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{{newreview<!-- Bancroft -->[[image:Bancroft_Senlin2.jpg|left|titlelink=Rebel Voiceshttps: The Rise of Votes for Women|author//www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0356510816?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=Louise Kay Stewart and Eve Lloyd Knight|ratingas2&camp=5|genre1634&creative=Confident Readers|summary6738&creativeASIN=''Rule breakers. Risk takers. Rebel women. Law makers. A celebration of women rallying around the globe to win the vote.''0356510816]]

Let's just get straight to it. I loved ''Rebel Voices: The Rise of Votes for Women'' . 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. It has that lovely, bookish smell. The paper is thick and heavy. Everything about it tells you that this is a book with interesting and important information. It simply begs to be picked up and read. Full marks to Wren and Rook for this investment.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1526300230</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jean Ure|title=Star Quality (Dance Trilogy 2)|rating[[Senlin Ascends by Josiah Bancroft]]=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Maddy, Caitlyn, Roz and Alex have all just been tested to go to the prestigious City Ballet School full time. Caitlyn, Roz and Alex all get their acceptance about a week later, but Maddy's is a little slower in coming. It was obviously delayed in the post. She was never actually worried that she wouldn't be accepted: well, she's an exceptional dancer and her family is ballet royalty. Where else would she be but City Ballet School? Caitlyn still can't quite believe the opportunity she's been given, particularly as she's not been dancing anywhere near as long as the others. It means so much to her.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008164533</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Samira Ahmed|title= Love, Hate and Other Filters|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary=''Love, Hate and Other Filters'' tells the story of Maya, a Muslim of Indian heritage. Like many other American teenagers, she is struggling to convince her parents to allow her to move away to attend university. However, in Maya's case, things are more complicated than usual, after instances of Islamophobia make her parents extra protective.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471407144</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=I Swapped My Brother On The Internet|author=Jo Simmons|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=After a terrible argument over the Hanging Pants of Doom (don't ask), the sibling rivalry between Jonny and his older brother Ted comes to a head. Jonny fills out an application form at siblingswap.com and sits back to wait for a new brother who is bound, surely, to be infinitely better than patronising, mocking, bullying, Ted. Right? Any brother would be better than Ted. Right? Of course! What on earth could go wrong?

Well, plenty as it happens[[image:4.5star. jpg|amazonuklink=<amazonuk>1408877759</amazonuk>Category:{{{rating}}}{{newreviewStar Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|author=Heather MorrisFantasy]]|title=The Tattooist of Auschwitz|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=SoThomas 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, you arrive in all ignorance at Auschwitzthat fabled centre of culture, and see the horror thereTower of Babel. It's a place he's read books about, taught 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 demandbustling and chaotic surroundings of the Tower in the desert are a long way from the quiet fishing village in which Senlin teaches. When he loses sight of Marya shortly after their arrival, he has no option but to the extent you get the word ''collaborator'' muttered behind your back? Do you dare 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 trip, he is ill-prepared for what he finds in the SSTower, answerable to Berlin? Do you dare get contacts with civilian workers building the placeboth its marvels and its horrors, 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 that, 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.amazon.co.5|genre=Politics uk/gp/product/1526300230?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1526300230]] ===[[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 ''Fire and FuryCategory:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category: Inside the Trump White HouseConfident Readers|Confident Readers]] '' we were treated to the unedifying spectacle Rule breakers. Risk takers. Rebel women. Law makers. A celebration of women rallying around the President of globe to win the United States taking to Twitter to establish that he was vote.''a stable genius Let'', as opposed, we must conclude s just get straight to being an unstableit... Well, letI loved ''Rebel Voices: The Rise of Votes for Women''s not go there. ItAnd I can's t let a review pass without a little too frightening: this is the most powerful man in brief note on the worldfabulous production values. So what made me listen to The cover is stunning and deeply impactful as you can see. It has that lovely, bookish smell. The paper is thick and heavy. Everything about it tells you that this is a book? Well, Donald Trump didn't want me with interesting and important information. It simply begs to be picked up and read it. Full marks to Wren and Rook for this investment. [[Rebel Voices: US presidents don't often go down that road and rarely to a good destination (I'm thinking The Rise of Richard Nixon here) Votes for Women by Louise Kay Stewart and that made me really want to know what was between the covers. But how did the book stack up?|amazonuk=Eve Lloyd Knight|Full Review]]<amazonukbr>1408711400 </amazonuk!-- Ure -->}}{{newreview[[image:Ure_Star.jpg|authorleft|link= Mario Giordano|titlehttps://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0008164533?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN= Auntie Poldi and the Fruits of the Lord0008164533]]|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary= How to describe this book - well for starters it's unlike anything I've ever read before=[[Star Quality (Dance Trilogy 2) by Jean Ure]]=== [[image:5star. It's chaoticjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] Maddy, madCaitlyn, funnyRoz and Alex have all just been tested to go to the prestigious City Ballet School full time. Caitlyn, fast-pacedRoz and Alex all get their acceptance about a week later, confusing but once you get into it itMaddy's is a little slower in coming. It was obviously delayed in the post. She was never actually worried that she wouldn't be accepted: well, she's really good fun an exceptional dancer and totally enjoyableher family is ballet royalty.Where else would she be but City Ballet School? Caitlyn still can't quite believe the opportunity she's been given, particularly as she's not been dancing anywhere near as long as the others. It means so much to her. [[Star Quality (Dance Trilogy 2) by Jean Ure|amazonuk=Full Review]]<amazonukbr>1473661919</amazonukbr>}}{{newreview<!-- Ahmed -->[[image:Ahmed_Love.jpg|author=Karen Ellisleft|titlelink=A Map of the Dark|ratinghttps://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1471407144?ie=4|genreUTF8&tag=Crimethebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1471407144]] |summary=FBI Agent Elsa Myers finds missing children==[[Love, Hate and Other Filters by Samira Ahmed]]=== [[image:5star. There's a jpg|link back to her childhood here=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Love, Hate and Other Filters tells the story of Maya, a Muslim of Indian heritage. Like many other American teenagers, as she might not have been missing but she was certainly lost. Her mother was abusive and is struggling to convince her parents to allow her father preferred not to do anything about it: there might have been a bit of pretense but there was no protectionmove away to attend university. All that should be However, in the pastMaya's case, although Elsa is still self-harming when under pressurethings are more complicated than usual, but after instances of Islamophobia make her father is dying of lung cancer parents extra protective. [[Love, Hate and although she would have hoped for some personal time with him, her boss has allocated her to a new case, that of 17Other Filters by Samira Ahmed|Full Review]]<br><br><br>  <!-- Simmons -year-old Ruby Haverstock, and you can't waste any time when children go missing.>[[image:Simmons_Swapped.jpg|left|amazonuklink=<amazonuk>147366277X<https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/amazonuk>1408877759?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1408877759]]}}{{newreview|author= C J Tudor|title= =[[I Swapped My Brother On The Chalk Man|ratingInternet by Jo Simmons]]=== 5|genre= Horror [[image:4star.jpg|summarylink= The Chalk Man follows a group Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] After a 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 head. Jonny fills out an application form at siblingswap.com and sits back to wait for a girl will be dead. But new brother who is the killer; is it The Chalk Manbound, whose dusty white grip squeezes ever tightersurely, or someone much closer to home? Thirty years laterto be infinitely better than patronising, Ed has tried to forget about that summermocking, about all the poisonedbullying, sinister memories of The Chalk ManTed. However, someone seems determined not to let him and when the letters start to arriveRight? Any brother would be better than Ted. Right? Of course! What on earth could go wrong? Well, 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> <!-- Morris --ra skirts and death>[[image:Morris_Auschwitz. Driven deeper into the mysterious events surrounding Ed's sleepy suburban life, the reader cannot help but wonder; who is The Chalk Man, and will he ever let Ed go?|amazonukjpg|left|link=<amazonuk>0718187431<https://amazonuk>}}{{newreview|authorwww.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785763644?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN= Jane Robins1785763644]]|title= White Bodies|rating= 4|genre= Thrillers|summary=Callie and Tilda are very different twins[[The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris]]=== [[image:4star. Callie lives a quiet life, with a menial job, whereas Tilda craves jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] So, you arrive in all ignorance at Auschwitz, and see the spotlighthorror there, and is a moderately successful actress. Callie is awkwardimmediately swear to survive the ordeal to see retribution dealt on those behind it, suffering from a lifetime of acnebut what do you do to see that oath out? Do you get to work diligently as the Nazis demand, weight issues and comparing herself to her sister the extent you get the word ''collaborator'' muttered behind your back? Do you dare to stick your neck out and her beautiful white body. Callie has very strong feelings for her sisterget a job that means you're actually a Jew working in the political wing of the SS, envy, admiration, anger, loveanswerable to Berlin? Do you dare get contacts with civilian workers building the place, and Tilda laps trade the loot purloined from the incoming victims' belongings with food they smuggle in for you, under the eyes of all of these feelings up. They are grown, and see each other with relative frequency. But now Tilda has met a new the camp guards? The manwhose real life story inspired this novel did all that, Felix. He's smart, charismatic, successful and very intensesurvived to tell the tale, very particular. At first Callie loves him, loves the way but he includes her in their relationship, but after a boating trip, fun turns into also managed to do something even more sinisterdaring, Callie begins and unexpected – he dared to worry about this dynamic, to obsess ..invest hope in a burgeoning love that he found in the camp.[[The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris|Full Review]]|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008217548</amazonukbr>}}{{newreview<!-- Wolff -->[[image:Wolff Trump.jpg|author=Sarah Vaughanleft|titlelink=Anatomy of a Scandal|ratinghttps://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1408711400?ie=5|genreUTF8&tag=General Fictionthebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1408711400]]|summary===Sophie had been married to James for twelve years [[Fire and two childrenFury: to be honest she was more than a little bit in awe of himInside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff]]=== [[image:4.5star. James Whitehouse was an MP and junior ministerjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category: perhaps most importantly he was a friend of the prime minister, so when he had Politics and Society|Politics and Society]] As I began listening to admit that he'd been having an affair he was confident that some contrition, a public admission that he'd been wrong, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House'' we were treated to the unedifying spectacle of the President of the United States taking to Twitter to establish that he was not perfect, would soon have his career back on track. And it seemed as though that was the way it was going, until a friend of the 'other woman'a stable genius'', parliamentary researcher Olivia Lyttonas opposed, persuaded her we must conclude to being an unstable... Well, let's not go to the policethere. There was no dispute that It's a little too frightening: this is the relationship had been consensual, but after James had finished 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 this amounted to rapeworld. The prosecuting counsel is Kate Woodcroft and sheSo what made me listen to this book? Well, Donald Trump didn't want me to read it: US presidents don's very determined t often go down that Whitehouse is going road and rarely to be brought a good destination (I'm thinking of Richard Nixon here) and that made me really want to know what was between the covers. But how did the book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471164993stack up? 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[[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. But Jules's father objects for a reasonjpg|left|link=https: there is a royal wedding coming up, between Lord Roan Gerling and a ward of Sempera's queen, and secrets long concealed that, if revealed, would change everything//www.amazon.co..|amazonukuk/gp/product/147366277X?ie=<amazonuk>1408349159</amazonuk>UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=147366277X]]}}{{newreview|author=Linni Ingemundsen|title=The Unpredictability =[[A Map of Being Human|ratingthe Dark by Karen Ellis]]===5|genre=Teens[[image:4star.jpg|summarylink=I came Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] FBI Agent Elsa Myers finds missing children. There's a link back to this book expecting only a typical teenage coming of age storyher childhood here, yet somehow, within only a matter of pages, I as she might not have been missing but she was utterly engrossed by the wonderful character of Malincertainly lost. I read this book faster than any other I've read this year! Malin is a fourteen year old girl, who is very naive Her mother was abusive and innocent, and she struggles with social interaction. It is never stated within the book (her father preferred not to do anything about it: there might have been a fact that I liked) bit of pretense but I suspect there was no protection. All that she's somewhere on should be in the autistic spectrum. But that isn't really what the book past, although Elsa is about. It's about Malin growing upstill self-harming when under pressure, struggling at schoolbut her father is dying of lung cancer and although she would have hoped for some personal time with him, having her boss has allocated her to a first datenew case, that of 17-year-old Ruby Haverstock, and dealing with family difficulties, all at the same you can't waste any timewhen children go missing.[[A Map of the Dark by Karen Ellis|Full Review]]|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1474940633</amazonukbr>}}{{newreview <!-- remove 10/1 Tudor -->[[image:Tudor Chalk.jpg|left|authorlink=Jnr Rademeyerhttps://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0718187431?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0718187431]]|title=Hero From Another Planet|rating=3|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Jason Bronkurts is the kid the teachers like[[The Chalk Man by C J Tudor]]=== [[image: he's always on time and puts his school work first5star. He isn't jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Horror|Horror]] ''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 ita girl will be dead. At But who is the other end of the scale are Jack Radogerens and his friend Ryankiller; is it The Chalk Man, who bully Jason. It might be Wednesdaywhose dusty white grip squeezes ever tighter, but Jason will be glad when the week's over. His or someone much closer to home life is a bit strange too: when we meet thirteen-year-old Jason, his dad has just phoned to say ? Thirty years later, Ed has tried to 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 fifteenHowever, someone seems determined not to let him and when the letters start to arrive, the past follows, he is set to become plaguing him and dredging up the youngest ever champion fever dream nightmare of the national under 18ssummer of 1986, populated by fairs, his tennis career is written in the starsra-ra skirts and death. Until Mike shows up. At first, Floyd thinks Mike Driven deeper into the mysterious events surrounding Ed's sleepy suburban life, the reader cannot help but wonder; who is just a weird kid following him around. Why else would The Chalk Man, and will he be at tennis practice in the school so earlyever let Ed go? But when 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 him[[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 Mikejpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co. |amazonukuk/gp/product/0008217548?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=<amazonuk>1788450094</amazonuk>0008217548]]}}{{newreview |author= Will Dean|title= Dark Pines|rating= 5[[White Bodies by Jane Robins]]===|genre= General Fiction[[image:4star.jpg|summarylink=A dark, compelling and character driven thriller set in the wilds of Sweden - ''Dark Pines'' goes above and beyond the standard crime book with brilliantly drawn characters and an intriguing mystery at the heart of eventsCategory:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178607253X</amazonuk>Thrillers]]}}{{newreview|author=Rachel Ignotofsky|title=Women in Sport: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=''Women in Sport'' Callie and Tilda are very different twins. Callie lives a quiet life, with a menial job, whereas Tilda craves the spotlight, and is coming to us just before the Winter Olympics in South Korea in February 2018. It celebrates a century and moderately successful actress. Callie is awkward, suffering from a half lifetime of the development of women's sport by looking at fifty of its highest achieversacne, covering sports as diverse as swimmingweight issues and comparing herself to her sister and her beautiful white body. Callie has very strong feelings for her sister, envy, fencingadmiration, ridinganger, skatinglove, and much moreTilda laps all of these feelings up. Think of a sport They are grown, and a pioneering women succeeding at it is probably in this book somewheresee each other with relative frequency. Each entry is But now Tilda has met a double page spread with a brief biography and a striking portraitnew man, Felix.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1526360926</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Abi Elphinstone|title=Sky Song|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary= The Ice Queen has cast He's smart, charismatic, successful and very intense, very particular. At first Callie loves him, loves the way he includes her in their relationship, but after a spell on Erkenwaldboating trip, separating the Fur and Feather Tribes and making the third – the Tusk Tribe – the enemy of both. Eager fun turns into something more sinister, Callie begins to secure her position by gaining eternal lifeworry about this dynamic, the Ice Queen is consuming the voices of the Erkenwald peopleto obsess .. There seems little anyone can do until three children – Eska, Flint and Blu – come together. With help from 'the wild', they set off on a quest to find the legendary 'Frost Horn' and the magical 'Sky Song' that will free Erkenwald from the Ice Queen's control.[[White Bodies by Jane Robins|Full Review]]|amazonuk=<amazonukbr>1471146073 </amazonuk!-- Vaughan -->}}{{newreview[[image:Vaughan Scandal.jpg|author=Dan Smithleft|titlelink=Below Zero|ratinghttps://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1471164993?ie=4.5|genreUTF8&tag=Confident Readersthebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1471164993]] |summary=Twelve year old Zak Reeve is supposed to be enjoying ==[[Anatomy of a relaxing holiday in the sunshine with his family before he goes into hospital for surgeryScandal by Sarah Vaughan]]=== [[image:5star. 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Zak and a public admission that he'd been wrong, that he was not perfect, would soon have his family are about to find themselves in a chilling adventure that will leave them fighting for survivalcareer back on track.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910655929</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Marissa Meyer|title= Renegades|rating= 3.5|genre= Teens|summary= ''So long And it seemed as there are heroes in this worldthough that was the way it was going, there's hope that tomorrow might be better''Once the minority in until a world friend of chaos and disorder, the Renegades fought for freedom and justice. Victorious in driving their opponents'other woman', the leaderless Anarchists undergroundparliamentary researcher Olivia Lytton, those specially gifted with persuaded her to go to the police. There was no dispute that the relationship had been consensual, but after James had finished the affair there was an extraordinary range incident in a lift in House of abilities are now Commons and the lawmakers police and leaders of the future, governing a new peaceful and prosperous society. They are the heroes Crown Prosecution Service were both of society; the role models young children look up opinion that this amounted to, the officers people look to for justice and strengthrape. All except the fraction of Anarchists that hide in the darkness, plotting The prosecuting counsel is Kate Woodcroft and planning until they are able she's very determined that Whitehouse is going to be brought to get back what was stolen from thembook.[[Anatomy of a Scandal by Sarah Vaughan|Full Review]]|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509876448</amazonukbr>}}{{newreview <!-- remove 29/12 Holland -->[[image:Holland Everless.jpg|titleleft|link=Servants of the Underground|authorhttps://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1408349159?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=David Ssembajjo1408349159]]|rating=3.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Having experienced a terrible famine in his own country, Kalamchi leaves to travel and learn=[[Everless by Sara Holland]]=== [[image:4star. He returns with a burning desire to feed his people - but not only to feed their stomachs but to feed their minds, too. 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Watching this is FranceIn Sempera, who have to reciprocate with the Russians who helped them get France as you'98d imagine, and they have the rich live for a plan. At this stage long time and the UEFA European championship of 2016 has poor do not been awarded, . In debt and while France remain favourites struggling to get afford the rent, Jules decides to ignore her father's warnings and take a jobat Everless, again some upstart idea has poked its head above an estate belonging to the parapet - a joint offering from Wales and ScotlandGerling family. YesBut Jules's father objects for a reason: there is a royal wedding coming up, these two tiny countries, separated by 200 miles between Lord Roan Gerling and without a brilliant connection from one to the otherward of Sempera's queen, and without some vital posh hotels here and theresecrets long concealed that, and with no serious claim to soccer fame when it comes to winning thingsif revealed, are unlikely hostswould change everything... But what if France could persuade the world it was a good idea - and let Russian espionage prove it not to be so, with all the while the French around to pick up the pieces? All of the UK would be damaged, meaning England '18 would be dead in the water, and Russia would win out[[Everless by Sara Holland|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Ingemundsen -->[[image:Ingemundsen_Human.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co. 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He is Jeffrey Harveyyet somehow, within only a young Cambridge professormatter of pages, who has been dabbling with some extra-curricular work, creating GM trees that can keep vast quantities I was utterly engrossed by the wonderful character of water purifiedMalin. Get an iceberg or three worth of H2O near Africa, where clean water is still a scarce resource, and the trees can do their bit and the water will advance the place and make Jeffrey I read this book faster than any other I've read this year! Malin is a well-respected global entrepreneur. Iffourteen year old girl, that who isvery naive and innocent, he can get round all and she struggles with social interaction. 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