big Four by Agatha Christie
ISBN: 9780007120819
Reviewed on 14th May 2010
Framed in the doorway of Poirot's bedroom stood an uninvited guest, coated from head to foot in dust. The man's gaunt face stared for a moment, then he swayed and fell. Who was he? Was he suffering fr... (more)
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The Big Six by Arthur Ransome
ISBN: 9780099427247
Reviewed on 6th April 2012
Bill, Pete and Joe have been falsely accused of setting boats adrift and the whole river is against them. Only Dick, Dorothea and Tom are there to stand by their friends, and they soon set to work to ... (more)
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The Black Book by Ian Rankin
ISBN: 9780752883571
Reviewed on 29th March 2013
When a close colleague is brutally attacked, Inspector John Rebus is drawn into a case involving a hotel fire, an unidentified body, and a long forgotten night of terror and murder. Pursued by dangero... (more)
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The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie
ISBN: 9780575079793
Reviewed on 12th May 2011
Inquisitor Glokta, a bitter relic of the last war, fencing champion turned torturer, is trapped in a twisted and broken body. Nobleman, officer and would-be fencing champion Jezal dan Luthar is living... (more)
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The Body Electric by David Mack
ISBN: 9781451650747
Reviewed on 18th January 2013
At the centre of the Galaxy, a planet-sized Machine of terrifying power and unfathomable purpose hurls entire star systems into a super-massive black hole. Wesley Crusher, now a full-fledged Traveller... (more)
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The Brethren by John Grisham
ISBN: 9780099280255
Reviewed on 19th December 2010
Trumble is a minimum security federal prison, home to the usual assortment of relatively harmless criminals - including three former judges who call themselves The Brethren. They meet each day in the ... (more)
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The Broker by John Grisham
ISBN: 9780099537069
Reviewed on 4th December 2011
In his final hours in the Oval Office the outgoing President grants a full pardon to Joel Backman, a notorious Washington power broker who has spent the last six years hidden away in a federal prison.... (more)
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The Casual Vacancy by J K Rowling
ISBN: 9781408704202
Reviewed on 7th October 2012
When Barry Fairbrother dies in his early forties, the town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies beh... (more)
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The Chamber by John Grisham
ISBN: 9780099179511
Reviewed on 18th June 2009
Adam Hill is 26 years old and in his first year at a top Chicago law firm. He volunteers for the toughest assignment any lawyer could ask for. His prospective client doesn't want Adam or his law firm.... (more)
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The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M Auel
ISBN: 9781444709858
Reviewed on 8th August 2012
Ayla is a courageous and indomitable young woman whose story begins when she is a five-year-old orphan adopted by the Clan, a group of Neanderthals. Ayla is cared for by the Clan's medicine woman Iza... (more)
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The Client by John Grisham
ISBN: 9780099179412
Reviewed on 23rd May 2009
An eleven-year-old has discovered a secret that not even an adult should know. A US State Senator is dead, and Mark Sway is the only one who knows where the body is hidden. The FBI want him to tell th... (more)
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The Coming of the Terraphiles by Michael Moorcock
ISBN: 9781846079832
Reviewed on 17th February 2011
Miggea - a star on the very edge of reality. The cusp between this universe and the next. A point where space-time has worn thin, and is in danger of collapsing... And the venue for the grand finals o... (more)
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The Complaints by Ian Rankin
ISBN: 9781409103479
Reviewed on 29th April 2011
Nobody likes The Complaints - they're the cops who investigate other cops. Complaints and Conduct Department, to give them their full title, but known colloquially as 'the Dark Side', or simply 'The C... (more)
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The Confession by John Grisham
ISBN: 9780099545798
Reviewed on 11th November 2012
In 1998, in the small East Texas city of Sloan, Travis Boyette abducted and strangled a popular high-school cheerleader. He buried her body so that it would never be found, then watched as police arre... (more)
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The Delta Anomaly by Rick Barba
ISBN: 9781442412415
Reviewed on 25th November 2010
After a rough week at Starfleet Academy, James T Kirk and his friends blow off steam at San Francisco's hottest new club. Their good times come to a screeching halt however, when one of the cadets is... (more)
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The Devil's Star by Jo Nesbo
ISBN: 9780099478539
Reviewed on 11th September 2012
A young woman is murdered in her flat and a tiny red diamond in the shape of a five-pointed star is found behind her eyelid. Detective Harry Hole is assigned to the case, alongside his long-time adver... (more)
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The Dragon Keeper by Robin Hobb
ISBN: 9780007342594
Reviewed on 7th December 2012
Guided by the great blue dragon Tintaglia, they came from the sea: a Tangle of serpents fighting their way up the Rain Wilds River, the first to make the perilous journey to the cocooning grounds in g... (more)
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The Dragon Reborn by Robert Jordan
ISBN: 9781857230659
Reviewed on 11th July 2009
The Land is One with the Dragon - and the Dragon is One with the Land The Shadow lies across the Pattern of the Age, and the Dark One has turned all his power against the prison that binds him. If it ... (more)
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The Edge by Rudy Josephs
ISBN: 9781442412408
Reviewed on 9th January 2011
The Academy's program is extremely rigorous and uncompromising. The students are the best and the brightest, and the school demands total commitment from them - physically and mentally. Kirk is ready ... (more)
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The Enemy by Lee Child
ISBN: 9780857500113
Reviewed on 5th June 2011
A soldier is found dead in a sleazy motel bed. Jack Reacher is the officer on duty. The soldier turns out to be a two-star general. The situation is bad enough, then Reacher finds the general's wife. ... (more)
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The Eternal Tide by Kirsten Beyer
ISBN: 9781451668186
Reviewed on 15th September 2012
As the Voyager fleet continues its exploration of the Delta Quadrant, investigating the current status of sectors formerly controller by the Borg becomes a key priority. Two of the fleet's special mi... (more)
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The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan
ISBN: 9781857230765
Reviewed on 13th May 2009
Life has been pretty boring for Rand Al'Thor and his friends until a strange young woman arrives. Moraine is a magician with the ability to wield the One Power, and she brings warnings of a terrible e... (more)
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The Field Guide by Tony DiTerlizzi, Holly Black
ISBN: 9781847381958
Reviewed on 11th April 2013
It all starts when Jared Grace finds his great-uncle's book, "Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastic World Around You" and realises that the Graces are not alone in their new house. Now the ... (more)
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The Final Chapter by Russell T Davies, Benjamin Cook
ISBN: 9781846078613
Reviewed on 3rd February 2010
Russell T Davies and Benjamin Cook expand their in-depth discussion of the creative life of Doctor Who to cover Russell’s final year as Head Writer and Executive Producer of the show, as well as his w... (more)
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The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson
ISBN: 9780575089914
Reviewed on 27th April 2011
A thousand years ago evil came to the land and has ruled with an iron hand ever since. The sun shines fitfully under clouds of ash that float down endlessly from the constant eruption of volcanoes. A ... (more)
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The Fires of Heaven by Robert Jordan
ISBN: 9781857232097
Reviewed on 29th August 2009
The bonds and wards that hold the Great Lord of the Dark are slowly failing, but still his fragile prison holds. The Forsaken, immortal servants of the Shadow, weave their snares and tighten their gri... (more)
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The Firm by John Grisham
ISBN: 9780099830009
Reviewed on 15th March 2009
When Mitchell McDeere qualified third in his class at Harvard, offers poured in from every law firm in America. The firm he chose was small, but-well respected. They were prepared to match, and then e... (more)
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The Fry Chronicles by Stephen Fry
ISBN: 9780718154837
Reviewed on 30th November 2010
Loved by the public and his peers, Stephen Fry is one of the most influential cultural forces in the country. This dazzling memoir promises to be a courageously frank, honest and poignant read. It wil... (more)
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The Gathering Storm by Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson
ISBN: 9781841491653
Reviewed on 23rd August 2010
The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow. Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time.
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The Gemini Agent by Rick Barba
ISBN: 9781442413429
Reviewed on 7th July 2011
As first-year final exams week kicks off, several incident reports with serious allegations against James T. Kirk end up on the Commandant's desk. None of the allegations are true... or are they? Kirk... (more)
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The Geneva Trap by Stella Rimington
ISBN: 9781408828663
Reviewed on 24th July 2012
When a Russian intelligence officer approaches MI5 with vital information about the imminent cyber-sabotage of an Anglo-American Defence programme, he refuses to talk to anyone but Liz Carlyle. But wh... (more)
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The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest by Stieg Larsson
ISBN: 9781849162746
Reviewed on 14th April 2010
Salander is plotting her revenge - against the man who tried to kill her, and against the government institutions that very nearly destroyed her life. But it is not going to be a straightforward campa... (more)
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The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson
ISBN: 9781906694180
Reviewed on 3rd March 2010
Lisbeth Salander is a wanted woman. Two Millennium journalists about to expose the truth about sex trafficking in Sweden are murdered, and Salander's prints are on the weapon. Her history of unpredict... (more)
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
ISBN: 9781847245458
Reviewed on 6th February 2010
Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was never found, yet her uncle is convinced it was murder - ... (more)
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The Golden Fool by Robin Hobb
ISBN: 978000648602
Reviewed on 12th March 2012
Fitz has succeeded in rescuing Prince Dutiful from the clutches of the Piebald rebels, and has returned with him to Buckkeep castle. With Dutiful safe again, Queen Kettricken can proceed with plans to... (more)
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The Great Hunt by Robert Jordan
ISBN: 9781857230277
Reviewed on 5th June 2009
The Forsaken are loose, the Horn of Valere has been found and the Dead are rising from their dreamless sleep. The Prophecies are being fulfilled - but Rand al' Thor, the shepherd the Aes Sedai have pr... (more)
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The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins
ISBN: 9780593061732
Reviewed on 31st July 2010
In "The Greatest Show on Earth", Richard Dawkins takes on creationists, including followers of 'Intelligent Design' and all those who question the fact of evolution through natural selection. Like a d... (more)
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The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie
ISBN: 9780099469391
Reviewed on 6th January 2010
Cold-blooded murder just isn't Thomas Lang's cup of tea. Offered a tidy sum to assassinate an American industrialist, he opts to warn the intended victim instead - a good deed that soon takes a bad tu... (more)
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The Hard Way by Lee Child
ISBN: 9780857500137
Reviewed on 16th September 2011
Jack Reacher is alone, the way he likes it. He watches a man cross a New York street and drive away in a Mercedes. The car contains $1 million of ransom money. Reacher’s job is to make sure it all tur... (more)
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The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson
ISBN: 9780575089945
Reviewed on 13th October 2011
Tricked into releasing the evil spirit Ruin while attempting to close the Well of Ascension, new emperor Elend Venture and his wife, the assassin Vin, are now hard-pressed to save the world.
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
ISBN: 9780330258647
Reviewed on 23rd September 2009
One Thursday lunchtime Earth is unexpectedly demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass. For Arthur Dent, who has only just had his house demolished that morning, this is already more than he ... (more)
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The Hollow by Agatha Christie
ISBN: 9780007121021
Reviewed on 27th August 2012
Lucy Angkatell invited Hercule Poirot to lunch. To tease the great detective, her guests stage a mock murder beside the swimming pool. Unfortunately, the victim plays the scene for real. As his blood ... (more)
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The House That Jack Built by Guy Adams
ISBN: 9781846077395
Reviewed on 5th October 2009
Jackson Leaves: an Edwardian house in Penylen, built in 1906, semi-detached, three storeys, spacious, beautifully presented, and left in good condition to Rob and Julia by Rob's late aunt. It's an ord... (more)
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The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
ISBN: 9781407109084
Reviewed on 18th March 2012
Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen regards it as a death sentence when she is forced to represent her district in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV. But Katniss has been close to... (more)
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The Inimitable Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse
ISBN: 9780099513681
Reviewed on 23rd September 2010
Bertie's friend Bingo Little falls in love with seven different girls in succession (including the bestselling romantic novelist Rosie M. Banks). And Bertie, with Jeeves's help, hopes to evade the clu... (more)
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The Innocent Man by John Grisham
ISBN: 9780099493570
Reviewed on 6th February 2012
When Ron Williamson signed with the Oakland A baseball team, he said goodbye to his hometown of Ada and left to pursue his dreams of big league glory. Six years later he was back, his dreams broken by... (more)
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The Jungle by Clive Cussler, Jack du Brul
ISBN: 9780718156923
Reviewed on 7th March 2011
A devastating new weapon unleashed in thirteenth-century China. A daring rescue in the snowbound mountains along the Afghanistan–Pakistan border. A woman gone missing in the jungles of northern Thaila... (more)
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The Killing by Robert Muchamore
ISBN: 9780340894330
Reviewed on 27th January 2013
When a small-time crook suddenly has big money on his hands, it's only natural that the police want to know where it came from. James' latest CHERUB mission looks routine: make friends with the bad... (more)
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The King of Torts by John Grisham
ISBN: 9780099416173
Reviewed on 5th July 2011
When Public Defender Clay Carter reluctantly takes the case of a young man charged with a random street killing, he assumes it is just another of the many senseless murders that hit DC every week. As ... (more)
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The Kingdom by Clive Cussler, Grant Blackwood
ISBN: 9780718157920
Reviewed on 22nd June 2011
On a journey that will take them to Tibet, Nepal, China, Venice, and Siberia, the Fargos will find themselves embroiled with black market fossils, an ancient Tibetan kingdom, a lost landmass in the No... (more)
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The Labours of Hercules by Agatha Christie
ISBN: 9780007120758
Reviewed on 15th December 2012
In appearance Hercule Poirot hardly resembled an ancient Greek hero. Yet - reasoned the detective - like Hercules he had been responsible for ridding society of some of its most unpleasant monsters. S... (more)
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The Last Detective by Peter Lovesey
ISBN: 9780751537833
Reviewed on 6th May 2013
Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond is the last detective - computers and spreadsheets and technology are not for him. So when the naked body of an unidentified woman is found in a lake near Bath h... (more)
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The Last Dragonslayer by Jasper Fforde
ISBN: 9781444707175
Reviewed on 4th November 2010
Fifteen-year-old Jennifer Strange runs Kazam!, an employment agency for soothsayers and sorcerers. But work is drying up. Drain cleaner is cheaper than a spell, and even magic carpets are reduced to p... (more)
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The Last Juror by John Grisham
ISBN: 9780099457152
Reviewed on 23rd September 2011
A young mother is brutally murdered by a member of Ford County's notorious Padgitt family. The murderer, Danny Padgitt, was tried before a packed courtroom in Clanton, Mississippi. The trial came to a... (more)
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The Litigators by John Grisham
ISBN: 9781444729726
Reviewed on 11th April 2013
David Zinc has it all: Big firm, big salary, life in the lawyer's fast lane, until the day he snaps and throws it all away. Leaving the world of corporate law far behind, he talks himself into a ne... (more)
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The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett, Stephen Baxter
ISBN: 9780857520098
Reviewed on 29th June 2012
1916: the Western Front. Private Percy Blakeney wakes up. He is lying on fresh spring grass. He can hear birdsong, and the wind in the leaves in the trees. Where have the mud, blood and blasted landsc... (more)
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The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
ISBN: 9780593054277
Reviewed on 1st September 2010
Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned at the last minute to deliver an evening lecture in the Capitol Building. Within moments of his arrival, however, a disturbing object – gruesomely encode... (more)
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The Mad Ship by Robin Hobb
ISBN: 9780006498865
Reviewed on 31st August 2011
Althea Vestrit has found a new home aboard the liveship Ophelia, but she lives only to reclaim the Vivacia as her rightful inheritance. However, the Vivacia has been captured by the pirate, 'King' Ken... (more)
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The Man with the Golden Gun by Ian Fleming
ISBN: 9780141188737
Reviewed on 27th May 2012
A brainwashed James Bond has tried - and failed - to assassinate M, his boss. Now Bond has to prove he is back on form and can be trusted again. All 007 has to do is kill one of the most deadly freela... (more)
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The Men Who Sold the World by Guy Adams
ISBN: 9781849902854
Reviewed on 24th August 2011
When a CIA Special Activities Division squad goes rogue with a cargo marked 'Torchwood' that they’ve been escorting from somewhere called Cardiff, the Agency puts Rex Matheson on the case. As the stra... (more)
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The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side by Agatha Christie
ISBN: 9780007120987
Reviewed on 19th March 2009
One minute, silly Heather Badcock had been gabbling on at her movie idol, the glamorous Marina Gregg. The next, Heather suffered a massive seizure. But for whom was the deadly poison really intended? ... (more)
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The Moving Finger by Agatha Christie
ISBN: 9780007120840
Reviewed on 30th January 2009
Lymstock is a town with more than its share of shameful secrets - a town where even a sudden outbreak of anonymous hate-mail causes only a minor stir. But all that changes when one of the recipient... (more)
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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
ISBN: 9780007141340
Reviewed on 7th March 2010
Roger Ackroyd knew too much. He knew that the woman he loved had poisoned her brutal first husband. He suspected also that someone had been blackmailing her. Now, tragically, came the news that she ha... (more)
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The Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie
ISBN: 9780007119288
Reviewed on 19th December 2009
On a French golf course, a millionaire is found stabbed in the back...An urgent cry for help brings Poirot to France. But he arrives too late to save his client, whose brutally stabbed body now lies f... (more)
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The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
ISBN: 9780007119271
Reviewed on 3rd December 2009
Recently, there had been some strange goings on at Styles St Mary. Evelyn had stormed out of the house muttering something about 'a lot of sharks'. And with her, something indefinable had gone from th... (more)
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The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie
ISBN: 9780007120765
Reviewed on 6th June 2010
When the luxurious Blue Train arrives at Nice, a guard attempts to wake serene Ruth Kettering from her slumbers. But she will never wake again - for a heavy blow has killed her, disfiguring her featur... (more)
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The Mystery of the Burnt Cottage by Enid Blyton
ISBN: 9781405203937
Reviewed on 7th June 2012
Fatty, Larry, Daisy, Pip, Bets and Buster the dog turn detectives when a mysterious fire destroys a cottage.
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The Mystery of the Disappearing Cat by Enid Blyton
ISBN: 9781405203944
Reviewed on 11th August 2012
Lady Candling lives next door to Pip and Bets, and owns some very expensive, pedigree Siamese cats. When her most famous cat, Dark Queen, goes missing, the gardener's help, Luke seems the obvious susp... (more)
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The Mystery of the Green Ghost by Robert Arthur
ISBN: 0006903428
Reviewed on 19th February 2013
Eerie screams from an old house -- and a dangerous mystery awaits The Three Investigators. When they discover the coveted Ghost Pearls, with their weird, unearthly powers, Pete and Bob are kidnapped ... (more)
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The Mystery of the Missing Necklace by Enid Blyton
ISBN: 9781405203975
Reviewed on 14th April 2013
Together again in the summer holidays, the Five Find Outers are finding the hot summer rather dull - until they learn that Peterswood is apparently the headquarters of a gang of poachers who are carry... (more)
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The Mystery of the Secret Room by Enid Blyton
ISBN: 9781405203951
Reviewed on 23rd November 2012
In the cold and foggy Christmas holidays, it doesn't seem as though the Five Find-Outers and Dog will have anything exciting to investigate. Fatty's got some wonderful new disguises, but there doesn't... (more)
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The Mystery of the Spiteful Letters by Enid Blyton
ISBN: 9781405203968
Reviewed on 12th January 2013
The Five Find-Outers are trying to solve the mystery of the spiteful letters that arrive, unsigned, for various residents of Peterswood.
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The Mystery of the Stuttering Parrot by Robert Arthur
ISBN: 9780006904403
Reviewed on 29th August 2012
Jupe, Pete and Bob are the Three Investigators - a team dedicated to cracking the mysteries no-one else can solve. An eccentric Englishman, John Silver, has buried a priceless art treasure and the onl... (more)
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The Mystery of the Whispering Mummy by Robert Arthur
ISBN: 9780006923060
Reviewed on 30th December 2012
Jupe, Pete and Bob are the Three Investigators - a team dedicated to cracking the mysteries no-one else can solve. When Jupiter Jones hears about Professor Freeman's weird Egyptian relic, he knows it ... (more)
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The Partner by John Grisham
ISBN: 9780099410317
Reviewed on 8th August 2010
They found him in a small town in Brazil, near the border with Paraguay. He had a new name and his appearance had been changed by plastic surgery. The search had taken four years. It had cost their cl... (more)
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The Path of Daggers by Robert Jordan
ISBN: 9781857235692
Reviewed on 22nd January 2010
The Seanchan invasion force is in possession of Ebou Dar. Nynaeve, Elayne and Aviendha head for Caemlyn and Elayne's rightful throne, but on the way they discover an enemy much worse than the Seanchan... (more)
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The Pelican Brief by John Grisham
ISBN: 9780099993803
Reviewed on 29th April 2009
Two Supreme Court Justices are dead. Their murders are connected only in one mind, and in one legal brief conceived by that mind. Brilliant, beautiful and ambitious, New Orleans legal student Darby Sh... (more)
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The Persistence of Memory by David Mack
ISBN: 9781451650723
Reviewed on 21st November 2012
A brazen heist: Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the Enterprise crew race to find out who has stolen Data's android brother B-4 - and for what sinister purpose. A broken promise: One desperate father risks... (more)
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The Picts and the Martyrs by Arthur Ransome
ISBN: 9780099427278
Reviewed on 29th July 2012
The dreaded Great Aunt has invited herself to stay with Nancy and Peggy just as their friends Dick and Dorothea arrive for the Summer holiday. Nancy and Peggy have to become Martyrs, wearing dresses a... (more)
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The Pirate Loop by Simon Guerrier
ISBN: 9781846073472
Reviewed on 19th June 2008
Ask him what happened to the Starship Brillant and the Doctor hasn't the first idea. Did it fall into a sun or black hole? Was it shot down in the first moments of the galactic war? And what's this ab... (more)
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The Portable Door by Tom Holt
ISBN: 9781841492087
Reviewed on 5th May 2010
Starting a new job is always stressful (especially when you don't particularly want one), but when Paul Carpenter arrives at the office of H.W. Wells he has no idea what trouble lies in store. Because... (more)
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The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson
ISBN: 9780330492263
Reviewed on 4th June 2011
This is a story about madness. It all starts when journalist Jon Ronson is contacted by a leading neurologist. She and several colleagues have recently received a cryptically puzzling book in the mail... (more)
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The Quantum Universe by Brian Cox, Jeff Forshaw
ISBN: 9781846144325
Reviewed on 25th February 2012
Just what is quantum physics? How does it help us understand the world? Where does it leave Newton and Einstein? And why, above all, can we be sure that the theory is good? The bizarre behaviour of... (more)
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The Race by Clive Cussler, Justin Scott
ISBN: 9780718157241
Reviewed on 26th November 2011
It is the early years of the 20th century, air travel is in its infancy, and newspaper publisher Preston Whiteway is offering $50,000 for the first flier to cross America in less than fifty days. He i... (more)
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The Rainmaker by John Grisham
ISBN: 9780099179610
Reviewed on 11th January 2010
Rudy Baylor is a newly-qualified lawyer: he has one case, and one case alone, to save himself from his mounting debts. His case is against a giant insurance company which could have saved a young man'... (more)
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The Rapture by Liz Jensen
ISBN: 9781408801109
Reviewed on 11th May 2010
In a merciless summer of biblical heat and destructive winds, Gabrielle Fox's main concern is a personal one: to rebuild her career as a psychologist after a shattering car accident. But when she is a... (more)
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The Recruit by Robert Muchamore
ISBN: 9780340881538
Reviewed on 15th June 2012
A terrorist doesn't let strangers in her flat because they might be undercover police or intelligence agents, but her children bring their mates home and they run all over the place. The terrorist ... (more)
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The Red King by Andy Mangels, Michael A Martin
ISBN: 9780743496285
Reviewed on 15th January 2009
Captain Riker and the crew of the Starship Titan join forces with a task force of former foes to investigate an eighty-year-old mystery involving a strange offshoot of humanity known as the Neyel.
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The Redbreast by Jo Nesbo
ISBN: 9780099546771
Reviewed on 4th April 2011
Reassigned, having caused a high-profile embarrassment, Detective Harry Hole is bored with his new job in surveillance. Then he receives a report of a rare and unusual gun, with possible links to Neo ... (more)
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The Redeemer by Jo Nesbo
ISBN: 9781846550409
Reviewed on 8th January 2013
One freezing night in Oslo Christmas shoppers gather to listen to a Salvation Army street concert. An explosion cuts through the music, and a man in uniform falls to the ground, shot in the head at po... (more)
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The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams
ISBN: 9780330262132
Reviewed on 26th September 2009
When all questions of space, time, matter and the nature of being have been resolved, only one question remains - "Where shall we have dinner?" "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe" provides the... (more)
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The Rithmatist by Brandon Sanderson
ISBN: 9781444009538
Reviewed on 30th May 2013
Joel is fascinated by the magical art of Rithmatics, but unfortunately only a chosen few have the necessary gift and Joel is not one of them. Undaunted, Joel persuades Professor Fitch to teach him Rit... (more)
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The Romulan War by Michael A Martin
ISBN: 9781439107980
Reviewed on 11th December 2009
With nothing left to lose, the Romulan Star Empire declares all-out war against Earth, hoping to stop the human menace from spreading across the galaxy once and for all...
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The Runaway Jury by John Grisham
ISBN: 9780099410218
Reviewed on 14th June 2010
In Biloxi, Mississippi, a landmark trial with hundreds of millions of dollars at stake begins routinely, then swerves mysteriously off course. The jury is behaving strangely, and a least one juror is ... (more)
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The Sacred Art of Stealing by Christopher Brookmyre
ISBN: 9780349114903
Reviewed on 5th December 2010
He is an art-thief par excellence and she is a connoisseur of crooks. Her job is to hunt him to extinction; his is to avoid being caught and he also has a secret agenda more valuable than anything he ... (more)
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The Secret of Terror Castle by Robert Arthur
ISBN: 9780006903437
Reviewed on 29th July 2012
Finding a genuine haunted house for a movie set sounds like fun - and a great way to generate publicity for the Three Investigators' new detective agency. But when the boys arrive for an overnight vis... (more)
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The Shadow Rising by Robert Jordan
ISBN: 9781857231212
Reviewed on 10th August 2009
The Stone of Tear, invulnerable fortress of legend, has fallen. The Children of the Dragon have risen to the call of prophecy and march to the aid of the Light. Callandor, the Sword That Is Not a Swor... (more)
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The Silent Sea by Clive Cussler, Jack du Brul
ISBN: 9780718155858
Reviewed on 1st June 2010
On 7 December 1941, four brothers exploring a pit on a small island off the coast of Washington state make an extraordinary discovery, only to be interrupted by news of Pearl Harbor. In the present, J... (more)
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The Sleeping Doll by Jeffery Deaver
ISBN: 9780340833865
Reviewed on 4th February 2011
California Bureau of Investigation Special agent Kathryn Dance is an expert in kinesics: the science of interpreting behaviour. It makes her a brilliant interrogator. But she's up against Daniel Pell,... (more)
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The Small Bachelor by P. G. Wodehouse
ISBN: 9780099514145
Reviewed on 11th August 2012
It's America during Prohibition and shy young George Finch is setting out as an artist - without the encumbrance of a shred of talent. George falls in love with Molly, whose imperious stepmother Mrs W... (more)
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The Snowman by Jo Nesbo
ISBN: 9780099520276
Reviewed on 11th April 2013
A young boy wakes to find his mother missing. Their house is empty but outside in the garden he sees his mother's favourite scarf - wrapped around the neck of a snowman. As Harry Hole and his team ... (more)
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The Song of the Quarkbeast by Jasper Fforde
ISBN: 9781444707229
Reviewed on 7th November 2011
A long time ago magic faded away, leaving behind only yo-yos, the extremely useful compass-pointing-to-North enchantment and the spell that keep bicycles from falling over. Things are about to change.... (more)
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The Soul Key by Olivia Woods
ISBN: 9781439107928
Reviewed on 29th August 2009
Cardassian agent Ileana Ghemor, who was once surgically altered to resemble and replace the Bajoran Kira Nerys, dreams of fulfilling a prophecy that will mark her as the one true emissary of the mirro... (more)
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The Spy by Clive Cussler, Justin Scott
ISBN: 9780718155889
Reviewed on 18th June 2010
When a brilliant American battleship gun designer dies in an apparent suicide, the man's grief-stricken daughter turns to the legendary Van Dorn Detective Agency to clear her father's name. Van Dorn p... (more)
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The Spy Who Loved Me by Ian Fleming
ISBN: 9780340425695
Reviewed on 2nd March 2012
Vivienne Michel is in trouble. Trying to escape her tangled past, she has run away to the American backwoods, winding up at the Dreamy Pines Motor Court. A far cry from the privileged world she was bo... (more)
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The Storm by Clive Cussler, Graham Brown
ISBN: 9780718159108
Reviewed on 14th June 2012
In the middle of the Indian Ocean, a NUMA research vessel is taking water samples at sunset, when a crew member spots a sheen of black oil ahead of them. But it is not oil. Like a horde of army ants, ... (more)
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The Street Lawyer by John Grisham
ISBN: 9780099244929
Reviewed on 14th September 2010
Michael was scrambling up the ladder at Drake & Sweeney, a giant D. C. firm with 800 lawyers. The money was good and getting better; a partnership was three years away. He was a rising star, with no t... (more)
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The Striker by Clive Cussler, Justin Scott
ISBN: 9780718176754
Reviewed on 29th March 2013
It is 1902, and a bright, inexperienced young man named Isaac Bell, only two years out of his apprenticeship at the Van Dorn Detective Agency, has an urgent message for his boss. Hired to hunt for rad... (more)
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The Struggle Within by Christopher L Bennett
ISBN: 9781451651423
Reviewed on 4th October 2011
The Enterprise-E is on a diplomatic mission to the Talarian Republic, the last holdout in the Federation’s efforts to expand the Khitomer Accords in response to the emergence of the Typhon Pact. In th... (more)
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The Stuff of Dreams by James Swallow
ISBN: 9781451696615
Reviewed on 31st March 2013
When Captain Picard is summoned back to the mysterious space-time phenomenon known as the nexus, he and his crew become embroiled in a desperate plot to rewrite history, no matter what the cost.
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The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman
ISBN: 9780590112895
Reviewed on 10th February 2013
Will is 12 years old and he's just killed a man. Determined to discover the truth about his father's disappearance, he steps through a window into another world. There, he meets a girl called Lyra who... (more)
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The Summons by John Grisham
ISBN: 9780099406136
Reviewed on 6th May 2011
Ray Atlee is a professor of law, forty-three and newly single. He has a very sick elderly father who lives in Clanton, Mississippi; a beloved and powerful official who has towered over local law and p... (more)
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The Testament by John Grisham
ISBN: 9780099245025
Reviewed on 29th October 2010
Troy Phelan, a 78-year-old eccentric and the 10th-richest man in America, is about to read his last will and testament, divvying up an estate worth $11 billion. Phelan's three ex-wives, their grasping... (more)
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The Thief by Clive Cussler, Justin Scott
ISBN: 9780718158668
Reviewed on 2nd March 2012
On the ocean liner Mauretania, two European scientists with a dramatic new invention are barely rescued from abduction by the Van Dorn Detective Agency's intrepid chief investigator, Isaac Bell. Unfor... (more)
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The Tiger That Isn't by Michael Blastland, Andrew Dilnot
ISBN: 9781846681110
Reviewed on 23rd October 2011
Mathematics scares and depresses most of us, but politicians, journalists and everyone in power use numbers all the time to bamboozle us. Most maths is really simple - as easy as 2+2 in fact. Better s... (more)
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The Tombs by Clive Cussler, Thomas Perry
ISBN: 9780718159122
Reviewed on 8th January 2013
When an archaeologist excavating a top secret historical site realizes the magnitude of his discovery he requests help from treasure hunters Sam and Remi Fargo. The clues point to the hidden tomb o... (more)
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The Trophy Taker by Lee Weeks
ISBN: 9781847560780
Reviewed on 5th June 2013
A serial killer is on the loose. His target? Lone Western women lured to Hong Kong by the promise of easy money. As The Butcher's killing spree escalates, bags of mutilated body parts are found al... (more)
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The Trouble with Jennings by Anthony Buckeridge
ISBN: 9780006904694
Reviewed on 23rd March 2012
According to Mr. Wilkins, the trouble with Jennings was due to the fantastic way in which his mind appeared to work. Mr. Carter took a more tolerant view, but even so, his contention that the boy mean... (more)
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The Undertaker's Gift by Trevor Baxendale
ISBN: 9781846077821
Reviewed on 4th April 2010
The Hokrala Corp lawyers are back, and they're suing planet Earth for mishandling the twenty-first century! An assassin has been sent to remove Captain Jack Harkness! And, a record number of aliens ha... (more)
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The View From the Bridge by Nicholas Meyer
ISBN: 9780670021307
Reviewed on 9th February 2010
An account of Nicholas Meyer's involvement with three Star Trek films as well as his career in the movie business. The man best know for bringing together Sherlock Holmes and Sigmund Freud in The Seve... (more)
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The Visitor by Lee Child
ISBN: 97805538118
Reviewed on 1st December 2010
Sergeant Amy Callan and Lieutenant Caroline Cook had a lot in common. Both high flying army women, both victims of sexual harassment, they left the army under dubious circumstances. Both are now dead,... (more)
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The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson
ISBN: 9780575089938
Reviewed on 12th June 2011
The impossible has happened. The Lord Ruler has been vanquished. The task of rebuilding the world has been left to Vin, a one-time street urchin, now the most powerful Mistborn in the land. Worryingly... (more)
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The Woman Who Died a Lot by Jasper Fforde
ISBN: 9780340963111
Reviewed on 16th July 2012
The BookWorld's leading enforcement officer Thursday Next is four months into an enforced semi-retirement following an assassination attempt. She returns home to Swindon for what you'd expect to be a ... (more)
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The World of Poo by Terry Pratchett, Bernard Pearson, Isobel Pearson
ISBN: 9780857521217
Reviewed on 11th June 2012
A charming tale for people of all ages (but especially for young Sam Vimes) from the pen of Miss Felicity Beedle, Discworld's premier children's author.
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The World of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan, Teresa Patterson
ISBN: 9781841490267
Reviewed on 31st December 2009
This companion to The Wheel of Time is for everyone interested in the history and the background of this series - never-before-told legends, previously unknown peoples and lands, exotic beasts and po... (more)
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The Wrecker by Clive Cussler, Justin Scott
ISBN: 9780718154646
Reviewed on 2nd December 2009
It's 1907. Train wrecks, fires and explosions sabotage the Southern Pacific Railroad's Cascades express line. Van Dorn sends in its top investigator, Isaac Bell. Bell quickly discovers that a mysterio... (more)
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The Writer's Tale by Russell T Davies, Benjamin Cook
ISBN: 9781846075711
Reviewed on 20th January 2009
A unique look into the BBC's most popular family drama, a year in the life of the hit television series, as told by the show's Head Writer and Executive Producer. A candid and in-depth correspondence ... (more)
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Theodore Boone by John Grisham
ISBN: 9781444714500
Reviewed on 13th August 2012
Theo knows every judge, policeman, court clerk - and a lot about the law. He dreams of being a great trial lawyer, of a life in the courtroom. But Theo finds himself in court much sooner than he expec... (more)
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They Do It With Mirrors by Agatha Christie
ISBN: 9780007120871
Reviewed on 25th February 2009
Miss Marple senses danger when she visits a friend living in a Victorian mansion which doubles as a rehabilitiation centre for delinquents. Her fears are confirmed when a youth fires a revolver at the... (more)
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Three Act Tragedy by Agatha Christie
ISBN: 9780007120901
Reviewed on 3rd November 2010
At an apparently respectable dinner party, a vicar is the first to die. Thirteen guests arrived at dinner at the actor's house. It was to be a particularly unlucky evening for the mild-mannered Revere... (more)
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Thunderball by Ian Fleming
ISBN: 9780141187594
Reviewed on 12th February 2012
Blofeld holds the world to ransom, having hatched a staggeringly audacious plot to steal British atomic weapons. The book that introduced the most imitated and parodied of all the Bond villains, Thund... (more)
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To Brave the Storm by Michael A Martin
ISBN: 9781451607154
Reviewed on 20th November 2011
The Coalition of Planets has shattered, with Vulcan, Andor, and Tellar abrogating the treaty. Their pledge to come to the mutual defence of any power that is attacked has been shunted aside. Horrified... (more)
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Tooth and Nail by Ian Rankin
ISBN: 9780752883557
Reviewed on 7th September 2012
Drafted down to the Big Smoke thanks to his supposed expertise in the modus operandi of serial killers, Inspector John Rebus is on a train south from Edinburgh. His Scotland Yard opposite number, Geor... (more)
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Towers of Midnight by Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson
ISBN: 9781841498676
Reviewed on 11th November 2010
The Last Battle has started. The seals on the Dark One's prison are crumbling. The Pattern itself is unravelling, and the armies of the Shadow have begun to boil out of the Blight. Perrin Aybara is ha... (more)
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Treason by Peter David
ISBN: 9780743429610
Reviewed on 22nd June 2009
Tensions within the New Thallonian Protectorate are at fever pitch following the murder of Prime Minister Si Cwan. Captain Mackenzie Calhoun and the crew of the USS Excalibur face an uncertain future ... (more)
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Tripwire by Lee Child
ISBN: 97805538118
Reviewed on 20th October 2010
Digging swimming pools by hand in Key West, Florida, Jack Reacher is as tanned and as fit as he's ever been. A local girl says he looks like a condom filled with walnuts. Being invisible has become a ... (more)
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Ukridge by P. G. Wodehouse
ISBN: 9780099513896
Reviewed on 7th June 2012
Money makes the world go round for Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge - and when there isn't enough of it, the world just has to spin a bit faster. Ever on the lookout for a quick buck, a solid gold... (more)
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Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett
ISBN: 9780385609340
Reviewed on 12th October 2009
Football has come to the ancient city of Ankh-Morpork - not the old fashioned, grubby pushing and shoving, but the new, fast football with pointy hats for goalposts and balls that go gloing when you d... (more)
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Unworthy by Kirsten Beyer
ISBN: 9781439103982
Reviewed on 17th October 2009
In a region of space which has lived in fear of instant annihilation, Voyager is charged with reaching out to possible allies and resolving old enmities. But these are not the friendly stars of the Fe... (more)
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Up Till Now by William Shatner
ISBN: 9780283070587
Reviewed on 4th October 2010
While best known for his creation of Captain James T. Kirk, commander of the starship Enterprise on Star Trek, William Shatner has been a working actor for more than half a century. He has experienced... (more)
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Watching the Clock by Christopher L Bennett
ISBN: 9781451606256
Reviewed on 26th June 2011
Temporal investigation is a thankless job. While Starfleet explorers get to live the adventure of travelling to other times and realities, it's up to the dedicated agents of the Federation Department ... (more)
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We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea by Arthur Ransome
ISBN: 9780099427223
Reviewed on 7th January 2012
Within twenty-four hours of promising to stay in the harbour, John, Susan, Titty and Roger find themselves fighting a night gale in the treacherous waters of the North Sea, adrift and in the main ship... (more)
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When the Devil Drives by Christopher Brookmyre
ISBN: 9781408703410
Reviewed on 29th July 2012
When private investigator Jasmine Sharp is hired to find Tessa Garrion, a young woman who has vanished without trace, it becomes increasingly clear that there are those who want her to stay that way. ... (more)
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Where Do Comedians Go When They Die by Milton Jones
ISBN: 9781849543255
Reviewed on 27th January 2013
A star of everywhere except his own home, it's hard for Jerome Stevens to balance the demands of touring with family life. The circuit is a cynical world of extremes where money talks, agents slither ... (more)
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Where the Bodies are Buried by Christopher Brookmyre
ISBN: 9780349123356
Reviewed on 11th June 2012
A city in the throes of a new drug war. A police force on the verge of tearing itself apart. A ruthless hitman back from the dead. A shattering secret hidden for decades.
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Winter Holiday by Arthur Ransome
ISBN: 9780099427179
Reviewed on 9th August 2011
A polar expedition, full of mountain rescues, blizzards, igloos, ice sailing and heroic work amidst the frozen wastes. For Dick and Dorothea, newcomers to the lake, meeting up with the Swallows and Am... (more)
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Winter's Heart by Robert Jordan
ISBN: 9781841490717
Reviewed on 16th February 2010
Rand is on the run with Min, but his destination is a mystery. Perrin is hunting desperately for Faile, now a prisoner of Sevanna's sept. In Ebou Dar, the Seanchan princess known as Daughter of the Ni... (more)
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Wintersmith by Terry Pratchett
ISBN: 9780552553698
Reviewed on 9th July 2008
When Tiffany Aching - young witch - steps into a dance she shouldn't, the spirit of winter falls in love with her. He gives her roses and icebergs, says it with avalanches and showers her with snowfla... (more)
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Without Fail by Lee Child
ISBN: 9780553813432
Reviewed on 2nd March 2011
Jack Reacher walks alone. No job, no ID, no last known address. Doesn’t want to be found. But he never turns down a plea for help, especially from a woman. Now a woman tracks him down; a woman serving... (more)
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World Without End by Ken Follet
ISBN: 9780330490702
Reviewed on 7th September 2009
On the day after Halloween, in the year 1327, four children slip away from the cathedral city of Kingsbridge. They are a thief, a bully, a boy genius and a girl who wants to be a doctor. In the forest... (more)
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Worth Dying For by Lee Child
ISBN: 9780553825480
Reviewed on 2nd June 2012
Has Jack Reacher finally met his match? His previous adventure ended with Reacher trapped in a desperate situation from which escape seemed impossible. Even for him. Was that really the end of the roa... (more)
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You Only Live Twice by Ian Fleming
ISBN: 9780340425633
Reviewed on 30th April 2012
Shattered by the death of his wife at the hands of Blofeld, Bond has gone to pieces. Unwilling to accept the loss of one of his best men, M sends Bond to Japan for one last, near-impossible mission. B... (more)
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Zero Sum Game by David Mack
ISBN: 9781439160794
Reviewed on 17th November 2010
A spy for the Typhon Pact has stolen the plans for Starfleet's latest technological advance: the slipstream drive. To stop them from unlocking its secrets Starfleet Intelligence recruits a pair of gen... (more)
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The Final Detail
The Never-Ending Sacrifice
No Deals, Mr Bond
Not Dead Enough
The Amber Spyglass
The Reptile Room
The Mystery of the Vanishing Treasure
A Storm of Swords (2: Blood and Gold)
Laughing Gas
Mortal Causes
The Accused
The Leopard
The Mystery of the Hidden House
Ghost Ship
Diamond Solitaire
The Red Dahlia
Alcatraz Versus the Shattered Lens
After the Funeral
Snakehead
Hey Nostradamus!
The Mermaids Singing
The Black Echo
Storm Front
Dragonflight
The Magicians' Guild
The Watchman
Redshirts
Eragon
Don't Touch Anything
Gone
Death Comes to Pemberley
The Case of the Missing Books
Ordinary Thunderstorms
The Way of Kings (part one)
The Way of Kings (part two)
Elantris
The Grave Tattoo
Blood at the Bookies
Pulling Up Stakes (part 2)
