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===[[The Savage Shore by David Hewson]]===
===[[Toffee by Sarah Crossan]]=== [[image:4star5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:CrimeTeens|CrimeTeens]] ''I am not who I say I am,'' ''and Marla isn't who she thinks she is. ''
Reggio, in Calabria. It's 'I am a strange place, closer girl trying to Africa than Rome as Emmanuel kept reminding himselfforget. He was an illegal immigrant and like most of his kind he was simply looking for '' ''She is a way woman trying to earn a decent living with a little dignityremember. Back in Nigeria he was an independent man and now he is no better than the monkey who sits in a cage on the bar he tends. The area is ruled by the Mafia. Further afield there are the Camorra and the Cosa Nostra, but here it's the 'Ndrangheta and the local boss is known as Lo Spettro - the ghost - as he's rarely seen, but he's one of the Bergamotti clan, but even that's not their real name. [[The Savage Shore by David Hewson|Full Review]]
Allison has finally had enough and has run away from home. The burning red weal on her face provides a clue to why. She's on her way to Bude to find Kelly-Anne, who was the first to run away from home, but Kelly-Anne isn't answering her phone. Night is closing in and so Allison takes refuge in a shed in the garden of what looks to be an empty house. But the house isn't empty. Marla lives in it and Marla doesn't remember things very well. She mistakes Allison for her friend, Toffee. And because Allison doesn't much want to be Allison any more and because Marla is so happy to see Toffee - why shouldn't Allison ''become'' Toffee? [[Toffee by Sarah Crossan|Full Review]]<!-- Cara Hunter Bowling -->
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===[[No Way Out In The Shadow of Heroes by Cara HunterNicholas Bowling]]===
[[image:4star4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:CrimeConfident Readers|Confident Readers]] Life as a slave in ancient Rome could be harsh and degrading, but Cadmus has it much easier than most. Taken into the household of the scholar Tullus when he was a baby, his keenness to learn and his excellent memory have made him invaluable to his master, who treats him more like a secretary and perhaps even a member of the family, rather than a despised, barely human creature. [[In The Shadow of Heroes by Nicholas Bowling|Full Review]] <!-- Golding -->|-|Crimestyle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0008293678.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0008293678/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
It was the end of the Christmas holidays and Felix House in an elite area of Oxford was on fire| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Little Darlings by Melanie Golding]]===[[image:4.5star. Two children were dragged from the infernojpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category: one, a toddler, was pronounced dead at the scene Thrillers|Thrillers]]Lauren Tranter and her husband have just welcomed the other, a boy on the cusp arrival of his teenschildren – twin boys, died in hospital some days laterwho they decide to name Riley and Morgan. But where were the parents? Were their bodies in what remained of the house and which was being steadily cleared, or had they left the children at home alone? For DI Adam Fawley itsomething's one of his most disturbing caseswrong. He's still not got over the death of ''his'' son and While everyone else is celebrating, Lauren starts to worry – that someone out there's every sign that his marriage is on the rocks. For his team it's just coming to take her children away, and if she looks away for even a heartbreakingsecond, exhausting case. they'll strike… [[No Way Out Little Darlings by Cara HunterMelanie Golding|Full Review]]
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===[[Women of Westminster: The MPs I Know Who Changed Politics You Are by Rachel ReevesAlice Feeney]]===
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''Women in Westminster have changed Aimee Sinclair is just on the culture edge of politics and making it big time as an actor. Right now she's the perception sort of what women person whom you think you know but can do't quite remember where from, but that's all about to change. That's a little worrying for Aimee as life has changed for her before and she knows that she'Women of Westminsters not really Aimee Sinclair, she's Ciara: The MPs Who Changed Politics'' chronicles the battles the 491 women who have been elected over the course of the past century have fought and highlights their victories. It Aimee is remarkable that simply the history of female Members of Parliament began in 1918, the same year in which women were first given the right name she was forced to vote but take when she was snatched as a decade before all women were given suffrage on equal terms with menchild. Although Constance de Markievicz was That's not at the first female elected to Parliament, it was only in 1919 that Nancy Astor became the first women to take front of her seat in the House of Commons mind though when she comes home one day and pave the way for women of the future. It was not long after in 1924 finds that the first female MPher husband, Margaret BondfieldBen Bailey, was appointed into a cabinet position and since then women MPs have endeavoured to fight gender inequality and campaign for female rights. Within 100 years there has been a gradual revolution of change in politics and to date Britain has been led by two female Prime Ministersdisappeared. However, such great landmarks have overshadowed the other female MPs whose early achievements, which have paved the way for subsequent women politicians, are consistently overlooked Disappeared completely. In ''Women of Westminster: The MPs Who Changed Politics'' Rachel Reeves brings the forgotten stories into the spotlight to document the history of British female political history Along with considerable funds from 1919 to 2019. their current account [[Women of Westminster: The MPs I Know Who Changed Politics You Are by Rachel ReevesAlice Feeney|Full Review]]
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===[[The Chemical Detectiveby Fiona ErskineLiberation Square by Gareth Rubin]]===
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Dr Jaq Silver is a brilliant scientist with a healthy social life who loves her work and lifeIn an alternate 1952, Soviet Troops control British Streets. Whilst she After D-Day goes horribly wrong, Britain is haunted first occupied by her past she won't let it define her. When she becomes entangled in a mystery, a mystery that could tie Nazi Germany – only to some of be rescued by Russian soldiers from the most horrific weapons on EarthEast, she doesn't hesitate and jumps straight Americans from the west. Dividing the nation between them, London soon finds itself split intwo, a wall running through it like a scar. We follow Jaq as she travels When Jane Cawson's husband is arrested for the world digging deeper and deeper into a rabbit-hole murder of intrigue and betrayalhis former wife, never compromising and always seeking the truthJane is determined to clear his name. From the ski slopes In doing so, Jane follows a trail of Eastern Europe, corruption that leads her right to the sunny climes highest levels of Portugal the state – and even making a visit soon finds herself desperate to that most glamourous stay one step ahead of locations… rainy Teeside… this is a true thriller. the murderous secret police… [[The Chemical Detectiveby Fiona ErskineLiberation Square by Gareth Rubin|Full Review]]
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===[[Equator by Antonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)]]===
[[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]], [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General FictionNot My Fault by Cath Howe]]===
It strikes me that nobody can speak well of the Wild West outside the walls of a theme park[[image:5star. Our agent to see how bad it was here is Pete Ferguson, who bristles at the indignity of white man against Native 'Indian', who spends days being physically sick while indulging in a buffalo hunt, and who hates the way man – and woman, of course – can turn against fellow man at the bat of an eyelid. But this book is about so much more than the 1870s USA, and the attendant problems with gold rushes, pioneer spirits and racial genocide. He finds himself trying to find this book's version of Utopia, namely the Equator, where everything is upside down, people walk on their heads with rocks in their pockets to keep them on the ground to counter the anti-gravity, and where, who knows, things might actually be better. But that equator is a long way away – and there's a whole adventure full of Mexico and Latin America between him and it… jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Equator by Antonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator):Category:Confident Readers|Full ReviewConfident Readers]]
''Maya and Rose won't talk to each other. Even though they are sisters. Not since the accident. Maya is turning wild and Rose doesn't know what to do. And now Maya and Rose have to go away together on a week-long school trip. Will the trip fix their sibling bond... or break it for good?'' [[Not My Fault by Cath Howe|Full Review]]<!-- Collins Lupo -->
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===[[All the Invisible Things We Are Blood And Thunder by Orlagh CollinsKesia Lupo]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]
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''In a sealed-off city, a young woman, Lena, is running for her life. She has been sentenced to death and her only way to survive is to trust those she has been brought up to fear - those with magic.''
Vetty''On the other side of the locked gates is a masked lady, her dadConstance, and her little sister are about determined to move find a way back to London and Vetty canin. Years ago she escaped before her own powers were discovered. But now she won't waithide who she is any longer. The family has been staying with Aunt Wendy since the death of Vetty's mother several years ago. With the girls older and Aunt Wendy getting married, it's time to get back to their lives. Vetty, mostly So, Lena is looking forward to reconnecting with Pez. She and he were inseparable a cryptling - spending all their time together and knowing each other inside out, without a low caste individual living in the need for words. Vetty could do with a friend like that right now, as her inner feelings city of difference get ever stronger..Duke's Forest. [[All the Invisible Things We Are Blood And Thunder by Orlagh CollinsKesia Lupo|Full Review]] <!-- Dahl Kidd -->
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===[[The Courier Things in Jars by Kjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett (translator)Jess Kidd]]===
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Nazi-occupied Oslo, 1942A child has gone missing. ThereThe detective asked to take on the case is still struggling with the shame and frustration left by a previous case, I've given where the game awaychild was not found in time. For in Hardly original themes for a private eye thriller. And yet . . . take another look. This detective is a book woman, and the setting is Victorian London, with all the rich and colourful paradoxes of that centres around era: technical and scientific progress jostling for space beside superstition and a murderfascination with the bizarre and the downright hideous. And before you're more than a couple of pages in, Iyou realise just how much more unusual our heroine is than you expected. Bridie Devine may dress in half-mourning, with a widow've told you who did it – the Naziss cap and stout, surely? Wellshiny boots, that certainly has to remain to be seen but the tobacco she smokes in this volumeher pipe (my dear, which splits its time between one what an utterly ''fast'' thing for a lady to do!) is mixed with a nugget of warsomething, when a young woman sees her father arrestedwell, and their store condemned as Jewishlet's say recreational, and rushes to created by her best chemist friend Prudhoe. The fact that it's actually meant to help – not knowing she will never see her alive againcure bronchial problems is by the by. Her housemaid, and the late 1960sbeing seven foot tall, when great consternation is being feltalso somewhat remarkable. In this timelineAnd then, of course, a maverick agent is back in townthere's the ghost. Ruby Doyle, one who might have been fingered for murdering that female victimworld famous tattooed boxer (deceased) accompanies Bridie all through her investigation, even though she and it's clear he lived together with their baby as has a soft spot for the determined young familywoman. If he really exists, except he was thought by all to have died in the War… that is. [[The Courier Things in Jars by Kjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett (translator)Jess Kidd|Full Review]]
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===[[The Department of Sensitive Crimes Beneath the World, A Sea by Alexander McCall SmithChris Beckett]]===
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Long-time followers of The Bookbag will know I'm a die-hard fan of AMSSouth America, 1990. So you can imagine my excitement at reading Ben Ronson, a brand new book British police officer, arrives in a brand new series, described by the author himself as Scandi Blanc (as opposed mysterious forest to Scandi Noir)! Here we meet investigate a new detective named Ulf Vargspate of killings of Duendes. These silent, who works in the Department for Sensitive Crimesvaguely humanoid creatures - with long limbs and black button eyes - have a strange psychic effect on people, solving those crimes that perhaps fall outside unleashing the usual police parameterssubconscious and exposing their innermost thoughts and fears. This particular book deals with crimes including someone who is stabbed in Ben becomes fascinated by the kneeDuendes, but the disappearance of an imaginary boyfriendcloser he gets, and a case of potential werewolves. They're the crimes that perhaps nobody else would bother more he begins to deal withunravel, and I rather enjoyed them, especially the stabbing where you find that actually, you identify with the person who committed the crime, rather than the victimterrifying results... [[The Department of Sensitive Crimes Beneath the World, A Sea by Alexander McCall SmithChris Beckett|Full Review]]
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===[[Where the Dead Fall (DI Ridpath, Book 2) by M J Lee]]===
 
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It really shouldn't have happened. DI Ridpath, conscious that his relationship with his wife and child is hanging by a thread, is off to collect them at his mother-in-law's house for an evening out. Traffic was heavy on the M60 (a match at Old Trafford wasn't helping) but it was moving steadily. Then a man wearing only a pair of blue boxers dashed out into the traffic, briefly put his hands on Ridpath's car then ran into the path of an articulated lorry. The driver had no chance of stopping and the naked man was killed instantly. Glancing to the hard shoulder Ridpath glimpsed a man with a gun. This was now a crime scene and the resulting seventeen-mile tail back of traffic would be the least of Ridpath's worries, although no one would let him forget about it in a hurry. [[Where the Dead Fall (DI Ridpath, Book 2) by M J Lee|Full Review]]
 
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===[[The Rose, the Night, and the Mirror by Mark Lingane]]===
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Julian's family are getting pretty fed up with his perma-student status[[image:5star. They feel that the maths PHD candidate should start earning some money. To that endjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]], they have managed to find him a job tutoring the children of a highly regarded politician. Julian bowls up at their strange, austere mansion with little in the way of expectation. Victor, the politician is not at home. But Esis, his wife, is. A beautiful but isolated woman, Esis shows little interest in her children and not much more in Julian. She directs him towards his room, the library in which he will teach the children, and the kitchen, whose chefbot will provide him with food. [[The Rose, the Night, and the Mirror by Mark Lingane:Category:Historical Fiction|Full ReviewHistorical Fiction]]
Enid Campbell was a woman who, on the face of it, had everything. Leading the life of an aristocrat – full of inherited wealth and splendour, glamourous locales and high expectations. Only Enid's life has been plagued by mental illness – undiagnosed, untreated and threatening both Enid and those close to her. After losing custody of her children, Enid sells her son to her sister for £500 – but is this an act of greed, or an act of desperation? Exploring the true story of her own grandmother, Eleanor Anstruther has found the perfect subject for an explosive, moving and beautifully well written debut. [[A Perfect Explanation by Eleanor Anstruther|Full Review]] <!-- Brandi Delargy -->
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===[[Into the River 55 by Mark BrandiJames Delargy]]===
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Two boysmen enter a police station, Ben and Fab, are growing up in a small town in Northern Australia in both tell the late 80's. They do all the normal things that boys of that age do - go yabbying (fishing), play cricket, fight their battles at school same story; they were kidnapped and think about girls. Their family lives are different; Ben comes from a happy home, whilst Fab is narrowly escaped the son clutches of Italian immigrants who clearly have little money, and has a father man who is very violentintended to kill them. Yet despite their differences, As they escaped they ran through a graveyard and they are fiercely loyal to each otherwere not the first victim. So farThe stories match, so normal. But with the arrival of a new neighbour for Ben, a evidence is compelling and each man called Ronnie, things begin to changeblames the other. Ronnie wants Ben to come over to do some odd jobs for himNow the question is, and both Ben and Fab are increasingly uncomfortable about this. who is guilty? [[Into the River 55 by Mark BrandiJames Delargy|Full Review]]
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===[[In The Full Light of Lord Of All the Sun Dead by Clare ClarkJavier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)]]===
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In 1930''Lord Of All the Dead'' is a journey to uncover the author's lost ancestor's Berlin, three people obsessed with art find themselves swept up into a scandallife and death. Cercas is searching for the meaning behind his great uncle's death in the Spanish Civil War. EmmelineManuel Mena, a wayward young student, Julius, an anxious middle-aged art expert, and Rachmann, a mysterious art dealerCercas' great uncle, live in is the politically turbulent Weimar Berlin, and soon find themselves whipped up into excitement figure who looms large over the surprise discovery of thirty-two previously unknown paintings by Vincent Van Goghbook. He died relatively young whilst fighting for Francisco Franco's forces. Based Cercas ruminates on a true story and unfolding through why his uncle fought for this dictator. The question at the subsequent rise centre of Hitler and this book is whether it is possible for his great uncle to be a hero whilst having fought for the Nazis, the discovery of the art allows these characters to explore authenticity, vanity and self-delusionwrong side. [[In The Full Light of Lord Of All the Sun Dead by Clare ClarkJavier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[Dread Nation Super Sons: The PolarShield Project by Justina IrelandRidley Pearson and Ile Gonzalez]]===
[[image:5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:FantasyGraphic Novels|FantasyGraphic Novels]], [[:Category:HorrorConfident Readers|HorrorConfident Readers]] It's the near future, and every coastal city – including Metropolis – is in need of a huge flood barrier, built on its coast by Wayne Enterprises. But the rising sea levels have put even those constructions under threat, forcing many people to relocate in America's biggest exodus for decades. Superman is helping out, of course – first he was patching up the dams, but now he's mining the asteroid belt for a rare dust that's perfect for blocking the solar energy from making further polar ice melt. Inland, in Wyndermere, the refugees from the coast are suffering bigotry and intolerance for being newcomers, but something else is much worse. A major bout of food poisoning is hitting the city. But it can't possibly have anything to do with what looks like sabotage of the flood barriers and the efforts to correct the climate, can it? Four young children begin to piece together clues that it can… [[Super Sons: The PolarShield Project by Ridley Pearson and Ile Gonzalez|Full Review]] <!-- de Bois -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1785903357.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1785903357/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
''Two days after I was born … the dead rose up and started to walk on a battlefield in a small town in Pennsylvania called Gettysburg ''
Dread Nation narrates the unconventional life of Jane McKeene who was born days before the dead began to walk the streets. An event which in interrupting the civil war between the states altered American history forever. In the changed world, minorities are forced into conscription and under the new Native and Negro Re| style="vertical-align: top; text-education Act children are placed in combat schools where they are trained extensively to destroy the dead once and for all. For Jane and other girls like her, there is however the opportunity for a better life by being employed as an attendant. With deadly capabilities and perfect etiquette, attendants protect those higher in society and are valued above all else. [[Dread Nation by Justina Irelandalign: left;"|Full Review]]
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I should warn you in advance: this may not be the best time for me to review the memoir of a Tory MP. Not only am I a left-of-centre - to put it mildly - voter and so probably have next to no points of political agreement with Nick de Bois, but I, along with everyone else, am currently subject to the debacle of parliament, government and Brexit, a dog and pony show currently revealing in hideous technicolour the absolute dearth of competent leadership among our political classes. And yes, opposition parties: I'm looking at you as well. You're just as useless.
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In an extension of the story begun by Geoffrey Arnold in ''Ripped Apart'', he continues to tell the story of the Quantum twins. Born on a parallel world, these genetically identical twins interfered with an experiment and were hurtled through space-time to our earth - and a series of adventures ensued in the following books. When we rejoin them in ''Betrayed'' we find Tullia struggling to adapt to life in the bush - adopted by a Bushman family and At least Nick de Bois made part me laugh! [[ Confessions of a tribe. Twin Qwelby however, is not doing so well - shocked by the violence on the earth. Rescued by an old friend, he then tries to help a girl called Xaala - but her ulterior motives may well prove to drive a wedge between the twins as they try to reconnect... [[Betrayed Recovering MP by Geoffrey ArnoldNick de Bois |Full Review]]
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===[[Dog on a Log Chapter BooksMera: Step 1 Tidebreaker by Pamela BrookesDanielle Paige and Stephen Byrne]]===
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What do you do when your child has dyslexia and you need books which will help them to achieve the wonder that is reading? Meet Mera. You can risk buying early readers, but She's the sounds latest in the book might not be the ones you've been working a line of young women intent on and encountering words which are just too challenging fighting against their intended destiny for one only they can have more of a negative effect on the young dyslexic than a child without that problemsee for themselves. You need to be able to buy books at Her father, the king of Xebel, sees some cotton wool and a reasonable price which concentrate on what youhunky man in an arranged marriage as her future – after all, Mera've been working ons mother, without anything else being thrown into the mixterritory's warrior queen, is long dead. You need a story which engages Mera doesn't fancy the cosseting or the young mind fella involved at all, and you need stages which progress steadily through is in fact trying to get Xebel out from under the learning process without there being any large jumpscosh of Atlantean power, for Xebel's royalty are merely puppets of Atlantean masters. Some online support So when she overhears her father request that her intended goes to the world of us air-breathing humans, and games wouldn't go amisskill the Atlantis heir, eithershe rushes off to get the quest (and the promised throne) all for herself. Reading - But of course, she has no idea what kind of person she will meet, and ''learning'' how hard it will be to read - should be a pleasure. It should be ''fun''. get the job done… [[Dog on a Log Chapter BooksMera: Step 1 Tidebreaker by Pamela BrookesDanielle Paige and Stephen Byrne|Full Review]]
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===[[The Phoenix of Florence Poster Boy by Philip KazanN J Crosskey]]===
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Deep I first read 1984 in school, in the late seventies when 1984 still seemed like a long time in the Tuscan countryside future. It came and went quickly enough. Some of us may have breathed a sigh of fifteenth century Italyrelief that Orwell's nightmare had not (quite) come to pass. Others, Onoria survives I think, were out there already working on making sure that all he got wrong was the date. Crosskey hasn't put a massacre that destroys her family and homedate on the nightmare. Alone If she had, I suspect it would not be as far in the forest, future are 1984 was when I first read Orwell. If she meets a band of soldiers whohad, believing her to I suspect it might hardly be a boy train and develop her – and in the determined Onoria becomes a mercenary – desperate to avoid any situation future at all. A lot of what happens in which she may feel vulnerable again''Poster Boy'' is already happening. Sadly. Frighteningly. Along In the wayblurb, she meets ex-soldier Celavini, whose journey Christina Racher says "…but keep it far from anyone who might be tempted to Florence sees him investigating two brutal murdersturn its fiction into reality". As he digs further and uncovers links My only response to his own family history, Celavini must revisit the past he shares with Onoria, in the hope that they can lay the ghosts of their shared history to rest, before it's is: too late... ! [[The Phoenix of Florence Poster Boy by Philip KazanN J Crosskey|Full Review]]
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===[[Critical Incidents by Lucie Whitehouse]]===
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[[imageWhen you reach a certain stage in life the phrase 'going home' when it refers to your childhood home is best if it means a short and hopefully harmonious visit. The woman who used to be DCI Robin Lyons, but was now just Robin Lyons, went home with her thirteen-year-old daughter after she was dismissed from the Met. She was going home to the room which she'd had as a child:4starshe would have the bottom bunk and Elena - Lennie to those who knew her well - would have the top bunk. The room was redolent of the time she'd shared the room with her brother Luke - and they weren't good memories.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:TeensCritical Incidents by Lucie Whitehouse|TeensFull Review]]
Jasmine and Chelsea go to a high school with an excellent reputation. It places strong emphasis on extra curricular activities and all pupils are encouraged to join clubs and associations. But Jasmine is fed up with her drama group because she's always typecast in the loud, "hysterical" roles (Jasmine is black and resents the angry black woman trope). And Chelsea is fed with poetry club because the only poetry it ever covers was written by men who lived and died years ago. So, along with friends Isaac and Nadine, they start a new group called Write Like a Girl. [[Watch Us Rise by Renee Watson and Ellen Hagan|Full Review]] <!-- Rachel Lynch Martine -->
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===[[Bitter Edge (D I Kelly Porter) A Memory Called Empire by Rachel LynchArkady Martine]]===
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The girl had once been a promising athlete, but injury and then addiction to prescription painkillers changed her completely. Eventually problem with Martine's fiction debut is that she was driven to commit suicide in makes the most gruesome way - by throwing herself off a cliff two commonest errors in the Lake District. It worried DI Kelly Porter, but SF writing: she had no reason tries to investigate, although several of her cases keep bringing be too clever and she wants her back fictional languages to the girl's school be complex and rich and a darker story emerged. One of errs on the pupils goes missing at the local fair: her best friend is the girl who has accused a teacher side of luring her to his flat and then sexually assaulting hermaking them unpronounceable by most readers. It seems that the teacher also has paedophilia on his computerI can see why she does both, but it's a disappointment because they're the downloading eerily coincides with blocks against which the brilliance of the girl's visit to his flatbook stumbles. What is going on, but - most importantly - where is Faith? [[Bitter Edge (D I Kelly Porter) A Memory Called Empire by Rachel LynchArkady Martine|Full Review]]
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===[[Dead Memories (D I Kim Stone) When Spring Comes to the DMZ by Angela MarsonsUk-Bae Lee]]===
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Someone There is recreating every traumatic event in Kim Stone's pasta place on this earth that, starting with at the death time of her twin when she was six years oldwriting, is resplendent with life. Some of In the events, or at least spring seals gambol in the details of them, are river – not public knowledgeventuring too far, but whoever is behind this has a wealth for fear of information and is using it to evil intentbeing slashed open on the razor wire the humans have put in place. That In the autumn, salmon come upstream, looking doleful as well they might seem bad enough, but for they will spawn and die, if they reach their birthing grounds. Mountain goats gambol prettily among the brutal truth of hills – if the matter is that people - innocent people - are dying landmines men left behind do not prevent them from doing so that these dramas can be recreated. Stone probably - wellThis is a snapshot of life in the DMZ, certainly - shouldn't be on the casedemilitarized zone between the two countries with Korea in their name, but who has better knowledge of what happened to her than she does? If her boss can just turn a blind eye to and it's the effect itworld's having on her for long enough, she can sort it out.least welcome wildlife sanctuary.. Or can she? [[Dead Memories (D I Kim Stone) When Spring Comes to the DMZ by Angela MarsonsUk-Bae Lee|Full Review]]
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