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Watership Down by Richard Adams was first published in 1972, and from your description, it sounds as though you have a paper back edition, but the original first editions were hardback. If you have a genuine first edition hardback with a dust cover in perfect condition, you would have one of 2500 of the first print run, but if you have a paperback from 1974 to 1976, you have a later edition which sold upto a million copies. If you google rather than use amazon "Watership Down first edition" you'll get a list of specialist rare book sellers who have plenty of different early editions with pictures of the covers so you'll be able to see how much you might get for the copy you have.

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Title: What I Saw and How I Lied Author: Judy Blundell Publisher: Scholastic Rating: 3/5 Synopsis (from waterstones.com): Summer's ending, Evie's stepfather is finally home from the Second World War, and Evie is tired of her glamorous mother treating her like a little girl. Then a mysterious stranger appears: a handsome ex-GI who served with Evie's stepfather. Slowly, Evie realizes that she is falling in love with him - but he has dark secrets and a strange control over her parents. When a sudden tragedy occurs Evie's world is shattered. Torn between her family and the man she loves, Evie must betray someone. The question is ...who? Review: The cover of this book looks stunning, with a film noir feel, drawing me in to what I anticipated would be a thrilling book with a teenage femme fatale. What I actually got, was a coming of age story for a teenager with the elements of mystery, war, prejudice and adultery, albeit on a fairly domestic scale. I loved the sense of period that the author created, and the language and characters felt authentic for that period. Once the story moves to the setting of the hotel, it does start to feel slightly claustrophic, only adding to the general darkening atmosphere of the plot. However, I don't think it lived up to my expectations, and by the time I got to the end, I was a bit disappointed that the heroine hadn't either been or developed into that femme fatale I'd been hoping for.

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Title: What I Saw and How I Lied Author: Judy Blundell Publisher: Scholastic Rating: 3/5 Synopsis (from waterstones.com): Summer's ending, Evie's stepfather is finally home from the Second World War, and Evie is tired of her glamorous mother treating her like a little girl. Then a mysterious stranger appears: a handsome ex-GI who served with Evie's stepfather. Slowly, Evie realizes that she is falling in love with him - but he has dark secrets and a strange control over her parents. When a sudden tragedy occurs Evie's world is shattered. Torn between her family and the man she loves, Evie must betray someone. The question is ...who? Review: The cover of this book looks stunning, with a film noir feel, drawing me in to what I anticipated would be a thrilling book with a teenage femme fatale. What I actually got, was a coming of age story for a teenager with the elements of mystery, war, prejudice and adultery, albeit on a fairly domestic scale. I loved the sense of period that the author created, and the language and characters felt authentic for that period. Once the story moves to the setting of the hotel, it does start to feel slightly claustrophic, only adding to the general darkening atmosphere of the plot. However, I don't think it lived up to my expectations, and by the time I got to the end, I was a bit disappointed that the heroine hadn't either been or developed into that femme fatale I'd been hoping for.

Title: Circus of the Damned, The Lunatic Cafe, Bloody Bones, The Killing Dance Author: Laurell K. Hamilton Publisher: Headline Book Publishing Rating: 3/5 Review: I decided to review these four books as one, as I don't think they need individual reviews. The Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series continues apace, with Hamilton gradually bringing in more of the supernatural world into books. I'm really enjoying the series - great, escapist stuff, nothing serious, just pure entertainment. My personal opinion is that the amount and graphic nature of the sex, violence and horror aspects is gradually creeping up each book, but so far, it doesn't really bother me. I love Anita's humour and I quite often chuckle out loud while reading, but I sometimes wish there was more of the police officers in the story, as I think the wise cracks and the teasing offset the violence of the stories well, and I'd like to see more of those characters working with Anita. I have the next two books on order from the library, so will definitely be continuing on with the series.