Inland - Mark Templeton

Advantages: Eat in for £10 for 2 people
Disadvantages: May not have full selection

...Marks and Spencer Dine in for two at £10 offer has been running for sometime now, but I hadn't seen it in the new shop that opened nearly a year ago in Livingston, until quite recently - probably because I went at the beginning of the week and it is only on Thursday to Sunday inclusive. I think it has become so popular at Marks that other supermarkets have followed and copied the idea but I have never been tempted in Tesco, as the selection was quite poor, the wine had run out etc. We have tried this a few times now and only once have been disappointed with one product. Marks and Spencer are renowned for good quality food although they do tend to be quite expensive, but in a world where people want to cook quickly they certainly provide easy to cook and tasty prepared food. Saving on the washing up too as they tend to be in foil... Read review

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Advantages: a brilliant debut
Disadvantages: can be hard work remembering all the ancestors!

...to the founder of Templeton, Marmaduke Templeton, I was transported back to the time of his womanizing by reading the story first hand from the housekeeper and various other characters, whereas when I was reading about Marmadukes son, I was reading excerpts from his diary that Willie discovered through her very own ghost! As you can imagine, this book has far too many elements for it to ever become tiresome. All of Willie's ancestors seem to have some quirk about them that makes them interesting and there is nearly always some humour injected into each chapter about her ancestors, but, out of all the stories, there are two that particularly stuck out for me. Willie comes across some correspondence between two of her relatives that has been left to her mother from her grandfather - marked "contents disturbing and painful". Of course, I... Read review

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Advantages: Very readable and enjoyable
Disadvantages: Took me a few chapters to really get into, very American

...Marked is the first book of the House of Night saga from mother and daughter team PC and Kristin Cast. Marked is the first book of the House of Night saga from mother and daughter team PC and Kristin Cast. I bought my copy for just £2.99 new, but the jacket price is £5.99, as with most books now, if you shop around you are pretty much guaranteed to get a deal on it. At present the first five books are available, the sixth (Tempted) is due for paperback release on October 27th 2009, but doesn't seem to be being released in hardback. A seventh book, Burned, has been announced with an expected release date of May 2010. **History and background** This is another saga of teenage/young adult vampire fiction, a genre which regularly comes back into vogue. Cast seems to have piggybacked on the huge success of the Harry Potter series, and I... Read review

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