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Well, plenty as it happens===[[Senlin Ascends by Josiah Bancroft]]=== [[image:4.5star. jpg|amazonuklink=<amazonuk>1408877759</amazonuk>Category:{{{rating}}}Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]]{{newreview|author=Heather Morris|title=The Tattooist Thomas Senlin embarks on his honeymoon with high hopes. He and his young wife Marya are travelling on a sleeper train across Ur to that engineering marvel, that fabled centre of Auschwitz|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Soculture, you arrive in all ignorance at Auschwitzthe Tower of Babel. It's a place he's read books about, and see the horror theretaught his pupils about, and immediately swear longed to survive the ordeal to see retribution dealt on those behind itvisit, but what do you do to see that oath out? Do you get to work diligently as the Nazis demand, to bustling and chaotic surroundings of the Tower in the extent you get desert are a long way from the word ''collaborator'' muttered behind your back? Do you dare quiet fishing village in which Senlin teaches. When he loses sight of Marya shortly after their arrival, he has no option but to stick your neck out look for her in this strange and get a job that means you're actually a Jew working in overwhelming place. For all his background reading before the political wing of the SStrip, answerable to Berlin? Do you dare get contacts with civilian workers building he is ill-prepared for what he finds in the placeTower, both its marvels and trade the loot purloined from the incoming victims' belongings with food they smuggle in for you, under the eyes of all the camp guards? The man whose real life story inspired this novel did all thatits horrors, and survived thus begins Thomas Senlin's arduous quest to tell the tale, but he also managed to do something even more daring, and unexpected – he dared to invest hope in a burgeoning love that he found in the camprecover his wife.[[Senlin Ascends by Josiah Bancroft|Full Review]]|amazonuk=<amazonukbr>1785763644 </amazonuk!-- Stewart -->}}{{newreview[[image:Stewart_Rebel2.jpg|author=Michael Wolffleft|titlelink=Fire and Furyhttps: Inside the Trump White House|rating=4//www.5amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1526300230?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1526300230]] |genre=Politics ==[[Rebel Voices: The Rise of Votes for Women by Louise Kay Stewart and SocietyEve Lloyd Knight]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|summarylink=As I began listening to Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] ''Fire and Fury: Inside Rule breakers. Risk takers. Rebel women. Law makers. A celebration of women rallying around the globe to win the Trump White Housevote.'' we were treated to the unedifying spectacle of the President of the United States taking  Let's just get straight to Twitter to establish that he was it. I loved ''a stable geniusRebel Voices: The Rise of Votes for Women'', as opposed, we must conclude to being an unstable.And I can't let a review pass without a brief note on the fabulous production values. The cover is stunning and deeply impactful as you can see.. WellIt has that lovely, let's not go therebookish smell. It's a little too frightening: The paper is thick and heavy. Everything about it tells you that this is the most powerful man in the worlda book with interesting and important information. It simply begs to be picked up and read. So what made me listen Full marks to Wren and Rook for this book? Well, Donald Trump didn't want me to read itinvestment. 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Caitlyn still can't quite believe the opportunity she's a link back to her childhood herebeen given, particularly as she might 's not have been missing but she was certainly lostdancing anywhere near as long as the others. Her mother was abusive and It means so much to her father preferred not to do anything about it. [[Star Quality (Dance Trilogy 2) by Jean Ure|Full Review]]<br><br> <!-- Ahmed -->[[image: there might have been a bit of pretense but there was no protectionAhmed_Love. 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[[Love, Hate and you can't waste any time when children go missing.Other Filters by Samira Ahmed|Full Review]]|amazonuk=<amazonukbr><br>147366277X</amazonukbr>}}{{newreview<!-- Simmons -->[[image:Simmons_Swapped.jpg|author= C J Tudorleft|titlelink= The Chalk Manhttps://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1408877759?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1408877759]] |rating= 5|genre= Horror |summary= [[I Swapped My Brother On The Chalk Man follows Internet by Jo Simmons]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] After a group terrible argument over the Hanging Pants of friends haunted by an eerily terrifying spectreDoom (don't ask), conjured during one fateful summer. By the time the new term begins, friendships will be fractured, sibling rivalry between Jonny and his older brother Ted comes to a girl will be deadhead. Jonny fills out an application form at siblingswap. But com and sits back to wait for a new brother who is the killer; is it The Chalk Manbound, surely, whose dusty white grip squeezes ever tighter, or someone much closer to home? Thirty years laterbe infinitely better than patronising, Ed has tried to forget about that summermocking, about all the poisonedbullying, sinister memories of The Chalk ManTed. Right? Any brother would be better than Ted. HoweverRight? Of course! What on earth could go wrong? Well, someone seems determined not to let him and when the letters start to arrive, the past follows, plaguing him and dredging up the fever dream nightmare of the summer of 1986, populated by fairs, raplenty as it happens. [[I Swapped My Brother On The Internet by Jo Simmons|Full Review]]<br> <!--ra skirts and deathMorris -->[[image:Morris_Auschwitz.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co. 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Callie is awkwardimmediately swear to survive the ordeal to see retribution dealt on those behind it, suffering from a lifetime of acne, weight issues and comparing herself but what do you do to her sister and her beautiful white body. Callie has very strong feelings for her sister, envy, admiration, anger, lovesee that oath out? Do you get to work diligently as the Nazis demand, to the extent you get the word ''collaborator'' muttered behind your back? Do you dare to stick your neck out and Tilda laps all get a job that means you're actually a Jew working in the political wing of these feelings up. They are grownthe SS, answerable to Berlin? Do you dare get contacts with civilian workers building the place, and see each other trade the loot purloined from the incoming victims' belongings with relative frequency. But now Tilda has met a new food they smuggle in for you, under the eyes of all the camp guards? The manwhose real life story inspired this novel did all that, Felix. He's smart, charismatic, successful and very intense, very particular. 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There was no dispute that the relationship had been consensual, but after James had finished It's a little too frightening: this is the affair there was an incident most powerful man in a lift in House of Commons and the police and the Crown Prosecution Service were both of the opinion that world. So what made me listen to this amounted to rape. book? The prosecuting counsel is Kate Woodcroft and sheWell, Donald Trump didn's very determined that Whitehouse is going t want me to be brought read it: US presidents don't often go down that road and rarely to a good destination (I'm thinking of Richard Nixon here) and that made me really want to bookknow what was between the covers. But how did the book stack up? [[Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff|Full Review]]|amazonuk=<amazonukbr>1471164993 </amazonuk!-- Giordano -->}}{{newreview[[image:Giordano Fruits.jpg|left|titlelink=Everlesshttps://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1473661919?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1473661919]]|author=Sara Holland|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Jules [[Auntie Poldi and her father live in the kingdom Fruits of Semperathe Lord by Mario Giordano]]=== [[image:4star. In Sempera, everything is reckoned in terms of time. Wages come in the form of bloodjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] How to describe this book -coinswell for starters it's unlike anything I've ever read before. It's chaotic, currency taken from actual blood and denominated in weeksmad, funny, months or even years of life. In Semperafast-paced, as confusing but once youget into it it'd imagine, the rich live for a long time s really good fun and totally enjoyable. [[Auntie Poldi and the poor do not. In debt and struggling to afford Fruits of the rent, Jules decides to ignore her father's warnings and take a job at Everless, an estate belonging to the Gerling familyLord by Mario Giordano|Full Review]]<br> <br> <br><br>  <!-- Ellis -->[[image:Ellis_Dark. 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Her mother was abusive and her father preferred not to do anything about it: there might have been a bit of Malinpretense but there was no protection. I read this book faster than any other I've read this year! Malin All that should be in the past, although Elsa is a fourteen year old girlstill self-harming when under pressure, who but her father is very naive and innocent, dying of lung cancer and although she struggles would have hoped for some personal time with social interaction. It is never stated within the book (him, her boss has allocated her to a fact new case, that I liked) but I suspect that sheof 17-year-old Ruby Haverstock, and you can's somewhere on the autistic spectrumt waste any time when children go missing. But that isn't really what [[A Map of the book is aboutDark by Karen Ellis|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Tudor -->[[image:Tudor Chalk. It's about Malin growing up, struggling at school, having a first date, and dealing with family difficulties, all at the same timejpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.|amazonukuk/gp/product/0718187431?ie=UTF8&tag=<amazonuk>1474940633</amazonuk>}}thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0718187431]]{{newreview <!-- remove 10/1 -->|author=Jnr Rademeyer|title=Hero From Another Planet=[[The Chalk Man by C J Tudor]]===|rating=3[[image:5star.jpg|genrelink=Confident ReadersCategory:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Horror|Horror]] |summary=Jason Bronkurts is the kid the teachers like: he's always on time and puts his school work first. He isn't The Chalk Man'' follows a great socialiser and certainly not group of friends haunted by an eerily terrifying spectre, conjured during one of fateful summer. By the time the cool kidsnew term begins, although he's had something of a crush on Rosiefriendships will be fractured, but he's known her since kindergarten and done nothing about it. At the other end of the scale are Jack Radogerens and his friend Ryan, who bully Jason. It might be Wednesday, but Jason and a girl will be glad when the week's overdead. His home life But who is a bit strange too: when we meet thirteen-year-old Jasonthe killer; is it The Chalk Man, whose dusty white grip squeezes ever tighter, or someone much closer to home? Thirty years later, his dad Ed has just phoned tried to say forget about that he's going to be away for three days. Jason's on his own. Wellsummer, apart from about all the UFO and its occupantspoisoned, that issinister memories of The Chalk Man.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1546284451</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Andrew Norriss|title= Mike|rating= 5 |genre= Teens|summary=Floyd is a rising teen tennis sensation. At only fifteen, he is set to become However, someone seems determined not to let him and when the letters start to arrive, the past follows, plaguing him and dredging up the youngest ever champion fever dream nightmare of the national under 18ssummer of 1986, his tennis career is written in the stars. Until Mike shows up. At firstpopulated by fairs, Floyd thinks Mike is just a weird kid following him aroundra-ra skirts and death. Why else would he be at tennis practice in Driven deeper into the mysterious events surrounding Ed's sleepy suburban life, the school so early? But when reader cannot help but wonder; who is The Chalk Man, and will he appears on the tennis court in the middle of the match, Floyd can't understand why everyone is acting so calm … until Floyd realises he is the only one who can see himever let Ed go? [[The Chalk Man by C J Tudor|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Robins -->[[image:Robins_Bodies. Floyd is referred to a specialist and together they unpick the mystery of Mike. jpg|left|amazonuklink=<amazonuk>1788450094<https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/amazonuk>}}{{newreview |author0008217548?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative= Will Dean|title6738&creativeASIN= Dark Pines0008217548]]|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction==[[White Bodies by Jane Robins]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|summarylink=A dark, compelling Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] Callie and character driven thriller set in the wilds of Sweden - ''Dark Pines'' goes above and beyond Tilda are very different twins. 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He's sport by looking at fifty of its highest achieverssmart, covering sports as diverse as swimmingcharismatic, fencingsuccessful and very intense, ridingvery particular. At first Callie loves him, skatingloves the way he includes her in their relationship, and much more. Think of but after a sport and a pioneering women succeeding at it is probably in boating trip, fun turns into something more sinister, Callie begins to worry about this book somewhere. 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With help from 'the wild'James Whitehouse was an MP and junior minister: perhaps most importantly he was a friend of the prime minister, they set off on a quest so when he had to find the legendary admit that he'Frost Horn' and the magical 'Sky Songd been having an affair he was confident that some contrition, a public admission that he' d been wrong, that will free Erkenwald from the Ice Queen's controlhe was not perfect, would soon have his career back on track.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471146073</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Dan Smith|title=Below Zero|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Twelve year old Zak Reeve is supposed to be enjoying a relaxing holiday in And it seemed as though that was the way it was going, until a friend of the sunshine with his family before he goes into hospital for surgery. Instead'other woman', the whole family are on a plane parliamentary researcher Olivia Lytton, persuaded her to the Antarctic because the 'spider drones' his parents have designed go to support the Exodus mission to Mars have started to malfunctionpolice. His parents assure Zak and his older sister, May, There was no dispute that this will be a flying visit the relationship had been consensual, but, as you'd expect with any action adventure story, things go wrong from after James had finished the moment their plane crashes into the ice outside Outpost Zero. Zak and his family are about to find themselves affair there was an incident in a chilling adventure lift in House of Commons and the police and the Crown Prosecution Service were both of the opinion that will leave them fighting for survivalthis amounted to rape.The prosecuting counsel is Kate Woodcroft and she's very determined that Whitehouse is going to be brought to book. 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Victorious Wages come in driving their opponents, the leaderless Anarchists underground, those specially gifted with an extraordinary range form of abilities are now the lawmakers and leaders of the futureblood-coins, governing a new peaceful currency taken from actual blood and prosperous societydenominated in weeks, months or even years of life. They are the heroes of society; the role models young children look up toIn Sempera, as you'd imagine, the officers people look to rich live for justice a long time and strength. All except the fraction of Anarchists that hide in poor do not. In debt and struggling to afford the darknessrent, plotting Jules decides to ignore her father's warnings and planning until they are able take a job at Everless, an estate belonging to get back what was stolen from them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509876448</amazonuk>}}{{newreview <!-the Gerling family. 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He returns with a burning desire jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] I came to feed his people - but not this book expecting only a typical teenage coming of age story, yet somehow, within only to feed their stomachs but to feed their mindsa matter of pages, tooI was utterly engrossed by the wonderful character of Malin. Kalamchi wants to raise his peopleI read this book faster than any other I's consciousness so that they can fight against the dictator Bamutu - chillingly known as ''president for life ve read this year! Malin is a fourteen year old girl, who is very naive and after death'innocent, and she struggles with social interaction. It is never stated within the book (a fact that I liked) but I suspect that she's somewhere on the autistic spectrum.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848765800</amazonuk>}}{{newreview <!-- remove 28/12 -->|author=Rob Murphy|title=Rotten to But that isn't really what the Core|rating=4|genre=Thrillers |summary=Itbook is about. It's 2009about Malin growing up, and Russia look like being awarded the football World Cup hosting rights for the oh-so-distant 2018 tournament - that isstruggling at school, until England stick their oar in. They have solved their hooligan problemhaving a first date, and improved their transport systemdealing with family difficulties, and so all at last are valid final holders. Watching this is France, who have to reciprocate with the Russians who helped them get France '98, and they have a plansame time. At this stage the UEFA European championship [[The Unpredictability of 2016 has not been awarded, and while France remain favourites to get the job, again some upstart idea has poked its head above the parapet Being Human by Linni Ingemundsen|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Norris -- a joint offering from Wales and Scotland>[[image:Norris_Mike. 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And who's to say the Brits, with their devolution habits, and their first coalition government in a long time, could not get through without damaging themselves?jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1546282998</amazonuk>Teens]]}}{{newreview <!-- remove 28/12 -->|author=Paul Stidolph|title=Forests Floyd is a rising teen tennis sensation. At only fifteen, he is set to become the youngest ever champion of the national under 18s, his tennis career is written in the Sahara|rating=4|genre=Thrillers |summary=''Everyone I speak to stars. Until Mike shows up. At first, Floyd thinks you are going to come to some sort of sticky end.'' Those are not the most promising words Mike is just a man weird kid following him around. Why else would he be at tennis practice in the school so early? But when he appears on the tennis court in the middle of the match, Floyd can hear from his new partner, but she doesn't lie in this instance. He understand why everyone is acting so calm … until Floyd realises he is Jeffrey Harvey, a young Cambridge professor, the only one who has been dabbling with some extra-curricular work, creating GM trees that can keep vast quantities of water purifiedsee him. Get an iceberg or three worth of H2O near Africa, where clean water Floyd is still referred to a scarce resource, specialist and together they unpick the trees can do their bit and the water will advance the place and make Jeffrey a well-respected global entrepreneurmystery of Mike. If, that is, he can get round all the problems in his life [[Mike by Andrew Norriss|Full Review]]<br> <!-- fractions in the startDean -up involved in the project, a finance officer embezzling the funds for gambling - oh, and a man ready to accuse Jeffrey of murder and theft of research data on a case reaching back several years>[[image:Dean Dark. 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Occasionally his skills were used in the UK, but frequently he was abroadjpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co. Just every now and again he would be in those parts of the world which has the rest of us green with envy, but then there were those areas which feature heavily in the news and not in a good way.|amazonukuk/gp/product/1471146073?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=<amazonuk>1524683094</amazonuk>1471146073]]}}{{newreview|author= John Banks|title= W|rating= 4[[Sky Song by Abi Elphinstone]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|genrelink= General Fiction Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|summary=On the slopes of Mt Hood in Oregon, an 1000-year old Viking is discovered frozen - three thousand miles further west than any previously known Viking exploration. Josh Kinninger is inspired by the Viking discovery - three personal catastrophes having left him angry, unmoored and with his world in turmoil. 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StormWith help from 'the wild's mother has died and she never knew her father, so she lives in one of Earthasiathey set off on a quest to find the legendary 'Frost Horn's overcrowded shelters, goes to school for one day per week and wrestles hay bales for a job. Lincolnthe magical 'Sky Song's sister is dying that will free Erkenwald from the blistering disease and he has no access to the healthcare that could save her. ItIce Queen's a mean, desperate existence for them both and so they are first to volunteer for the Stipulators' trials for a new mission to the neighbouring continent of Piloriacontrol. 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With sadistic Arthur, grief-consumed Hope, remorseful Kit and fiery Allegra this seems like an impossibility but then war is declared and the family find themselves pulling together.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409159590</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Joshua Davidson|title= Night Zookeeper: The Giraffes of Whispering Wood|rating= 5|genre= Emerging Readers|summary= A straight-laced student makes one defiant act of creativity and has a world of magic and imagination opened up for him. Will is the new Night Zookeeper and his tenure in the role of protector to a magical world starts with the repulsion of a dangerous invasion.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192764055</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Alison Donald and Ben Whitehouse|title=Pirates in Classroom 3|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary= Not all of us were the child that paid attention in class. Some would look out of the window and let their minds wander. Why be stuck in a stuffy room when you could be in space or on the high seas? 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