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1.		A History of Modern Britain from Pan Books Price: £3.55 Customer Review: This is an interesting and readable history of our country since the Second World War marred (pun intended) by a liberal/left-wing bias. Andrew Marr deals with a number of topics and this book is neither political nor social history but contains bits of each and more. Much of the book is a... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

2.		Shakespeare: The World as a Stage (Eminent Lives) from HarperPerennial Price: £3.99 Customer Review: I really enjoyed this book. It was a quick and easy read, admittedly, but it does not bill itself as a Shakepeare textbook or biography and would be a different animal if it was. If you take it at face value, it's a fun read, helped along by Bryson's amusing style.	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

3.		I Used to Know That: Stuff You Forgot from School from Michael O'Mara Books Price: £5.99 Customer Review: This book is split into chapters based on the traditional school subjects, such as geography, history, maths, and then within each chapter split into 'typical things we were taught', ranging from the list of British kings to trigonometry to Charles Dickens. There are certain chapters you'll... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

4.		The Forgotten Garden from Pan Books Price: £3.86 Customer Review: Thankfully, I found this book in a charity shop, so I didn't feel too peeved when it proved to be a dreadfully irritating read. With a writing style and storyline more akin to the the efforts you'd expect from a student who was part way through a creative writing course - Morton's book is... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

5.		Pies and Prejudice: In Search of the North from Ebury Press Price: £4.79 Customer Review: I found this quite funny, but a chapter or two - or make that an essay, really would be enough. After a while the ever samey tone and chippiness (which he tries to disguise but can't) starts to grate a bit.	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

6.		The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher from Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Price: £5.99 Customer Review: I eagerly awaited the arrival of this book..... and then struggled to make myself finish it. The facts of the case of interesting but the book is massively padded out with all manner of facts on victorian life and morals which I found very boring and tedious. I thought I had bought a... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

7.		I Have a Bream from Black Swan Price: £5.99 Customer Review: John O'Farrell witters on attractively, but never hits the heights of "It Can Only Get Better" - the book in which he definitively nails the right-on eighties.	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

8.		The Resurrectionist from Faber and Faber Price: £3.99 Customer Review: I wish I had read all these reviews before I bought this book. I very very rarely give up on a book, but I am in "grave" danger of not finishing this one, and I hate doing that. I think the author has tried too hard with his narrative, the prose is wordy, and doesn't get anywhere. If I read... more info	Customer Rating: 2.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

9.		The Book Thief from Black Swan Price: £3.86 Customer Review: I can't recommend this book highly enough. It's true that its very setting fills it with sadness but its originality, delicacy, poetry and certainly humour make it a very special book indeed. I's one of those books that risks making you unpopular as you try desperately to convince... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

10.		The Outcast from Vintage Price: £2.99 Customer Review: If you ever feel you are too happy this is the book for you! Badly written two-dimensional stereotypical characters in a totally depressing story. Do not recommend at all	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

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