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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 culture, the Tower of Babel. It's a place he's read books about, taught his pupils about, and longed to visit, but the bustling 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 look for her in this strange and overwhelming place. For all his background reading before the trip, he is ill-prepared for what he finds in the Tower, both its marvels and its horrors, and thus begins Thomas Senlin's arduous quest to recover his wife.[[Senlin Ascends by Josiah Bancroft|Full Review]]<br>

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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.[[Rebel Voices: The Rise of Votes for Women by Louise Kay Stewart and Eve Lloyd Knight|Full Review]]<br>

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Those are not the most promising words The Ice Queen has cast a man can hear from his new partnerspell on Erkenwald, but she doesn't lie in this instanceseparating the Fur and Feather Tribes and making the third – the Tusk Tribe – the enemy of both. He is Jeffrey HarveyEager to secure her position by gaining eternal life, a young Cambridge professor, who has been dabbling with some extra-curricular work, creating GM trees that can keep vast quantities the Ice Queen is consuming the voices of water purifiedthe Erkenwald people. Get an iceberg or There seems little anyone can do until three worth of H2O near Africa, where clean water is still a scarce resourcechildren – Eska, Flint and the trees can do their bit Blu – come together. With help from 'the wild', they set off on a quest to find the legendary 'Frost Horn' and the water magical 'Sky Song' that will advance free Erkenwald from the place and make Jeffrey a well-respected global entrepreneur. If, that is, he can get round all the problems in his life - fractions in the start-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. It seems the lovely girlfriend was right to see no shortage of possible sticky ends...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1546282351</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Jenny Quintana|title= The Missing Girl|rating= 4|genre= Thrillers|summary= In the unseasonably warm autumn of 1982, fifteen-year-old Gabriella Flores goes missing. Her younger sister Anna is torn up by her sister's disappearance and for the next thirty years, no one knows what happened to Gabriella. Decades later, Anna has built a life for herself in Athens and has tried to put the past behind her. But the sudden death of her mother forces Anna to return to her childhood home and the village where she and her sister grew up. Being the only Flores left in her family she is left to sort through her mother's possessions, and having to reconnect with her past makes Anna question something she hasn't dared think about in years – what happened to Gabriella?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>150983950X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview <!-- remove 23/12 -->|title=The Adventures of Billy Bog Brush!: The Fire Brigade |author=Ian Campbell and Tim Constable |rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Billy Bog Brush's family have gone out for the day, leaving him staring out of the window at the lovely weather outside and wondering what he could do to pass the time. Suddenly, he hears a desperate cry for help. Mrs Brown's house is on fire, the key is inside, and her little boy Tommy is locked in. Tommy is in terrible danger and what if the fire brigade doesn't arrive in time?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1546282718</amazonuk>}}{{newreview <!-- remove 21/12 -->|author=Andrew Mackay|title=Trials and Tribulations of a Travelling Prostitute|rating=3.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=Just chance you think that you're picking up a book about what can go wrong in life for an itinerant sex worker I'd better explain exactly what it was that author Andrew Mackay did for thirty three years. A travelling prostitute is a worker who is employed by one company but his services are sold out to other countries, usually at a substantial profit to the employing company and a lot of inconvenience to the employee. Mackay was an engineer who knew all that there was to be know about turbines and generators, or if he didn't could soon be up to speed to the extent of being able to teach other people. Occasionally his skills were used in the UK, but frequently he was abroad. 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524683094</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= John Banks|title= W|rating= 4|genre= General Fiction |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. Beginning a journey westward, he's filled with a desire to wreak vengeance on the individuals he finds morally corrupt. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0983333416</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= SM Wilson|title= The Extinction Trials|rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary= Storm and Lincoln live on Earthasia, a continent ruined by overpopulation. Space is scarce and energy and food are rationed. Education is minimal and mostly focused around searching for new, efficient food sources. Storm's mother has died and she never knew her father, so she lives in one of Earthasia's overcrowded shelters, goes to school for one day per week and wrestles hay bales for a job. LincolnIce Queen's sister is dying from the blistering disease and he has no access to the healthcare that could save her. It'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 Piloria. The aim is to retrieve dinosaur eggs so that a virus to kill them can be engineered and the citizens of Earthasia will have access to the space and abundant food sources Piloria offers..control.[[Sky Song by Abi Elphinstone|Full Review]]|amazonuk=<amazonukbr>1474927343</amazonuk>}}